Written by Paul E. Brown - 1995
Geo. Elgie Cook I remember him very well. He had a blacksmith shop down near Paul Manfull's barn. I visited him there often as a boy and offered to help him. You can realize how I, as a small boy, could help in a blacksmith shop! So he was a patient man.
A bachelor who knew Augusta and the Augusta Cemetery. I sat and talked with him on the benches before the stores in Augusta and he told me many, many things about Augusta of old. One thing I remember Elgie telling me that there was a fair ground, or something of that nature, across from the old Shaw house at a time when Augusta really was a "booming" place.
He always tended the Cook graves very carefully and made the two flower urns that were on the monument - one of which is now broken and gone. Elgie was a friend of mine as a boy and I remember him with pleasure.
