Cook County IL Archives News.....Sarah A Cooke, 94 Years Old, Dies 1921 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Deb Haines http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00003.html#0000719 October 24, 2011, 8:30 pm Journal Of IL State Historical Society, Vol 14 1921 Sarah A. Cooke, better known as "Auntie” Cooke, who died Sunday, July 10th, 1921 at the age of 94 years was buried Wednesday at Graceland Cemetery. For more than fifty years she worked almost night and day in missions, hospitals and churches. When the late Rev. D. L. Moody started out as an evangelist she was instrumental in leading him into the experience of "the baptism of the spirit", to which he attributed his great success in evangelistic work. Additional Comments: Source: Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Published Quarterly by the Illinois State Historical Society, Springfield, Illinois. Vol. 14 April- July, 1921 No. 1-2. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/cook/newspapers/sarahaco270gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ilfiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb