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Selah COOK
(1756 –1812)
Lucy BECKWITH
(1758 –1814)
Beckwith COOK
(1785 –1877)
Sybil Harriet OLDS
(1790 –1839)
Seeley Mansfield COOK
(1812 –1905)

 

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1. Nancy Beulah RICE

Seeley Mansfield COOK 1 2 3
  • Born: 1812, Onondaga County, New York, USA 4 5
  • Marriage (1): Nancy Beulah RICE on 24 January 1835 in Portage County, Ohio, USA 1
  • Died: 9 November 1905, Jefferson, Marion County, Oregon, USA at age 93
  • Buried: 1905, Jefferson, Marion County, Oregon, USA

bullet   Other names for Seeley were Mansfield COOK,6 Seely M. COOK,7 Seely Mansfield COOK,8 Seley M. COOK 5 and Seley Mansfield COOK.

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bullet  General Notes

~~~~~~ from Rommie Walker's history on www.collver.org ~~

Seley Mansfield Cook age 39 was born in Onondaga County, New York in 1812, the son of Beckwith and Sybil Olds Cook. It is probable he moved with his father and family to Portage County Ohio where he married wife Nancy B. Rice January 24, 1835. Wife Nancy B. (Rice) Cook, age 34, was born in New York August 15, 1817. She moved with her parents to Portage County, Ohio about 1820. (Nancy is a daughter of William K. Rice and Mary (Pettingill) Rice.
Children;
1. Chloe Amelia Cook, age 9, born Cedar Co. Iowa 1842, Md. 1. John Alva Harry, 1857, Lane Co. OR. 2. James Laird, 1875, Coos Co. OR. Lived at Brewster valley in Coos Co. Chloe passed away 1929, Coos Co. OR.
2. Martha Armenia Cook, age 8, born Cedar Co. Iowa, Md. Basil Nelson Longsworth, Aug. 5, 1859, Lane Co. OR. Lived near Jefferson OR in 1905. Martha died about 1930 in Hillsboro, OR at the home of her daughter Emma Denby.
3. Osmer White Cook age 4, born in Cedar Co., Iowa Oct 7, 1847. Md. Mary Catherine Gilliam, October 12, 1873 in Wasco Co. OR. He died Mar. 7, 1920, Wasco Co. OR.
4. Mary Elizabeth Cook, an infant, born in Iowa 1851, Md. Isaac Connett Dec. 20, 1874. Lived in Polk Co. in 1905. She died 1937, Buena Vista, OR and is buried there.
5. Horace Howard Cook, born on the plains or Utah winter camp in 1852. He was not mentioned in his father's obituary 1905 so may have been deceased by that time. He may have lived in Lane Co.
Children born to Seley M and Nancy B. Cook after arrival in Oregon are
5. Edward Alonzo Cook, born 1854 in (Lane County?) died after 1905.
6. Harriet Lucinda, born 1857 in (Lane County?) Md. William Lewis Connett, Dec. 20, 1874 at Independence, Polk Co., OR. Died 1939, Portland, OR
7. Nelson Jasper Cook born after 1860.

Seley M. Cook may have been the family wagon train Captain. Seley M. Cook family arrived in Oregon June 26, 1852. Lane County DLC # 1204 settled 25 Oct. 1852. This Land Claim was located in the Crow Vaughn area (also called Noti Valley in 1850's) of Lane County. DLC affidavit signed by Joel B. Cook, Abram Cutlip and Henry B. Smith. This Land Claim was located in the Crow Vaughn area of Lane County

The family remained in Lane County until sometime after 1860. It is believed the family relocated to the Buena Vista/Jefferson area. Seley Mansfield Cook was a farmer and a minister. He performed several marriage ceremonies in Lane County between 1854 and 1866. . One marriage was William Johnson and Alvira Cook, a daughter of Joel B. Cook, on July 23, 1854.

Seley Cook is known to have visited the Horace Rice family at Rice Station on Fifteen Mile Creek in Wasco County about October 20th, 1887. According to a letter from Ettie Rice to her cousin Austin Bushnell, "Uncle Mansfield is here to knight and him and Pa is first making the religion git. He came down some time ago if you and your mother had of waited a week longer you would of got to seen him." (Maryetta Margaret Rice)

Seley M. Cook passed on Nov. 9, 1905 at Jefferson, OR. For 72 years he was a faithful minister of the Protestant Methodist church. He is buried at Jefferson, Oregon. Nancy B. Rice Cook, aged 57 years, passed away June 14, 1874, four months after her mother. She is buried next to her mother at the Buena Vista Cemetery in Polk County, Oregon.

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bullet  Recorded Events in His Life

  • He appeared on the 1840 US Federal Census on 1 June 1840 in Cedar County, Iowa Territory, USA. 6

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  • He appeared on the 1850 US Federal Census on 12 September 1850 in Center Township, Cedar County, Iowa, USA. 4

Beckwith Cook, 64, Connecticut, miller
Mary Cook, 60, Maine
Seely M. Cook, 37, NY, farmer
Nancy B. Cook, 33, NY
Chloe A. Cook, 8, Iowa
Martha A. Cook, 7, Iowa
Osmar W. Cook, 2, Iowa
Mary E. Cook, 6/12, Iowa
Oliver W. Standard, 13, Illinois

  • He worked as a farmer on 22 August 1860 in Richason's Precinct, Lane County, Oregon, USA. 5

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  • He appeared on the 1860 US Federal Census on 22 August 1860 in Richason's Precinct, Lane County, Oregon, USA. 5

Related Families:  Cook, Rice, Cutlip, and Smith
1860 Census (22 Aug 1860) - Richason's Precinct, Lane County, Oregon, USA

                                            Real     Personal
Name               Age   Sex   Occupation   Estate   Property   Birthplace      Remarks
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Abraham Cutlet      35    M    Farmer        1500      500      Virginia        --
Harriett E Cutlet   27    F    Housewife       --       --      Ohio            --
Lenoard Cutlet      10    M    --              --       --      Iowa            attended school in past year
Rosalio Cutlet       6    F    --              --       --      Oregon          attended school in past year
