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Edward Cook's Commemorative Stone
Other Site Details
Classification  | A.07.1.3. Burial Grounds, Graves, Other
Proclamation No  | 079/1978
Place  | Warmbad
Region  | Karas
Refences  | Official Gazette 3752, No. AG 17, 1978. Vogt, Andreas, "National Monuments in Namibia", Windhoek 2004, p.100-103.
Legal Status  | Declared as National Monument on 17.05.1978 by the National Monuments Council of South Africa (NMC, National Monuments Act 1969, No. 28).
     

Description

The stone has been placed at the site where Cook's grave was supposed to be. Walled of in stone.

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Brief History

Erected in 1929 by the Methodist Church to commemorate the English Missionary Edward Boyer Cook (1806-1843), the founder of Warmbad, former Nisbett\'s Bath, the first Wesleyan Mission Station in Great Namaqualand. He arrived in 1834 and settled in the mission station that had been started by William Threllfall who has been murdered soon after his arrival in 1825. Cook baptised 437 people within 9 years. Although he died at the Orange River on his way back from Cape Town, he was buried in Warmbad.
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