Mary Elizabeth (Dickson) Cooke (1849 - 1922)

Born 18 Feb 1849 in Norfolk, Virginia (USA)

Ancestors

Wife of Merritt Todd Cooke Sr — married 8 May 1879 (to 19 Mar 1922) in Norfolk, Virginia [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 19 Mar 1922 at age 73 in Norfolk, Virginia (USA)

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Mary (Dickson) Cooke is buried in Elmwood Cemetery.

Biography

MARY ELIZABETH DICKSON, daughter of Richard Dickson & Katharine Talcott Hale, was born on February 18,1849 in Norfolk,Virginia, 12 years before the American Civil War (James K Polk's 4th year as 11th U.S.President). She married Merritt Todd Cooke on May 08,1879. Merritt was the son of Armistead Thompson Mason Cooke & Mary Louisa Todd. She died March 19,1922 in Norfolk shortly before The Great Depression (Warren Harding's 2nd year as 29th President). Mary Dickson Cooke is buried with her husband in Norfolk's Elmwood Cemetery

Sources

Findagrave Memorial#20066268

Elmwood Cemetery Gravestone:

Merritt Todd Cooke

1846 --- 1922

Mary Dickson Cooke

1849 --- 1922

"Merritt's Tree"...(a family pedigree by Merritt Newton Cootes, Mary's grandson):

Mary Elizabeth Dickson

b: Feb 19,1849

d: Mar 19,1922

Marriage:

Merritt Todd Cooke

Mary Elizabeth Dickson

"Talcott pedigree in England and America from 1558 to 1876", by Sebastian Visscher Talcott; Weed, Parsons and Co,1876:

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Catharine Talcott[dickson]...had born in Norfolk,Va

Mary Elizabeth[dickson], b: Feb 18,1849

[Note]: (I added the names in brackets for clarity)...Katharine's name is spelled with a K in cemetery records and on her gravestone. Also the day of birth differs by a day from "Merritt's Tree" (typo maybe).