Cook, Owen, & Rogers Family Information submitted by Janet Cook  jcook@usroots.com

Funeral Expenses for Susan Catherine (Starr) Cook, wife of Francis Marion Cook

Funeral expenses:

W.L. Ballard & Son (hardware, batting and cambric for lining and covering casket; $13.15

T.B. Green & Son General Merchandise; satin and braid for shroud; $9.40

Eustace Tele Co.; telephone calls to children and others; $2.95

L.L. C___; lumber for building casket; $8.33


Athens Weekly Review 24 Nov 1910

One of the Oldest and Best Citizens Passes Away.

   Mr. Marion Cook of Eustace, familiarly and affectionately
called "Uncle Marion" by nearly everybody that knew him died
Monday. He had been very feeble for a long time and was quite
seriously ill a week or two before death came.
   He had nearly reached his four score years and has resided
a half century in this county or adjoining counties. He was a
man of the purest character, firm in his convictions, honest
in all his dealings and has lived a life so true, honest, upright
and charitable that he is loved and respected by everyone that
ever knew him.
   His life partner, who has been a faithful attendant to him in
all his illness, survives him, besides several sons and daughters,
many nieces and nephews and grandchildren.
   He was a good man. He always had a good word for this editor
and the same loved him as if a father.
   He was buried Tuesday at Payne Springs grave yard. A large crowd
attended the funeral services.
   The Review extends its deepest sympathy to the bereaved.

[Uncle Marion was buried at Payne Cemetery, not Payne Springs.
According to his death certificate, he died of tuberculosis.]


Athens Weekly Review, 7 Apr 1938

George J. Cook Dies at Eustace Following Stroke

   George J. Cook, 71, prominent citizen of the Eustace community,
died at the family home there Thursday morning at 3 o'clock. Mr.
Cook suffered a paralytic stroke at 6:00 o'clock Wednesday morning
from which he never rallied.
   Funeral services were held from the Eustace Methodist Church Friday
afternoon at 2:00 o'clock with burial following at the Payne cemetery.
Rev. L.D. Rose of Athens conducted the service.
   G.J. Cook was born in Tarrant county, January 18, 1867. His father
was F.M. Cook, an early day resident of Texas. The family came to
Henderson county when he was an infant, and settled in the Cottonwood
community.
   Mr. Cook attended the usual schools, and was reared on the farm.
   At the age of 27 years, he engaged in the mercantile business at
Payne Springs, where he remained ten years. He then moved to Eustace and
was engaged in  the mercantile business for seven years, and the retail
lumber business for five years.
   Disposing of his lumber business he purchased a farm near Eustace, on
which he resided at the time of his death.
   He was married to Miss Lillie Melton, a native Henderson county girl,
and member of one of the pioneer families of the county. to this union was
born seven children, all except one of whom are living.
   Mr. cook became vice president of the bank at Eustace when it was
organized in 1910, and retained the same connection with that institution
at his death. All through his business career he had been interested as
owner in farming properties and was himself a successful, practical business
farmer.
   He had always been a factor in community enterprises, taking an active
part in forwarding the interests of his home section.
   Mr. Cook is survived by his wife, and three daughters, Ruth, Helen and
Joyce and four sons, Oscar, Loise, Joe and Hilbert Cook; four brothers, A.J.
of Eustace; W.M. of Corsicana; Edward, of O'Donnell, Texas, and Jesse Cook of
Collin county. three sisters who survive are Mrs. Ellen Owen, of Malakoff, Mrs.
Cora Carpenter, of Post, Texas, and Mrs. Henrietta Rogers of Stockard, Texas.


