CA329

Conversations with Odell Cook & Monroe Garrett
(C. Avis Catalog entry #329)

Ella Jane Wilson
7841 NW South Rivera Dr.
Medley, Fla  33166
305 885-1188

Monroe Garrett
11032 Lexington
Los Alamitos, CA 90720
213 431-3110
Half-uncle of Odell Cook

Monroe Garrett lived with Odell's Grandfather Garrett (Presley Monroe Garrett) in N.M. when the grandfather was homesteading 3 sections.  He had moved there from Texas.

Odell's mother and her 3 boys moved to Dallas from Scurry after her husband died in 1925.  She was a school teacher in Scurry.  Had attended Texas State Teacher's College and would have had to go back for more schooling if she had continued as a teacher.  Cook's came from El Dorado, Ark. 

Monroe remembers Pat Garrett visiting Grandfather Garrett, they were cousins.  He says that Odell's great grandfather was Charles Garrett (a Civil War confederate).  His father was Presley (?) Garrett and was in the Alamo.  Came from England to S. C. to TN to Texas.

Lassie Garrett Chaffin b. 11-10-1901

Jewell Garrett Johnson, 2nd marriage was Lanier

Ruby Myrtle Garrett (Odell's mother, Betsy's grandma) 
  b. 6-28-1891 d. 6-17-1974
She was 82 years old, buried at Mt. Olive Cemetery, Scurry, Texas.  She had 3 sons, all born in Kaufman County:
Louis Abner Cook
Odell Garrett Cook b. in Scurry
Paul Monroe Cook (change name from Panchy to  Paul)