Betsey Cook, 18071810 (aged 3 years)

Name
Betsey Cook
Given names
Betsey
Surname
Cook
Birth July 1807 20 21
Birth of a brotherDaniel Cook
November 20, 1808 (aged 1 year)
Death of a grandfatherDaniel Cook
August 14, 1809 (aged 2 years)
Death October 26, 1810 (aged 3 years)
LDS child sealing June 24, 1887 (76 years after death)

LDS temple: Logan, Utah, United States

LDS baptism

Status: Child

LDS endowment

Status: Child

Unique identifier
24D31F794C2E4E7295ABD061599AF2486784

Last change May 15, 2019

Family with parents
father
17861848
Birth: November 12, 1786 25 28Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
Death: May 20, 1848Richland, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
mother
17861870
Birth: February 14, 1786 36 35Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
Death: January 3, 1870Richland, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
Marriage
Marriage: about 1806Prob. Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut
19 months
herself
18071810
Birth: July 1807 20 21Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
Death: October 26, 1810Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
17 months
younger brother
18081877
Birth: November 20, 1808 22 22Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
Death: February 18, 1877Hastings, Barry, Michigan, United States
3 years
younger sister
18111888
Birth: July 7, 1811 24 25Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
Death: December 19, 1888Garden City, Rich, Utah, USA
4 years
younger brother
18151901
Birth: January 1, 1815 28 28Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States
Death: May 24, 1901Niles, Berrien, Michigan, USA
19 months
younger sister
18161854
Birth: July 15, 1816 29 30Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
Death: May 3, 1854Hastings, Barry, Michigan, United States
3 years
younger brother
18191900
Birth: August 28, 1819 32 33Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
Death: July 24, 1900Afton, Lincoln, Wyoming, USA
4 years
younger sister
18231906
Birth: May 11, 1823 36 37Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
Death: November 3, 1906Conway, Livingston, Michigan, USA
Mother’s family with Mr. Forbes
step-father
mother
17861870
Birth: February 14, 1786 36 35Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
Death: January 3, 1870Richland, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
Marriage
Marriage: about 1850Richland, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
Mother’s family with Mr. Bush
step-father
mother
17861870
Birth: February 14, 1786 36 35Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
Death: January 3, 1870Richland, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
Birth

The exact inscription on her headstone: "Betsey, daughter of Phineas & Irene Cook died Oct. 26th 1810 aged 3 years and 3 months. Sleep on sweet baby and take thy rest. God called thee home. He thought it best."

Death

Betsey is buried in plat 132, row 19.

Note

BIRTH: "History of the town of Goshen, Connecticut : with genealogies and biographies based upon the records of Deacon Lewis Mills Norton," by a. G. Hibbard (Main Author) and Lewis M. Norton, Family History Library book 974.61/G1 H2h, p. 451. Betsey is named as first child of Phineas and Irene (Churchill) Cook, but no birth date given. Date is calculated from age at death, putting birth about July, 1807 Recorded in family records of Phineas Wolcott Cook: Betsey Cook, no birth date, but born at Goshen, CT. Died 29 April 1810. Submitted by Harriet Betsey Cook Teeples, great-niece, from records of Phineas Wolcott Cook, Logan Temple Endowments for the Dead, Vol. C, p. 51, #1813, FHL 17797)

DEATH: Morris Graveyard, Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut: Plot 132, Row 19, transcription by Bryson Cook."Betsey, daughter of Phineas & Irene Cook, died Oct. 26th, 1810, aged 3 years and three months. Sleep on sweet baby,/ and take thy rest,/ God called thee home,/ He thought it best."

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