David M Cutlet       3    M    --              --       --      Oregon          --
Almira Cutlet       6/12    F    --              --       --      Oregon          --

Henry B Smith       35    M    Farmer        1800      450      Pennsylvania    --
Sophia A Smith      31    F    Housewife       --       --      Ohio            --
Freman B Smith      10    M    --              --       --      Iowa            attended school in past year
Kansas H Smith       8    F    --              --       --      On the Plains   attended school in past year
Cornelia H Smith     6    F    --              --       --      Oregon          attended school in past year
Charles S Smith      3    M    --              --       --      Oregon          --
Lida Smith           2    F    --              --       --      Oregon          --

Beckwith Cook       75    M    Farmer         600      200      Connecticut     --
Poley Cook          69    F    Housewife       --       --      Maine           --

Seley M Cook        47    M    Farmer        1500     1200      New York        --
Nancy B Cook        45    F    Housewife       --       --      New York        --
Osmer W Cook        13    M    --              --       --      Iowa            attended school in past year
Eliza M Cook         9    F    --              --       --      Iowa            attended school in past year
Horace H Cook        8    M    --              --       --      On the Plains   attended school in past year
Edward S Cook        6    M    --              --       --      Oregon          attended school in past year
Harriett E Cook      3    F    --              --       --      Oregon          --

J B Cook            44    M    Farmer         640      350      New York        --
Mary E Cook         40    F    Housewife       --       --      Ohio            --
Mercey A Cook       13    F    --              --       --      Iowa            attended school in past year
Seley C Johnson      4    M    --              --       --      Oregon          attended school in past year
Lorenzo Granby      26    M    Farm laborer    --      100      Ohio            --
Lucy A Granby       16    F    Housewife       --       --      Iowa            --
Hiram B Granby       1    M    --              --       --      Oregon          --

Horace Rice         30    M    Farming        640      875      Ohio            --
Eliza J Rice        30    F    Housewife       --       --      Virginia        --
George W Rice       10    M    --              --       --      Iowa            attended school in past year
Charles W Rice       6    M    --              --       --      Oregon          attended school in past year
Emma A Rice          4    F    --              --       --      Oregon          attended school in past year
Amelia A Rice        2    F    --              --       --      Oregon          --
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Source Citation:  Year: 1860; Census Place: Richardson, Lane, Oregon; Roll: M653_1055; Page: 276; Image: 553.


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Seeley married Nancy Beulah RICE, daughter of William King RICE and Mary PETTENGILL, on 24 January 1835 in Portage County, Ohio, USA.1 (Nancy Beulah RICE was born on 15 August 1817 in New York, USA,5 9 died on 14 June 1874 in Oregon, USA and was buried in 1874 in Buena Vista, Polk County, Oregon, USA.)


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bullet   Sources   bullet

  1. Kirsty M. Haining.
  2. Gertrude Brown Smith and Beulah M. Springstead, Our Colonial Lines: Powell, Eaton, Rice, Pettengill, Collver, White (c) 1992, p. 54, 55, 64, 65, 84. This is the 3rd edition of a family-published book on genealogy.
  3. John Mason Pettingell, Pettengell Genealogy (Boston, 1906).
  4. Ancestry.com, 1850 United States Federal Census [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Seventh Census of the United States, 1850. NARA microfilm publication M432, 1009 rolls. Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, DC), Horace Rice, Beckwith Cook, and Joel B. Cook households, Center Township, Cedar County, Iowa, USA.
  5. Ancestry.com, 1860 United States Federal Census [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Eighth Census of the United States, 1860. NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls. Records of the Bureau of the Census, National Archives, Washington, DC), Related families:  Cook, Rice, Cutlip  and Smith; Richason's Precinct, Lane County, Oregon, USA.
  6. Ancestry.com, 1840 United States Federal Census [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Sixth Census of the United States, 1840. NARA microfilm publication M704, 580 rolls. Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, DC), Culver, Rice, and Cook households, Cedar County, Iowa Territory, USA.
  7. Ancestry.com, 1850 United States Federal Census [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Seventh Census of the United States, 1850. NARA microfilm publication M432, 1009 rolls. Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, DC), Horace Rice, Beckwith Cook, and Joel B. Cook households, Center Township, Cedar County, Iowa, USA.
  8. Gertrude Brown Smith and Beulah M. Springstead, Our Colonial Lines: Powell, Eaton, Rice, Pettengill, Collver, White (c) 1992, p. 84. This is the 3rd edition of a family-published book on genealogy.
  9. Gertrude Brown Smith and Beulah M. Springstead, Our Colonial Lines: Powell, Eaton, Rice, Pettengill, Collver, White (c) 1992. This is the 3rd edition of a family-published book on genealogy.


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