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  • ID: I659
  • Name: Mary Jane COOKE
  • Sex: F
  • Birth: 1831
  • Death: ABT 1900
  • _UID: 6445E23410E773488E9A1A004B84FCCC4ABC
  • Note:
    MARRIAGE - RELATIONSHIP: Genealogies of Penn Families, Vol III, St- Z , 1982, pg 794.
    Also from Central PA Deaths & Marriages, 1771-1882 by Dr. Mary Belle Lentz, 1987 974.8V28L

    Mary Jane Cooke LeVan was somewhat of an authority on local history and was a frequent contributor to "Now and Then". She has the old commissions and other records of Col Jacob Cooke (her grandfather) (as of 1911) per note in WFT 2933, Vol 7.

    From Mary we have 3 documents that are all quite similar based on John Cooke's will of 1758.
    Since these documents not are titled they are listed by the first sentence of the document and described.
    1. Cooke Family Sencips? Gathered by M. J. Levan. Seems to be written in 1860-70 with last entry 1898. Contains 21 5x8 inch pages.
    2. Will dated... 19 numbered legal size pages.
    3. The following is a synopsis of notes by Levan (4 type written legal size pages in 1926, with the initials EEC on the last page...
    Mary was born in 1831 and probably died around 1900.
  • _RIN: 127 1
  • Change Date: 27 JUN 2008 at 08:43:09



    Father: Jacob COOKE b: 27 AUG 1797 in Point Twp, Northumberland, PA
    Mother: Phoebe HOUGHTON b: 24 JUN 1807

    Marriage 1 Alfred G. LEVAN b: ABT 1830
    • Married: 3 NOV 1853 in Muncy, Lycoming, PA 1 2
    Children
    1. Has No Children Horace Cooke LEVAN b: 3 FEB 1856

    Sources:
    1. Repository:
        Name: Santa Clara Co Library
        Santa Clara, CA

      Title: Genealogies of PA Families, Vol III
      Author: Vol III
      Publication: 1982, Page 795
      Abbrev: Genealogies of PA Families, Vol III
      Note:
      3 pages; talks about the Cooke family bible and Col William and Capt John Cooke.
    2. Repository:
        Name: LDS Family History lib

      Title: Central PA Deaths & Marriages, 1771-1882
      Author: Dr. Mary Belle Lentz
      Abbrev: Dr. Mary Belle Lentz
      Publication: 1987
      Abbrev: Central PA Deaths & Marriages, 1771-1882
      Page: 80
      Text: Miltonian, 1853 Nov 18, Rev John Hudson, 3 A.G. LeVan, Mary J Cooke, both from Muncy

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