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(October 16, 1812 - March 5, 1855)
"George Washington Cooke married Sarah Jane Gilbreath, October 22, 1840; daughter of Joseph Gilbreath moved to McMinn County, locating at Coy Hill in 1826. In 1836 she attended school at Athens, at which period the buildings were principally log; the Baptist church was also of this construction. In that church she tells of the first seron she ever heard: the preacher wore neither coat nor vest, but with shirt sleeves rilled up to the elbows, collar throuwn open, he dispensed the Word with all the fervor and simplicity of the times. Some of the audience looked so primitive that one would have connected them with Noah and the Ark. She died April 29, 1905, having been a devoted member of the Conesauga Baptist church for sixty years. One of her descendants writes that: "she was a woman of strong convictions, pure in thought and action, her aspirations were characteristic of noble womanhood." George Washington Cooke died March 5, 1855." (THE CANTRILL - CANTRELL GENEALOGY, 1908, by Susan Cantrill Christie, page 100.)
Events
| Birth | October 16, 1812 | Greenville District, South Carolina | | | |
| Marriage | October 22, 1840 | Sarah Jane Gilbreath | | | |
| Death | March 5, 1855 | | | | |
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