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Geo. Elgie Cook
I remember him very well. He had a blacksmith shop down near Paul Manfull's
barn. I visited him there often as a boy and offered to help him. You can
realize how I, as a small boy, could help in a blacksmith shop! So he was
a patient man.
A bachelor who knew Augusta and the Augusta Cemetery. I sat and talked
with him on the benches before the stores in Augusta and he told me many, many
things about Augusta of old. One thing I remember Elgie telling me that
there was a fair ground, or something of that nature, across from the old Shaw
house at a time when Augusta really was a "booming" place.
He always tended the Cook graves very carefully and made the two flower urns
that were on the monument - one of which is now broken and gone. Elgie was
a friend of mine as a boy and I remember him with pleasure. |
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