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This early settler is one of the twenty-six male Pilgrims known to have descendants."</div> <bR> <div> From the book <I>Mayflower</I> by Nathaniel Philbrick, Francis is named on page 88 and 90.  <B><U>How about seeing his name next to Miles Standish!</U></B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><U><IMG SRC="0c2840f0.jpg" border=0 width="900" height="1551" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U><IMG SRC="0c584100.jpg" border=0 width="900" height="1552" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U><IMG SRC="0cabbba0.jpg" border=0 width="699" height="1978" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><U>AND</U></B></div> <div> <B>Look who you are related to!</B></div> <div> <B>Descendants:</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>United States Presidents George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Franklin D. Roosevelt are direct descendants of Francis Cooke. Other famous descendants of Francis Cooke include Cephas Thompson, William D. Washburn, Mrs. Anna Mary Robertson ("Grandma Moses"), Orson Welles, Julia Child, Abel Head "Shanghai" Pierce (Texas cattleman who introduced the Brahman cattle breed into Texas), Pete Seeger, Marjorie "Betty Crocker" Child, "Wild Bill" Hickok, John Bartlett, Johnny Carson, George Mortimer Pullman, Elliot Richardson, Charles G. Dawes, Amasa Mason Lyman, Charles E. Merrill, Dane Cook, Kris Kristofferson, Richard Gere, Louis Comfort Tiffany, and Beach Boys Brian, Carl, and Dennis Wilson.[7]</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>