On January, 1833, in the home of Thomas and Jane Ensworth Cook, occurred the birth of a son Andrew. This Indiana home was located in Wabash township, Parke County. Here in this home, with brothers and sisters, he grew to a noble young manhood. And elder brother, Mark, with the father, served in the war 1812. At the age of 25 years, on December 23, 1858, he was united in marriage with Martha A. Hayth. Eleven children came to this home—Thomas Edgar Cook deceased; Charles Thomas Cook of Clinton; Mrs. John Funkhouser of Hymera; Mrs. Sam Miles of Mecca; Mrs. James Dailey of Riley; Mrs. Willis Pruett of Terre Haute; Clarence Cook and Bert Cook of Mecca; Freddy Walter, James Andrew, and Cecil Evert deceased. Seven children survive and are called to suffer this great loss. Their grief has been made less bitter by a life nobly spent with that spirit that makes our heroes. Looking back over this life what a rich heritage for the sons and daughters. With the highest eulogy said of anyone may be said of him, "He was noble." There is no word respecting character and esteem which is so all embracing, and it truly applies to the life of Andrew Cook. His consciousness of the needs of others was so acute that an appeal for assistance was almost answered before presented. His nobility of feeling involved sympathy with all that is true and good. He neglected not little kindnesses nor the doing of good in what seemed small and insignificant. For his noble soul nothing was too great. That nobility of character, exemplified by the worlds' Redeemer, was a pattern after which Mr. Cook molded his own characters. He united with the Bethel M.E. church in the year 1888, during the pastorate of Rev. Harvey Grimes, his wife having been a church member since early childhood. In 1852 Mr. Cook went to California where he was engaged one year in lumbering and five years in mining gold. Accumulating a small fortune, he then came by way of the Isthmus of Panama, to Illinois, living there three years. Returning to his native state in 1861, he settled in 1866 on the farm where he lived at the time of his decease, a resident of 46 years. Mr. Cook's opportunities for education were limited, his early school-days being spent in the rudely build log school house. However, this was not to mar the usefulness of the manly youth who faced the future with true courage, for overriding all these disadvantages, he kept himself well informed and proved himself capable of social and public services. He served one term of five years as trustee of Wabash Township. Mr. Cook won the respect of all who knew him. He was not only a father to his own children, but many a friendless child felt the touch of his fatherly affection and care. Besides the seven children who survive, there are 18 grandchildren and two great-grand-children. Thus on March 4, 1912, after 70 years, the evening hour came, the day's work finished, and the great ledger account of a noble life was closed. His rest will be sweet, the evening hour undisturbed. Funeral services were conducted at Bethel M.E. church by Hubert Webster of Greencastle, after which the remains will be laid to rest in the Montezuma cemetery. – shared by Mike Lewman, unknown news