Pike County GaArchives Obituaries.....Cook, Benjamin October 17, 1856
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Southern Baptist Messenger,  February 1, 1857

Vol 7 No 3
Deaths
Pike County, Georgia
Brother Beebe:
I send you the obituary notice of my father, Benjamin Cook, who departed this 
life on the 17th of October, 1856, aged 82 years and 8 months. He was born in 
North Carolina in 1774 and his father lived lived there until he was about ten 
years old and then moved to Elbert Co., Ga. He married Delilah Bullard. In 
1805 they both joined the church by experience at Holly Springs in Elbert 
County, Ga. and were baptized by Dozier Thornton. In March 1812 his wife died 
and then he married Sarah Brown and in 1814 moved to Jasper Co., Ga. and 
joined the church at Concord and lived there till he was ordained a deacon and 
served the church till 1825, then he moved to Pike Co., Ga. where he and his 
wife were two of the constituting members of Sardis Church and he lived there 
till about the time of the split with the Missionaries and Primitives and then 
he took a letter and joined the church at Harmony and lived in good order 
until his death. His disease was an affection of the kidneys and old age. He 
left a great many children and grandchildren, but he lived to see most of his 
children join the church. We do not mourn as those who have no hope. -Thomas 
Cook


Additional Comments:
Using a Birthdate calculator, his birth should be 17 February 1774

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