John Cook ^{1 2}

  Noted events in his life were:

• He appeared on the 1860 US Census in LaGrange Township, Cass County, MI on 9 June 1860. ²

1860 US Census
Page 39, Dwelling 291, Family 291
LaGrange Township, Cass County, Michigan
John Cook..35..OH

(Living with wife and 3 children.)
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John married Mary Jane Lightfoot, daughter of Daniel Lightfoot and Annie Weir, about 1850. (Mary Jane Lightfoot was born in 1833 in Ohio ^{1 2 3} and died after 1862.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• They appeared on the 1860 US Census in LaGrange Township, Cass County, MI on 9 June 1860. ²

1860 US Census
Page 39, Dwelling 291, Family 291
LaGrange Township, Cass County, Michigan
John Cook..35..OH
Jane Cook..26..OH
Henry C. Cook..1..MI
John Cook..8..IN
D. M. Cook..3..MI

NOTE - The children are not listed in birth order. Rather than to indicate that there was a different spouse, it appears that this was an enumerator error. Researcher Elaine Griffen indicates other documents show that John Cook, Jr. was the first child of John and Mary Jane Cook.
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  Marriage Notes:

Their first child, John Vernon Cook, was born in Sep 1851 in Wabash, Indiana and the family moved to Cass County, Michigan when he was 2 years old. The records I was able to find indicate the family lived near what is now North Manchester near the Wabash/Kosciusko county line.
(Source: Griffen Elaine)
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Neither John nor Mary Jane Cook are found in the 1870 or 1880 census. Their children are either married or working on somebody's farm for the 1870 census.
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