Nellie G. Cooke, the daughter of Patrick and Catherine Cooke, was born in Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania on Jan. 2. or Jan 4, 1884.

At the time of the 1910 Federal census, Nellie, 27, was employed as a servant for a private family in Munhall, Allegheny County.

"Nellie G. Cooke" is named in a 1922 history of the Pittsburgh Red Cross as a St. Francis graduate and a nurse at the University of Pittsburgh Base Hospital, No. 27. She served with the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I, and is named in this article: Nurses Given Great Ovation By Pittsburgh.

She married Nicholas Mohr, a widower, and her step-daughter, Mary Alice Mohr, born Aug 14, 1908, graduated in the St. Francis Class of 1930. Her mother was Mary G. Callahan.

Nellie G. Cooke Mohr died January 30, 1953. She and her husband are buried at Calvary Cemetery in Pittsburgh.

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