SHELDON BARNES COOK

PERSONAL RECORD

(The following typed "Personal Record" was found in a metal box with other important papers at my parents home in Orem on January 26, 2006 while going through the box with my mother. It appears to have been prepared by my father, Sheldon Cook in July of 1973 - see below. I retyped the whole record so it would fit into the "Personal and Family Histories" my children and grandchildren are organizing and writing. Ronald S. Cook, February 3, 2006)

Name in full	Sheldon B. Cook

Father's name	Barnes Alma Cook

Mother's Maiden name	Alice Adaline Southam

When born (day, month, year)	11 December 1908

Where born (town, county, state)	Cedar Fort, Cedar Valley, Utah Co. Utah

When blessed (day, month, year)	7 February 1909

By whom	William Cook

When baptized (day Month, year)	29 July 1917

Baptized by	Jacob L. Hales

When confirmed	29 July 1917	By whom	James E. Garn

Priesthood ordination:

Office	Deacon	By whom	Woodruff L. Berry	Date	13 Dec. 1920

Office	Teacher	By whom	T. Wm. Hacking	Date	19 Jan. 1925

Office	Priest	By whom	T. Wm Hacking	Date	28 Feb. 1927

Office	Elder	By whom	Herman C. Goates	Date	12 Aug. 1945

Office	High Priest	By whom	Armond E. Webb	Date	10 Feb. 1952

Married to	Phyllis Davies (Davis)

Where married	Salt Lake City	by	Douglas Thompson

Where endowed	Salt Lake Temple	Date	13 March 1946

Where sealed	Salt Lake Temple	Date	13 March 1946

To whom (husband or wife)	Phyllis Davies (Davis)

Patriarchal blessing by	Warren B. Smith	Date	31 March 1919 (was 1918)

IMPORTANT EVENTS

Attended school in Cedar Fort through the 8th grade. Started High School in Lehi late in the year. Came down with a bad cold was sick for several weeks and never returned to school.

Had a normal farm boy life. Worked in the fields thinning and weeding beets, hoeing corn and helping in the hay and grain.

I began shearing sheep in the spring of the year when I was 19 years old. Sheared sheep for almost twelve years. Sheared in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana.

Worked in potatoes in the fall of the year for about six years in Idaho and Oregon. (1926 - 1932)

Worked in the gold mine at "Stemple" Montana the summer of 1931.

Worked in the timber at West Yellowstone the summer of 1933. Came home in the fall and went to work in the gold refining mill at Manning, Utah.

In 1935 went to work in the Murcer gold mines. Worked there periodically between shearing sheep and other odd jobs until 1942 when I came home from shearing and went to work as a carpenter for the Chemical Construction Company. They were building the Deseret Chemical Depot. (Now know as Tooele Army Depot So. Area) I was married by this time. I was married on the 17th of November 1939 in Salt Lake City to a wonderful woman. We were sealed in the Salt Lake Temple on the 13th of March 1946.

In the summer of 1943 after coming home from shearing I began working on Civil Service at Deseret Chemical Depot. I worked until the fall of 1944. Then went to work in the Lead-silver mine in the North Eastern part of Nevada. Worked there about nine months. During this time my wife and two boys were living in Lehi. I came home in the early summer of 1945 and went to work Civil Service again. Have worked steady for civil service since that time. At present I am working as an estimator for the construction and maintenance of roads, railroads, buildings and structures and grounds. Have worked as a 1st and 2nd line supervisor in the buildings and roads and grounds trades.

I have been 2nd counselor in MIA, President of MIA, 2nd counselor to Sunday School Superintendent, 2nd counselor in Cedar Fort Ward Bishopric, Instructor to the High Priest group in 4th 9th and 12 wards in Alpine Stake. I am presently Executive Secretary to Bishop Harold Holley of the 12th Ward, American fork North Stake. I served a two year stake mission in the Alpine Stake.

Since we were married we have lived in Cedar Fort, Murcer, American Fork, Lehi, Cedar Fort and back to American fork where we presently live. (4 July 1973)

I have traveled in all of the Western States including Hawaiian Islands, Canada and Mexico.

I learned to fly and held a student pilot license for a short time.

My family at this time consists of (4) four sons and (2) two daughters. The two older boys are married and we have (7) grand children.

TESTIMONY OF LIFE AFTER DEATH

January 2, 1983

Sheldon Barnes Cook

I have tried to type the below as it written including the way words are spelled. - Ronald Sheldon Cook)

Jan 2, 1983

I am sitting in the front room alone. Phyllis, my dear wife, is attending Church. I am in the process of recovering from sergery on my prostrate.

I am inspired to record a spiritual experience that I had while convalescing, after sergery in the "Utah Valley" hospital.

I was reclining in my hospital bed one afternoon while all at once I realized that something during the previous 12 hours I had been priviledged to see and experience for a fleeting moment, what life is like after death.

In my limited vocabulary I havent words to explain it except to say it was the most glorious sight I had ever witnessed. The peace and tranquility that settled over me was beyond discribicy. (?)

I was unaware of what was happening until sometime after it was all over and suddenly I came to my senses and began to realize what I had been privaledged to see and experience.

I can not deny the existence of my father in heaven nor the fact that there is life after death because I have witnessed it.

Sheldon B. Cook.

I have been hesitant to tell Phyllis because of her habit of worrying.