Rachel was married 3 times, I was told by family. Nothing was known about her first husband. She second married a neighbor, who was a widower with two children. Later he ran off, and left her to raise his children. She next married a man, who last name was Crook. He was also a widower. They lived in the country, and lived in the back of a little store they ran. Rachel made all the candy sold in the store. Whenever we went to visit, she would take us kids into the front room, where their store was located, and let us each pick a piece of candy. When he died, she buried him next to his first wife. Somewhere in this time, she had a set of twin girls, who died at birth. She did not marry again, and had no more children. After the death of her 3rd husband, she went to Tennessee, to live, and work in a boys orphan home. She eventually came back to Georgia, and was living with her sister Addie when she died.

I don't have a picture but if I remember right, she looked a lot like her mother, Mary Ann.

Social Security Death Information

Name: Rachel Crook

Last Residence: 30813 Grovetown, Columbia, Georgia, United States of America

Born: 1 Sep 1896

Died: May 1967

May 11, 1967

Mrs. Rachel Crook

Funeral services for Mrs. Rachel Crook, age 70, who died Wednesday May 10,at McDuffie County Hospital, Thomson, Ga. will be held Thursday at 4pm at Elliott Sons Chapel with burial in Hillcrest Memorial Park. The Rev. Herbert Elder officiating. Pallbearers will be Ernest Faglier, John Lotz, Cecil Looney, Charles Elton, John Welch, and George Cashwell.

A native of Orangeburg SC, she was the daughter of M W C and Mae(Mary) Ann Judy Lynch. She was a member of the Church of God, and had lived in Grovetown for the past 9 years.

Survivors include two sisters, Mrs Addie Darnell of Grovetown, and Mrs Gussie Gay of Augusta, and several nieces and nephews.