Malinda COOK

She died in 1843.

General Notes
- nickname was Kizzie per Mary Ann Wade
  
  m. (Daviess Cty.) IN 1842 to Benedict Joseph WADE
  
  Mary Ann Wade: "The letter below was written by Samuel Joseph Wade.
  'As you know Benedict Wade was married two times. His first wife was a sister to my grandfather's first wife. Their maiden name was Cook. And this Ziba Wade was Uncle Benedict's son by his first wife. His mother passed away the night Ziba was born, and Uncle Ben's mother (Eleanor Brewer) took Ziba home and raised him. St Michael's Church was not built till 1887. Suppose all of grandfather Evan family was baptized at St. Peter's. That was the closes place to go to church.' (Notations: St Peter's was the burial place of Ben, David, and James)
  
  "Benedict J. "Ben" Wade; born May 19, 1820 in Marion County, Kentucky, died April 10, 1909 in Daviess County, Indiana. He was the fourth child of John Evan Wade and Eleanor Brewer. A grandson of Ben states that the "J" was only an initial, but some descendants say that it stood for Joseph. Ben was married in 1840 or 1842 to Malinda Cook, and they had a son named Zeba or Zibea, born 1843. Malinda died when Zibea was born, and his grandmother Eleanor carried him home and raised him. Evan Wade was made his guardian in September of 1848, pg. 115 of Daviess County , Indiana records. He may have been the tenth child of Evan. In 1844, Ben married his second wife Marietta Gibson and they had twelve children. He lived all of his life in Bogard Twp., Daviess County, Indiana and is buried in a Catholic cemetery there. St. Michaels is a few miles south of their homestead."
  
  probate record:
  (decedent) Wade (no first name indicated in this abstract), Sept. 1848, m Benedict J. Wade, heir: Ziba Wade under 14, Evan Wade Gdn father of Benedict J.
  
  source: Abstract of Probate Records 1817-1850, Clerk's Office, Daviess County, Indiana, compiled by Mrs. Stella Bogner, donated by White River Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Part 1, 1933.

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