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James Jackson Cook
&
Lenora Gertrude Flippin

James "Jim" Jackson Cook, son of William Harvey Cook and Florence Lenore Tucker, was born April 15, 1876 in Meridian, Bosque Co, Texas and died December 22, 1960 in Pottsboro, Grayson Co., Texas. He married Lenora "Nora" Gertrude Flippin August 12, 1901 in Meridian, Boxque Co., Texas. Florence was born August 1, 1886 in Texas and died in January 1972 Grayson Co., Texas. She was the daughter of John Bryant Flippin and Phoebe Clay.

1905
Cook Home

L-R:
Lenora Gertrude Flippin Cook, daughter-in-law
Lenora Florence Tucker Cook holding Florence Lucille Cook (born 1904), granddaughter
Luther Cook, son
Joe Cook, son
Jesse Cook, son

James and Lenora Cook, and their four daughters , migrated with his father's family into Grayson County, Texas about 1911. Their daughters were:

Florence Lucille Cook	April 29, 1904
Charlotte Frances "Lottie"Cook	March 22, 1908
Dadie Vernie Cook	March 27, 1909
Minnie Ruth Cook	April 5, 1911

On the wagon trip, the two youngest daughters were given the "best bed" - the top of the kitchen table that James and Nora were bringing with them.

Jim worked for Clyde Wyble on a farm near Riverside. Mr. Wyble furnished them with a house to live in, gave them the last cotton crop of the season, and gave the a team and wagon for one year's labor. Their fifth daughter, Fannie Mae Cook, was born on September 28, 1914.


L-R: Fannie Mae, Ruth, Dadie, Lottie, Florence

The three oldest girls walked two and one-half miles to attend Riverside School. Their teacher was Mattie Bardee.

James Waterson Cook

Jim moved his family to the Harris place in Locust. Here their only son, James Waterson "Budo" Cook, was born June 18, 1921. The children attended the Locust School. Next, the family lived on Miss Jewel's place near Locust. In 1924, Jim moved his family located near Locust on what is now Locust Road and Cook Corner Road. The house was owned by Joe Barrentine. Here, Jim raised peanuts, dew berries and sugar cane to make their own syrup. The children attended Overton School. When this land became available to purchase, Jim Cook wanted to buy it but was unable to get enough money to buy it before it sold. They lived here until 1941. Alvin Cook, Jess Cook's son, purchased the farm and moved in when Jim and Nora moved onto land they had purchased.

In 1940, Jim and Nora cook purchase land on what is now Cook Corner Road from their daughter, Ruth, and her husband, J. C. Elmore. It was part of the James Strickland survey, abstract number 1068, described as from the Estate of J. H. and Ella S. Hash. Here Jim began building the house he and and Nora would live in for the remainder of their lives. They moved into their new home in January 1942. Nora wrote a letter on January 29, 1942 to her daughter, Ruth, who was living in Miam, Arizona.

" . . . we have got our house built and moved into it. I like the house very much but I don't like where it is built. It is built right in front of the spring. All we have to do is step out of the front door and dip up water."

	1950's Roger Cook and sister, Muriel Cook; Jimmie Wayne Perude
	Easter Sunday 1963 Russell Travis & Natalie Clountz cousins

James Jackson Cook
"Big Daddy"

1930s

Cook place northwest of Pottsboro, Texas about 1938

"Big Daddy" James Jackson Cook with grandchildren:

Front Row:
George W. Clountz
Helen Elmore

Back Row:
Nola Mosier
Gene Mosier
Charlene Elmore

Lenora Gertrude Flippin Cook
"Big Mama"

1930s

Cook place northwest of Pottsboro, Texas about 1938

"Big Mama" Nora Gertrude Cook with grandchildren:

Front Row:
George W. Clountz
Charlene Elmore (baby)
Helen Elmore

Back Row:
Nola Mosier
Gene Mosier

ca 1971
L-R: Unknown, Nora Gertrude Cook, James Waterson Cook

Cook Family Photographs

1920s

Florence Cook & Dadie Cook
in peanut field near Locust

Henry Clountz & Florence Cook Clountz

Back L-R:
Dadie Vernie Cook
Fannie Mae Cook Perdue holding daughter Maxine Perdue

Front L-R:
Fred "Junior" Perdue Jr
Jimmy Wayne Perdue

James Waterson Cook

Left:
Family farm about 1938

Right:
World War II

ca 1938

George W. Clountz, s/o Henry Clountz & Florence Cook Clountz
Helen Elmore, d/o J. C. Elmore & Ruth Cook Elmore

ca 1940 NW of Pottsboro

Back L-R:
Nola Mosier
Jimmy Wayne Perdue
Fannie Mae Cook Perdue

Middle L-R:
Helen Elmore
Gene Mosier

Front L-R:
Fred Perdue Jr.
Charlene Elmore
George W. Clountz

1950s
L-R: Florence Cook Clountz, Lottie Cook Mosier, Big Mama, Big Daddy

Cook home NW of Pottsboro TX in the 1950s.

L-R:
Dadie Vernie Cook
Charlotte Frances "Lottie" Cook Mosier
Florence Lucille Cook Clountz
Nora Gertrude Cook

Jesse Cook Travis

1960s
L-R:
Natalie Clountz Bauman, Sue Perdue, Dadie Vernie Cook, Nora Gertrude Cook, Lottie Cook Mosier

1961

Back L-R:
Maxine Perdue
Florence Cook Clountz holding Natalie Denise Clountz
Unknown
Henry Clountz

Others: Grandchildren of James J. & Nora Cook

Children
of
James Jackson Cook & Lenora Gertrude Flippin

Back L-R: James Waterson Cook, Jesse Cook Travis
Front L-R: Fannie Mae Cook Perdue, Dadie Vernie Cook, Lottie Cook Mosier, Florence Cook Clountz

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