NOT ON DAVIE MEMORIAL, BUT ON FORSYTH COUNTY MEMORIAL

James F. Cook, white

Birth: 29 February 1908

Death: 14 September 1944

Buried: Jerusalem Baptist Church Cemetery, Davie County

FindAGrave #: 28565469

1910 US Census: James F., 2 2/12, living on Watt Street in Cooleemee with parents, William and Lillie B. Cook, 2 relatives and a boarder; William worked at the cotton mill and Lillie was a cook

1920 US Census: James, 11, South Fork, Forsyth County, living with his parents, 3 siblings and a boarder; his father worked at a cotton mill

1930 US Census: James, 22, living in Forsyth County, a doffer at a cotton mill, living with parents, 3 siblings, 3 boarders and one relative

1940 US Census: James F., 32, living at South Ford, Forsyth County, with wife, Bessie C., both working at a cotton mill

Draft Registration: 32, living in Winston-Salem, wife was Bessie Cole Cook, working at Hanes Knitting

Enlisted: 1 November 1942 at Camp Croft, S.C., finished grammar school, married, working in textiles

Social Security Death Index: James, born 29 February 1980, died in September 1944

BIRLS: (Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem) James Cooke, male, died 13 September 1944

NARA Records, World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing for NC: PFC, DNB (died, non-battle), Forsyth County

Inscription on tombstone at Jerusalem Baptist Church, Davie County:

James F. Cook

North Carolina

PVT 40 Engr Combat Regt

WWII

February 29, 1908 September 14 1944

James F. Cook

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