Generation No. 1
1. Thomas1 Brooks. He married Mary.
Notes for Thomas Brooks:
For questions about whether this Brooks family may have
moved from PA to VA, see file of the spouse of Brooks, Mary. Notes
on roads to Frederick Co. compiled by Wilmer R. Kerns
of Winchester, VA, and sent as an e-mail message to the VA-ROOTS
discussion group on 20 Sept. 1996 (from wlkerns@intr.net)
say that the first wagon road into the Shenandoah Valley ov VA
followed the pat of an Indian trail, and the research
of VA historian John W. Wayland shows that U.S. Route 11 follows that old
wagon road.\\\\
Kerns says that as early as 1734, the Great Wagon Road
was cited in a land survey as the Wagon Road that goes from
Conestogo to the Opeckin (i.e., Opequon Creek in Frederick
Co.). The Conestogo was a region in southeastern PA that was
named after an Indian tribe and a creek, where the Conestogo
wagon was developed by PA Germans. The Opequon flows
near Winchester, emptying into the Potomac.
Kerns says that this road brought the first settlers from
PA, NJ, and MD to Old Orange and Old Frederick Co., VA. These
included Quakers and Presbyterians from Cecil Co., MD,
and Welsh and English Quakers from PA and Chester Co., PA.
A query I placed with the Chester Co., PA, discussion
group on 6 Sept. 1996 received a reply from Kathy Dix
(kfdix@pop03.ca.us.ibm.net) which says that a James Brookes
was appointed by Chester Co. Orphans' Court, 17 Sept. 1754,
to be guardian of Henry, son of James Black, deceased.
A David Brooks wit. the will of Job Yarnall in Ridley,
Chester Co., PA, on 6 Nov. 1740 (WILLS OF CHESTER CO., 1713-48,
p. 97). Note that a David Brooks who was connected to
the Rees family of Chester Co., PA, and Frederick Co., VA, appears
in Frederick Co. when the family of Brooks is there.
The family of Brooks was connected by marriage to the Day family, which
had Yarnall ancestry; see file of Margaret, daughter
of Thomas and Margaret Brooks, and of her husband Joseph Day.\\\\\\\\
On 9 Nov. 1996, Robert D. Brooke, rdb18@csufresno.edu,
posted to the Brooke Discussion Group at
Maiser@rmgate.pop.indiana.edu about a John and Frances
Brooke of Honley, Yorks., England, who came to America on the
ship Britannia to settle a 750-acre grant from Wm. Penn
near present-day Pottstown. The couple had, it seems, children
James, Matthew, Abigail, Elizabeth, and Jonathan, all
b. England. James had children Jonathan (b. 1 Jan. 1700/1), Elizabeth
(b. 1705), and Thomas. Jonathan, son of James, d. 1 July
1731; he m. Elizabeth Rees and had son James. James m. Mary
Evans and had son Johathan.
Thomas, s/o James, m. Anna Grant, and had a son William.
Matthew, s/o John and Frances, m. Ann Evans and had son
William (b. 1713) and George. William m. Rachel Kendall and d.
1763.
This appears to be the Brooke family studied in Thomas
Allen Glenn, MERION IN THE WELSH TRACT (Norristown, PA,
1986; repr. Baltimore: Geneal. Publ. Co., 1970), pp.
355-61. This source says that John Brooke settled in Gloucester Co.,
West Jersey, after immigrating, and died at the house
of William Cooper in 1699, leaving a will dated 25 of 8th month 1699, pr.
1st March 1699-1700.
Note that a Thomas Brooks married a Mrs. Mary Blacknall
in Kingston Psh., Gloucester Co., VA (batch 8613403, sheet 28;
source 1396194), on 16 Dec. 1749 (LDS IGI). Since I believe
that the Mary Brooks who died in Frederick Co., VA, in 1789
had as her oldest son a Thomas Brooks b. abt. 1750, I
wonder if this Thomas and Mary Brooks could be the parents of
Thomas, b. abt. 1750, who m. Margaret. A Thomas and Mary
Brooks had a son Thomas b. in Goochland Co., VA, in 1750,
according to the IGI--are these the couple who married
in 1749 in Gloucester?
Records of St. James Northam Psh., Goochland Co., show
a Nansie Brooks, d/o James Brooks and Elizabeth Pollock, b. 31
Mar. 1765, a Sarah, d/o Thomas Brooks and Judith Bow,
b. 26 Jun. 1767, and a Frankie, d/o Will Brooks and Elizabeth
Jacobs, b. 8 Sept. 1784. James Brooks m. Elizabeth Pollock
in 1764.
An inventory for Thomas Brooks was filed in Goochland
Co., 15 Aug. 1772 (WB Bk. 10, pp. 257-8). The estate was
inventoried by Richard D. Hines, John Martin, and Joseph
R. Farrar. The inventory was filed 18 Aug. 1772.
Another inventory was filed for a Thomas Brooks on 2 Sept.
1777 (WB 12, p. 42), filed by Matthew Woodson, Richard D (?),
and John Martin. The estate of this Thomas was administered
by Charles Bales, who filed an account on 15 June 1789, which
shows that this Thomas left minor children John and Sarah
(WB 15, p. 248). Is this the TB who m. Judith Bow in Goochland,
15 Aug. 1767?
Am I wrong to think that the two preceding estates are
for different Thomases?
Notes for Mary:
The will of Mary Brooks of Frederick Co., VA, is dated
9 July 1786, and was proven 4 Apr. 1787. The will leaves to MB's
beloved son Thomas the whole of her estate, naming him
the executor of the estate. The will asks that the estate pay to MB's
daughter Mary Hollingsworth 5 pounds, to her daughter
Elizabeth Rice 5 pounds and her wearing apparel, to her daughter
Sarah Asdill 8 pounds, to daughter Susannah Haynes 5
pounds, and to son James Brooks 5 pounds. The will is signed by
MB's mark, and is wit. by Anthony Crum and James Perry.
Both proved the will on 4 Apr. 1787, when Thomas Brooks moved
that the will be recorded and that he be appointed executor
(Frederick Co., VA, Will Bk. 5, p. 158; I have a photocopy of the
original; see also J. Estelle Stewart King, ABSTRACTS
OF WILLS, INVENTORIES, AND ADMINISTRATION ACCOUNTS
OF FREDERICK CO., VA 1743-1800 [Baltimore: Geneal. Publ.
Co., 1980]. WB 5 has only a will for MB; there are no other
estate papers of hers in this volume.
