Deseret Evening News | 1906-01-10 | Page 9 | Willard

WILLARD DEATH OF GEORGE COOK COOK and II Honored Career nt iii II 78 7 Hp pelal al Correspondence Correspondences Wiard s Co San Jan 7 On Monday y night Jan 1 1906 1106 IO 6 leo Oeo Cook died of ot General debility nt at the home of or I Ihl Ida his hl daughter Mrs lf Mary Mury Deceased was WIS born bor Jan Jun 28 at nt Kent Ien t Eng Ens In 11 IBM 18 0 lie he ac no accepted the time Gospel and was sas WIS baptized lit Iii II lIst 11 he ha h married d Hannah Burrows and th thi fame year they emigrated to 10 Utah While sailing 1111 up UI the Iho Mississippi river the cholera broke out among the tho com corn r eLi 4 I II I THE TEE HE LATE GEORGE COOK pany pacy pan and many died At I many malY had hll Incident to crossIng the rhine with ox teams they reached Utah In the Iho fall of iSM I 4 The first winter was WI nt It In illS 1855 IM they moved 1 to Os Ogden l n and In 1853 settled nettled In where whore deceased lint since resided For Por Marly reach 50 10 years yearn YC rl he Item WM Vais a 1 faithful teach I r HI in t the Willard Wilard ward tand He lie le wait Wal the Ilia father of ot eight children five Ove of ot whom an sun an l his loved loel wife ife preceded him hint to the tha Deceased was of n a most gentle nd sail loving disposition llon even een his hla nearest caw him turn Hh Ills and Ind genial nature endeared him hint to io i ci n services held on In the fth lh Insl In t and v Iele re largely attended es from and amid Ogden Oll l and the tho of ot Iho the stake ond others from attending