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| The James S. Cook place at Gipson, Maude Sliger Cook is standing in front. The house was located approximately behind the present second to the last house on the right coming from Bates. It set back about 100 yards from the road. |
James S. Cook and wife Ada Alice (Nelson) Cook with Raymond O. Cook. They lived at Gipson where James Cook was a merchant and farmer. Besides the store at Gipson he had teams of mules with wagons that he would use to carry and sell general merchandise goods in the Oklahoma Territory. As a farmer he had cattle but also raised corn and cotton in the Poteau River bottoms south of the river at Gipson. |
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| The Cook Store in Gipson in about 1910. It was on north-east corner of road from Bates and road on north side of Gipson Cemetery hill. James S. Cook is the man in the back-center with bib over-alls on. Boy second from left in front with a hat on is possibly Raymond Cook, oldest son of James Cook. |
Enlarged from photo at left of men in front of James Cook's store at Gipson. It is believed that the boy sitting on ground with hat is Raymond Cook, the man directly behind him is possibly Tonnie Sorrels, then the tall fellow second to the right of Tonnie is Warren Sorrels. It is thought that Mr. Cook at the back in bib-over-alls had already come down with T.B. at the time this photo was taken, especially as he is so thin and appears to be in poor health. |
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| Raymond Cook, son of James S. and Ada Cook, when young man all dressed up for his photo. |
J. Otto Cook with his daughter Peggy and Ed Stamps holding his son Ronald. This was in Bates in about 1936. |
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