Bessie M. Cook

  General Notes:

In Maine marraige records there is a Howard N. Straw of Portland, ME who married Bessie M. Cook or Bessi M. Hayes of Sanford, ME on 22 May 1912.

1900 Sanford, York County, ME
Bradley Cook age 45 born Aug 1854 ME; married 24y (HOH)
Alice Cook age 47 born Sept 1852 ME; married 24yrs with 5 ch and 5 living (wife)
Frank I Cook age 17 born March 1883 ME; single (son)
Raph Cook age 14 Jan 1886 ME (son)
Bessie Hayes age 19 Sept 1880; married one year with 1 ch and 1 living (dau)
George W. Hayes age 22 Sept 1877; married one year (son in law)
Gaymont (?) Hayes Oct 1899 ME (grandson)

1910 Sanford, York County, ME
Bradley A. Cook age 54 ME; 1st marriage; married 34 years (HOH)
Alice A. Cook age 56 ME; first marriage and married 34 yrs; 5 children with 5 living (wife)
Ralph Cook age 24 ME ; single; (son)
Bessie M. Hayes age 34 ME; first marriage; married 10yrs; 3 children with 2 living (dau)
Norman C. Hayes age 8 ME (grandson)
Clarence C. Hayes age 6 ME (grandson)

1920 Ward 5 Rochester, Strafford, NH
Howard M. Straw 1885
Bessie M. Straw c1882 son Norman (now about 18) is living in Sanford, York, ME

1930 Sanford, York ME
Bessie M. Straw 1881 living with dtr (DIL) Lucille [26] & her husband Norman Hayes [28] and their dtr Norma [3]. Lucille & Norma born in NH; everyone else in ME
Bessie is the mother of Norman as she was referred to as Bessie Hayes at time of marriage to Howard M. Straw in 1912.

1940 Sanford, York, ME
Norman Hayes age 38 ME [HOH]
Bessie Straw age 59; wid b. ME [mother]

Bessie married Howard Manville Straw, son of William Morris Straw and Emma Lena Libby, on 22 May 1912 in Maine. (Howard Manville Straw was born on 15 Dec 1883 in Brownfield, Maine and died after 1930.)

  Marriage Notes:

ME marriage index

Bessie next married George W. Hayes, son of Unknown and Unknown, in 1899 in Maine. (George W. Hayes was born in Sep 1877 in Maine.)