Soap Creek Valley · Person
Wanda Marcks Cook
Wanda Marcks Cook— narrator, mentioned in the Soap Creek Valley oral history series.
narratormentioned
Provenance
- Dates
- 1895-03-26 – 1991-08-21
- Work
- farm wife; cosmetologist, owner of the Cameo Beauty Shop, Portland
- Interview focus
- Stock ranching
- Where this comes from
- #12 Wanda Marcks Cook, p. 83, narrator profile; the 1999 thesis, p. 39, Table 4 (informant profile); SCARC OH 006 finding aid: interview dates and cassette counts; #1 Lorna Grabe, p. 29, printed back index; #7 Charlie Olson, p. 18, p. 76, p. 117, p. 135, p. 144, p. 159, p. 173, printed back index; #11 Bessie Murphy, p. 56, p. 79, p. 87, p. 88, printed back index; #12 Wanda Marcks Cook, p. 1, p. 55, p. 78, 82-85, p. 29, printed back index; #14 Charles and Norman Hindes, p. 3, printed back index; the 1999 thesis, p. 5, p. 21, p. 22, p. 36, p. 39, p. 42, p. 46, p. 47, p. 61, p. 72, p. 73, p. 101, p. 103, p. 108, p. 113, p. 121, p. 122, p. 124, p. 126, p. 142, p. 143, p. 191, p. 192, p. 197, p. 198, p. 214, p. 232, p. 237, p. 253, p. 267, p. 294, people mentioned in the thesis; the 1999 thesis, p. 5, Table 1 citation rule: cited as (Cook 1995), referenced as (Zybach and Sherer 1995), #12; the 1999 thesis, p. 235, p. 236, p. 237, Appendix A, Table A.1 (monograph numbers and titles) and Table A.2 (page counts)
- Accessioned
- From Bob Zybach’s upload, 23 August 2026
Home site
Plotted at Sulphur Springs Stock Ranch, as on Map 9 of the 1999 thesis.
The map could not load. The list below carries the same places.
Sessions
- October 28, 1989 — Wanda Cook's apartment, Portland, Oregon
Where others mention them
Family named in the transcripts
Dates they give
- 1836/1935 — Cook's mother-in-law, Elizabeth Schultz (1836-1935).
- 1861/1865 — My husband's grandmother [Elizabeth Schultz (1836-1935)], was fifteen years old during the Civil War and she used to tell me stories about that.
- 1889 — No, I couldn't tell you, my mother and father [Louis Guideo Marcks] were married in 1889, Ithink.
- 1895 — And I was born the year that they extended the railroad west.
- 1895-03-26 — Cook was born March 26, 1895, in Eureka, S.D.
- 1904 — Wanda Marcks was a 9 years old when her family moved to the Tampico area of the Soap Creek Valley in 1904.
- 1905/1917 — He had cancer of the liver and he died a year or two after. . let's see. . .
- 1905 — It might have been when we came to the fair, Lewis and Clark Fair in 1905.
- 1906 — Of course they would be rotted away now [About 1906 survey - plan to sell lots, rail fences broken down - WMC].
- 1912 — The following interview was recorded on October 28, 1989 at Wanda Cook's apartment in Portland, Oregon. At that time I wrote: "She is an attractive, articulate, and intelligent woman with an inquisitive mind and an ever-present sense of humor. Due to the nature of this project, the interview was principally concerned with her childhood and young adult years in the
- 1914 — They got married in 1914, I think.
- 1920 — That's Roy's birthday, and my second son [Richard E.
- 1922 — A resident of the Portland
- 1922 — The young couple moved to the groom's home on a horse and cattle ranch near Sulphur Springs, at the southwestern end of the valley, where they lived until 1922.
- 1925 — 25-26. Wanda Cook Portland home, c. 1925. Photographs by Ernest Cook. Wanda raised her two sons in this Portland home, as a single mother during the Depression. The house is located on 43rd and Knight Streets and is believed to be still in ise.
- 1927 — They split up about 1927.
- 1989-10-28 — The following interview was conducted by Bob Zybach with Wanda Marcks Cook at her home in Portland, Oregon on October 28, 1989.
- 1989-10-28 — The following interview was recorded on October 28, 1989 at Wanda Cook's apartment in Portland, Oregon.
- 1989-11-05 — Wanda Cook Note, November 5, 1989.
- 1990 — The following article appeared in the Rose Center for Seniors newsletter, probably in early 1990.
- 1991-08-21 — Wanda Marcks Cook died on August 21, 1991.
In the Series Index
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- The Zybach Collection, Soap Creek Valley series: Wanda Marcks Cook (person record).
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