Mary "Polly" Lovell

Mary married Jonathan Blanchard on 07 Dec 1797 in Rockingham,VT First Church. Jonathan (son of Samuel Blanchard and Mary Brown) was born on 20 Feb 1769 in Billerica,,MA; died on 30 Jun 1835 in Rockingham,,VT,age 66 yrs; was buried in Rockingham First Church Cemetery, VT. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Biographies of Jonathan Blanchard:
"Fire on the Prairie" and "Minority of One" by Clyde S. Kilby;
and, "Four Hazardous Journeys of the Reverend Jonathan Blanchard, founder of Wheaton College", by Raymond P. Fischer, published Tyndale House Publishers, Wheaton, IL, 1987.

Source: History of Rockingham, VT, 1907-1957 withe family genealogies, by Mrs. Frances Stockwell Lovell and Mr. Leverett C. Lovell, pub. 1958, page 336:

Residents of Rockingham of the past century who have achieved an unusual amount of success:
1811 - Jonathan Blanchard - president of Knox and Wheaton Colleges, founder of the Christian Era, author, famous abolitionist.

Source: Vermonth Historical Magazine, Vol. 1, page 1010 - Guildhall, VT:

Ecclesiastical- Rev. James Tisdale ...was settled as pastor over Guildhall and Granby churches Sept. 29, 1830. He was dismissed May 5, 1836. And the following summer, Rev. Jonathan Blanchard, then, if we remember rightly, a student of Andover Theological Seminary, and latterly president of Knox College, Illinois, supplied our pulpit for a few weeks.

Jonathan married Mary Avery Bent on 19 Sep 1838 in Middlebury, VT. Mary (daughter of Samuel Browning Bent and Catharine Avery) was born on 07 Jan 1819 in Middlebury,, VT; died on 11 Jan 1890 in East Las Vegas,, NM. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

The Bent Family in America, of the Descendants of John Bent who settled in Sudbury, MA, in 1638, by Allen H. Bent. pub. 1900.

page 79.

Maria Elizabeth Blanchard, b. Oct. 30, 1846; graduated from Wheaton College; m. Aug. 5, 1869, Ezra A. Cook, printer and book publisher, of Chicago, where she still lives (1900). Ten children.

Maria married Ezra Asher Cook on 05 Aug 1869 in Wheaton,,IL. Ezra (son of Rev Ezra Sprague Cook and M. Permelia Milke) was born on 05 Nov 1841 in New Windsor, Orange, New York, USA; died in Sep 1911 in Wheaton,, IL. [Group Sheet]

Living married Living. [Group Sheet]

Living married .. Unknown [Group Sheet]

Living married Living. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Mary was known as "Mamie" per a note by Gerhard Albert Cook.

Mary married Living. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Notes from Web Site (updated 6/26/1998) by Jonathan Cook:
Julia Elizabeth Cook- born Nov. 5, 1972, Chicago, IL, Resided in Wheaton, IL. Married Christian Wilheiml Aveling (born in Holland, died 1947). After her mother's death (year?), the family left Wheaton for two years in Malaysia, where Mr. Aveling worked for the Goodyear Co.

Julia married Christian Wilheiml Aveling. Christian was born in in Holland; died in 1947. [Group Sheet]

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]

Ezra married Maude V. Bell on 10 Jun 1936 in Mattoon,,IL. Maude was born on 30 May 1907 in Richland Co,IL; died on 04 Sep 1998 in Coal Valley, IL; was buried on 08 Sep 1998 in Port Byron,IL. [Group Sheet]

Hannah married Living. [Group Sheet]

Grace married Living. [Group Sheet]

Jonathan married Adah Miller. Adah (daughter of Living and Living) died on 10 Jun 1920. [Group Sheet]

David married Living. [Group Sheet]

Lyman married Living. [Group Sheet]

Ethel married Living. [Group Sheet]

Helen married Living. [Group Sheet]

Living married Living. [Group Sheet]

Living married Living. [Group Sheet]