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| The James S. Cook place at Gipson, Maude Sliger Cook is standing in front. The house was located approximately behind the present second to the last house on the right coming from Bates. It set back about 100 yards from the road. |
James S. Cook and wife Ada Alice (Nelson) Cook with Raymond O. Cook. They lived at Gipson where James Cook was a merchant and farmer. Besides the store at Gipson he had teams of mules with wagons that he would use to carry and sell general merchandise goods in the Oklahoma Territory. As a farmer he had cattle but also raised corn and cotton in the Poteau River bottoms south of the river at Gipson. |
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| The Cook Store in Gipson in about 1910. It was on north-east corner of road from Bates and road on north side of Gipson Cemetery hill. James S. Cook is the man in the back-center with bib over-alls on. Boy second from left in front with a hat on is possibly Raymond Cook, oldest son of James Cook. |
Raymond Cook enlarged from above photo of men in front of his fathers store at Gipson. |
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| Raymond Cook, son of James S. and Ada Cook, when young man all dressed up for his photo. |
J. Otto Cook with his daughter Peggy and Ed Stamps holding his son Ronald. This was in Bates in about 1936. |
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| Raymond Cook in his 30's. Raymond was the oldest of the four Cook children that was living when their mother Ada Alice Cook died in 1916 followed by their father James S. Cook in 1918, possibly of the terrible Flu. Raymond was only 16 years old at the time of his fathers death and as soon as he became of age he took over all the responsibilities of managing and caring for his sisters and brother and what property and business they had received from their father. |
J. Otto Cook at the Gipson Cemetery near the big old Oak tree where most of the Cook family is buried. Most of the family that lies there died at very early ages. Several Cook children died when very young and their mother and father were young by todays life span, Ada was 37 and James S. was 40. The children that did live, Raymond, Iva, and J. Otto Cook, all lived to be in their 80's. Faye died in her 50's from cancer. |
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