Emma WOODWARD

1873 - 1957  (84 years)

• Name	Emma WOODWARD
  Birth	23 May 1873	Woodstock Ontario Canada
  	Burial Record
  Gender	Female
  Burial	1957	Coalmont British Columbia Canada
  	Find a Grave website Memorial ID 110873609 Birth 23 May 1873 Woodstock Ontario Canada Death 13 Aug 1957 (aged 84) Oliver British Columbia Canada Burial Granite Creek Cemetery Coalmont British Columbia Canada Plot Row B, Line17 Additional information from website:- NB Also a lovely family group photograph Emma Woodward was born in Ontario on 23rd May 1873. Her parents were Henry Woodward and Rachel Tarzwell. She arrived in British Columbia in 1874 when she was just one year old. Her father purchased a homestead from T. Carrington in Nicola. It was in Nicola that she met Foxcrowle Percival Cook and they wed on June 15, 1892. Emma was 19, F.P. Cook was 31 years old. She had five daughters: Adeline and Emily (both born in Nicola) and Frances, Eda and Agnes (all born at Granite Creek). Frances died aged 3 ½ years when she pulled a pot of boiling water onto herself. She is the first Cook member interred at the Granite Creek Cemetery. Emma Cook gave birth to one son, Edward Henry Lumley. After F.P.'s death in 1918, Emma supervised the Cook stores in Princeton (operated by Perley Russell) and Coalmont. The Granite Creek store closed after F.P. Cook's death. Emma ran the Coalmont store in the 1930s after her daughter Adeline and husband Wes Rossiter (who had been managing it) moved to Oliver. When Ed Cook was old enough, he ran the Coalmont store. In the late 1930s she retired to a home on Fenchurch Avenue in Princeton, where she had extensive gardens. In about 1950, she moved to Oliver near her daughter, Adeline. She died at 84 years old on 13th Aug 1957. She is interred in the Cook family plot at the Granite Creek Cemetery
  Death	13 Aug 1957	Oliver British Columbia Canada
  	Burial Record
  Person ID	I29084	Main Tree
  Last Modified	22 Jul 2026

  
  

  Father	Henry WOODWARD,   b. Bef 1873
  Mother	Rachel TARZWELL,   b. Bef 1873
  Family ID	F7637	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Foxcrowle Percival COOK,   b. 26 Jan 1861, Bedfordshire d. 31 Jul 1918, Coalmont British Columbia Canada (Age 57 years)
  Marriage	15 Jun 1892
  Children	+ 1. Adeline Eleanor COOK,   b. 14 Jun 1893, Nicola British Columbia Canada d. 9 Apr 1988, Oliver British Columbia Canada (Age 94 years)   2. Emily Cecilia Tarswell COOK,   b. 17 Oct 1894, Nicola British Columbia Canada d. 10 May 1984, Prince George British Columbia Canada (Age 89 years)   3. Frances Mary COOK,   b. 11 Oct 1898   d. 25 Feb 1902 (Age 3 years)   4. Eda Elizabeth COOK,   b. 17 Nov 1902, Granite Creek British Columbia Canada d. 12 Aug 1842, Kamloops British Columbia Canada   5. Agnes Olive June COOK,   b. 25 Jun 1905, Granite Creek British Columbia Canada d. 1 Apr 2000 (Age 94 years)   6. Unnamed COOK,   b. 1910   d. 1910 (Age 0 years)   7. Edward Henry Lumley COOK,   b. 7 Aug 1912, Granite Creek British Columbia Canada d. 7 Feb 2006 (Age 93 years)
  Family ID	F7636	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Aug 2026