“Nathaniel Cook, known as "Buster" Cook, his father, Shedrick, was given his slave owner's name Cook. He worked on a plantation in Panola County, Mississippi. Shedrick Cook married Malanie Gamble and had five children. Daisy married Joseph Taylor. Henry, Beatrice, Robertina married Reverend Reed. Ruddell and Audrie Martin begat 7 children. Lizzie and Collin Patton begat Bertha Ownes , Jewel Bonner begat Cassie, Earler Mae Patton married Willie Robinson and they had ten children; 2 sons, Willie, Charles, and Lee; 7 daughters, Mary Alice, Margrette, Dora, Loretta, Juanita, Sarah, and Cathryn. Lude married Thompson, begat 2 sons, Leroy and?. Fletcher married Parham. Otis and Nutie had no children. Augustus married and begat 3 children. Harriet and Anderson Buford begat Nancy, Kate, Queenie Mae, Johnny, Osie, Herman, and Marvin. 

Cook Family members own farmland in Lafayette County, Mississippi. Literacy and land ownership made African-Americans somebody in the late 19th century.” 

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