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Marker No: 11797

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: 31.690117,-95.000397

Marker Text: Mississippi native Shelby H. Cook brought his family to this area in the 1950s. By 1856 he held 346 acres of land from the E. D. Cook land grant. Edith Low Cook, wife of she by Cook and mother to their seven children died in 1857 and was buried near the family homestead Cook remarried in 1859, and he and Elizabeth "Bettie" Cook became the parents of eight children. The family cemetery contains 65 marked graves a perpetual care trust was established in the 1970s. Cook family members meet semi-annually to maintain and beautify the site. (1997)  

Location: .49 miles east of Alto on SH 21, 2.6 miles north of CR 2301 / SH 21 to cemetery access road