William and Sarah S. Cook
Private, Capt. Joseph Redding's Company, Kentucky
Militia, Bounty Land No. 3991, 160-50. W.O. 37,419, and W.C. 30,002

     Enlisted 8-15-1812  Discharged 3-4-1813, residence 1814, 20-24 and 66, Grant County, Kentucky.  1864 Bartholomew Co, Indiana, 1871  soldier's home, Montgomery Co. Ohio.

     Residence of widow 1879, Hope and Petersville, Bartholomew Co, Indiana, soldier's first wife maiden name ____________ ?

     Sarah S. Daugherty, 1st marriage James A. Reed. Marriage of soldier and widow 9-4-1852, Grant Co, Ky. Death of soldier 7-1-1876, Bartholomew Co, Indiana. Death of widow 3-16-1884. 

     Affidavit of Augustus M. Brown. I hereby certify that on the morning of the 22nd of January 1813 at the River Raisin that William Cook came to me to dress his wounds, which he received during the battle. The injury received was in the right arm occasioned by a musket ball passing through both bones just where the joint of the elbow. The 6th day after I extracted several pieces of carion bones. Cox is materially injured and etc. which disables him from following his business which is paper making. He was left at Sandwich when the rest of the men marched owing to his helpless condition. He is now in Kentucky, in the county of Scott, where he resides. I then acted as surgeon to the detachment. Signed A M Brown.

     One Thomas Graves, states that he was in the same detachment with said Cook and knows of his wounds at the River Raisin on the 22nd Jan 1813. He said "I was a prisoner to the same Indian with him and know that Cook did his duty. He has since returned to his residence in Scott Co, Ky.

     Affidavit by Julius Turner, being one of the privates in Capt. Joseph Redings Company, who was in the detachment at the River Raisin in the battle 22nd Jan 1813, said that Wm Cook was then wounded and taken prisoner by the Indians, that he was wounded in the arm and very severe. In an affidavit by Henry Warfield and John C. Richardson states that the regiment to which Wm Scott belonged was commanded by Col. Scott.

     He at one time received his pension at Cincinnati, to the 4th March 1866 he was paid at the Indianapolis Ind, pension agency.

     The following is a song balad written by William  Cook: 

TITLE Spiritual Railroad
The line to heaven, by Christ was made,
That heavenly truths the rails are laid,
From earth to heaven the lines extends,
To life eternal where it ends.
Repentence is the station house, 
where passengers are taken in,
No fee for them is there to pay,
For Jesus himself is the way.
The Bible is the engineer
It points the way to heaven so clear,
Through tunnels dark and dreary here,
It does the way to glory stear.
God loves the fire, his truth the steam,
Which drives the engine and the train,
All you who would to Glory ride,
Must come to Christ in him abide.
The first the second and the third class
Repentance fail and holiness 
you must the way to glory gain,
or you with Christ can never reign.
Come then poor sinner now is the time
At any station on the line.
If you repent and turn from sin,
The train will stop and take you in.

Sung to long metre. This was written by Wm Cook, 3-20-1860

     Proof for a widow to secure pension 9-4-1852, maiden name Sarah S Reed, as shown by a certified copy of a county record to William Cook.

     Catharine and John P. Dougherty state that the death of soldier's first wife on Aug 15-1852 and of claimants former husband on Sept 30-1851.

STATE OF INDIANA, BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY. On July 25-1879, personally appeared Sarah S. Cook, aged 51, a resident of Petersville, Indiana, that she is the widow of William Cook, deceased, who served as a private in Company K, 3rd in the Kentucky regiment, commanded by Col Clay, in the War of 1812, that her husband, enlisted at Georgetown, for the term of 3 years; that she was married to the said soldier in Grant Co, Ky, in September 1852 on the 19th by Wm Siples minister and that her name before marriage was Daugherty, that her husband died at home in Indiana, July 4, 1876.

     Affidavit of Isaac Steenburger, in Indiana, at Columbus Township July 4, 1876, in Shelby Co, Ind.

     Affidavit of Catherine Dougherty made affidavit in Shelby Co, Ind, that she was well acquainted with the first wife of Wm Cook in her life time, that she died at home in the county of Grant, Kentucky, 8-15-1852 from cholera.

     Affidavit of John P Dougherty of Shelby Co, Indiana, made the same statement, affidavit of J P Dougherty, affidavit, saying he knew James A Reed, in his life time, that he died at his home in Grant County Ky, 9-30-____ leaving his widow Sarah S Reed.

Affidavit of Catherine Dougherty made the same statement.

     An abstract of the marriage record of Wm Cook to Sarah S Reed, 9-4-1852, Minister Wm H Sapple. Is certified to by the clerk on the date of June 6-1879 Robert H. Ellston. A letter addressed to soldier's home, 2-13-1874. To Mrs. S.S. Cook, asking of she had received the money which he sent her. Stated that his health was about the same, signed Wm. Cook.

     A paper filed in the pension No 37419. Statement of Susan S. Cook, William Cook, at the time of his enlistment, manufactured paper. He was about six feet, fair complexion, blue eyes, and black hair and was born near Wheeling, Va. He resided in Grant Co, Ky from the time he was age 7, until 1862 when he moved to Indiana. He went to the soldier's home and remained part of his time and part of his time, he was at home with his family in Bartholomew Co, Indiana. He served in the Third Kentucky Militia, War of 1812.

     Mrs. Sarah Cook, died 3-16-1884 in Hop, Indiana. or Hap? Indiana?

Source: Records of Revolutionary War Pensions of Soldiers who Settled in Fayette County Kentucky

Annie Walker Burns, compiler, Washington DC, 1936

Copy held by the Kentucky Room, Lexington Public Library

Call number: R976.947 B4128r KY1936