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Letishua COOK's other family: with Ezra MORRIS ( -1905)

Family of Jannie Douglas MORRIS and Letishua Luticia? "Tissa" COOK

Husband: Jannie Douglas MORRIS (1888-1958)
Wife: Letishua Luticia? "Tissa" COOK (1878-1946)

Husband: Jannie Douglas MORRIS

Name: Jannie Douglas MORRIS
Sex: Male
Father: -
Mother: -
Birth 20 Aug 1888
Death 10 Dec 1958 (age 70)

Wife: Letishua Luticia? "Tissa" COOK

Name: Letishua Luticia? "Tissa" COOK
Sex: Female
Father: Robert "Bob" Abraham COOK (1844-1888)
Mother: Martha Jane "Ma" BARRINEAU (1848-1930)
Birth 1878
Death 1946 (age 67-68)

Note on Husband: Jannie Douglas MORRIS

He is standing in the foreground of one post card of the 1900 Cook House along with an unknown man.

Note on Wife: Letishua Luticia? "Tissa" COOK

Letitia? Died 1946 not 51, Ola Timmons and Doris Bazen visited her in hospital First and second husbands were cousins.

 

Lake City, Nov 26 1946 - (Special) - Mrs. J. Douglas Morris, 72, died at 8 o'clock Monday morning at the Saunders Memorial hospital in Florence after a brief illness. Funeral services will be held from Cooks Chapel near Lake City at 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, conductd by her pastor, the Rev. Lloyd Bolt, assisted by the Rev. Luther Weatherford of Scranton. Interment will be in Cook cemetery. Mrs. Morris was the former Miss Tisher Cook, a daughter of the late Robert A. and Jane Barrineau Cook. She ws born and reared in Clarendon County, but had been living in Lake City for 30 years where she was a faithful member of the Lake City Methodist Church. She was twice married the first time to the Late Mack Morris of Turbeville, who died in 1905. Survivors include her husband, J. Douglas Morris; two sons by the first husband, Levi Morris of Turbeville and W. McRoy Morris of Florence; by the second husband one son, Clarence D. Morris of Lake City, and two daughters, Mrs. Willie Stewart and Mrs. Vernon Evans both of Lake City. She is also survived by 18 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

 

Actually, Mother (Ola) says -

The funeral was not at Cooks Chapel. The funeral was held at Manonah Methodist Church...about 1 mile farther down the

road. Charles and I grabbed a broom to clean Cooks Chapel...and the procession went on past us. We followed them.