Minerva Warner Price

     Minerva Warner Price was born on 16 May 1860 at Platte County, Missouri.¹ She was the daughter of James Albert Price and Rusella Eaton Warner. Minerva Warner Price married, at age 21, Henry C. Cook on Wednesday, 18 January 1882 at Platte County, Missouri. Minerva Warner Price died in February 1945 at age 84 years and 8 months.
     From Gary R. Hawpe, ed. and comp., 'Obituaries - Mrs. Minerva Cook,' Van Bibber Pioneers E-Newsletter, Vol. 5 No. 11 (September 2002), pp. 15 - 16.

MRS. MINERVA COOK

Mrs. Minerva Warner Cook, eighty-four years old, died at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Thomas F. Clark, 520 West Maple, Independence, Monday. She suffered a paralytic stroke last week. She was born in Weston, the daughter of the late Col. James A. Price.

Mrs. Cook had lived in Independence the past twenty years. Her husband, Henry C. Cook, died in 1905.

Funeral services were held at a chapel in Independence Wednesday afternoon at 1 o'clock. Short graveside services were held at the family lot in Laurel Hill cemetery.

The Weston Chronicle -- Weston, Platte County, Missouri -- February 2, 1945 -- Page #1 -- Column #4.