Living

Living married Living [Group Sheet]

Living married Living [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Notes from Alan Lincoln Cook about his father: Gerhard Cook.

A story about Uncle Don Cook (see notes re: Ezra Albert Cook, Gerhard's father)- Uncle Don said to Dad: regarding Dad's budget proposal to Uncle Don for funds for Gerhard to attend grad school - "As a maker of budgets you are no piker. I am not interested in what you have proposed." (Dad has included... a year in Europe as part of grad school.)

Notes from Stephen and Linda Cook, December 2003:
"Dad (Gerhard) and Stephen went to Germany in1973. Dad wanted to go to East Germany (Halle) to see relatives but he couldn't cross the border as he didn't have a visa. So Steve and Dad went to Overwolfach Conference Center where there was a meeting of scientists. They drove to Heidelburg and then flew home. Mother met them at the airport in Toronto.

"Heidelburg had an extra advantage of having old dueling societies as Dad regaled Steve with the following story. Dad said that when he was in Heidelburg with his cousin, he attended a secret society to watch his cousin duel and receive a scar. When Mother heard the story, she said "you never told me that."
Where upon Dad replied, "you never asked."

"Dad was a Great dancer, especially of the waltz. In later years, Dad and Mother joined the State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNYB), Saturnday night square dance group. One time, Dad gave Mother an Arthur Murray book on How to Dance. (Mother was tone deaf and wasn't able to learn how to dance.)

"Dad once escorted his cousing, Gerta, on the train from Hamburg to Berlin. While on the train they were hassled by the "black shirts" (not army but they seemed to think that they owned the train and made Dad and Gerta leave the train.

"Dad loved to eat goose grease. One of Dad's cousins who was widowed and lived in East Germany, would write to Dad and send him goose grease. Lelly Stern, a wonderful friend of Dad and Mother who lived in Clarence, NY, would translate the letters for Dad. Dad thought that goose grease was medicinal."

Gerhard married Philura Harriet Lincoln on 19 Jun 1935 in Ann Arbor, MI. Philura (daughter of Burr Buchanan Lincoln and Esther Elizabeth Hoare) was born on 09 Apr 1911 in Harbor Beach, MI; died on 05 Oct 2005 in Chapel Hill, NC. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Gerhard and Lura were married at the home of Mrs. Benz of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Joyce Lincoln and Sheldon Hart were witnesses. The Rev. Ezra Albert Cook, Gerhard's father, performed the ceremony.

Notes:

Notes about Ezra Albert Cook and Ida ("E-da) Brode Cook--from conversation with Lura Lincoln Cook, daughter-in-law, wife of Gerhard Cook. (September 1998):

Albert (this is the name he went by) had a PhD in Theology from a German University in Halle. He was a Congregational minister. He had no tact; sort of like "old Jonathan Blanchard." When he had a church, if someone was misbehaving, he told them directly what he thought. Usually the "told off" person was influential in the church and he was asked to move on. During WWI, Albert taught philosophy (Lura thinks) at McGill University. He preached a pacifist sermon and was asked to leave. He was a very musical, dedicated, warm person and played the guitar beautifully.

He would have been a good engineer. He built a cabin on "Seven Mile Lake" near Montreal. The cabin was serviced by a hydraulic system he constructed from lake water. Albert had 11 siblings: Julia Cook Aveling, Grace Cook Zahn, Don Cook, Lyman Cook (Bonny - get info from Dad's red notebooks). Julia lived in the Chicago area and had 2 daughters, Wilhelmina ("Sis") and Julie. Grace married Carl Zahn and they lived in Sacramento and owned apartment buildings. Don was an "oddball" and married twice but he owned a successful accounting firm and got rich. (See Gerhard Cook Notes for an Uncle Don story.) Lyman practiced medicine until he was 90.

Ida had a German accent. She had been a teacher in Halle, Germany. When they got married, she was around 30 years old. Ida was brought up as a traditional German young lady. She brought a German maid over to this country with her. Ida thought that "only what was German was right." She loved playing with Gerhard and his sister, Brunhild. She was a good mother but a bit over-zealous. Gerhard rebelled at one time. Ida took the kids back to Germany several times for long months at a time. They went to her mother's home. Ida could be charming. The insecurity and continual upheaval of her life kept her in a state of anxiety. She asked to be cremated and her ashes taken back to the family tomb in Halle. (Brunhild complied.)

