 1815 - 1881 (66 years)
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| Name |
COOK, Henry Freeman |
| Birth |
12 Jan 1815 |
Homer, Cortland, New York  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
14 Apr 1881 |
Cedar Fort, Utah, Ut |
| Burial |
Apr 1882 |
Cedar Fort Cemet, Cedar Fort, Utah, Ut |
| Notes |
- PROPERTY
Nauvoo : Block 8 Lot 4
- See history on OurCookFamily.org
- Cook, Henry Freeman (son of William and Lucy Chapman Bassett) born 12 January 1815, came to Utah 1852 with the Warren Snow Co. He married Sophronia Strowbridge 9 April 1837 daughter of George and Abigail Lull Strowbridge, who was born 14 of March 1813 and came to Utah with husband and their children John B.,James, Hanna, Mary Jane, Charles, William, and George. Harriet Ann and the twins Jenett and Marette were born in Utah. The family home was in Council Blufffs Iowa.
Bishop of Cedar Valley Ward from 1861 to 1881- Died in 1881
CEDAR VALLEY WARD, Lehi Stake, Utah Co, Utah consists of the Latter-Day Saints residing in the north end of Cedar Valley, which is a fine but poorly watered valley extending north and south for 22 miles; it is 7 miles wide. Cedar Valley comprises the west part of Utah County and is separated from the Utah Valley proper on the east by a low range of mountains, and from Rush Valley in Tooele County on the west by another low range of mountains. Cedar Fort and Fairfield are the only settlements in the valley and they are both small. As water is very scarce, dry farming has been tried quite successfully. Cedar Fort is situated in the north end of the valley, 40 miles by nearest road southwest of Salt Lake City and 15 miles southwest of Lehi. Most of the people in the north end of Cedar Valley reside in Cedar Fort.
Cedar Valley was first settled by Latter-Day Saints in October, 1852, when Alfred Bell and others located a settlement in the north end of the valley, which was called Cedar Fort. In 1853 other settlers moved in and on April 3, 1853, the saints who had located at Cedar Fort were organized into a ward called Cedar Fort Ward, with Allen Weeks as Bishop. Because of Indian troubles, the settlement was temporarily broken up three times, but a stone fort, 133 feet square, with walls ten feet high and four feet thick, was built in 1855. At that time the Church membership of the little settlement was 115 souls. Through scarcity of water the settlers in Cedar Valley have had a hard struggle to live, but the settlement nevertheless has survived all difficulties. Bishop Weeks presided until 1876, when he was succeeded by Henry F. Cook, who in 1882 was succeeded by Eli Bennett, who in 1906 was suceeded by William Cook, who in 1911 was suceeded by James E Garn, who in 1917 was suceeded by Orson E. Hacking, who in 1922 was suceeded by Jacob L. Hales, who presided Dec. 31, 1930; on that date the ward had 179 members, including 35 children.
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| Person ID |
I1235 |
Our Generations Ancestors |
| Last Modified |
15 Jun 2009 |
| Father |
COOK, William, b. 6 Sep 1780, , Ma d. 4 Nov 1840, Comstock, Kalamazoo, Mi (Age 60 years) |
| Mother |
CHAPMAN, Lucy, b. 5 May 1787, Hancock, Berkshire, Ma d. 16 Oct 1857, Cedar Fort, Utah, Ut (Age 70 years) |
| Marriage |
19 Dec 1805 |
, Ma |
| Family ID |
F617 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
STROBRIDGE, Sophronia, b. 14 Mar 1813, Solon, Cortland, Ny d. 24 Jul 1909, Cedar Fort, Utah, Ut (Age 96 years) |
| Marriage |
9 Apr 1837 |
, Ny |
| Children |
| | 1. COOK, John, b. 22 May 1838, Comstock, Kalamazoo, Mi d. 17 Feb 1904, Cedar Fort, Utah, Ut (Age 65 years) |
| | 2. COOK, James (Henry), b. 14 Jan 1840, Comstock, Kalamaoo, Mi d. 1903, Cardston, Alberta, Canada (Age 62 years) |
| | 3. COOK, Mary Jane, b. 2 Jan 1843/1844, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Mi d. 22 May 1895, Dingle, Bear Lake, Id (Age 51 years) |
| | 4. COOK, Hannah, b. 22 Jan 1845, Comstock, Kalamazoo, Mi d. 16 Apr 1926, Cokeville, Lincoln, Wy (Age 81 years) |
| | 5. COOK, Charles, b. 21 Feb 1846, Nauvoo, Hancock, Il d. 10 Sep 1846 (Age 0 years) |
| | 6. COOK, William, b. 19 Oct 1847, Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Ia d. 27 Nov 1934, Cedar Fort, Utah, Ut (Age 87 years) |
| | 7. COOK, George, b. 20 Mar 1850, Council Bluff, Pottawattanie, Ia d. 26 Nov 1916, Dingle, Bear Lake, Id (Age 66 years) |
| | 8. COOK, Harriet Ann, b. 20 May 1853, Big Cottonwood, S-Lk, Ut d. 25 Mar 1854 (Age 0 years) |
| | 9. COOK, Jenette (Twin), b. 17 Mar 1856, Cedar Fort, Utah, Ut d. 23 Oct 1947 (Age 91 years) |
| + | 10. COOK, Marette (Twin), b. 17 Mar 1856, Cedar Forte, Utah, Ut d. 10 May 1931, Lago, Caribou, Id (Age 75 years) [Father: Birth] [Mother: Birth] |
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| Family ID |
F940 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 2 |
ROCKER, Julia Ann, b. 19 May 1828, Lower Canada d. 22 Jan 1891, Cedar Fort, Utah, Ut (Age 62 years) |
| Marriage |
12 Mar 1857 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Ut |
| Family ID |
F616 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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