Cook Gravesite, Blount County, Alabama

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: [unknown]
Surnames/tags: Alabama Cemeteries

Notes

This is a "private Cook Cemetery located in the Highmound Community of Blount County, Alabama on the old Baker Homestead; the cemetery contains the graves of Clayton C Cook, Telitha (Bailey) Cook and an unknown grave, possibly infant son Thomas."^[1]

The Cook gravesite is now located on private property but seems to have been preserved and well-maintained, as a new memorial headstone was added around 2011, and satellite imagery indicates that the trees around the site seem to have been cleared between 2015 and 2019. It was probably on land that once belonged to Henry W. Baker and his wife, Mary Jane Cook, who was the daughter of Clayton and Telitha.

Frankie Burnett has photographed the gravesite and confirmed the GPS location to be at 34°08'32.0"N 86°21'17.9"W. She also wrote:

"The grave is on property currently owned by descendants of the Miller family [on] Miller Road [between Snead and Boaz, Alabama]. My grandparents owned the adjoining property, which was a portion of the original Baker land, until their deaths, [and] my mother then sold the property in the 1990s-2000s. My sister has the original land grant in her safe and I have a copy somewhere. I can't remember if it was to Henry Washington Baker or his father Peter Baker."^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Chandler, Rachele. Quote from Ancestry user rayy3306, originally shared on 30 Oct 2018: Ancestry Profile: #252033517978 (Media)
2. ↑ Burnett, Frankie. Personal recollection to Jonathan Duke on 21 Jan 2022.

Media

Frankie Burnett also uploaded pictures of the gravesite on Ancestry.com, which were also shared with her permission on Find A Grave:

• Cook Cemetery, Media uploaded by frankieburnett1 on 1 Apr 2010.
• Cook Cemetery 2, Media uploaded by frankieburnett1 on 16 May 2010.
• Cook Cemetery 3, Media uploaded by frankieburnett1 on 16 May 2010.
• Cook Cemetery 4, Media uploaded by frankieburnett1 on 16 May 2010.
• Cook Cemetery 5, Media uploaded by frankieburnett1 on 16 May 2010.

It appears that a new memorial grave marker for the three graves was erected after 2010, as she later uploaded another picture:

• clayton telitha stone3, Media uploaded by frankieburnett1 on 27 March 2011.