Editing Lemuel Cook (section)

==Later life and death==
Following the war, Cook became a farmer and married Hannah Curtis. They had seven sons and three daughters.

He was an active Mason and Democrat since the party’s establishment in 1828. His church was [[Congregational]]. He lived in [[Plymouth, Connecticut]] (then Northbury) until 1790, when he moved to [[Clinton, Oneida County, New York|Clinton, New York]]. In 1795 he returned to Plymouth, then moved to [[Pompey, New York]] in 1805. He moved to [[North Bergen, New York]] in 1821 and finally to [[Clarendon, New York]] in 1832.

Lemuel was one of the oldest and among the last living pensioners of the American Revolution. He died May 20, 1866,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Root Cemetery|url=https://orleans.nygenweb.net/cemeteries/cemroot.htm|access-date=2020-06-07|website=orleans.nygenweb.net}}</ref> at the age of 106, having lived to see the start and the end of the [[American Civil War]]. He was buried with full military and [[freemasonry|Masonic]] honors. At the time of his death, only three other revolutionary veterans (Samuel Downing, [[Daniel F. Bakeman]] and [[John Gray (American Revolutionary War)|John Gray]]) were still alive.