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Family: Harmon Cook / Mary Agness Ann Turk (F6985)  ^{[1, 2]} 

• Father | Male Harmon Cook

  
  

  Born	20 Jan 1729	Pennsylvania
  Died	10 May 1810	Pittsylvania County, Virginia
  Buried
  Married
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  Mother

  
  

  Mother | Female Mary Agness Ann Turk

  
  

  Born	1732	Pittsylvania County, Virginia
  Died	Yes, date unknown	Pittsylvania County, Virginia
  Buried
  Father
  Mother

  
  

  Child 1 | Male Abraham [Harmon] Cook

  
  

  Born	Abt Est 1770	Pittsylvania County, Virginia
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Buried

  
  

  Child 2 | Female + Nancy Cook

  
  

  Born	Est 1775	Lebanon, Pennsylvania
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Buried
  Spouse	Abram2 Rhorer/Rorrer | F6986
  Married

  
  

  Child 3 | Male + Harmon Cook, Jr.

  
  

  Born	Est 1758	Pittsylvania County, Virginia
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Buried
  Spouse	Susannah Ramsey | F8428
  Married	4 Feb 1786	Pittsylvania Co., Virginia

  
  

  Child 4 | Male John [Harmon] Cook

  
  

  Born	Est 1768	Prob. Pittsylvania Co., Virginia
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Buried

  
  

• Notes

  Rudolph Rorer and Elizabeth Rorer, twins, were born in 1797 on Sunday, 8th day of October, under the planet LUNA. He apparently owned slaves. In the Pittsylvania County, VA death records there is a record of a slave named Eliza Rorer, owned by Rudolph, who died of cancer at age 39 in June 1861. Rorer's Harpen Creek Mill Rudolph Rorer received title to this forty-one acres as a gift. The Rorers were millers and Abraham Sr. and Abraham Jr. both owned sawmills in the county. The elder was a son-in-law of Harmon Cook, who owned at least two mills. Cook built one of these on Tomahawk Creek, and the other he bought from George Jefferson on Turkey Cock Creek.

  
  

• Sources

  [S107] Family Histories, http://www.rorrer.info/Rorrer%20Family.pdf. John Rorrer and Harmon Cook 1794; associate of Bryan Ward Nowlin; one of the Nowlin girls married Bryan Ward Nowlin and is often seen on deeds as a witness, along with other Nowlin men. [S107] Family Histories, http://www.rorrer.info/Rorrer%20Family.pdf. Notes for Nancy Cook: from the Harmon Cook (Abram Rorer) bible Nancy Cook wife to Abra. Rorer, daughter of Harmon Cook and Mary Agness Ann his wife was born January 20, 1770. Abram Rorer and his wife had issue four sons, Rudolph, Charles, David and Abram, Jr. David studied law and removed to Iowa, where he became a distinguished jurist. Abram, Jr. married Mary Wright and settled near his father in the northwestern part of the county. In his will proven September 17, 1855, he named son Ferdinand Rorer and daughters Angeline James, Elvira Harvey, Aquella Ann Lipscomb and Malitta Miller.