On the same date (4 Apr. 1787), Thomas Brooks gave oath
and was granted the execution of the estate. On the same date,
Bartholomew Smith, Michael Smith, Robert Hollingsworth,
and Thomas Throckmorton were ordered to appraise the current
money, the slaves, if any, and the personal estate of
Mary Brooks and make report to the court (Frederick Co. Order Bk. 20,
p. 387).
According to DESCENDANTS OF VALENTINE HOLLINGSWORTH, p.
6, cited in file of VH, Robert Hollingsworth was the
son of George Hollingsworth and Hannah McCoy of Cecil
Co., MD, and Frederick Co., VA. RH was b. 1744, and married
Susannah Rice of Winchester, VA. George Hollingsworth
later moved to Berkeley Dist., SC, whre he appears in various
records involving a Jacob Brooks.
The married name of Mary Brooks' daughter Sarah is difficult
to read. It appears to be Asdrill. A Jacob Abrill appears in
Frederick Co. Order Bk. 20, 3 Aug. 1786, p. 212, so Abrill
may be the correct spelling. However, a James Astill is in Botetourt
Co., VA, on the 1787 tax list, so Astill may be the correct
spelling.
Since MB's daughters all appear to be married by the time
the will was written, and since other evidence suggests that her son
Thomas was b. prior to 1740, I suspect that MB was a
woman of advanced age at the time she died. She would probably
have been born by 1720.
On 6 Apr. 1758, a Mary Brooks witnessed the marriage of
Henry Rees of Frederick Co., son of Thomas and Margaret Rees,
to Martha Thomas, son of Evan and Catherine Thomas (Catherine
deceased), at Opeckan meeting, under the supervision of
Hopewell Friends meeting (see HOPEWELL FRIENDS HISTORY,
p. 241). I do not know if this is the MB of the will. For
evidence that at least some Brooks families in Frederick
Co. were Quakers, see files of Thomas Brooks, son of Mary, and
Hezekiah Sanders, who m. Martha Elmore Johnson. Note
that Valentine Hollingsworth, progenitor of Jacob Hollingsworth who
m. Mary Brooks' daughter Mary, married first Ann Ree
of Co. Armagh, Ireland. Could this Ree family be the same as the Rees
family of the record above?
On 22 Oct. 1759, a Mary Brooks was married to Benjamin
Thornburg/Thornbury (I find both spellings in various records) at
Hopewell Friends meeting (see William Wade Hinshaw, ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF AMERICAN QUAKER GENEALOGY, vol. 6:
VIRGINIA [Baltimore: Geneal. Publ. Co., 1973], p. 371).
Ida Brooks Kellam and Memory Alldredge Lester, BROOKS AND
KINDRED FAMILIES (priv. publ., 1950) identify this MB
as the daughter of Matthew and Elizabeth Brooks of Frederick Co.:
see below on this.
The Opequon/Opeckan Quaker meeting in Frederick Co. appears
to have existed from around 1730, when Alexander Ross
of Chester Co., PA, who appears in New Garden and Nottingham
monthly meetings prior to this, moved to what became
Frederick Co., VA. Another founder of the Opeckan/Opequon
meeting was a Welsh Quaker who came from Ireland to Chester
Co., PA, Morgan Bryan. The meeting was officially established
in 1734. From its inception, it was under the supervision of
Concord Quarterly meeting in PA.
In 1735, the Hopewell meeting was officially established,
as an offshoot of Opeckan/Opequon. Its minutes from 1735-9 have
been burnt. Up to 1736, this meeting reported to Nottingham
monthly meeting in Cecil Co., MD. For my references for this
information about the Hopewell and Opeckan meetings,
see file of John Brazelton the immigrant.
Note that Evan Thomas (above) came from Wales to Philadelphia
around 1719, and settled in the Gwynedd monthly meeting.
In 1726, he and wife Catherine removed to Goshen monthly
meeting, his certificate of removal stating that he was a minister.
His son Evan, Jr., married Albenah, daughter of Alexander
Ross. Evan Thomas, Sr., was perhaps the first minister of
Hopewell meeting (see Hopewell Frineds, HOPEWELL FRIENDS
HISTORY 1734-1934 [Baltimore: Geneal. Publ. Co.,
1975], p. 30).
Note the many Welsh connections above. The David Brooks
of Frederick Co., and later of Cedar Creek monthly meeting in
Hanover Co., VA, and Stokes Co., NC, is said to have
had Welsh ancestry (see file of Hezkiah Sanders). I also suspect that
the Rees/Ree family who were ancestors of the Hollingsworth
family were Welsh, as were perhaps the Rice family.
J.E. Norris, ed., HISTORY OF THE LOWER SHENANDOAH VALLEY
(Chicago: A. Warner, 1890), p. 780, has information
about a Rees family of Welsh ancestry of Frederick Co.,
VA. This family descends from David Rees, "of Welsh descent," who
was born 15 March 1730. DR had children born in Chester
Co., PA, from 1757-1772, and after this in Virginia. Several of the
children married at Hopewell meeting in Frederick Co.
The area of Wythe Co., VA, in which Thomas Brooks settled
before 1804--Poplar Camp--had a community of Welsh miners
living in it. In fact, the Herbert family, from whom
Thomas Brooks purchased his land in Wythe Co., were the founding figures
of
this Welsh colony; see files of Thomas Brooks, son of
Mary, and of Thomas Whitlock. These connections make me wonder
whether the roots of the Brooks family of Frederick and
Wythe Co., VA, lie in the Welsh Quaker settlements in PA. Many of
these Welsh Quakers may have come to America after a
sojourn in Ireland, and have thus been identified as "Irish" Quakers.
On the predominance of ethnically English and Welsh Quakers
among the "Irish" Quakers, see file of John Brazelton the
immigrant.
I have not identified the spouses of Mary Brooks' daughters
Elizabeth Rice, Sarah Asdrill, or Susanna Haynes. Note that both
the Rice and Hollingsworth families are closely associated
with a Thomas Brooks of Frederick Co., VA, whom I have identified
as Mary's son. On 3 March 1767, TB witnessed the rent
of a tract of land by Patrick Rice to John Rice of same. Other
witnesses to the deed included Edmond Rice and Robert
Hollingsworth (see file of Thomas Brooks for details). Note the
recurrence of Robert Hollingsworth's name in records
involving the Brooks family in Frederick Co.
On 26 Oct. 1779, TB witnessed the sale of land by Henry
Shlosher and Elizabeth his wife of Washington Co., MD, to Daniel
Hunsiker of Frederick Co., VA, being a tract of land
at Hollingsworth's line (see file of Thomas Brooks).
On 2 Nov. 1782, TB wit. the will of John Rice, Frederick
Co., VA. The will names wife Hannah, daughters Mary and Sarah,
and sons George, Edmond, John, and James. Other witnesses
were Thomas Hale, Thomas Blakemore, and Patrick Rice.
The will was pr. 3 May 1785 (see file of Thomas Brooks).
Conceivably, TB's sister Elizabeth could have married one of the
sons of John Rice, who appears to be of the same generation
as TB's mother Mary. Could Mary Brooks have been a Rice, in
fact?
Thomas Brooks is on the 1787 tax list in Winchester, Frederick
Co., VA, with neighbors including Anthony and Henry Crum
and the widow Rice (see file of TB). Note that Anthony
Crum witnessed the will of Mary Brooks. The widow Rice may be
Hannah Rice of the will of John Rice.
The Hollingsworth family is another Quaker family. See
file of Mary Brook's son-in-law Jacob Hollingsworth, and those of his
Hollingsworth ancestors.
According to J.E. Norris, HISTORY OF THE LOWER SHENANDOAH
VALLEY (Chicago: A. Warner, 1890), p. 52, in 1730
Alexander Ross patented 40,000 acres north and west and
south of Winchester, VA. The survey of this land was made by
Robert Brooks. One tract, 583 acres, was on Abraham's
Creek, a mile southeast of Winchester. This land came into the
possession of Abraham Hollingsworth, and was still in
the possession of this family in 1890. This source also notes that the
Parkins family lived in the vicinity of the Hollingsworths,
and that these families were all Quakers (p. 53).
On 24 Dec. 1768, a Jacob Brooks witnessed a deed of land
by George Hollingsworth of Berkeley Precinct, SC, to Jacob
Hoge of the same (see DESCENDANTS OF VALENTINE HOLLINGSWORTH,
p. 7; cited in file of VH). George Hollingsworth
was a son of Abraham Hollingsworth, who was a son of
Thomas Hollingsworth, son of Valentine. The Jacob Hollingsworth
who married Mary Brooks was a son of Samuel Hollingsworth,
son of Samuel, son of Valentine.
According to Kellam and Lester, p. 310-13, the Jacob Brooks
who witnessed the Hollingsworth deed in SC was baptized 21
Nov. 1702, Christ Church, Middlesex Co., VA, son of William
Brooks and Sarah (Warren?) (see below on this). JB died
testate in Craven Co., SC, with a will dated 17 Sept.
1770 (Charleston Probate Ct., WB 1774-9, p. 54; no probate date; see
Elizabeth W. Francis and Ethel S. Moore, LOST LINKS [Baltimore:
Geneal. Publ. Co., 1975). It names wife Rosanna and
children Jacob, John, and Milly, wife of William Garry.
The descendants of this family were in Newberry Co., SC,
at its formation (see query of Susan B. Hill, Box 174, Edgefield, SC,
in WILLIAM AND MARY 7, series 2 (1927), p. 218. In a
1 Feb. 1998 posting to the Old Frederick Co., VA, discussion group
at Rootsweb.com, Anne Dowis (a019333t@bc.seflin.org)
states that by 1775, a large group of settlers from the vicinity of
Winchester, VA, had moved to the area of Newberry Co.,
SC, north of the Bush River. These included members of the Ruble,
Pugh, Elmore, Chapman, and Aspinall families. Dowis conjectures
that these people left VA after the erection of Fort Duquesne
(1750?), since they were mostly Quakers and Dunkards
opposed to military service.
Kellam and Lester say that an old family record left by
the father of Mrs. Warner Bailey of Houston, TX, identifies the William
Brooks who was the father of Jacob as the immigrant ancestor,
who came to America at the beginning of the 18th century. En
route, he was shipwrecked and lost members of his family
(pp. 310-11). Kellam and Lester say that a reference to WB occurs
in Frederick Co. records; they cite Order Book 14, p.
360, 1 Nov. 1768, which refers to a case of debt of WB vs. George Hiatt
(p. 311). Kellam and Lester also state that WB's son
Jacob was in Frederick Co. at this time; can this be true, however, if
JB
wit. a deed in SC the following month?
This Brooks family appears to be closely related to another
family traced in Kellam and Lester. This is the family of Matthew
Brooks, who was in Spotsylvania Co., VA, in 1742, but
by 1748 appears in Frederick Co., VA, as a constable. His estate was
appraised in Frederick Co. on 4 March 1755 (BROOKS, p.
275, citing WB 2, p. 150). Kellam and Lester say that the wife of
Matthew Brooks, Elizabeth, left a will 12 Dec. 1759,
pr. 6 Feb. 1760, Frederick Co. Elizabeth is said to be the daughter of
Thomas Warren of Spotsylvania Co. (ibid., citing Spotsylvania
WB B, p. 56; the will is dated 13 Apr. 1749, pr. 4 Dec. 1750).
Note that Orange and Augusta counties were the parents of Frederick, and Spotsylvania Co. was a parent of Orange Co.
Matthew Brooks appears as a wit. to a 5 Aug. 1740 Spotsylv.
Co. deed of John Rogers, Drysdale Psh., King and Queen Co.,
to various persons who were apparently legatees of Peter
Rogers and John York of Spotsylvania Co., including Thomas
Warren and other Warrens (DB C, 5 Aug. 1740; in William
Armstrong Crozier, ed., VA COUNTY RECORDS: SPOTSYLV.
CO. 1721-1800 [NY: Fox, Duffield, 1905], p. 151). See
also Spotsylvania Co. Order Bk. 1740-2, p. 95 (Sparacio and
Sparacio, p. 2).
On 7 Sept. 1742, MB wit. the deed of Abraham and Barbara
Rogers of Spts. Co. to Abraham Estes of King and Queen (DB D;
in ibid., p. 161). The same day, MB's slaves Phillis
and Pollipus were registered in Spotsylvania Co. (Orders 1740-2, p. 185;
Sparacio and Sparacio, p. 91).
MB appears as a juror in Spotsylvania Co. on 1 March 1742
and 7 Aug. 1744 (Spotsylvania Co. Orders 1738-49, pp. 205,
275; Sparacio and Sparacio, pp. 2-3, 83).
