Ellis Cook has been identified as the gentleman in the photo.
So this will leave us with Flora Elma Arnold (known as Elma) standing, daughter of Amos and Lora Arnold. Elma married Carvosso William Cook May 14, 1888. Ellis Cook is their son, one of seven children. Elma died in 1921 at the age of 56. She along with her two older siblings, Hattie and Johnson, were born near Schuyler Falls, Clinton County, New York. Elma was born on January 9, 1864. Elma's obituary states that "she came with her parents when three years of age (October 26, 1867) to Roberts, Illinois, and grew to womanhood in this vicinity." I imagine Flora Elma Arnold would have received that name from her mother's twin sister Flora Johnson.
Ellis Cook was born June 22, 1889 and had a twin brother who died at birth. His twin's grave is marked as "Infant" in Lyman Township Cemetery.
The child we assume is Ellis and Leone (Houk) Cook's daughter. They had two daughters and two sons. This most likely is their older daughter, Elma Cook. Elma Cook was born November 8, 1911, in Guthrie, Illinois. She married Herbert W. Jacobs. They had no children.
Ellis Cook at the age of 80 died at Gibson City Community Hospital February 1970, following the collision of his car and an Illinois Central freight train at the Weldon crossing in Roberts, Illinois.
--Photo KTH. June 2020.
