James Jackson Cook
&
Lenora Gertrude Flippin
James "Jim" Jackson
Cook, son of William Harvey Cook and
Florence Lenore Tucker, was born April 15, 1876 in
Meridian, Bosque Co, Texas and died
December 22, 1960 in Pottsboro,
Grayson Co., Texas. He married
Lenora "Nora" Gertrude Flippin
August 12, 1901 in Meridian, Bosque
Co., Texas. Florence was born August
1, 1886 in Texas and died in
January 1972 Grayson Co., Texas. She
was the daughter of John Bryant
Flippin and Phoebe Clay.
1905
Cook Home
L-R: Lenora Gertrude Flippin Cook,
daughter-in-law, Lenora Florence Tucker Cook
holding Florence Lucille Cook (born 1904),
granddaughter
Luther Cook, son, Joe Cook, son, Jesse Cook,
son.
James
and Lenora Cook, and their four
daughters , migrated with his
father's family into Grayson
County, Texas about 1911. Their
daughters were:
- Florence
Lucille Cook b.April 29,
1904
- Charlotte Frances
"Lottie" Cook b.March 22, 1908
- Dadie Vernie
Cook b.March 27, 1909
- Minnie Ruth
Cook b April 5, 1911
On the wagon trip, the two youngest
daughters were given the "best bed" - the
top of the kitchen table that James and
Nora were bringing with them.
Jim worked for
Clyde Wyble on a farm near Riverside. Mr.
Wyble furnished them with a house to live
in, gave them the last cotton crop of the
season, and gave the a team and wagon for
one year's labor. Their fifth daughter,
Fannie Mae Cook, was born on September 28,
1914.
L-R: Fannie
Mae, Ruth, Dadie, Lottie,
Florence |
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The three oldest girls walked two
and one-half miles to attend Riverside
School. Their teacher was Mattie Bardee.
Left; James Waterson
Cook
Jim moved his
family to the Harris place in
Locust. Here their only son,
James Waterson "Budo" Cook, was born
June 18, 1921. The children attended
the Locust School. Next, the family
lived on Miss Jewel's place near
Locust. In 1924, Jim moved his
family located near Locust on what
is now Locust Road and Cook Corner
Road. The house was owned by Joe
Barrentine. Here, Jim
raised peanuts, dew berries and
sugar cane to make their own syrup.
The children attended Overton
School. When this land became
available to purchase, Jim Cook
wanted to buy it but was unable to
get enough money to buy it before it
sold. They lived here
until 1941. Alvin
Cook, Jess Cook's son, purchased the
farm and moved in when Jim and Nora
moved onto land they had purchased.
In 1940, Jim and
Nora cook purchase land on what is
now Cook Corner Road from their
daughter, Ruth, and her
husband, J. C. Elmore. It was part
of the James Strickland survey,
abstract number 1068, described as
from the Estate of J. H. and Ella S.
Hash. Here Jim began building the
house he and and Nora would live in
for the remainder of their lives.
They moved into their new home in
January 1942. Nora wrote a
letter on January 29, 1942 to her
daughter, Ruth, who was living
in Miam, Arizona.
"
. . . we have got our house built
and moved into it. I like the
house very much but I don't like
where it is built. It is built
right in front of the spring. All
we have to do is step out of the
front door and dip up water."
1950's
Roger Cook and sister, Muriel Cook;
Jimmie Wayne Perude
|
Easter Sunday
1963
Russell Travis & Natalie Clountz
cousins |
James
Jackson Cook
"Big Daddy"
1930s
Cook place
northwest of Pottsboro, Texas
about 1938 |
"Big Daddy" James Jackson
Cook with grandchildren:
Front Row:
George W. Clountz
Helen Elmore
Back
Row:
Nola Mosier
Gene Mosier
Charlene Elmore |
Lenora
Gertrude Flippin Cook
"Big
Mama"
 |
1930s
Left;
Cook place northwest of
Pottsboro, Texas about 1938
"Big
Mama" Nora Gertrude Cook with
grandchildren:
Front Row:
George W.
Clountz
Charlene
Elmore (baby)
Helen Elmore
Back Row:
Nola Mosier
Gene Mosier
|
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ca 1971
L-R:
Unknown, Nora
Gertrude Cook,
James Waterson
Cook
|
Cook Family Photographs
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1920s
Florence Cook &
Dadie Cook
in peanut field near
Locust |
Henry
S Clountz & Florence Cook
Clountz
Henry
S Clountz Family
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Back L-R:
Dadie Vernie Cook
Fannie
Mae Cook Perdue
holding daughter Maxine Perdue
Front
L-R:
Fred "Junior"
Perdue Jr
Jimmy Wayne Perdue
|
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James Waterson Cook
on
Left:
Family farm about 1938
On Right:
World War II
|
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ca 1938
George W. Clountz, s/o
Henry Clountz & Florence Cook
Clountz
Helen
Elmore,
d/o J. C. Elmore & Ruth Cook Elmore
 |
Left;
ca 1940 NW of Pottsboro
Back L-R: Nola Mosier,
Jimmy Wayne Perdue,
Fannie Mae Cook Perdue
Middle L-R: Helen Elmore, Gene
Mosier
Front L-R: Fred Perdue
Jr., Charlene Elmore,
George W. Clountz
Right;
1950s
L-R: Florence Cook
Clountz,
Lottie Cook Mosier,
Big Mama, Big Daddy
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Left;
Cook home NW of Pottsboro TX in
the 1950s.
L-R:
Dadie Vernie Cook
Charlotte Frances "Lottie" Cook
Mosier
Florence Lucille Cook Clountz
Nora Gertrude Cook
Right;
Jesse
Cook Travis
|
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Left; 1960s
L-R:
Natalie Clountz Bauman, Sue
Perdue,
Dadie
Vernie Cook, Nora
Gertrude Cook,
Lottie
Cook Mosier
Children
of
James Jackson Cook &
Lenora Gertrude Flippin
|
Right;1961
Back L-R:
Maxine Perdue, Florence
Cook Clountz holding
Natalie Denise Clountz,
Unknown, Henry
Clountz
Others:
Grandchildren of James J. &
Nora Cook
|
Children
of
James Jackson
Cook & Lenora Gertrude
Flippin
Back L-R: James
Waterson Cook, Jesse Cook
Travis
Front L-R: Fannie
Mae Cook Perdue, Dadie
Vernie Cook,
Lottie Cook Mosier,
Florence Cook Clountz
|
Natalie's
Family
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