Kellam and Lester say that Matthew and Elizabeth Brooks
had children David (b. 19 Apr. 1749, d. 12 Dec. 1814, Stokes Co.,
NC), who m. Sarah Sanders, 24 Dec. 1759, Hanover Co.,
VA; Joel (d. 1 Sept. 1764, Orange Co., NC), who m. Sept. 1756
to Mary Wright; William d. after 29 Jan. 1798, Berkeley
Co., VA); Daniel, m. Hannah Hammond, and remained in Frederick
Co., VA; Matthew, who left will 9 July 1796, Newberry
Co., SC; James, who m. Sarah Singletary and left will dated 10 Jan.
1820, Newberry Co., SC; Thomas; Jesse, who went to Wilkes
Co., GA; Mary, who m. 22 Oct. 1759 to Benjamin Thornburg;
and Judith, who m. a Pemberton.
Note that David Brooks is the David who appears as a Quaker
in Hopewell monthly minutes, and who moved to Cedar Creek
monthly meeting in Hanover Co., VA, and then to NC (see
above, plus file of Thomas Brooks, d. 1805, and file of Hezekiah
Sanders). Note also that the marriage of Mary Brooks
to Benjamin Thornbury occurred at Hopewell meeting in Frederick Co.
The estate of Matthew Brooks was administered by Joel Brooks (Frederick Co. WB 1, 1743-51).
Mary Wright, who m. Joel Brooks, was daughter of John
Wright and Rachel Wells, Quakers of Chester and Ann Arundel Co.,
MD. A history of this family in Wilmer L. Kerns, FREDERICK
CO., VA, SETTLEMENT AND SOME FIRST FAMILIES OF
BACK CREEK VALLEY 1730-1830 (Baltimore: Gateway, 1995),
p. 152, says that John Wright was b. 1716 in Chester Co.
He and wife Rachel lived in Prince George Co., MD, where
they were members of Monocacy meeting until 1749, then they
moved to Orange Co., NC. Rachel died in Newberry Co.,
SC, on 23 Dec. 1771, so the family evidently moved there. Kerns
says that Mary Wright's sister Sarah m. James Brooks
(p. 153).
A Thomas Brooks appears in Spotsylvania Co., VA records.
On 13 Feb. 1748, he bought land from Henry and Barbara
Brock (DB D; see Crozier, SPOTS. CO., p. 178). On 19
June 1752, he sold to Edward Herndon, Jr., with Jos. and William
Brock, and Thos. and Hannah Duerson wit. (DB E; in ibid.,
p. 190). On 4 June 1754, he wit. Wm. Bartlett's sale to Thos.
Collins (DB E, in ibid., p. 196).
On 16 March 1754, he bought from Gawin and Hannah Corbin
land in Spots. Co. (DB E, in ibid., p. 197). Again on 7 Sept.
1756, he bought land from the Corbins (DB E, in ibid.,
p. 203).
By 1761, TB may have been of Caroline Co., since on that
date, TB and Rachel his wife of Caroline Co. sold to John Battalley
of Spts. Co. land in the latter (DB E, in ibid., p. 222).
On 13 Dec. 1770, TB wit. the lease of Alxr. Spotswood to Philemon
Richards (DB J, in ibid., p. 312). On 1 Nov. 1784, a
TB who signed by mark (unlike the previous TB) wit. the sale of Thos.
Carr of GA of land in Spots. Co. to Robert Hart (DB K,
p. 383). This TB appears to be a TB with wife Judith, since a TB
signing with mark and Judith sold land in Spots. Co.
on 4 Nov. 1788 to James Young and Edw. Hyde (DB M, in ibid., p. 422).
BROOKS AND KINDRED FAMILIES states that the Jacob Brooks
who d. in 1774 in Craven Co., SC, was the son of William
and Sarah Brooks (p. 310). Sarah may have been a Warren,
according to this source. According to Kellam and Lester, Jacob
Brooks was baptized 21 Nov. 1702 in Christ Church, Middlesex
Co., VA (p. 312). Kellam and Lester also note that Jacob and
William Brooks are in Frederick Co., VA, records.
According to Kellam and Lester, JB is a witness to a deed
of Thomas Warren in Spotsylvania Co., VA, in 1725 (p. 313; note
that this is the Thomas Warren whose daughter Elizabeth
is said to have married Matthew Brooks). By 24 Feb. 1742, Jacob
Brooks is in Orange Co., VA. On 13 Oct. 1744, Jacob Brooks
begins to appear in the records of Frederick Co., VA. (Since
Frederick was formed out of Orange during this period,
this may not indicate that JB moved, but that the county had changed
names). On that date, JB was a juror (p. 314, citing
Order Bk. 1, p. 221). On 30 Sept. 1744, Leonard Harper was ordered to
pay Rosanna and Mary Brooks 100 pounds of tobacco for
evidence given on their behalf in Frederick Co. (ibid., citing Order
Bk. 1, p. 190). Kellam and Lester note that Rosanna Brooks
is wife of Jacob, and that she and Mary Brooks gave testimony by
solemn affirmation, indicating that they were Quakers,
whereas Jacob Brooks was not. I am not sure how Kellam and Lester
can be confident that JB was not a Quaker. They do not
identify this Mary Brooks.
Jacob Brooks continues to appear in Frederick Co. records
from 1744 to 5 Aug. 1752, when he sold to John Briscoe his 62
acres on the Shenahdoah and the south side of Opequon
Run in Frederick Co. (ibid., citing Order Bk. 4, p. 441; the deed is
actually in Frederick DB 2, p. 521; see Gilreath, p.
95, cited below).
By Sept. 1753, JB is in Orange Co., NC. By 1768, he is
in SC. Note that the Hoge family who appears in SC records with this
family is the Quaker family of Frederick Co., VA.
Jacob Brooks appears as a renter on his 62 acres in Frederick
Co. in 1746 (Frederick Co. Rentals), and in a 1763 Frederick
Co. suit of Hite vs. Lord Fairfax. In addition, Robert
Brooks appears in this suit (ibid.). Note that this is the Robert Brooks
who
was a surveyor by 1730 in what became Frederick Co.
A Robert Brooks, oldest son of Robert Brooke of Essex
Co., VA, is in a 7 June 1749 deed in Frederick Co. The deed testifies
that RB, Sr., had died, and that he had received 60 pounds
from John Shearer of Frederick Co. for 657 acres, for which JS
lacked a deed. RB, Jr., testified to the transaction
(Fredeick Co. DB 2, p. 396; see Amelia C. Gilreath, abs., FREDERICK CO.,
VA, DEED BOOK SERIES, vol. 1: DB 1-4, 1743-1758 [Nokesville,
VA; 1989], p. 86). Note that Thomas Brooks who died in
Morgan Co., AL, in 1838, was much involved with a Shearer
family in Wayne Co., KY, deeds.
