Red River County, TX - obituary - Atlas Cook and Albert Hancock **************************************************************** Contributed by Don R. Brownlee Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm **************************************************************** 25 August 1899 Dallas Morning News, p. 3 Clarksville, Red River Co., Tex., Aug. 24 - Two old veterans of the blue and the gray crossed over the river this morning. Atlas Cook, a federal veteran from Tennessee, and a resident of this county, fell dead from heart disease at his farm near town this morning. Albert Hancock, a confederate veteran, while in a fit fell into a pool on his place, some fifteen miles southwest of here, at an early hour this morning and was drowned.