Phineas Wolcott Cook Family Organization

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Descendants of Phineas Wolcott Cook (1819-1900)
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Explaining the doctrine of the church, he tried to clarify the nature of God, as believed by members of the Church of Je...
04/23/2026

Explaining the doctrine of the church, he tried to clarify the nature of God, as believed by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: “The God they worship has a body like the body of a man, for man was made in his own image and likeness. He has parts, passions, and is a material God. He can speak, he can walk, he can eat, he is pleased and he is angry… He once went through a state of probation such as we are now passing through, kept his estate and received the everlasting gospel. [He] secured his exaltation on an eternal celestial inheritance such as this world will become at the end of the Millennium, even like a sea of glass mingled with fire.”

In a letter to the President of the United States he explains his belief polygamy is a sacred and humane practice, prote...
04/21/2026

In a letter to the President of the United States he explains his belief polygamy is a sacred and humane practice, protecting both women and children. In a portion of that letter, he describes his conversion and his firm belief that God is a real and loving father—a belief which was the driving force of his life.

On Saturday May 2nd at 10:00am MST over zoom will be a meeting of the Phineas Wolcott Cook Book Club! We will be discuss...
04/16/2026

On Saturday May 2nd at 10:00am MST over zoom will be a meeting of the Phineas Wolcott Cook Book Club! We will be discussing pages 323-341. The zoom link will be the same one from previous meetings, if you would like the link, please directly message the social media page.

You can find a free version of the book at this link which is a part of our cookfamiliy.org website:https://cookfamily.org/histories/documents/PhineasWolcottCook_1819-1900/files/PhineasWolcottCook-LegacyOfFaith2022.pdf

Or you can purchase a hardcover version of the book at: https://www.amazon.com/Phineas-Wolcott-Cook-Legacy-Faith/dp/B09YT2HFYX/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3MNXBL4PI11NY&keywords=phineas+wolcott+cook&qid=1683164240&sprefix=phineas+wolcott+coo%2Caps%2C186&sr=8-1

Some of you are descendants of Phineas' grandson, Alonzo Laker "A.L." Cook who was married to Maude Osmond Cook. Maude w...
04/10/2026

Some of you are descendants of Phineas' grandson, Alonzo Laker "A.L." Cook who was married to Maude Osmond Cook. Maude was a poetess and published many of her poems. Becca Groberg, a Phineas and A.L. Cook descendant, has set some of Maude's poems to music with the help of AI.

This poem entitled "You Left Us With a Smile," is about Maude and A.L.'s son Glenn Anson Cook who died at age 12 after a knee injury turned into blood poisoning. Maude wrote, "What a void he left in our home! His father called him “Sweet boy,” and he was that and much more. We felt we could not live without him. As he was dying, the lightning flashed vividly and the thunder shook the very earth. It rained and rained from the time he died until after he was buried."

Let us know if you enjoy this rendition and we can share more of her poems-turned-to-songs with you.


The Polygamy bill of 1862 was the first warning the government would ultimately demand the end of polygamy, even though ...
04/09/2026

The Polygamy bill of 1862 was the first warning the government would ultimately demand the end of polygamy, even though the law in 1862 was never fully enforced. Phineas W. Cook had deep faith and believed in God’s power to save His Church.

[1864] Phineas was about to make a third attempt to build a gristmill at Bear Lake, but he was in for another surprise. ...
04/08/2026

[1864] Phineas was about to make a third attempt to build a gristmill at Bear Lake, but he was in for another surprise. The Manuscript History states when he arrived at Swan Creek Phineas was greeted by another man who had also claimed the Swan Creek land in his absence.

In spite of unexpected weather, life continued to find happy moments. On Christmas Day, 1864 Ann Eliza’s second daughter...
03/31/2026

In spite of unexpected weather, life continued to find happy moments. On Christmas Day, 1864 Ann Eliza’s second daughter Augusta married Joseph Robert Meservy.

Phineas must have liked the area south of Bear Lake because he made a land claim, in spite of the fact that he knew by t...
03/26/2026

Phineas must have liked the area south of Bear Lake because he made a land claim, in spite of the fact that he knew by then he couldn’t build a mill there. These claims were settled and recorded December 11 and 12 in 1865, but he probably entered the claim much earlier, perhaps the late summer before, while he was there with his sons.

Mary Rosalia Cook McCann wrote an autobiography in which she told of her birth: “I was one of twin sisters, born on Nove...
03/24/2026

Mary Rosalia Cook McCann wrote an autobiography in which she told of her birth: “I was one of twin sisters, born on November 12th, 1863. My sister died when she was one month old, and my mother was very ill all winter. She has often told me that I owed my life to the devotion and care of [Amanda’s half-sister] Aunt Mary Wilcox, who was then only a girl of fifteen years [married two years later at Paris, Idaho, John Dingman Wilcox].

Brent Hale wrote in his history of Amanda: “On 12 November 1863 Amanda gave birth to a pair of twin girls. They were pre...
03/19/2026

Brent Hale wrote in his history of Amanda: “On 12 November 1863 Amanda gave birth to a pair of twin girls. They were premature and Amanda had child bed fever. She was very ill for a long while. She was totally deaf for weeks. When her babies were a month old, the oldest one died. Amanda maintained her life was saved by the care of her family, especially her half-sister Mary.”

Beginning in 1870, just seven years after establishing himself at Bear Lake, he and his wives and his sister Eliza Hall ...
03/17/2026

Beginning in 1870, just seven years after establishing himself at Bear Lake, he and his wives and his sister Eliza Hall were at the Salt Lake Endowment House doing ordinance work for the names they had diligently collected through the years—hundreds of them. In the end, it was the Logan Temple which brought him there in 1882, and when conflict arose in his family, it was their determination to “save thy father’s house” that healed their hearts.

Photo credits: The Endowment House https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/history/topics/endowment-house?lang=eng

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