Doran Wister Cook (1905-1938)

Names Detail

First Name

Doran

Middle Name

Wister

Last Name

Cook

Birth and Death

Birth Date

October 8, 1905

Death Date

December 25, 1938

Age at Death

33 year(s), 2 month(s), 17 day(s)

Cemetery Location and Disposition

Cemetery Location

Row 03, Grave 08 | Map

Disposition Type

Burial

Relationships to Others at the Cemetery

External Links

Find A Grave

Notes

From the Four Fs of Moline, Texas, in the essay about the Carswell family written by Cleo Carswell:

Mattie married Wiss Cook, son of Jackie Cook of Moline. This couple lived on farms and ranches near Moline. Their children were Dorris, Mona, and Doran, and two infants who died. Wiss died quite young, then Mattie moved to Moline. She served as postmistress and boarded school teachers. At this time Mattie’s mother was also widowed, and she helped with her children and her work. After her mother’s death, Mattie married Mr. Trussell, who had a store in Moline. A few years later he died, and Mattie moved her family to Dallas. Doran, a barber, died in 1938, and Mona died in 1979. Other members of the family still live in the Dallas area. Wiss Cook and Mattie are buried in Payne Gap Cemetery.

By the 1920s census, Mattie had married E. Albert Clayton and was living in Eastland, Texas, with her son Doran, who was fifteen. The 1930 census reports Doran and his mother, now single, living in Dallas, Texas.

Doran died in 1938 at age thirty-three from coronary thrombosis, and his mother died in 1963. The two rest next to each other at the cemetery.