Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887,
Jessamine Co.

PLEASANT COOK is a son of Thomas and Nancy (Easely) Cook.  The father, a
native of Virginia, was born in 1793, and died June 2, 1880; the mother, a
native of Jessamine County, Ky., died in 1839.  They were the parents of
four children: Pleasant, Sarah Jane (Mrs. James Bryant), Mary Ellen (Mrs.
Thomas Smith) and Philip.  The father of Thomas Cook, Philip Cook, was also
a native of Virginia, and married a Miss Doggins, by whom he had ten
children.  On coming from Virginia to Kentucky he first located in Fayette
County, then lived in Jessamine County, but died in Woodford County.  The
second marriage of Thomas Cook was to Paulina Bryant about 1841.  She was
the daughter of James and Nancy (Easely) Bryant, and was [sic] borne Mr.
Cook four children: Nancy (Mrs. William Ryley), Mary (Mrs. John Oates),
George Ann (Mrs. Price Bishop) and William T.  April 1, 1832, Pleasant Cook
was brought to Jessamine County, the family settling on the line of
Woodford County.  At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed to a carpenter,
Berry Holliway, of Woodford County, and at the age of twenty-one began on
his own account and followed the trade for twenty-one years.  In 1860 he
engaged in farming on his present place of 230 acres.  He married, October
7, 1852, Miss Mary Chowning, daughter of Robert and Mary (Bryant) Chowning,
and to the marriage have been born the following children: John, Melvin,
James, Charles and Mamie.

Cook Easely Bryant Smith Doggins Ryley Oates Bishop Chowning Holliway
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Fayette-KY Woodford-KY VA

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