Mary (McCay) Cook (1827-1902)

She was remembered by her granddaughter, Mabel (Ganson) Dodge Luhan, while living in Bath: "Grandmother was always superintending the kitchen, helping to prepare the splendid country meals, training the young country maids, overseeing the preserving, the many complicated puddings, cakes and pies, the roasting of the big joints and fowls, and attending to the thousand details of a hearty, comfortable living. Besides, she was always "bringing up" her four handsome girls while their father, down in the village, spun the whole countryside out of himself. Horse-shoeing, banking, judging, railroad-building, house-building, town-building".