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(December 13, 1784 - )
"Mary Cantrell married William Henry Cooke in 1804. He was deputy surveyor in Spartanburg County, South Carolina in 1807. In 1820 he moved with his family to McMinn County, Tennessee, where he purchased a large tract of land in the Hiwassee district, on the Conesauga. One of his descendants writes: "It is over eighty years since William Henry and Mary Cantrell Cooke came to their new home in Tennessee. The country was new and they reached the end of their long, tiresome journey just at nightfall. It was raining; there was no house to receive them and a temporary shelter was hastily erected. Beneath that, wrapped in quilts, with her babe in her arms, all through that dark, rainy night, sat Mary Cantrell Cooke weeping, so dreary and lonely seemed the prospect. Nevertheless she was a woman of strong mind and great capabilities. Her husband was an upright and enterprising citizen, but she was the potent factor in the training of her children: one of their sons became a noted lawyer and judge; another a Baptist minister; another an excellent physician, and still another, one of the most influential citizens in the section in which he lived. She was founder and promoter of the Conesauga Baptist church. The hill where the family spent their first night in Tennessee was afterward given as a burial spot for his kindred by William H. Cooke: his wife was the first to be laid there, and one week later he was placed by her side. Now many of the descendants of the first, second and third generation are sleeping there." " (THE CANTRILL - CANTRELL GENEALOGY, 1908, by Susan Cantrill Christie, page 98.)
Events
| Birth | December 13, 1784 | Greenville District, South Carolina | | | |
| Marriage | 1804 | William Henry Cooke | | | |
| Burial | November 5, 1841 | Conesauga Bap Ch, Hiwassee Dist., McMinn County, Tennessee | | | |
| Death | | Hiwassee District, McMinn County, Tennessee | | | |
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