Surname	Shook
Given Name	Abraham
Gender	Male
Born	~1782 in Burke Creek, Lincoln County, North Carolina
Died	10-DEC-1814 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana (in the War of 1812 while serving in Bedford, Tennessee)
Father	Johanne Jacob SHOOK (19-APR-1749 PA - 01-SEP-1839 NC)
Mother	Elizabeth Isabella WEITZELL (~1749 PA - bef. 1849 NC)

Family Line

Abraham Shook (ii).

Marriage

Elizabeth Clark BURFORD; born: 18-FEB-1785 in Warren County, North Carolina; died: MAR-1870 in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; father: Phillip Terrell BUFORD (29-JAN-1763 - 14-JUN-1834); mother: Rebecca CLARK (04-JUN-1763 - 01-JAN-1820).

Children

• William Burford SHOOK (11-MAR-1808 NC - 16-SEP-1870 MO)
• Rebecca SHOOK; born: 1810
• Lurena SHOOK; born: 1811 in North Carolina; married: Jones HARMON (1798 TN - 1860)
• Lucinda SHOOK; born: 1810/1812 in Tennessee; died: 1842 in Arkansas; married: 1837 to Wade GRIFFIN; had two children

Notes

Records for the 1812 war shows that Abraham Shook was in the 2 REG'T MOUNTED GUNMEN (WILLIAMSON'S), TENNESSEE VOLUNTEERS