Hi there, I am looking for information on John Enoch Cook regarding the unit he served in during the Civil War. He is buried in Floyd Cemetery, Floyd, Roosevelt Co., NM. His headstone reads J. E. Cook, Co. D Texas Mounted Volunteers. I wanted to verify that, but can't find that unit on ancestry nor on the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors website. Tried searching J. E. Cook or John Cook and can't find that exact unit so it must be listed as something different. Any help is appreciated. Thank you so much, Cathey Cline

The following information came from a public family tree posted on ancetry.com

• Birth: 9 Sep 1837 - Tuscumbia, Alabama
• Marriage: 4 Apr 1875 - San Antonio, TX (Texas), USA
• Death: 1 Jan 1905 - Floyd, New Mexico
• Parents: David Cook, Salona M McNatt
• Spouse: Elizabeth Frances McKinney

Age 15: Guided wagon trains as they came into TX

1860s: Capt De Montell's Company of Rangers for frontier protection. Texas Ranger during the period of the Civil War, served as both Ranger and Confederate Soldier and this story

Billy the Kid and Tom O'Falliard
Added by barbarakalmen on 24 Apr 2007
Tom rode out of Texas to New Mexico and eventually became a comrade of Billy. John Enoch's brother Thalis Cook (a Texas Ranger) wrote to say he was coming to get him. Billy intercepted the letter and sent Tom far afield, so he would not see his uncle. The Kid met Thalis and told him he could not have Tom. Realizing the hopelessness of the situation, Thalis returned to Texas. In 1880 Tom was shot in cold blood by Pat Garrett, a year before Billy met the same fate. The impact of this tragic event had a profound effect upon John Enoch and the direction he would take with his own family. At this point John became a Christian.