Ida's brother, Fritz, was in the German Army in WWI. Fritz and his wife had one daughter, Gerti. Gerhard visited her in Halle several times. She became increasingly helpless with degenerative disease. Gerti's daughter deserted her but her son, his wife and two children still live in Halle (Cristian and Monica Brode).

Gerhard graduated from Chickasha High School in Chickasha, Oklahoma. Albert wanted him to go to Marietta College, a Congregational College, in Southern Ohio for two years. Gerhard wanted to go to the University of Oklahoma but he went two years to Marietta before attending U of M. Albert got a job in Grand Rapids, Michigan, so Gerhard could go to the Universtity of Michigan and get in-state tuition. Gerhard taught high school chemistry and eighth grade general science in Dearborn, MI, 1928-31. He wanted a PhD in Chemistry so he saved his money in two banks but lost his savings in the "bank holiday." He was able to go to Johns Hopkins for one year and then went back to the University of Michigan to complete the degree. Graduate school was 4 years: 1 in Johns Hopkins and 3 in U of M. Gerhard always worked at the U of M, and had some sort of fellowship. (Lura said that Gerhard was so thin that his cheeks had hollows in them.)

Brunhild, born January 9, 1909, was 1 1/2 years younger than Gerhard. She married Carl Keith and had two boys, Kenneth and Charles. Brunhild taught first grade for several years after her children were older. Later she earned a masters degree in Religious Education and worked as a Religious Education director in a Methodist Church. She was an ardent pacificist. She insisted on going to Japan to apologize to the Japanese for the Atomic bomb. Brunhild died on May 2, 1988.

Kenneth was the older boy. He originally married a Japanese girl and later was divorced. He married and divorced a second time and now (1999) lives in the Virginia area. Kenneth has some sort of brain problem. Charles is married to Janice and lives in southern Michigan. He has two sons, both are college graduates and lived at home for a while.

During WWI, Albert was a professor at Howard University in Washington, DC. Ida went into depression all during WWI and became an invalid. The German maid had to get another job outside of Washington, DC as no one with German citizenship could be in Washington. Ida died in 1936, of pneumonia in Illinois, the year after Gerhard and Lura were married. Lura saw Ida when Gerhard and Lura were living in Cleveland. Albert and Ida visited Lura and Gerhard in Harbor Beach, Michigan, before Gerhard and Lura were married. And, of course, they attended the ceremony in Ann Arbor. Albert performed the ceremony.

Albert married a second time in 1938 to Maude Bell. Maude was completely different from Ida. She was warm and friendly and made friends with everyone. Maude taught elementary school for a time even though she only had a high school education. (Maude died in 1998.) Karl Cook, her son with Albert, was born in 1939.

Source: WW1 Draft Registration for Ezra Albert:

September 12, 1918 Card completed by a government employee, signed by EAC
Ezra Albert Cook
327 Collage (sic) Street NU (perhaps this should have been NW?)
Washington, DC
Professor at Howard University
Next of Kin: Ida Cook, wife
Height:: 5' 9 1/2"
Eyes: gray
Hair: Med. gray

Note that Ezra Albert was a pacifist and after delivering a sermon to his congregation in Montreal, lost his job.

Ezra married Johanna Wilhelmine Ida Brode on 15 Jun 1905 in Halle a. Saale, Sachen, Prussia. Johanna (daughter of Johann Heinrich Friedrich Rudold Brode and Luise Rudolphi) was born on 20 Aug 1873 in Neuk; died on 24 May 1936 in Olney, Richland, Illinois; was buried in Ashes spread in Halle an der Saale, Germany by Gerhard. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Notes typed on the back of a large photo of Ida:

Johanna Wilhelmine Ida Brode Cook
Taken June 27, 1920, at Washington, DC.
Born Aug. 20, 1873 in Neukunkenforf, Kreis Angermunde, Brandenburg, Germany
Died May 24,1936, in Olney, Illinois

Parents: Johann Heinrich Brode, ? - 1879
Luise Rudolphi Brode, 1851-1936

Ida was a teacher in Halle; a housewife in US.

LDS identifies birth location: Neu K

Notes:

Notes left by Burr Lincoln indicated that Rebecca Jane Kilgore and Robert Cummin(g)s were his ancestors. Rebecca Jane Kilgore was born 1760, died 1834 and married Robert Cummin(g)s in 1783. (These two people are on this genealogy data base.)

