NameCaroline Cook
BirthDec 1845, Amherst, Lorain County, Ohio9,2,3
Death1906, Amherst, Lorain County, Ohio
Burial1906, Cleveland Street Cemetery, Amherst, Lorain County, Ohio
FatherAdam Cook (~1810-)
MotherMargaret (~1807-)
Source:
Ancestry.com—Delgar Family Tree; and
www.findagrave.com.
Her years of birth and death are taken from the inscription on her tombstone in the Cleveland St. Cemetery in Amherst, Lorain County, Ohio.
Carolyn gave birth to two children, both of whom were alive in 1900. The 1900 census gives her age as 55 but her birth year as 1854. It should have been listed as 1845.
Source:
Ancestry.com—Germany, Select Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898; and U.S., Civil War Draft Registrations Records, 1863-1865; Ohio, Deaths, 1908-1932, 1936-2007; and inscription on tombstone in the Cleveland St. Cemetery in Amherst, Lorain County, Ohio.
Peter immigrated to the United States in 1847.
In 1863 when he registered for the civil war draft he lived in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Onio. In 1870 he and his wife and daughter Lucy lived in Amherst Township, Lorain County, Ohio. His name was spelled Pouly in the 1870 census. In 1880 he and his wife lived in North Amherst, Lorain County with their daughter Lucy C. and son Clark.
The Ohio, Deaths report was the source of his middle name and his date and place of death. His year of death was obtained from the inscription on his tombstone.