Mary (McCay) Cook (1827-1902)

Mrs Mary (McCay) Cook

She was remembered by her granddaughter, Mabel (Ganson) Dodge Luhan, while living in Bath: "Grandmother was always superintending the kitchen, helping to prepare the splendid country meals, training the young country maids, overseeing the preserving, the many complicated puddings, cakes and pies, the roasting of the big joints and fowls, and attending to the thousand details of a hearty, comfortable living. Besides, she was always "bringing up" her four handsome girls while their father, down in the village, spun the whole countryside out of himself. Horse-shoeing, banking, judging, railroad-building, house-building, town-building".

Parents (2)

William Wallace McCay

William Wallace McCay, of the Pulteney Land Estate, Bath, New York.

b.1790

Sarah Newbold Barton

Mrs Sarah (Barton) McCay

1790-1864

Spouse (1)

Henry Harvey Cook

Henry H. Cook, of Fifth Avenue, New York City and "Wheatleigh" Massachusetts

1822-1905

Children (5)

Marianna (Cook) MacDougall

Mrs "Anna" (Cook) MacDougall

b.1849

Louise (Cook) Miller

Mrs Maria "Louise" (Cook) Miller

b.1851

Sarah (Cook) Montague

Mrs Sarah McCay (Cook) Ganson, Reeder, Montague

1853-1934

Frances (Cook) Keene

Mrs "Fannie" Frances Howell (Cook) Keene

b.c.1855

Georgie (Cook) de Heredia

Georgie Bruce (Cook), Countess de Heredia

1865-1946

Associated Houses (3)

Henry H. Cook Mansion

Manhattan, New York

Wheatleigh

Lenox, Massachusetts

Seaverge

Newport, Rhode Island