From: "Biographical  Review of Cass, Schuyler and Brown Counties, Illinois 1892", by Biographical Review Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois; page 541; a reprinted by Stevens Publishing Co., Astoria, Ill., 1971, is sold by the Schuyler County Historical Society, Rushville, Illinois.
  Samual W, Cook our worthy subject, was married in 1857, to Elizabeth Lovell, of Schuyler county, a daughter of William and Elizabeth (Seaver) Lovell; Mrs. Cook's father was a native of Kentucky, and her mother was of German extraction; the maternal grandmother lived to the extreme old age of 104 years; Mrs. Cook was born in 1840. They began their married life here in Schuyler county, and with the exception of a legacy of $3,000, which was recently received by Mrs. Cook, heve accumulated their property through own efforts. They own a fine fertile farm of 110 acres, and Mrs. Cook has a tract near by which consists of fifty-six acres.
  They are parents of eleven children; one son and two daughters died in infancy; Charles E. died at the age of ninteen years, in 1885; Mary E. is the wife of Thomas Chalkley; William T. marriwd Laura Stausbaugh and has two children; Lizzie is the wife of Harry Smith; Hannah married James Lybarger, and is the mother of one child; Inez L., Samual W. and Wilmar F. are at home.
  In his political opinions Mr. Cook adheres to the principles of the Democratic party; he has represented his township in some of the local offices, and has discharged his duties with great credit to himself. Mrs. Cook is a consisent member of the Church of the Disciples.
  1861 Militia Roll