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From: "Andi MacDonald" <>
Subject: Re: [WA-CEMETERIES] Searching for Grave and Death Date of Mortimer Cook
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 06:05:09 -0700
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Hi Mary,

Can you please tell me where Iloilo Island is?

Andi
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Subject: [WA-CEMETERIES] Searching for Grave and Death Date of Mortimer Cook


> Please read from Mortimer Cook,
>
> Cook nearly went bankrupt during the Depression of the 1890s and he
> liquidated his assets to travel to the Philippines in search of another
> fortune in the mahogany forests there. He died of dysentery on Iloilo
> Island on Nov. 22, 1899, and is buried there. His family moved away to
> Illinois after the turn of the century. Their descendants returned to help
> launch the first Founders Weekend during Loggerodeo of 1994.
>
> Mary
>
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