This tract is mentioned in a 7 Jan. 1763 lease of John
Shearer to Archibald Shearer, which notes that the 200 acres were on
the Potomac, and were out of a patent to Robert Brooke
dated 9 Feb. 1737 (Frederick DB 8, p. 226; see Gilreath,
FREDERICK CO. DEED BOOK SERIES, vol. 2: DB 5-8, 1757-1768
[Nokesville, VA; 1990], p. 111).
On 16 Nov. 1753, a Robert Brooke, surveyor of Prince William
Co., appears in a Frederick Co. deed of Thomas Branson of
Frederick Co. to Alexander Ogilby of same; the deed notes
that RB surveyed the tract on 27 Nov. 1730 (Frederick Co. DB 3,
p. 145; see Gilreath, vol. 1, p. 113). Prior to this,
Robert Brooke appears to be in Orange and Spotsylvania Co., VA.
Matthew Brooks is in a Frederick Co. deed dated 12 May
1764. This is a deed of Simeon and Easter Taylor to John Reece of
land on Opeckon Creek. The deed describes the land as
being bounded by Matthew Brooks and Robert Hutchins (Frederick
Co. DB 9, p. 165; see Gilreath, FREDERICK CO. DEED BOOK
SERIES, vol. 3: DB 9-11, 1763-1767, p. 13). Thomas Rees
was among the witnesses to this deed. Note that this
is most likely the Rees family of the 1758 wedding witnessed by Mary
Brooks, above.
Matthew Brooks appears again in two 1768 deeds which note
that the land being disposed of bordered his. On 2 May 1768,
Isaac Johnson leased to Robert Rutherford land on the
west side of Opeckon, near Winchester, mentioning that the corner was
on Matthew Brooks' line (DB 12, p. 345; see Gilreath,
vol. 4: DB 12-14, 1767-71 [1991], p. 35).
On 1 Nov. 1768, Edmond Lindsey, Jr., sold to Robert Rutherford
of Winchester land on the east of Opeckon at MB's line (ibid.,
p. 545; see Gilreath, vol. 4, p. 60).
On 11 Oct. 1769, Joseph Beeler sold to Jacob Hite a tract
on Opeckon. The deed mentions that this land lay on the line of
Jacob Brooks (DB 13, p. 184; see Gilreath, vol. 4, p.
112). Since Kellam and Lester say that the Jacob Brooks who married
Rosanna had moved from Frederick Co. by this date, I
do not know if this is another Jacob, or if he continued to own land in
Frederick Co. at this date.
By 13 Sept. 1777, Robert Rutherford and wife Mary were
in Berkeley Co., since their deed on that date to John Rynell, Jacob
Harman, and Mordecail Lewis of Philadelphia of land in
Frederick Co. on Matthew Brooks' corner mentions Berkeley as their
residence (DB 17, p. 385; see Gilreath, vol. 6, p. 67).
These deeds suggest that the Robert Brooke who was a surveyor
in Frederick Co. may have not ever lived there. The
identify him as a member of the Brooke family of Essex
Co., VA, which may be an entirely different family from that of Matthew
and Jacob Brooks--and other Brookses--of Frederick Co.
Unfortunately, none of the preceding Frederick Co. Brooks
material makes clear which Frederick Co. Brooks was the
husband of Mary, who died in 1786-7 in Frederick Co.
If I am correct in identifying the Mary Brooks who married
Jacob Hollingsworth, son of Samuel and Barbara Shewin
Hollingsworth, as the Mary Hollingsworth of the will
of Mary Brooks, then this Brooks family may have come to Frederick Co.,
VA, from Pennsylvania. Jacob Hollingsworth was born in
Chester Co., PA. DESCENDANTS OF VALENTINE
HOLLINGSWORTH (see file of VH for details on this source)
says that Mary Brooks, daughter of Mary, was "of
Pennsylvania," and implies that the marriage of Samuel
Hollingsworth and Mary Brooks occurred in Pennsylvania. Note,
though, that it seems unlikely that Mary Brooks and Jacob
Hollingsworth married in PA--see file of Jacob Hollingsworth for
details. This may cast some doubt on the theory that
this Brooks line originated in PA.
Note that, when the Hopewell Friends' meeting in Frederick
Co. was founded, it was under the supervision of the quarterly
meeting of Concord in Chester Co., PA, and its founding
members tended to include many families from Chester Co., including
Alexander Ross, Morgan Bryan, and Richard Beeson (see
Hinshaw, ENCYCLOPEDIA, vol. 6, pp. 357f, cited in file of John
Brazelton the immigrant. The New Garden meeting of Chester
Co. also figured largely in the settlement of Hopewell. The roots
of the Brooks family may be in one of these Quaker meetings.
Is it possible that Mary Brooks moved to VA as part of the
Quaker migration there, after the death of her husband
in PA? Chester Co. records--especially Quaker records--need to be
checked for this family. See also Wayland, HOPEWELL FRIENDS
HISTORY, pp. 14f, cited in file of John Brazelton.
In addition to the various references to Chester Co.,
PA, cited above, note that David Peirce, a prominent settler of Wythe Co.,
VA, was born in Chester Co. on 8 Apr. 1756, the son of
George and Lydia Roberts Peirce. Peirce operated a tavern at
Poplar Camp, which is precisely where Thomas Brooks settled.
In fact, DP gave Poplar Camp its name. The given name of
DP's mother, Lydia, which was a popular Quaker name,
suggests to me that the family had Quaker roots. Note that the name
Peirce could also be Welsh. See Kegley, EARLY ADVENTURES,
vol. 3, p. 324f (cited in file of Thomas Brooks).
Note that by 1786, a Thomas Brooks is in Franklin Co.,
GA, deeds (a county to which Jacob Hollingsworth and wife Mary
Brooks moved) with wife Elizabeth. A James Brooks, married
to Margaret, d/o Simon Thomason, is also in the county by 1812,
involved with the preceding Thomas. This family interacts
wtih a Staunton family of Pendleton Dist., SC. The given name Jacob
appears also in members of this family.
On a John and Susan Brooks who moved from VA to Bladen
Co., NC, in 1735, and intermarried a Terrell family there, see file
of Simon Terrell. Simon Terrell's sister Ruth married
Isaac, son of John and Susan Brooks. Note that Simon Terrell's daughter
Amelia married Thomas Hollingsworth, d/o Jacob and Mary
Brooks Hollingsworth.
