BORN - 9 September 1880, bountiful, Davis Co. Utah.
BLESSED - 4 Nov. 1880 by Mark Cook (grandfather) in Bountiful 1st Ward, Bountiful, Utah
BAPTIZED - 26 May 1889 by Thomas Waddoups in Bountiful, Utah
CONFIRMED - 26 May 1889, by John H. Barlowin, Bountiful 1st Ward
DEACON - 20 Mar. 1895
ELDER AND ENDOWED in the Salt Lake Temple, Oct 1902, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
PATRIARCHAL BLESSING given by Judson Tohman, 16 Jan. 1905
MARRIED - 30 Mar. 1905 to Laura Blanche Clark in the LDS Salt Lake Temple
CHILDREN - LaRue Cook Rowsell Bowen, 20 April 1906
Norma Cook Chugg, 217 Jan. 1908
Maurine Cook Hegemier, 27 Nov. 1909
PARENTS - Father: Amos Cook. Mother: Mary Francis Peel
DIED - 7 Dec. 1909 in Layton, Davis Co., Utah in a hospital of Typhoid Fever. Buried in Bountiful, Utah
GRADE SCHOOL - in Bountiful, Davis, Utah
HIGH SCHOOL - Bountiful High
MISSION - for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to Great Britain. He was 22 years of age. He was sent on the 13 Nov. 1902. Sailed on the Canadian Steamship Line. He labored mostly on his mission at Bristol England, being President of the Bristol Conference. He was released from his mission, 15 Nov. 1904, arriving home in the early part of December. He and my mother Laura Blanch Clark were married in a few months later on 30 Mar. 1905 in the Salt Lake Temple.
EMPLOYMENT - He worked for his father on their farm in Bountiful after school and during the summer in his youth.
After he and Laura were married they lived in Bountiful where he was a farmer. A few months later he took early garden fruits and vegetables to growers- farmers markets in Salt Lake City.
In the early fall of 1905 they moved to salt Lake City, Mark was a street car conductor for a few or several months. Being their first child, I was born in Salt Lake City, near the Utah State Capital Building, 20 April 1906. I was about 6 months old when they moved to Syracuse, Davis, Utah. My sisters, Norma and Maurine were born in Syracuse. Mark and Laura purchased land in Syracuse, half of it give to them by his father Amos Cook. Mother paid for the other half of the farm land with money from the bank stock his father Ezra Thompson Clark gave her. This is Farmington Bank Stock from the bank in Farmington, Utah, the bank her father started. They built a home, and worked hard on this farm, of 26 2/3 acres. They planted a 10 acre apple orchard and raised alfalfa hay, which they sold to customers in Ogden, Utah. They also raised tomatoes and sold them to a cannery.
He dug a well for water near the house, worked very hard. Soon after this he was taken ill and taken to the hospital in Layton, Utah where he died of Typhoid Fever, just 10 days after their third daughter was born, who is Maurine Cook Hegemier. He never was able to see her. There was a short funeral in our home. I was 3 years and 7 months old and I remember a man picking me up for me to see my father in his casket. I believe it was Brigham Holbrook who picked me up, Mark's cousin. A large funeral for our father was held in the large white chapel Bountiful First Ward and he was buried in the Bountiful Cemetery. He died 7 Dec. 1909. He was 29 years old, and our mother was also 29 years of age. Mother lived there for a short time, also in Bountiful for a visit, then she built a small home in Farmington near her brothers an sisters. Then in 1913 she married Joseph A. Silver In later years Mother traded the farm for an apartment House in Salt Lake City.
Mark Cook was tall and slender, blue eyes, dark hair, and handsome.
ACTIVITIES - He was active in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He had been a Sunday School Teacher. Worked in the M.I.P. of the Church for young people. Missionary work and priesthood work and other duties. He was Ward Clerk in the Syracuse Ward at the time of his death. Liked book, music.
