From the website: A HISTORY OF BURGIN CHURCH. second paragraph of the article.

"...Rev. Strother Cook,Jr.,son of the Rev.Strother Cook,Sr. was perhaps the first Christian missionary from Burgin to be sent to a foreign country;Africa's West Coast.
He made six trips to Africa his first trip was in 1884.He was sent by the Baptist People on some of these trips and was sponsored by the Christian Church on a later trip.He died and was buried in Africa. ..."

The following informion courtesy of Yvonne. email: [email protected]
COOK
The Record, published at Lagos, Africa, containing a notice of the death of Rev.Strother M.Cook, has been received here. Rev.Cook was making a trip on foot through the low country preaching to the natives. He traveled under a blazing sun and in drenching rains. The guide noticed during the journey that he was suffering from a fever and on May 31 he was moved to Lagos, where he died June 1. His last sermon preached to the natives was on the text :"Christ Shall Magnify My Body Whether It Be in Life or Death." He was buried in Africa, where he had spent much of his life in missionary work.
Harrodsburg Herald, Harrodsburg, Mercer County,t Ky.
Thursday July 18,1907.
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Obit from Harrodsburg Herald. Thursday July 11 ,1907
COOK DIED IN AFRICA
Rev. Strother Cook of this county,passes away far from home.
News has been received here through a letter from an English merchant, of the death of Rev.Strother Cook, at a little station three hundred miles north of Lagos, where he conducted a prosperous mission. He was sent out as a missionary to the Dark Continent by the Christian Church, and this was his seventh trip abroad. He was the son of Rev. Strother Cook for many years pastor of Shawnee Run Church, this county. No particulars of his death came in the letter. He was a brother of Mrs.B.F.Taylor and Mrs.George Rose, of this city, and was a man who was highly respected and liked by all who knew him.