COOK CEMETERY near Marion, Union Parish Louisiana



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Submitted for the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives by Mary Anne Williams
Surveyed November 12, 2004.
File prepared and contributed by Mary Anne Williams.

COOK CEMETERY is located off Hwy 143 just south of Spencer.  After turning on 
Ouachita CIty Road, you go two tenths of a mile and turn back to the left. 
There is a road sign at the intersection denoting it as Cook Cemetery Road.

The cemetery is very well-kept and surrounded by a fence.  There are only a 
few graves in this cemetery.

In "MISC INFO" column, "ho" means husband of, and "wo" means wife of.  
If there was a veterans marker, it is noted in the MISC INFO

INFO with rank and branch of service and where served as shown on the actual marker.


LAST          FIRST      MID. NAME/INIT BIRTH         DEATH      MARRIAGE    MISC INFO
NAME          NAME       NICKNAME/      DATE          DATE       DATE
                         MAIDEN NAME
Bonner        Infants                   ?             ?                      2 unnamed infants-children of Dr. Wm. and Louisa Bonner.  (1)
Bonner        Johnnie                   1-7-1868      1-20-1869              on same marker with Johnnie Bonner and 2 unnamed infants. (1)
Bonner        Lou        Jones          5-11-1869     5-23-1869              (1)
Bonner        Louisa     Jones                        5-11-1869              wo Dr. Wm. Bonner; 37 yrs old -- no birth date. (1)
Bonner        William    (Dr.)          3-20-1826     ??                     cannot read date of death (1)
Bonner        Willie     B              4-19-1865?    5-30-1887              (1)
Cook          Bonnie     V Martin       2-16-1936     9-2-2004
Cook          Henry      C              6-30-1889     2-23-1949              Woodmen of the World marker
Cook          Sylvester                 Sept 1881     11-26-1940             no day of birth
Cook          Virginia   B "Jennie"     12-25-1905    3-13-2001
Dubin ?       Celestin                  5-13-1824     5-25-1909
Jones         Eliza                     8-29-1815     8-29-1845              wo B H Jones, Native of North Carolina (1)
Smith         Megan      Renee          11-11-1986    11-28-1987             daughter of Robert L and Sheri R Smith; same marker with Robert L and Sherie R Smith
Smith         Robert     L              12-6-1967     11-28-1987             All on one long marker with Megan Renee Smith and Sherie R Smith
Smith         Sherie     R              3-11-1966                            On same marker with Robert L. and Megan Renee Smith
Thomas        Lula       M              1-8-1887      8-22-1894              daughter of A B and L A Thomas
Thomas        Rusty                     3-4-1979      2-6-2003               ho Candy Thomas (2)
Thomas        Lawrence                  11-11-1916    2-23-1988  5-22-1940   ho Mary C Thomas
Thomas        Mary       C              2-10-1922                5-22-1940   wo Lawrence.


NOTES:
(1)  These are all in a fenced in area surrounded by an old iron fence with no gate.  Some of the stones are hard 
to read due to the angle of them.

(2)   Inscribed with "My last ride was to Heaven."  On back of marker, "Wife-Candy, Daughter-Taylor, Mom- Gay, 
Dad-Jim, Sisters Missy and Rhonda."

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