Cephas and daughters Molly and Polly Shook

Cephas and daughters Molly and Polly Shook

Children

Men

Portraits, Group

Shook, Cephus Fanning, 1875-1957 -- Portraits

This portrait shows Cephus Fanning Shook (1875-1957) with his daughters Molly (1903-1993) on left and Polly (1909-2002) on right. Cephus is the son of Henry Clay Shook and Eugenia Evans Shook, and 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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StillImage

64129

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Haywood County (N.C.)

4.25" x 6"(dimension)

Picturing Appalachia