Schoolcraft County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....SIGN, Old Cooks Cemetery 
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Cemetery:           Old Cooks Cemetery
Name:               Old Cooks Cemetery SIGN

Date Of Photograph: September 27, 2008
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Cooks Cemetery (Old), Inwood Township, located in Section 33, US-2, Cooks 
Township owned, inactive.
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OLD COOKS CEMETERY SIGN - Established 1893
This cemetery was picked by Samuel Marks in 1893. It was chosen by him to be 
the resting place of his grandson, Chester Gray who died at age 6. Samuel Marks 
was a Civil War Veteran in Company H of the 110th New York Volunteers. He also 
died in 1893, at age 74 and is buried here. A 40 acre parcel was added by an 
act of Congress in 1896. The cemeterys peck grave no.s were between 75 - 100. 
The cemetery became inactive in 1912, & slowly fell to the rigors of time and 
was somewhat forgotten. Then in 2000, Bryan Landis of Cooks & Boy Scout Troop 
400 decided he would undertake the job of restoring and cleaning up of the 
cemetery for a project undertake. The job of restoring and cleaning up of the 
cemetery for a project to earn his Eagle Scout rank. He along with many other 
volunteers spent countless hours bringing the cemetery back up to par. He later 
found out, Samuel Marks was his great, great, great, great grandfather. He also 
earned his Eagle Scout Rank. 

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