Olive (Beal) Cooke (1782 - abt. 1862)

Born 4 Mar 1782 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

Ancestors

Wife of Manasseh Cook — married 1805 in Yarmouth, , Nova Scotia, Canada

Descendants

Died about 25 Nov 1862 at about age 80 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

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Biography

Olive was born circa 1781^[1], the daughter of Josiah Beal, who was one of the early settlers of Yarmouth Nova Scotia, and Dorothy Burgess^[2]

In 1805, she married a widower, Captain Manasseh Cook, the son of Ephraim Cook and Louisa Ring, of Yarmouth Nova Scotia^[2]and they had children, including:

1. Mary, born January 7, 1806, who married Abram Hatfield II, and who died in 1872^[3]
2. Thomasine, born December 18, 1807, who married William Pitman, son of Benjamin, and who died August 20, 1867
3. Olive, who married Asaph Saunders, son of Henry Saunders and who died in 1873^[4]
4. Amos (Captain), born 1813, who married Sarah Potter, daughter of James Potter Sr; and who died January 5, 1861
5. Zilpha, born 1814, who died unmarried, November 24, 1834
6. Enos (Captain), who married Mary Patten, daughter of Richard Patten on October 4, 1838, and then married Mahulda (Cook) Poole, widow of Captain Samuel Poole on October 13, 1855; and who was lost in the Melrose October 28,1861^[5]
7. William Beal, who married and settled in New Orleans
8. Harriet Newell, who married Daniel Ward of Halifax

Olive Beal Cook died on Nov. 25, 1862, and is buried in Chebogue Cemetery in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia^{[1][6] [7]}

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Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Findagrave Memorial #31498401 for Olive Beal Cook, 1781-1862
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Genealogies : Transcribed from the Yarmouth Herald, by George S. Brown; prepared for publication by Martha & William Reamy, assisted by John McDonald Hilton ... et al.; published in Baltimore : Genealogical Pub. Co., c1993. ISBN: 0806313722; pages 213, 405, 417, 506, 507
3. ↑ "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N7RS-X9J : 10 December 2014), Mary Cook Hatfield, 18 Oct 1872; citing Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, v 249 p 210, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 960,201
4. ↑ Nova Scotia Vital Records showing Olive Sanders, died 1873 in Yarmouth, Yarmouth County can be found in Registration Year: 1873 - Book: 1818 - Page: 81 - Number: 57
5. ↑ Leona’s Story: The Immigration of Thomas Dane and Family from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia to Appleton, Wisconsin includes a story about the Captain Enos Cook and the Melrose
6. ↑ Familysearch shows various family trees with the same information. Similar information is found on Ancestry.com (behind a paywall) and other sources
7. ↑ First-hand information as remembered by Ted Pitman, Thursday, April 9, 2015. Replace this citation if there is another source.