William St. CLAIR & Alcey Ann COOK  
#60 -William Franklin
ST. CLAIR
s/o #120 James WIlliam
ST. CLAIR  & #121 Sarah E. SLATER
#61 -Alcey/Ailcey Ann 
COOK
d/o #122 William COOK  &
#123 Margaret Lucinda JACKSON
nickname-none nickname-none
Probable Ethnicity: Probable Ethnicity:
Possible Cherokee mother
Married
21 Feb 1869
Taney Co. MO
b 19 May 1847 TN b 1 Jul 1847 Taney Co. MO
d 4 Feb 1926 Taney Co. MO d 17 Aug 1922 Taney Co. MO
bur . bur .
Hair: Eyes: Hair: Eyes:
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Known Children
Name, Date of birth Place of birth/death Possible/Probable/Definite Marriage
Nathaniel H.
b Feb 1868

Taney Co. MO
Almedia/
#30 John Waymon
b 26 Dec 1869
18 Nov 1954

Taney Co. MO
Taney Co. MO
#31 Mary Jane CRAIG
James A.
b Nov 1872

Taney Co. MO
Lillie EVANS
William Asa
b Dec 1875

Taney Co. MO
Minnie VINEYARD
Margaret Evangeline
b ca 1878

Taney Co. MO
Ed WEST
Della Mae
12 Jul 1887

Taney Co. MO
Thomas Charles HANDY

 
 
Appears in Census:
Year Location
1870 #95, Jasper Twp, Taney Co. MO
1880 #21, Jasper Twp, Taney Co. MO

 
 
What We Know:
Diana CRAIG-BRYANT states in her great book, Walnut Shade:  Her Community, Her Settlers, and the Cemetery that William was a justice of the peace for Jasper Township for many years. 
According to Ines BLANSIT HARRIS, William and Alcey's great-granddaughter, William fought in with Wm. Henry Harrison--she called WHH in her notes, "Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too".  However, WHH died in 1841, 6 years before William Franklin was born; the battle of Tippecanoe, in which General Harrison defeated the Shawnee chiefs Tecumseh and The Prophet, was in 1811.  Ines must have meant William's grandfather fought with WHH, whose name might have been William as well, for William's father wasn't born until 1817.
Or maybe she meant something entirely different.
The picture below, which I received courtesy of Jo Dunne, whose cousin is a Cook descendant, is the whole reason I went ahead and postponed other work and got Greg's genealogy online at this time.  Isn't it awesome? <G>

 

 
 
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