Cook - Alden - Mrs. - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Mrs. Alden Cook, age 32 dropped dead here in the street today about noon from heart disease. She had driven a horse hitched to a buggy to town from her country home and was in the act of tying the animal to the hitch rack when her muscles relaxed and she dropped to the snow-covered ground.  Walter Martin and Ernest Frances, two farmers who were tying their horses to the same rack, saw the woman faint away and hurried to her side and carried her hastily into the hardware store of Cox & Booher.  Dr. Norman Peacock was summoned and came at once and rendered assistance but without avail as the woman only gasped a time or two after she was carried into the store. The dead woman underwent a surgical operation at an Indianapolis hospital last July during which 35 gall stones were removed. Her husband states that she has been bothered with heart disease considerably during the past four or five weeks. Besides her husband, Mrs. Cook is survived by two small daughters and one son. - typed by kbz