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Newton Wesley Cook

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Newton Wesley Cook

Birth
Boxley, Hamilton County, Indiana, USA
Death
1 Aug 1905 (aged 72)
Kansas, USA
Burial
Osborne County, Kansas, USA Add to Map
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Mr. Cook was born in IN, in 1832. When he was about 30 he enlisted to fight in the Civil War. He was in the 13th Regiment of Kansas Volunteer Infantry, Company D. When he enlisted he lived in Atchison, Kansas. He left his wife and two small children living in a dugout home but under the care of friends. He enlisted on Sept. 2nd, 1862 in Atkinson. Mr. Cook fought in the battle of Pea Ridge in Arkansas. He served three years being Honorably Discharged due to injury.

After the war he and his family moved to Marshall County to homestead. They came with their 12 children by coverd wagon pulled by oxen. About 1866 Mr. Cook homesteaded a farm about three miles from what is now Waterville, KS. Here many hardships of pioneer life were endured. The family had to run for their lives twice for fear of Indian attacks.

Later Mr. Cook and his wife made their way to Russell County, KS farming in the Waldo, KS area. Mr. Cook was a member of the GAR post at Ada, Kansas. He was a member of the Methodist Church.

Newton W. Cook is represented in the Kansas Council of Genealogical Societies as a Territorial Pioneer of Kansas, and in the Ladies of the GAR, Also in Jamestowne Society, Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrams, Daughters of American Revoluntion-John Wright Ancestor, and Colonial Dames of the 17th Century.
Mr. Cook was born in IN, in 1832. When he was about 30 he enlisted to fight in the Civil War. He was in the 13th Regiment of Kansas Volunteer Infantry, Company D. When he enlisted he lived in Atchison, Kansas. He left his wife and two small children living in a dugout home but under the care of friends. He enlisted on Sept. 2nd, 1862 in Atkinson. Mr. Cook fought in the battle of Pea Ridge in Arkansas. He served three years being Honorably Discharged due to injury.

After the war he and his family moved to Marshall County to homestead. They came with their 12 children by coverd wagon pulled by oxen. About 1866 Mr. Cook homesteaded a farm about three miles from what is now Waterville, KS. Here many hardships of pioneer life were endured. The family had to run for their lives twice for fear of Indian attacks.

Later Mr. Cook and his wife made their way to Russell County, KS farming in the Waldo, KS area. Mr. Cook was a member of the GAR post at Ada, Kansas. He was a member of the Methodist Church.

Newton W. Cook is represented in the Kansas Council of Genealogical Societies as a Territorial Pioneer of Kansas, and in the Ladies of the GAR, Also in Jamestowne Society, Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrams, Daughters of American Revoluntion-John Wright Ancestor, and Colonial Dames of the 17th Century.

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