Flavia Louise Cooke was born in 1851 near Rock Island, Illinois, youngest of 12 children born to Asaph and Louise Cooke. The family early moved to the "Big Woods", settling in what is now the town of Rock Elm, Pierce county, and living the primitive life of those days in their snug log house, weaving their own "linsey-woolsey" cloth, digging "sang" for their cash spending money. [sang was ginseng] She married Ocellus P. Whipp, son of Mr. and Mrs. John P. Whipp, also pioneers of the Rock Elm territory, at Rock Elm Jan.1,1884. They made their home on a farm near Ono. Mr. Whipp died many years ago. Mrs. Whipp died Nov.18th at the home of her daughter Bessie, Mrs. Earl Hay, at Lawrence, Kansas; besides Mrs. Hay she leaves two daughters - Mrs. Clyde M. Pearce of Duluth, Minn. and Mrs. Leslie B. Daniels, of Fort Collins, Colo., besides 12 grandchildren and many more distant relatives. The late Sylvester Cooke of Olivet, and the late Charles Cooke, of Rock Elm, were her brothers. The body was brought to the Tousley Undertaking parlors in Spring Valley and interment services were held at Poplar Hill cemetery, Rock Elm, last Thursday, Rev. C. Paul Multon officiating, with burial in the family lot there where most of the members of both the Whipp and Cooke families are buried.
Flavia Louise Cooke was born in 1851 near Rock Island, Illinois, youngest of 12 children born to Asaph and Louise Cooke. The family early moved to the "Big Woods", settling in what is now the town of Rock Elm, Pierce county, and living the primitive life of those days in their snug log house, weaving their own "linsey-woolsey" cloth, digging "sang" for their cash spending money. [sang was ginseng] She married Ocellus P. Whipp, son of Mr. and Mrs. John P. Whipp, also pioneers of the Rock Elm territory, at Rock Elm Jan.1,1884. They made their home on a farm near Ono. Mr. Whipp died many years ago. Mrs. Whipp died Nov.18th at the home of her daughter Bessie, Mrs. Earl Hay, at Lawrence, Kansas; besides Mrs. Hay she leaves two daughters - Mrs. Clyde M. Pearce of Duluth, Minn. and Mrs. Leslie B. Daniels, of Fort Collins, Colo., besides 12 grandchildren and many more distant relatives. The late Sylvester Cooke of Olivet, and the late Charles Cooke, of Rock Elm, were her brothers. The body was brought to the Tousley Undertaking parlors in Spring Valley and interment services were held at Poplar Hill cemetery, Rock Elm, last Thursday, Rev. C. Paul Multon officiating, with burial in the family lot there where most of the members of both the Whipp and Cooke families are buried.
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