Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Cook, Robert H., 1947 

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ROBERT HENRY COOK

   Robert Henry Cook, aged 63, a prominent farmer of the Ivor community, died 
in a Norfolk hospital on Saturday afternoon, June 7, after an illness of a few 
days.

   Mr. Cook was the son of the late James and Mary Johnson Cook and a member 
of Tucker Swamp Baptist Church.

   Surviving him are his widow, Mrs. Sweetie Mae Saunders Cook of Ivor; seven 
sons, Linwood, Robert H., Herman, Roy, Roger, Elton and Bobbie Lawrence Cook, 
all of Ivor; four daughters, Mrs. Gladys Dickerson of Smithfield, Mrs. Lucille 
Berryman of Surry, Mrs. Margaret Gay of Portsmouth, and Miss Elsie Cook of 
Ivor; one sister, Mrs. Martha Frances Joyner, of Ivor; and sixteen 
grandchildren.

   The body was brought to the Holland Funeral Home, where it remained until 
Monday afternoon, when it was taken to the Tucker Swamp Baptist Church for 
funeral services at three o’clock conducted by Rev. L.E. Holsbach.  Interment 
was in the church cemetery.

   The pallbearers were J.H. Clark, Percy Bradshaw, J.R. Powell, R.M. Doles, 
A.F. Wills, R.P. Britt, Burley Fowler, and L.E. Eley.


Robert Henry COOK [Sr.], Ivor farmer, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 7 Jun 1947, Norfolk, age 63, 
interred in Tucker Swamp Baptist Church Cemetery*, 9 Jun 1947, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), June 13, 1947, p. 16 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Tucker Swamp list (TS-14): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/tckrswp.txt 

His first marriage: 

Robert Henry Cook, 20, S, So.Co., s/o James and Mary Johnson Cook 
m. 10-07-1903 Bride’s Residence  by Rev. Mills E. Raiford 
Rosa Britt, 21, S, So.Co., d/o Jesse E. and Mary A. Joyner Britt 
(Southampton Co. MB11:374; transcribed & annotated by Bruce Saunders: 
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/vitals/mb11pt.txt) 

Rosa's burial site is unknown - added to a BRITT-COOK family cemetery, 
   off Hwy. 460, where her siblings are buried.  Her sister Mollie 
   married Robert's bro Samuel COOK. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 9 (IX-25): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol9.txt 


Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by 
Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

file at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/c200r3ob.txt