Cause of death was Typhoid Fever.
John Zook and daughter Sarah F died during a diptheria epidemic.
Found in History of NE the name of Zook, very close in proximity and age, would surely reflect upon this family, tie as a brother perhaps.
ABRAHAM ZOOK.
Abraham Zook, a retired farmer of Verdon, was born in Wayne county, Indiana. June 24, 1832, shortly after the death of his father, Abraham Zook., who left his widow and three children already born, as follows: Daniel. who was born in 1824 and died near Birmingham, Iowa, in 1902; Esther, who was the wife of John Hoover and died in Indiana, leaving two sons and one daughter; and Joseph, who is a retired farmer of Appanoose county. Iowa, and has three sons and one daughter. The mother of these children died in Iowa at the age of sixty-two. She kept her little family of children together and reared them to be honest and industrious. She had been left with a hundred and sixty acres of land, so that they all had a house until they could do for themselves.The father was buried in Indiana and the mother in Iowa. Both parents were Brethren in church faith. When he was a child Mr. Abraham Zook saw his grandfather, John Zook, who was a prosperous farmer in Indiana. His earliest American ancestor was his great-grandfather, who was one of two brothers and a cousin that came from Germany and settled in Pennsylvania.
Mr. Abraham Zook had only a limited schooling in the district school. He lived at home until his first marriage, on November 6, 1851, in Indiana, when he was united in wedlock with Miss Mary A. Ulrich, who was born in Indiana in December, 1831, a daughter of John and Catherine (Teeter) Ulrich, all of Pennsylvania. There were four children of this marriage: Mrs. Susanna Price, a widow, who lives in Iowa and has five children; Martin, of Falls City, who has five children; Catherine, who died at the age of Seven; and Oliver, who is a farmer two miles south of Humboldt and has one son and two daughters. The mother of these children died in Iowa in 1871.
January 2, 1876, Mr. Zook married Mrs. Mary C. Chamberlain, nee Wallace, who was born in White county, Illinois. September 19, 1838. Her first husband was Raymond Chamberlain, a native of Virginia and a farmer of Iowa, where he died in the prime of life in 1873, leaving three children, as follows: Mrs. Arminta Meliza, wife of the prominent Richardson county farmer whose biography is given above; John Calvin Chamberlain, who is an able farmer of Nuckolls county, Nebraska, and has five sons and one daughter; and Robert Marshall Chamberlain, who bought Mr. Zook's farm of one hundred and forty-six acres in Liberty precinct and is farming it very successfully. and who has one son and one (laughter.
Mr. Zook is a member of the Brethren church and his wife of the Christian church. In 1897 lie paid eleven hundred and fifty dollars for a ten-acre tract in Verdon, which was then a ploughed field, and after taking out a sixty-six foot strip for a street, he built his fine house of tw•o stories and attic, containing nine rooms, with modern high ceilings and all the conveniences that mark the twentieth century residence. He has a barn twenty-four by thirty-two, and several other buildings. He has now one of the delightful homes of Verdon. There is a large lawn before the house, which is almost surrounded by shrubbery and orchards. Both he and his wife are now passing their old age in comfort and amid surroundings that are fit rewards for previous lives of honorable effort.
Sarah F Zook was unmarried. She died during diptheria epidemic.