Notes from James Helme Lincoln: Burr Buchanan Lincoln, born December 16, 1880, Mason, Michigan, died May 27, 1937, son of Lansing Edgar and Philura Lincoln. Burr Lincoln lived all but two years of his life in Sand Beach Township. He held many public offices including Justice of Peace; Member of School Board of Rock Falls County School; Township Supervisor of Sand Beach for over 20 years; Chairman of Huron County Road Commission 1930-32; Deputy Director of State Food and Drug Department 1916-18. When Frank Murphy became Governor of Michigan in January of 1937 he appointed Burr Lincoln, Commission of Agriculture of the State of Michigan. This was Governor Murphy's first appointment after he was sworn in as governor.

Esther Elizabeth Hoare Lincoln (wife of Burr), born in Rainham, England, April 2, 1889 - died July 20, 1961. Esther came to Harbor Beach to teach school in 1904. She married Burr and taught school in Harbor Beach for many years. Her students included Frank Murphy and also her five children. The ESTHER E. LINCOLN MERIT SCHOLARSHIP is a trust fund in honor of Esther Lincoln that gives an annual award to a member of the graduating class at Harbor Beach High School.

Burr and Esther Lincoln had five children. They were raised on the Sand Beach farm. They went through the 8th grade in Rock Falls - a one room county school; each of them graduated from Harbor Beach High School. The five children of Burr and Esther acquired 36 years of collenge and ten college degrees. Their careers included teachers, two U.S. Army Generals and a Juvenile Court Judge of Wayne County.

The three Lincoln brothers were active in sports. Geoge Arthur Lincoln rowed on a team at Oxford, England 1930-31; Lawrence Lincoln played football and basketball in Harbor Beach High School 1923-24-25. He won the saber for the best all-around-athlete at West Point where he played varsity football, wrestling and lacrosse from 1930-31-32. Jim Lincoln was captain of a champion football team at Harbor Beach High School in1933 and was a varsity football player and wrestler at the University of Michigan in1935-36.

BURIED IN THE MT. HOPE CEMETERY, LANSING, MICHIGAN (Lot 21, Section D.) ARE THE FOLLOWING RELATIVES:

1. Rachel Jackson Buchanan, buried November 30, 1875.
2. Philura Buchanan Lincoln, born February 7, 1851 in Saline, Ohio; died March 30, 1937.
3. Burr Buchanan Lincoln, born December 16, 1880; died May 27, 1937.
4. Esther Elizabeth Hoare Lincoln, born April 2, 1879, Rainham, Essex, Enland. Wife of Burr. Died July 1961.
5. Corvetta Buchanan, daughter of Rachel, died December 30, 1871.
6. William Buchanan, buried in Mt. Hope on May 27, 1876. Body had been moved from another cemetery. Age and date of death
unknown. Son of Rachel.
7. Virgil Otis Ritchie, March 13, 1876, 3 years old, grandson of Rachel.
8. Lawrence L. Lincoln, September 25, 1891. Headstone says 1 year old. Cemetery records say 3 years old. Grandson of Rachel.

Note: The family farm house in Harbor Beach burned down in 1918.

Burr married Esther Elizabeth Hoare on 14 Jun 1906 in Fremont,NewaygoCo, MI. Esther (daughter of Joseph Hoare and Harriet Newport) was born on 02 Apr 1879 in Rainham,Kent,Eng; died on 20 Jul 1961 in Clarence,ErieCo, NY; was buried in Mt. Hope Cem, Lansing,,MI. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Notes from Esther's son, Judge James Lincoln:
Esther was buried in Mt. Hope Cemetery, Lansing, MI. Her will was probated at Bad Axe, Huron County, Michigan, 1961.
Lura Lincoln Cook wrote a book tribute to her mother, Esther, and includes great detail about Esther's ancestors and family during their time in both England and the USA. (Copy is in blue document folder.)

Esther loved Christmas and especially English plum pudding.

The following information is from Esther's academic course transcription from Ypsilanti, Michigan:
Date of Birth: April 2, 1879 Religious Affiliation: Presbyterian
High School: Ludington Credited: 1898
Courses:
Education: grades ranged from C to A
English: C to A
English Masterpieces: A
Advanced English Literature: A
Geography: B
Latin: C to A
Teachers Course on Caesar, Cisero & Virgil: B
Mathematics: B
Speech: B
Teaching: B
Physical Training: C
Social Science: A

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Esther Elizabeth Hoare's birth was registered the June Quarter 1879, Romford, Essex, 4a 235 document. (Use this info to order a birth certificate.)