Marriage Notes for Thomas Brooks and Mary:
These are new notes William D. Lindsey found Dec 1998:
NOTES ON BROOKS FAMILY
Note that a Thomas Brooks married Mary Blacknall in Kingston
Psh., Gloucester Co., VA (batch 8613403, sheet 28; source
1396194), on 16 Dec. 1749 (LDS IGI). Since I believe
that the Mary Brooks who died in Frederick Co., VA, in 1789 had as
her oldest son a Thomas Brooks b. abt. 1750, I wonder
if this Thomas and Mary Brooks could be the parents of Thomas, b.
abt. 1750, who m. Margaret. A Thomas and Mary Brooks
had a son Thomas b. in Goochland Co., VA, in 1750, according to
the IGI-are these the couple who married in 1749 in Gloucester?
Mary may have been a daughter of Charles and Mary Hardin
Blacknall. According to Bishop Meade, OLD CHURCHES,
MINISTERS, AND FAMILIES OF VIRGINIA (Philadelphia: J.B.
Lippincott, 1889), vol. 1, pp. 325-6, Charles Blacknall was a
vestryman of Kingston Psh., Gloucester Co., and a John
Blacknall, who d. 1747, was pastor of the parish from at least 1740
until his death.
On 4 Oct. 1748, Charles and Mary Blacknall of Gloucester
Co. sold to John Berry of Middlesex 125 acres in Middlesex, half of
land bequeathed to Wm. Needles by John Needles his father
by will dated 26 May 1686 and dexcended to Charles Blacknall
by will of George Hardin of Middlesex, father of Mary
(Middlesex DB 1740-54, p. 284). Deed wit. by Churchill Jones, John
Robinson, and Robert Elliott.
George Hardin's will is dated 1 Oct. 1744, pr. 2 Apr.
1745, Middlesex Co., VA; it names wife Elizabeth and daughter Mary,
who was to inherit the home plantation at her mother's
death, along with a son Thomas, who inherited all the land of GH in
Orange Co., and slaves in Caroline Co. The will also
names niece Elizabeth Stapleton. Exrs. were wife Elizabeth and
Humphrey Keeble. The will was wit. by Robert Elliott
and Richard Brookes (Middlesex DB C, p. 203). P. 248 has an
inventory of the estate by Elizabeth H., executrix of
the estate in Orange Co.
The reference to Richard Brooks is interesting, since
the vestry minutes of Kingston Parish, Gloucester/Mathews Co., VA,
show Charles Blacknall being paid 8 pounds on 7 Oct.
1751 for Richard Brooks (see C.G. Chamberlayne, THE VESTRY
BOOK OF KINGSTON PARISH, MATHEWS CO., VA, 1679-1796 [Richmond:
Old Dominion, 1929], p. 46). But this Richard
was evidently a minor, since vestry minutes show John
Hugen being paid for keeping him on 16 Oct. 1752 (see ibid., 49).
The Christ Church register, Middlesex Co., shows George
and Elizabeth Hardin's son Thomas b. 3 May 1712. He m. Lucy
Billups, giving bond in Middlesex Co. on 25 Jan. 1747
with John Rhodes, Jr., Richard Major wit. (Middlesex Marriage Bk. 1,
p. 4). On 26 July 1748, Thomas and Lucy Hardin of Christ
Church, Middlesex, sold to John Boutwell of St. Mary's, Caroline,
1000 acres in Orange Co. willed to Thomas by father George
(Orange DB 11, 60-3).
Middlesex Co. probate index has a listing for a will of
Elizabeth Hardin dated 1759, naming (apparently) heirs Thomas Hardin,
Mary Blacknall, Betty , Ann, and Charles Blacknall, and
Elizabeth Kibble (WB D, 490).
Thomas Hardin seems to have died testate in 1759, naming
heirs Lucy, Bettie C. Churchill, Bettie Blacknall, Ann Blacknall,
Mary Blacknall, Lucy Keeble, and Wm. Keeble (WB C, 23
and D, 545, Middlesex Co.).
On 22 Aug. 1751, Thomas Brooks, Jr., wit. the bond of James Morris to Thomas Morris, Gloucester Co., VA.
Records of St. James Northam Psh., Goochland Co., show
a Nansie Brooks, d/o James Brooks and Elizabeth Pollock, b. 31
Mar. 1765, a Sarah, d/o Thomas Brooks and Judith Bow,
b. 26 Jun. 1767, and a Frankie, d/o Will Brooks and Elizabeth
Jacobs, b. 8 Sept. 1784. James Brooks m. Elizabeth Pollock
in 1764.
On 22 Sept. 1772, Thomas Brooks was a chain carrier for
the suvey of Richard Corbin, Esq., Middlesex Co., VA (Survey Bk.
1735-1807, p. 28). Note the 1754-6 connections of a Thomas
Brooks with the Corbins of Spotsylvania Co.-see file of Mary,
wife of Brooks.\\\\
An inventory for Thomas Brooks was filed in Goochland
Co., 15 Aug. 1772 (WB Bk. 10, pp. 257-8). The estate was
inventoried by Richard D. Hines, John Martin, and Joseph
R. Farrar. The inventory was filed 18 Aug. 1772.
Another inventory was filed for a Thomas Brooks on 2 Sept.
1777 (WB 12, p. 42), filed by Matthew Woodson, Richard D (?),
and John Martin. The estate of this Thomas was administered
by Charles Bales, who filed an account on 15 June 1789, which
shows that this Thomas left minor children John and Sarah
(WB 15, p. 248). Is this the TB who m. Judith Bow in Goochland,
15 Aug. 1767? Am I wrong to think that the two preceding
estates are for different Thomases?
Vestry minutes for Kingston Psh., Gloucester/Mathews Co.,
VA, show a Wm. Brooks as church clerk from Sept. 1726 until Dec.
1750, when John Davis succeeded him. By 5 Nov. 1759,
an Ann Brooks appears in the vestry minutes, possibly Wm.'s
widow. Note, too, that a Richard Locke became pastor
of the Kingston church in 1749--on a Richard Locke who was a minister
in KY, and whose family seems to connect in many ways
with the Brooks descendants there, see file of Jesse Brooks.
Children of Thomas Brooks and Mary are:
i.
Elizabeth2 Brooks, m. George Rice.
Notes for George Rice:
A John Rice left a will in Frederick Co., VA, WB 4, 1770-82, dated 2 Nov.
