Shook Family Portrait

Shook Family Portrait

Families

Portraits, Group

This family portrait is unlabeled, but second and third from the left in the back row are Cephus Fanning Shook (1875-1957) and his second wife Hattie Thomas Shook (1880-1963). Cephus is the son of Henry Clay Shook and Eugenia Evans Shook. Henry 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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64154

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Haywood County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

4" x 6"(dimension)

Picturing Appalachia