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- Consider Cooke died, in his seventy-fifth year, on April 20, 1819, and was buried in the Cooke section
of the Marksboro Presbyterian Cemetery, about three miles from his home where many others of his
generation, including some of his brothers, are buried. He was probably one of the founders of the
Marksboro Presbyterian Church in1815. The inscription on his gravestone is as follows:
"Sacred to the Memory of CONSIDER COOKE, SR.
Who departed this life April 20th, 1819 In the 75th year of his age"
Consider Cooke died without a will as there is recorded at the Court House at Newton, N. J., a
partition deed, executed by his threechildren on August 19, 1819, four months after his death, which
divides "certain lands tenements and hereditaments situate in thecounty of Sufsex, which descended
to the said Rebeckah Cooke, WilliamCooke and Nathan Cooke by the death of their father intestate."
There is also recorded at the Court House an Inventory of ConsiderCooke, Sr., taken May 18, 1819,
as follows: Purse and apparel............$44.52 1/2
One Bond with interest.......537.31
$581.83 1/2
House and farm equipment..... $972.69
Daniel Curlis and Isaac Reed, Seno. were Appraisers and Nathan Cooke,Consider's younger son,
was Administrator of the estate. Children: Rebecca Cooke b. 17-Aug-1771. William
Cooke b. 14-Nov-1773. Nathan Cooke b. 13-Jun-1775.
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Descendants of Francis Cooke
Generation 6 (con't)
Cooke b. 14-Nov-1773. Nathan Cooke b. 13-Jun-1775.
The above information was contributed by Willson O'Connell .
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