COOK, Essex (d. 1878)
Homicide in Tennessee
Nashville, August 10th. – A prominent Republican named Fount PEACH shot and killed Essex COOK (colored), in Williamson county, this morning, the latter having threatened his life on account of alleged intimacy with COOK’s wife.
Source: Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 7, Number 148, 12 August 1878. Available at the California Digital Newspaper Collection. <http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc>