John
Cook
Dewey
Born in Stroxton, England
Ancestors 
Son of Thomas Unknown
and Eliza Dewey
Brother of
William Henry Cook [half]
Husband of
Mary Eliza (Allen) Dewey
— married
23 Apr 1854 in Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States [uncertain]
[uncertain] Husband of
Harriet Roseann (May) Dewey
— married
11 Feb 1857 in Salt Lake City, UT
Descendants 
Father of
Mary Eliza (Dewey) Howard, John Cyrus Dewey Sr., Eunice Ellen (Dewey) Child, Emily Jane (Dewey) Lindsey, Jude Lehi Dewey, Horace Andrew Dewey, Harriet Adelaide (Dewey) Gardner, Joseph Ira Dewey, Sarah Meretta Dewey, Lettie Ann (Dewey) Campbell, Charles Jesse Dewey and Lois Edna Dewey
Died
at age 64
in Deweyville, Box Elder, Utah
Profile last modified
| Created 1 Apr 2015
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Biography
John was born in 1831 and he passed away in 1895.
Image 1 is from a family collection
Image 2 is "A Sketch of the Life of John C. Dewey"
Images 3 and 4 are about the life and family of John Cook Dewey
"Find A Grave Index," Name: John Cook Dewey Parents: Thomas (Unknown) and Eliza Dewey Death Date: 08 Oct 1895 Death Place: Deweyville, Box Elder, Utah Arrival: Moses Daley's Company on 28 Sep 1853 Spouse: Mary Allen Marriage Date: 23 Apr 1854
Research Notes
William Cook (1810-1892) was initially added as the father of this profile, but he was the step-father. His father Thomas had died when he was very young.[1]
Sources
- ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV2S-G33M : 10 June 2021), John Cook Dewey, ; Burial, Deweyville, Box Elder, Utah, United States of America, Deweyville Cemetery; citing record ID 53385027, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
- "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NGRM-C9Z : 10 April 2021), Eliza Dewey in entry for John Dewey, 1831.</
- Find A Grave memorial page for John Cook Dewey (19 May 1831–8 Oct 1895), Find A Grave: Memorial #53385027, citing Deweyville Cemetery, Deweyville, Box Elder County, Utah, USA
- "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNCR-6LB : Wed Oct 04 12:38:56 UTC 2023), Entry for John C Dewey and Mary Dewey, 1870.
- "Utah Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Database, 1847-1868," , FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK9B-H1Q4 : 10 February 2018), John Cook Dewey, 29 Sep 1853; from "Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel: 1847-1868," database, > The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (https://history.lds.org/overlandtravels/ : 2004-).
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Categories: Deweyville Cemetery, Deweyville, Utah
Some people think one Thomas Hoe is his father, but I don't know that for sure. (Sources for this thought that John's biological parents weren't married would be the scanned image of John's christening record, which I have yet to see, and the Lincolnshire bastardy index, which I think I did see once, but I didn't consider it a strong enough connection to verify that it was talking about the same Eliza and the same John; and Thomas Hoe was only listed as the putative father there anyway.)
Eliza's true birth surname is also sometimes debated, but I haven't seen much evidence for it being anything other than Dewey, and I have seen a death record of one of her sons that listed her maiden name as Dewey (you have to look at the original image to see that it explicitly says maiden name).
Anyway, as a direct patriarchal descendant of John Cook Dewey I've taken the Big Y-700 test at Family Tree DNA. My confirmed Y-DNA haplogroup results came in on 13 May 2023 as R-Y15103 (the path to that haplogroup on that date was R-M207>M173>M343>L754>L761>L389>P297>M269>L23>L51>P310>L151>P312>Z46516>ZZ11>U152>L2>Z258>Z367>L20>Z1909>S10708>Y15103).
We need more test-takers at Family Tree DNA (even if they only take the cheapest test; they are able to match you up with your closest relatives pretty well even with that, somehow; they don't just give you your haplogroup and call it good). If you're a Cook descendant of William Cook, please take a Y-DNA test at Family Tree DNA (ideally the Big Y-700, but any test should yield important results). After you take the test, please let us know your results! I know Cook descendants of William Cook and Eliza Dewey are living today (I've seen some of them on Ancestry.com as my autosomal DNA matches there, presumably via Eliza). So, we can figure this out. We just need people to test.
A descendant of Joseph Raymond Dewey has tested at the Y-37, Y-25 and Y-12 levels. He's listed as my top match, currently. I'm a grandson of Veril Edward Dewey (Joseph Raymond Dewey's brother). They are sons of John Cyrus Dewey, Jr. (and Nellie Lorena Thurman); he is the son of John Cyrus Dewey, Sr. (and Sarah Annie Child), who is the son of John Cook Dewey and Mary Eliza Allen. Autosomally, I've already verified my connection to descendants of John Cyrus Dewey, Sr., descendants of John Cook Dewey, and descendants of Eliza Dewey. So, the haplogroup I gave should apply to all of John Cook Dewey's biological father's descendants. I haven't found an autosomal connection to William Cook's parents, yet (but Ancestry DNA can potentially find ancestors so far back). I should ask William Cook's descendants if they've found a connection to them.
edited by Mark Dewey