Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Cooke, Augustus Buckner Sr. April 13, 1904
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Virginian Pilot April 14, 1904

                     MAYOR A.B. COOKE ENTERS INTO REST

      Former Mayor and Prominent Citizen Dies at Residence Of R.B. Cooke

The news of the death of Major Augustus Buckner Cooke, which occurred at the 
residence of his son, Mr. R.B. Cooke, No. 100 York Street, at 5:45 o'clock p.m. 
yesterday, was made known throughout the city by the tolling of the City Hall 
bell.
Major Cooke was the son of Colonel Mordecai and Margaret Kearns Cooke, and was 
born in the city of Portsmouth, Va., February 8, 1824, and at the time of his 
death was in the eighty-first year of his age. He received his early education 
in the schools of Portsmouth and afterwards attended Professor Coleman's 
academy, Hanover, Va., where he completed his course.
In May 1847, he married Miss Sarah Langley. They lived to rear a large and 
interesting family of children.
He was among the first to go to California during the gold fever of 1849, where 
he remained for three years and was made a member of the committee of safety.
On his return to Norfolk in 1852 he entered the custom house under Collector 
Simpson.
When Norfolk was stricken with the yellow fever plague Major Cooke remained at 
home, performing noble and self-sacrificing service during that entire period as 
a member of the Howard association and on the death of Major Hunter Woods, who 
died of the fever, Major Cooke was elected president of the Howard association, 
which position he held until the breaking out of the Civil War in 1861, when he 
resigned and at once enlisted in the Confederate army, doing gallant service in 
the defense of Virginia and the south. He held many positions of trust, serving 
on the general staffs of General Pemberton, General Joseph E. Johnston, General 
Beaureguard and General Richard Taylor.
The war over, he returned to Norfolk and established a ship brokerage business, 
which he relinquished to engage in the cotton business, being for many years 
connected with the extensive cotton firm of Reynolds Brothers.
Major Cooke was a man of strong personality, of affable and pleasing manners, of 
fine social qualities and excellent conversational powers and was exceedingly 
entertaining in home and social circles. These gifts made him very popular in 
social circles.
Major Cooke served one term as police justice and in 1892 was elected mayor of 
Norfolk, serving his full term of two years.
His children: Mr. A.B. Cooke, Jr. and Mr. Stockton Cooke, of Shepherd, Ala.; Mr. 
R.B. and Miss Rose Cooke, of Norfolk; Mrs. Thomas H. McCoy of Salisbury, Md.; 
Mrs. T.G. Lucas, of Athens; another son, Mr. Mordecai Cooke, died several years 
ago.
The deceased was a member of Norfolk council No. 228, Roya Arcanum, and Pickett-
Buchanan Camp, Confederate Veterans.
The funeral will take place from the residence of his son, Mr. Robert B. Cooke, 
No. 100 York Street, Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
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COOKE - At the residence of his son, Robert B. Cooke, No. 100 York Street, at 
5:45 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, April 13th, Major AUGUSTUS BUCKNER COOKE, in 
the eighty-first year of his age.
Funeral will take place from the house at 4 p.m. FRIDAY, April 15th. Kindly omit 
flowers.


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