Most of the Cooks stayed in Virginia and settled in different localities. There is a greater number of direct descendents of Cooks in what is now West Virginia. There is a stream and valley in West Virginia by the name of Garden Creek where the first of the Cooks settled and have lived there for generations.
Hundreds gather at their reunions.
Their route was down the Green Brier River and Gauley, Kanawha and New Rivers. Some settled south of Winchester, Virginia and some in north Alabama. Their route of immigration was from eastern Virginia down to the frontier fort in North Carolina which is now known as Old Fort. At that time it was only a trading post and camping sight for immigrants. They spent several days here gathering supplies, resting and repairing equipment.