Walter Winston Cook (1879-1952)

Walter Winston Cook was born on 24 July 1879 in Vossburg, Jasper, Mississippi. He died on 27 October 1952 in Laurel, Jasper, Mississippi. He is buried in Holder's United Methodist Church Cemetery in Bay Springs, Jasper, Mississippi.

Walter Winston Cook's headstone

The Clarke County Tribune, 14 Nov 1951
Walter Winston Cook, 74, of Quitman, Miss., died Oct. 27, at Laurel, Miss.
   Funeral services were held Oct. 29 at 10:00 a.m., at Holder's church with the Rev. W.L. Meadows, pastor of the First Baptist church of Quitman, officiating. Burial followed in the Holder cemetery.
   Mr. Cook is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Mary Ezell, Laurel, Miss., and Mrs. Lizzie O'Neal, Ocean Springs, Miss.; two sons, R. G. Cook and John H. Cook, Quitman; a sister, Mrs. Ollie Stockman, Lake Como, Miss.; two brother, Will and Ed Cook, Bay Springs, Miss.; 13 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
   Active pallbearers were John Waldrup, Ben Waldrup, Pat Landrum, James Burcham, Hulett Gables and William Giles.
   McClellan-Walters Funeral Home in charge.

PARENTS
Malcolm Rufus Cook
Sarah Ann Moody

SPOUSE
Mary Ann Waldrup

CHILDREN
Mary Ezell Cook
Rufus Green Cook
John Horne Cook
Lizzie Cook

SOURCES

• 1880 census, Shubuta, Clarke, Mississippi 
• 1900 census, Beat 1 Center, Paulding Precinct, Jasper, Mississippi 
• 1910 census, Beat 1, Jasper, Mississippi 
• 1920 census, Center, Jasper, Mississippi 
• 1930 census, Quitman, Clarke, Mississippi 
• 1940 census, Quitman, Beat 1, Clarke, Mississippi 
• Find A Grave 
• The Clarke County Tribune, 14 November 1952