One of four children born to Demsey and Mary Cook, Sarah Adaline Cook was born in Christian County, Kentucky, on March 15, 1831, and died on October 10, 1924, in Bonham, Fannin County, Texas. The longest surviving of her siblings - Robert Watkins Cook (1828 - March 3, 1893), James Monroe Cook (March 8, 1833 - January 12, 1869), and Mary Jane (Mollie) Cook (December 10, 1838 - May 28, 1870) - Adaline married P. B. Maddrey on February 17, 1853 in Sumner County, Tennessee. In 1855 they followed Adaline's brother, Robert, to Fannin County, Texas, and settled on the Red River. In 1856 the Maddreys moved to Bonham, Texas, where they resided for sixty-eight years. Adaline gave birth to ten children, three of whom died in infancy and three preceded her in death, leaving four to survive their mother: Alma Maddrey Clendenen, Will S. Maddrey, James D. Maddrey, and Kate Maddrey.
A number of relatives and friends from Sumner County migrated to Fannin County during the 1850s and 1860s including Adaline's mother, Mary Cook, Adaline's siblings Robert, James, and Mollie, and her father-in-law, Peter B. Maddrey, Sr. Neither Robert nor James Cook married. Circa 1864 Mollie married Harvey Wise, a man with extensive family ties in both Sumner and Fannin Counties. They had two children before Mollie's death in 1870.
From the guide to the Cook-Maddrey family papers MC016. 46956011., 1843-1952, (Bulk: 1851-1914), (Albert and Ethel Herzstein Library, )
