Cook Genealogy in Kentucky and Tennessee

There are several mysteries in the Cook family that I call my own. I have pieced together what I believe to be the Cook Family Lineage. I am still looking "proof" but offer it to you with as many facts as I have. Emma Melvina Cook Ray Mann was the first child born to Jasper Marvin Cook and Cora Mayhue Long Cook.

Jasper's parents died when he was young and neither my grandmother nor her siblings knew their paternal grandparents. My Great Aunt Datha Cook Ely told me that Jasper's parents were named "Emma" and "David". Jasper had 2 brothers, Iley and William. With a great deal of good luck, "Emma" turned out to be Mary Emma Roach Cook and David was actually Jefferson Davis Cook. "David's" death certificate named Newton Cook as his father.

DNA

DNA is the game changer, and I have finally found some matches to start putting together the missing pieces. DNA tests from those who are more closely related to Jefferson Davis Cook's lineage would be great. As a search angel for others, sometimes the family closest to my own research gets pushed aside. But the good news is that two great matches that are genetically closer to Jefferson have tested. Dorothy Mann enjoyed the hunt as much as I do. She has passed but tested on both 23 and ME and ancestry.com. Her 2nd cousin, Sharon Cook, has also tested on ancestry.com.

Another DNA tester has given me hope that we might be able to tie back to those distant and elusive matches.

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