Samuel J. Hook and Laura E. Backer Headstone Photo, Central Christian Church Cemetery

Samuel J. Hook, 1887 - 1981. Laura E. Hook, 1893 - 1981. Samuel Jones Hook Sr. was a son of Benjamin Hook and Viola J. Pemberton. On Oct. 6, 1912 in Callaway Co., Missouri, he married Laura E. Backer. She was a daughter of Arnold Backer and Nannie Kemper, a granddaughter of John Backer and Cathrine Gothe, and, William Kemper and Margaret Murphy.