Cephas Fanning Shook

Cephas Fanning Shook

Older men

Shook, Cephus Fanning, 1875-1957 -- Portraits

Veterans -- United States

Cephus Fanning Shook (1875-1957), son of Henry Clay Shook and Eugenia Evans Shook, was a corporal in the Spanish-American War. He is the great, great grandson of Jacob Shook (1749-1839) and Isabella Weitzell Shook (1749-1834). After serving in the American Revolutionary War, Jacob Shook and his wife bought land and settled along the Pigeon River in what is now Clyde, N.C. Shook built the earliest known frame dwelling in the area which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Shook-Welch-Smathers House.

Shook Family Photographs

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64125

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Haywood County (N.C.)

3.25" x 4.75"(dimension)

Picturing Appalachia