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John Stephen Cook

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John Stephen Cook

Birth
Mercer County, Kentucky, USA
Death
4 Aug 1864 (aged 22)
Cobb County, Georgia, USA
Burial
Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia, USA
Plot
E 6176
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"John Stephen Cook, born May 18,1842 and died August 4,1864.Was killed by a cannon ball or the bursting of a bomb shell near Atlanta, Georgia, 6 miles west. Buried there without a coffin till the 3rd day of August 1867 when his remains were interred and reburied at Marietta, Georgia about twenty miles north, one of the national cemeteries. Section 8,grave 6176."
written by his older brother, Strother Moses Cook,Jr.

John served in the Union Army. 20th Ky Company B.He was the only fatality listed for August 4 at Utoy Creek, Georgia. An article in Kentucky Ancestors by his great-niece, granddaughter of his sister Sarah, Jean (nee: Curpen) Dones gives specific detail as to John's army experience.
"John Stephen Cook, born May 18,1842 and died August 4,1864.Was killed by a cannon ball or the bursting of a bomb shell near Atlanta, Georgia, 6 miles west. Buried there without a coffin till the 3rd day of August 1867 when his remains were interred and reburied at Marietta, Georgia about twenty miles north, one of the national cemeteries. Section 8,grave 6176."
written by his older brother, Strother Moses Cook,Jr.

John served in the Union Army. 20th Ky Company B.He was the only fatality listed for August 4 at Utoy Creek, Georgia. An article in Kentucky Ancestors by his great-niece, granddaughter of his sister Sarah, Jean (nee: Curpen) Dones gives specific detail as to John's army experience.

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JNO. COOK
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