Tina Knowles, 61, the mother of BeyoncÃ©, married 67-year-old actor Richard Lawson on a yacht in California.
Cookson, Oklahoma. Cookson is a rural community in the Cookson Hills of Cherokee County, Oklahoma. The post office opened April 11, 1895. The ZIP Code is 74427. It is said to have been named for the first postmaster, John H. Cookson.
Camp Gruber: The War Years. AMERICA'S entry into World War II brought many changes to the home front. Northeastern Oklahoma felt the impact firsthand on January 8, 1942, when the Muskogee Phoenix confirmed a report naming the Cookson Hills as the site for a planned military cantonment. The complex would be named Camp Gruber in honor of the late Brigadier General Edmund L. Gruber, composer of The Caisson Song.. The camp was located on Highway 10, eighteen miles east of Muskogee, Oklahoma.