OBITUARY: Ed. S. Cook, 27 May 1890 - Smith County, TX Submitted by Vicki Betts 6 December 2002 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************************** TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, July 3, 1890, p. 7, c. 4 COOK.—Bro. Ed. S. Cook was born in Fayetteville, N. C., July, 1849, and died in Tyler, Texas, May 27, 1890. Bro. Cook professed religion and joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in 1865. He was a man whom the church, the country and society could trust. Being in public life for a long time, it was easy to ascertain the sentiment of those who had placed him in office and whom he served as to his excellency of character. There is but one opinion, and that is he was a man upon whom the people could rely, and who was eminently qualified for the duties of his office. His religious life was steady, quiet and straightforward. All of his children—eight in number—that have come to years have united with the church of their father and mother. At the recent great revival in Tyler Bro. Cook reconsecrated himself to God and his church. He leaves a wife and eight children to fight life's battles alone; but the older sons are manly and Godfearing, and the mother loving and consecrated. May it finally become an unbroken family in heaven. D. F. C. TIMMONS. TYLER, TEXAS.