1782, pr. 3 May 1785
(see file of Thomas Brooks, son of Mary, for details), naming wife Hannah,
daughters Mary and
Sarah, and sons George, Edmond, John, and James. Wit. were Thomas Hale,
Thomas
Blakemore, Thomas Brooks, and Patrick Rice. The will was pr. 3 May 1785
(Frederick Co. WB
4, 1770-82).
JR's estate was appraised 24 May 1785, sale account 24 May 1785, acct.
current Dec. 1783; all
recorded 3 Apr. 1798. Appraisers: Lewis Hollingsworth, Robert Hollingsworth,
Michael Lefevre.
Examiners, Matthew Wright, Thomas Stribling. Buyers incl. George and Hannah
Rice (Frederick
Co., VA, WB 5, 1795-1802, pp. 374-6; in King, p. 20--see file of Elizabeth
Brooks, who m.
George Rice). Robert Hollingsworth m. Susannah Rice, daughter of Patrick.
Hannah, widow of John Rice, left a will dated 16 Jan. 1811, pr. 4 Feb.
1811 (Frederick Co., VA,
WB 9, 1810-1816, pp. 34-5), which mentions she was widow of John Rice,
and names her
children by them, Mary named as Mary McDonald, and Sarah as Sarah Cowan
(King, pp.
92-3). The will shows that she married John Donaldson after the death of
John Rice. Note that
the names of Mary McDonald and Sarah Cowan don't match names of the nieces
of George
Rice of the 1792 will below.
A 2 Apr. 1771 deed to divide the glebe land of the parishes of Frederick
in Frederick Co. and
Camerons in Loudon Co. notes that a GR is a churchwarden of the Frederick
Psh. (DB 15, p.
18).
A 1 June 1773 deed of Edmund Rice of Frederick Co. to Michael and Bartholomew
Smith for
land at the head of Long Marsh notes that the land had been granted to
Patrick Rice 14 Apr.
1752, and had been transferred by PR to his two sons George and Edmund
(Frederick Co. WB
16, p. 309). The Edmond Rice of this deed had a wife Ruth, who gave a release
on 2 June
1773 (ibid., p. 301).
The deeds for this transfer of land are in Frederick Co. DB 10, pp. 216-7:
PR of Frederick Co.
deeds to sons George and Edmond land out his 1752 patent. Another deed
on 25 Sept. 1754 of
PR of Frederick Co. says that he was giving to sons George and Edmond out
of love and
affection land out oa messuage granted him on 14 Apr. 1752 by Lord Fairfax
(DB 3, p. 462).
Frederick Co., VA, DB 16, p. 279, 27 sept. 1773: George Rice of Frederick
Co. deeds to
Michael and Bartholomew Smith of same 150 acres out of 300 acres granted
to GR by Lord
Fairfax lying on line of Patrick Rice (Amelia C. Gilreath, FREDERICK CO.,
VA, DB SERIES, vol.
5 [14200 Vint Hill Road., Nokesville, VA 22123; 1992], p. 123). The release
is signed by
George and Elizabeth Rice (ibid.). Note: this George seems to be a son
of Patrick.
Frederick Co. DB 21, p. 616, 26 May 1787: George and Elizabeth Rice of
Frederick Co. to
Anthony Crum of Frederick Co. a tract granted to GR by frant from Registrar's
Office 2 May
1787, 113 acres, corner to Patrick Rice, Anthony Crum, survey of George
Martin, and Richard
Chapman. Wit. George Blakeman, William Smith, Thomas Brooks, James Brooks.
Signed GR
and ER; rec. 5 June 1787 (Gilreath, vol. 21 [1995], p. 87). This deed suggests
strongly to me
that Elizabeth Brooks, daughter of Mary, m. George Rice. Note that her
brothers James and
Thomas wit. the deed, and that Anthony Crum, who wit. her mother's will,
appears in the deed.
Also, note that Thomas, brother of Eliz., appears in various records in
Frederick Co. involving
Patrick Rice. See his file.
Ibid., , p. 958, 14 March 1789: George Rice of Frederick Co. to Robert
Hollingsworth of same,
179 acres, one rood and 32 perches, out of larger tract, on the corner
of Michael and
Bartholomew Smith with GR's line: Wit. Thomas Hale, Henry Crum, Bartholomus
Smith. Signed
GR And ER; rec. 8 Apr. 1789 (Gilreath, vol. 21, pp. 135-6). Note that EB's
sister married a
Hollingsworth.
Note: Robert Hollingsworth m. Susannah, d/o Patrick Rice; see below.
Note: Thomas Hale wit. the will of John Rice, who married Hannah, along
with EB's brother
Thomas. Note, too, that Anthony and Henry Crum were neighbors of Thomas
Brooks, per 1787
tax list; see his file for details. Note that Robert Hollingsworth and
Thos. Brooks wit. the rent of
land by Patrick Rice to John Rice in 1767, Frederick Co. (see file of TB
for details).
Ibid., p. 960, 14 March 1789: GR of Frederick Co. to Bartholomew Smith
of same, 6 1/2 acres
out of a larger tract, corner of BS to Edmund Clare. Wit. Robert Hollingsworth,
Thomas Hale,
Micajah Rock, Henry Crum. Signed GR and ER; rec. 8 Apr. 1789 (ibid., p.
136).
Ibid., p. 962, 14 March 1789: GR to Henry Crum both Frederick Co. 161 3/4
acres on lines of
Henry Crum, George Rice, Anthony Crum. Wit. Robert Hollingsworth, Thomas
Hale, Micajah
Rock, Barth. Smith; rec. 8 apr. 1789 (ibid., p. 136). Note: were George
and Elizabeth Rice
selling their landholdings in Frederick Co. in preparation to move elsewhere?
EB's mother would
have died two years before, and her estate would have been settled, so
the family ties in
Frederick Co. may have been more tenuous now. Note that the Brooks lines
begin to move to
Wythe Co. in early 1790s. Could George and Elizabeth have gone there? Could
they have
been in KY by 1797? See below.
A GR left a will 2 Oct. 1792, pr. 9 July 1795, Frederick Co., VA. The will
stipulates that his father
is to continue to live with the family for life. Could this be John Donaldson,
whom Hannah Rice
married after the death of John Rice? The will names brother John and his
four sons, the 6
unnamed children of GR and wife Elizabeth, nieces Mary Reese, Sarah Rice,
Elizabeth Boyd,
and Jean Sullivan (wife of William), and a brother Edmond Rice. The exrs.
are wife Elizabeth,
Andrew Waggoner, James McDonald. A codicil mentions son-in-law Micajah
Roach. Pr. at
Woodford Co., KY, co. court, 9 July 1795. Note: if the father of the will
is not a step-father, this
disproves that GR is son of John and Hannah.
