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Bertha Daddow Cook

Birth	:	2 Aug 1886 Loup City, Sherman County, Nebraska, USA
Death	:	15 Mar 1926 Broken Bow, Custer County, Nebraska, USA
Burial	:	Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, London Borough of Islington, England
Coordinate	:	51.5236015, -0.0888900
Plot	:	In protestant section
Description	:	Bertha had no middle name. She was a good-looking woman. She was 5 feet, 4.5 inches tall, had hazel eyes, and weighed 122 pounds in 1914 when she was 28 (according to an application she made for life insurance). She was a quiet, loving, gentle, respected woman who could be firm in her discipline of her children. Bertha, like all the Daddows in Loup City, Nebraska, was active in the Methodist Church. (Her husband, Alfred Cook, was not a church person. He was not an atheist, nor against the church, just not given to... Read More	Bertha had no middle name. She was a good-looking woman. She was 5 feet, 4.5 inches tall, had hazel eyes, and weighed 122 pounds in 1914 when she was 28 (according to an application she made for life insurance). She was a quiet, loving, gentle, respected woman who could be firm in her discipline of her children. Bertha, like all the Daddows in Loup City, Nebraska, was active in the Methodist Church. (Her husband, Alfred Cook, was not a church person. He was not an atheist, nor against the church, just not given to church participation.) She and Alfred were married at 8:00 PM in her parents' home, attended by her sister Delphine as maid of honor and her cousin Edgar Daddow as best man. The local Methodist pastor officiated. Thirty relatives were there. Dinner for everyone followed the wedding. She was sickly and laid down to rest a lot during the last two years of her life, thought to have had cancer. However, it is difficult to know exactly why she died. Alfred used to say that he wondered if bad meat had caused her death. He said that Bertha had asked Alfred to bring a chicken home from the meat market on Saturday so she could prepare a chicken pie for Sunday dinner. She served that chicken pie for dinner that Sunday noon. Alfred said that soon after dinner Bertha took very ill with terrible stomach cramps, the illness that brought on her death two days later, on Tuesday morning, with those awful stomach cramps to the very end. The Broken Bow local newspaper account of Bertha's death corroborates that story. However, I (J Keith Cook) wonder how if the entire family had dined on that dish, only one person became deathly ill from it. In those years, you could not purchase chicken parts. You bought a whole chicken and cut it up into separate pieces yourself as you prepared it for cooking. So she would not have had a piece that would be more contaminated than the parts the others ate. It all came from the same chicken the same day. She apparently had cancer, and perhaps the final phase of it took a sudden turn for the worse that Sunday afternoon. Or perhaps in her preparation in the kitchen, she had licked a knife that had been contaminated by the chicken when it was still raw. We'll never know. Bertha's last words, as she laid in her bed in her home in Broken Bow, Nebraska, with her husband and children gathered around her, were "Alfred, John, Opal." She simply named her family, and then she died. That evening, Alfred called Bertha's only sibling, Delphine Daddow, in Loup City and asked her to come quickly. Delphine rushed to Broken Bow and helped out until Bertha died that Tuesday morning. After that, Delphine became the surrogate mother for John and Opal, often (but not always) taking them into her home. Bertha's funeral was at the Methodist Church in Loup City. She is buried in the Daddow lots just off the center (Southeast of center) of Evergreen Cemetery, just west of Loup City, Nebraska. Her infant daughter Bertha Elaine Cook is buried beside her, as are her parents. Bertha's marriage to Alfred N. Cook had to be less than wonderful. Alfred was a handsome, kind, gentle, sweet sort of man with excellent carpentry skills. He was both a good rough carpenter and a good finish carpenter. But he was also something of a scoundrel and womanizer in his early adult years. In 1975 I (J Keith Cook, Alfred's grandson) met two elderly but mentally alert women, sisters from Loup City. They knew Bertha and her family. I asked them about Bertha, and they spoke glowingly of her. My father, Bertha and Alfred's son John E. Cook, never spoke much of his mother -- whom he lost when he was age 15 -- in the years I knew him. It wasn't his way to talk much about his past. However, people who knew him in the years following his mother's death and into early adulthood told me that he, John, would always keep a framed picture of his mother, Bertha, with him wherever he went and would keep it on a dresser in his bedroom; and when roses were in season, would always place a single rose lying in front of her photo. They spoke of his adoring and missing his mother. Bertha attended Wiggle Creek School, 6 miles directly south of Loup City, Nebraska. It was Sherman County Dist. 36. When she was the wife of Alfred Newton Cook. Bertha was a Sunday School Superintendent and teacher. Her obituary from The Sherman County Times, Loup City: MRS. COOK PASSES AWAY AT BROKEN BOW Mrs. A. N. Cook passed away at her home in Broken Bow early Tuesday morning was the sad news that reached here. The death of Mrs. Cook was very unexpected, and her case has got the doctors guessing. On last Saturday, Mrs. Cook, according to the word reached here, told her husband to bring home a chicken and she would make a chicken pie for Sunday dinner, which she did, and on Sunday afternoon, she was taken with cramps and suffered much pain. Her sister Miss Delphine Daddow was called Sunday evening to be with her sister. Mrs. Cook suffered intense pain until early Tuesday morning when death relieved her. The body was brought to Loup City Thursday, and the funeral services were held from the Methodist church Thursday afternoon in charge (sic) of Rev. Maynard, pastor of the Methodist church of Ord, and assisted by Rev. Hassell. Interment was made at Evergreen cemetery. The following was in the Sherman County Times, March 19, 1926: The death of Mrs. Cook is a sad blow to her husband and two children, one of which is about 12 years old (actually, son John was age 15) and the other 9. Besides her husband and two children, she leaves one sister, Miss Delphine Daddow, and many aunts, uncles, and cousins. Mr. and Mrs. Cook left Loup City several years ago and went into the hotel business at Sargent, and last fall, they moved to Broken Bow, where Mr. Cook entered the real estate business. Deceased was a devout Christian and one who loved her home, and her death removes a useful woman. The entire community extends their sympathy to the bereaved ones in their hour of sorrow.

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Where is Bertha Daddow Cook's memorial?
Bertha Daddow Cook's memorial is located at: Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, London Borough of Islington, England.
When did Bertha Daddow Cook death?
Bertha Daddow Cook death on 15 Mar 1926 in Broken Bow, Custer County, Nebraska, USA
Where are the coordinates of the Bertha Daddow Cook's memorial?
Latitude: 51.5236015
Longitude: -0.0888900

Family Members:

Parent

John Daddow IV

(1850 - 1910)

Olive Adell Goodwin Daddow

(1858 - 1921)

Spouse

Siblings

Delphine May Daddow

(1881 - 1962)

Children

Bertha Elaine Cook

(1917 - 1917)

Martha Opal Cook McCormick

(1917 - 1989)

Flowers:

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