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  1. Lain (Lane) Shannon Cook: Birth: Sept. 25, 1845 in Logan, VA. Death: June 6, 1890 in Wyoming Cty, WV


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a. Note:   er and was brought into court with Wyatt B. Shannon and upon acceptable evidence justifying failure, they were "released from payment of $15.00 fine imposed for failing to attend the training muster in May and not making report to the Adjutant in the state of Va. He was one of three Wyoming County men to be seated at the convention in Wheeling held to establish the state of WV on Jan. 21, 1862. According to the Reference Book of Wyoming County History, Cook was admitted, perhaps on the authority of a petition sent to Wheeling by Colonel Thomas Little's Home Guard Unit of Flat Top Mountain, as the delegate from Mercer County, though he never lived in that county. Charles' Ambler's Debates and Proceedings of the First Constitutional Convention of West Virginia, Vol 1, states that Richard Madison Cooke "was born near the spot where his paternal grandfather, a Revolutionary War soldier of Shenadoah County, Virginia, made in 1799 the first permanent settlement in Wyoming County..." (p. 67). Richard was a captain in the Union Home Guard during the Civil War and was called "Captain Dick" for the remainder of his life. As a lifelong Republican, he was active and prominent in county affairs, particularly during Reconstruction Days. After the war, he taught school for about four terms and was school commissioner--superintendent of schools--prior to 1873 when he was succeeded by T.F. Bailey, a Confederate veteran. His replacement was caused by the repealling of the Oath qualification system in 1870.
  He also served as Deputy Assessor and was the secretary of the Board of Education. He first lived on Rockcastle Creek and after the war was often referred to as "Captain Dick." After 1880, he lived on Turkey Creek near where he is buried with his wife.
Note:   Richard, a farmer, was politically active in the area. He was a Union sympathiz


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