Athens Weekly Review, 31 May 1945

Mrs. Owen Dies Tuesday; rites on Wednesday

   Mrs. Mary E. Owen, 87, former resident of Henderson County,
died Tuesday morning at 3:05 o'clock in Palestine after an
illness of the last six months.
   Mrs. Owen lived near Eustace until Mr. Owen died in 1935,
and then went to Malakoff to make her home with a daughter, Mrs.
W.R. Slaughter. She lived in Malakoff until about six months ago,
when she moved to Palestine.
   Surviving are three sons, Dave Owen of Palestine, George Owen
of Tyler and Wade Owen of Dallas; two daughters, Mr. G.R.
Killingsworth of Houston, and Mrs. Slaughter; two brothers, William
Cook of Corsicana and Jesse Cook of McKinney; two sisters, Mrs.
Henrietta Rogers of Athens and Mrs. Cora Carpenter of Post.
   Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at
the Payne Cemetery, with the Rev. L.D. Rose officiating.
   Pall bearers were grandsons and grandsons-in-law.
   The Hassell & Foster funeral Home of Palestine was in charge of
arrangements.


Athens Weekly Review, 5 Apr 1956

David Owen Dies; Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon
   David Frances Owen, 75, passed away in a Palestine hospital
at 3 p.m., Sunday after a lengthy illness.
   A retired farmer, Mr. Owen was a native of Henderson County.
He was the son of the late John Allen Owen and Mrs. Mary Ellen
Cook Owen, both Henderson county natives. Mr. Owen had lived in
Palestine since 1932.
   Survivors include his wife, three sons, Elam Owen of Fort
Worth, A.A. Owen of Palestine, Earl Owen of Alexandria, Louisiana;
five daughters, Mrs. Bessie Pherneu of Lincoln, Arkansas, Mrs.
Lilla Kyser of Kerens, Mrs. Urcy Barr of Jackson, Mississippi, Mrs.
Agnes Kersey of San Antonio, and Mrs. Frances Hervey of San Antonio;
three brothers, Robert Owen of Buffalo, George Owen of Tyler, and
Wade Owen of Dallas; two sisters, Mrs. Floy Slaughter of Malakoff
and Mrs. Nettie Killingsworth of Houston, 14 grandchildren and five
greatgrandchildren.
   Funeral services were held Tuesday at 2 p.m. from the Hassell and
Foster Chapel at Palestine with the Rev. T.E. Weisinger and Archie
Waldrum officiating. Burial was in the Payne cemetery, near Athens.


Athens Weekly Review, 16 Nov 1944

Funeral For James Rogers Held Monday

   Funeral services for James Edward Rogers, Sr., retired farmer,
who died Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock at his home, 301 West Larkin,
after a brief illness,were held Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the
Carroll-Lehr Funeral Home chapel.
   The services were conducted by the Rev. J.W. Williford of Eustace.
Interment was in the Payne Springs (sic) Cemetery.
   Mr. Rogers was born in Alabama on November 27, 1862. He moved to
Athens about six weeks ago from the Stockard community, where he had
resided for about fifty years.
   Surviving are his wife, two sons, James E. Rogers, Jr., of Athens,
and H.L. Rogers of Timpson; two daughters, Mrs. S.L. Fletcher of LaSalle,
Colorado, and Mrs. J.C. Phelps of Corsicana, and several grandchildren
and great grandchildren.

[James Edward Rogers, Sr. is buried in Payne Cemetery]


Athens Weekly Review, 12 Feb 1948

Mrs. Rogers Dies; Funeral Services Set For Thursday

   Funeral services for Mrs. Henrietta Rogers, who died Wednesday
morning at 6:40 o'clock at the home of her son, James E. Rogers, Jr.,
504 North Prairieville, where she resided, will be held Thursday
afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Carroll & Lehr chapel.
   The services will be conducted by the Rev. J.W. Williford of
Eustace, with interment following in the Payne Cemetery.
   Pallbearers will be grandsons and great-grandsons.
   Mrs. Rogers was born on February 2, 1861, in Tarrant County, the
daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Marion Cook. She came to Henderson
county in 1895 and lived just north of Athens before moving to the
city.
   Her husband, James E. Rogers, Sr., died in 1944.
   Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Laura Phelps of Corsicana, and Mrs.
Nettie Fletcher of LaSalle, Colorado; two sons, James E. Rogers, Jr.,
Athens, and H.L. Rogers of Timpson; one sister, Mrs. Cora Carpenter of
Post; one brother, Jesse Cook of Denison, and seven grandchildren,
seventeen great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren

Payne Cemetery

Obituaries Henderson Co. TX

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