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Anna Laura COOK

Female 1874 - 1954  (79 years)


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  • Name Anna Laura COOK  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] 
    Birth 30 Sep 1874  Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11] 
    Gender Female 
    Reference Number 194 
    Death 11 Mar 1954  Solano, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [12] 
    • Buried in Kickapoo Memorial Cemetery, Kickapoo, Kansas. Findagrave Memorial# 90119566.
    Person ID I194  scruggshovis
    Last Modified 21 Sep 2020 

    Father William COOK,   b. Abt 1842, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Maria SPENCER,   b. Abt 1845, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Relationship natural 
    Family ID F134  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Walter Blackburn SCRUGGS,   b. 4 Sep 1877, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Jan 1941, Napa, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 63 years) 
    Marriage 9 Mar 1904  Leavenworth, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 7, 10] 
    Children 
     1. Nona Booth SCRUGGS,   b. 7 Jul 1906, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Nov 1987, Vallejo, Solano, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years)  [natural]
     2. Mabel Ann SCRUGGS,   b. 30 Aug 1910, Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Dec 1998, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 88 years)  [natural]
    Family ID F64  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Sep 2020 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 30 Sep 1874 - Kansas, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 9 Mar 1904 - Leavenworth, Kansas, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 11 Mar 1954 - Solano, California, USA Link to Google Earth
     = Link to Google Earth 

  • Notes 
    • CENSUS 1880: Anna L. Cook, 5, b. in Kansas, living with parents and 6 siblings. location: Solomon Township, Cloud County, Kansas

      CENSUS (Kansas) 1885: Anna, 10, b, in Kansas, living with parents and 7 siblings. location: Harrison Township, Kansas

      MARRIAGE 1904: on ancestry.com. Anna Laura Cook married Walter Scruggs on March 8, 1904 in Leavenworth County, Kansas (Kansas, Marriage Records)

      CENSUS (Kansas) 1905: Anna, 30, b. in Kansas, living with Walter Scruggs. location: 5th ward, (Post Office - Henry Lanitz Dep't), Kansas

      CENSUS 1910: Anna, 34, b. in Kansas, married 6 years, has had 1 child/still living, living with husband Walter32 and daughter NonaB.3. location: Kansas City, precinct 6, Wyandotte, Kansas

      CENSUS 1920: Anna L., 45, b. in Kansas, listed as "widowed", living with brother Robert F. Cook and her 2 children, location: Kickapoo Township, Leavenworth, Kansas. (Note: her husband is still alive.)

      CENSUS 1925: Anna 50, b. in Kansas, living in her own house with her 2 children, location: not listed on census form.

      CENSUS 1930: Anna 54, b. in Kansas, living in her own house with her younger daughter, widowed, married at age 26, location: Leavenworth City, leavenworth, Kansas. (Note: her husband is still alive.)

      BURIAL 1954: findagrave.com. Buried in Kickapoo Memorial Cemetery, Kickapoo, Kansas. Findagrave Memorial# 90119566. (Note: her tombstone is right beside her mother-in-law (Elvira) and the children of Joseph and Susan who died in infancy (Herndon and Martha), possibly indicating that the family held her in high esteem and not responsible for her divorce from Walter Scruggs.

  • Sources 
    1. [S22] 1925 Kansas State Census.
      Kansas State Census Collection, 1855-1925. Microfilm reels K-1 – K-177. Kansas State Historical Society. Found on Ancestry.com.

    2. [S16] 1905 Kansas State Census.
      Kansas State Census Collection, 1855-1925. Microfilm reels K-1 - K-181. Kansas State Historical Society. Found on Ancestry.com.

    3. [S4] Leavenworth County, Kansas, Marriage Records, 1900-1920, Kansas HIstorical Quarterly, Vol.21, Summer, 1955, p.456.
      Found on Ancestry.com.

    4. [S38] 1910 USA Federal Census, Location: Kansas City Ward 2, Wyandotte, Kansas; Roll: T624_460; Page: 3B; Enumeration District: 0151; FHL microfilm: 1374473. Found on Ancestry.com.
      NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 rolls. Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29.

    5. [S39] 1920 USA Federal Census, Location: Kickapoo, Leavenworth, Kansas; Roll: T625_537; Page: 12B; Enumeration District: 94; Image: 602. Found on Ancestry.com.
      1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.
      Original data: Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. (NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: NARA.

    6. [S40] 1930 USA Federal Census, Location: Leavenworth, Leavenworth, Kansas; Roll: 708; Page: 3B; Enumeration District: 19; Image: 8.0; FHL microfilm: 2340443. Found on Ancestry.com.
      T626, 2,667 rolls.

    7. [S30] Personal Information, Handwritten Note by Clarise Ruth Hovis Scruggs and further notes by Marjorie Hockley Scruggs.

    8. [S36] 1880 US Federal Census, Location: Solomon, Cloud, Kansas; Roll: 377; Family History Film: 1254377; Page: 246D; Enumeration District: 042; Image: 0035. Found on Ancestry.com.

    9. [S45] 1885 Kansas State Census.
      Kansas State Census Collection, 1855-1925. Microfilm reels K-1 – K-146. Kansas State Historical Society. Found on Ancestry.com.

    10. [S28] Kansas, Births and Christenings, 1818-1936.
      Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C74344-5 , System Origin: Kansas-EASy, GS Film number: 1605148 , Reference ID: 120. Found on familysearch.org.

    11. [S32] Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Kickapoo Memorial Cemetery, Leavenworth County, Kansas, USA. Found on findagrave.com.

    12. [S17] California, Death index, 1940-1997, Place: Solano, California. Found on Ancestry.com.


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