Metcalfe County KY 

Cook Surname Information 

Location of Metcalfe County in Kentucky

        Metcalfe County is located in the eastern portion of the Pennyroyal region of south central Kentucky and is bordered by Hart and Green Counties on the north, on the west by Barren County, on the south by Monroe County, on the southeast by Cumberland County, and on the east by Adair County. The county's land area is 296 square miles. Little Barren River and its tributaries cross from southeast to the north, and Marrowbone Creek with its tributaries are in the southeastern portion of the county. from their web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~kymetca2/ 

Metcalfe County, formed 1860, was named for Thomas "Stonehammer" Metcalfe, the tenth governor of Kentucky and the county's origin is tied to a dispute over a proposed path of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. source: http://www.rootsweb.com/~kymetca2/history.htm 

Census Data

1860 

Births: 

COOK, Virginia N, d/o Valentine & Amanda LEEPER 11 June 1861. 

COOKSEY, Jesse O, s/o Lus? and Evie PEDIGO, 14 Sept 1906.

source: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ifetch2?/u1/data/ky+index+420551644220+F

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