CEMETERY RECORDS: Cooke Burial Ground, South Strabane Township, Washington County, PA

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COOKE BURIAL GROUND

Cooke Burial Ground is located in South Strabane Twp., Washington County, PA.  
There are 21 known burials.  

Directions:  From intersection at Rt. 19 South at Washington Mall/Home Depot, 
make right onto Oak Springs Road.  At end of Oak Springs Rd. at intersection, 
make a right onto Locust Ave.  Travel a few hundred feet and make a left onto 
Country Club Rd.  Make left onto Enterprise Road.  Proceed on Enterprise Rd. a 
short way past Fairway Drive.  The dirt lane goes over the hill and bears off to 
the right.  As soon as you bear right, the cemetery is on the right through a 
path in the woods behind the Washington Country Club Clubhouse.  As of July 
2005, the cemetery is not visible from the interstate and is quickly becoming 
overgrown. 

BENNET, Abigail Agnes - died Jan. 21, 1855, aged 1 yr., 9 months
COOKE, John - died July __, 1858, aged 87 yrs.
COOKE, Sarah SWEARINGEN - wife of John Cooke, died Jan. 18, 1852, aged 81 yrs.
COOKE, Helen - 1822
COOKE, Andrew S. - died Aug. 18, 1823, aged 24 yrs.
COOKE, John Lyttleton - died May 6, 1872, aged 61 yrs.
CREIGH, Sarah Jane COOKE - wife of Dr. Alfred Creigh, born Sep. 11, 1814 - died 
Oct. 8, 1842.
CREIGH, Ellen Dunbar - daughter of Dr. Alfred & Sarah Jane Creigh, born and died 
Sep. 30, 1842.
ETERREL, Benjamin - died Sep. 30, 1857, aged 33 yrs.  Native of New Orleans.
LEET, Honorable Isaac, State Senator - died June 10, 1844, aged 42 yrs.
LEET, Edmund C. - son of Isaac & Margaret Leet, died Oct. 26, 1852, aged 23 yrs.
LEWIS, Katie - born Aug. 30, 1861 - died Oct. 17, 1886.
MOORE, Sarah - died Oct. 5, 1861, aged 45 yrs., 9 mos., 9 days.
MULL, John - born Dec. 24, 1811 - died Sep. 13, 1872, aged 60 yrs.
MULL, John - born Jan. 15, 1843 - died April 7, 1919   Co. F, 32nd Regiment, 
United States Colored Troops.  (Civil War)  
MULL, Mary M. MOORE - wife of John Mull, born Jan. 22, 1844 - died Aug. 15, 
1911.
MULL, Samuel - born 1856 - died 1930.
SWEARINGEN, Andrew, Esq. - died June 26, 1824, aged 78 yrs.  (Revolutionary War)
SWEARINGEN, Elizabeth CHAPLIN - wife of Andrew Swearingen, Esq., died Dec. 11, 
1834, aged 85 yrs.
SWEARINGEN, Thomas - died April 12, 1803, aged 29 yrs.
WHITE, Sarah - born 1861 - died 1939.


Read by Gina G. Nestor, 2003
Photos taken in 2005
jgnestor@comcast.net