Morris Co., TX - Obits: S. L. Cook
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S. L. Cook, Iron Bluff, Fatally Hurt In Fall From Barn Roof
October 1936

S. L. Cook of the Iron Bluff community was fatally injured last Wednesday
morning when he fell from the roof of his barn. He died Monday night.

Mr. Cook was covering the barn when he fell head first about eight feet,
sustaining a double skull fracture. He was carried to a Shreveport hospital
Thursday afternoon for an operation, but he never regained consciousness.

Funeral services were held at Iron Bluff at 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, with
Rev. A. A. Rider, Methodist pastor of the Daingerfield church, in charge.

Mr. Cook was born 52 years ago in Mississippi, moving to Lee County, Texas in
1899. He moved to Morris County in 1901.

Surviving are his wife and three children, Mrs. O. Z. Reed, Miss Durene, a
senior in Daingerfield High School, and Harold; two brothers, J. E. & Douglass
Cook of the Jenkins community; one sister, Mrs. John Precise of Cason; an aunt
Mrs. Susan Tennington of Jenkins, and a grandchild.
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