The will of Edmund Rice, 20 Apr. 1796, Frederick Co., pr. 4 Apr. 1797,
names as legatee John
Rice, son of sister Betty (King, ABSTRACTS OF WILLS, INVENTOIRES, AND
ADMINISTRATION ACCOUNTS OF FREDERICK CO., VA, p. 52). If this is the Edmond
of the
will of John Rice with wife Hannah, then Elizabeth Brooks and George Rice
had a son John;
there was no Betty Rice in the will of George and Edmond's father, and
her married name would,
in any case, have not likely been Rice, had there been a sister Betty.
The will specifies that all
property from his father's will and land in KY were to go to John Rice,
his nephew. However, the
will appears to name another Betty Rice as the mother of Edmond, which
eems to disprove that
this is Edmond son of John and Hannah, though it specifies that George
is Edmond's brother.
Exrs. Micajah Roach, James McDonald, James Wilson. Wit. James Jones, William
McCormick (J.
Estelle Stewart King, ABSTRACTS OF WILLS, INVENTORIES, AND ADMINISTRATION
ACCOUNTS OF FREDERICK CO., VA 1743-1800 [Scottsdale, AZ, 1961; Baltimore:
Geneal.
Publ. Co., 1982],. p. 5).
Estate record of Patrick Rice, 3 Aug. 1799, 3 Sept. 1799, mentions George
Rice, dec'd., Micajah
Roach exr. of George, and Elizabeth Rice (Frederick Co., VA, WB 6, 1795-1802,
p. 480; in
King, p. 28).
Patrick Rice's will is dated 9 June 1798, pr. 4 Feb. 1799, names children
Rebecca Connell,
Susanna Hollingsworth, grandchildren Rebeca Connell, James Rice, Hester,
Elizabeth, Hannah,
and Susannah Hollingsworth. Specifies that Robert Hollingsworth is a son-in-law.
Exrs. Robert
Hollingsworth and son George. Wit. Elizabeth and Rebecca Rice and George
Blakemore (King,
p. 26).
Robert Hollingsworth left a will in Frederick Co. dated 15 July 1792, pr.
7 Jan. 1800, naming
sons Joseph Lewis, Robert, Abraham, Isaac, James, Edmond, and George, and
daughters
Easter, Elizabeth, Hannah, and Susannah. Wife Susannah (King, p. 54).
George Rice has an estate account in Frederick Co., VA, WB 9, pp. 158-9,
1801-5 Aug. 1812,
naming admr. Wm. McCormick, legatees, George Rice, George Kiger, Lehugh
Rice, Ruth
Roach, Joshua Wilson, and all his children on behalf of his late wife,
unnamed (King, p. 101).
This GR also appears to have had a wife Elizabeth, who left a will dated
18 Feb. 1816 in
Frederick Co., pr. 6 Mar. 1816 (Frederick Co. WB 9, pp. 535-6; in M.N.
Kangas and D.E.
Payne, FREDERICK CO., VA, WILLS AND ADMINISTRATIONS 1795-1816 [Baltimore:
Geneal. Publ. Co., 1983], p. 124. The will names daughter Rebecca, and
leaves legacies to
Emila Rice, Edwin Rice Kiger, George Rice Kiger, and names daughter Rebecca
as wife of
George W. Kiger. Wit. son-in-law George W. Kiger; wit. Danl. Magruder,
Eleanor Magruder,
Jane Anderson, and John Rice. Note: this seems to be the Elizabeth Rice
who wit. the will of
Patrick Rice, along with Rebecca, in 1798; see file of Elizabeth Brooks.
A GR left a will 21 Jan. 1813 in Frederick Co., VA, no pr. date (WB 9,
p. 277). This says that GR
was a tavern keeper, had wife Elizabeth, and that, after payment of debts,
all the estate should go
to beloved wife Elizabeth forever. Exr. wife Elizabeth; wit. John Hoff,
Daniel Overaker, John Coe
(Kihng, p. 109).
Which of these George Rices married Elizabeth Brooks? The cluster of names
in the will of John
Rice with wife Hannah indicates that George son of John and Hannah m. Elizabeth
Brooks.
William H. Rice, SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES ON WILLIAM RICE OF FREDERICK CO.,
MD
(West Virginia: W.H. Rice, 1987), adds information to a study of a William
Rice of Frederick Co.,
MD, published in 1979 by WHR's grandfather Millard Milburn Rice, entitled
WILLIAM RICE OF
FREDERICK CO., MD (116 Brooklawn Apartments, Frederick, MD 21701; 1979).
WHR's study
says that on 20 Nov. 1767, WR, formerly of Bucks Co., PA, and formerly
bound to James
Brooke, Sr., of Frederick Co., MD, on 24 Oct. 1759, patented land in Frederick
Co. called The
Addition to Brooke Discovery on the Rich Land.
Millard M. Rice's book shows that this Rice family of Bucks and Frederick
Co., MD, used George
as a given name in the mid-1700s.
ii.
Sarah Brooks, m. Astill.
Notes for Sarah Brooks:
SB's husband may have been Jacob Abrill; see file of her mother Mary Brooks.
The married name of Mary Brooks' daughter Sarah is difficult to read. It
appears to be Asdrill. A
Jacob Abrill appears in Frederick Co. Order Bk. 20, 3 Aug. 1786, p. 212,
so Abrill may be the
correct spelling. However, a James Astill is in Botetourt Co., VA, on the
1787 tax list, so Astill may
be the correct spelling.
Notes for Astill:
A James Astill is on the 1787 tax list, list C, for Botetourt Co., VA,
taxed only for himself, no other
tithes.
A Jacob Abrell appears in Frederick Co., VA, court records in the late
1700s; see file of Sarah
Brooks' mother.
There's a 1790 will for James Abril in Berkeley Co., WV, a 1772 will for
John Abril in the same
county, and a 1795 inventory for James Abrell in the same county. The will
of John Abrell is
transcribed in O'Dell, below, who says that it is dated 23 Jan. 1772, and
was pr. 16 June 1772,
Berkeley Co., VA/WB (WB 1, p. 3), naming wife Elizabeth and daughters Mary
Reagen (wife of
Janiel), Elizabeth Lindsey (wife of Jacob), Sarah Lindsey (wife of John),
and Lidy and Hannah
Abrell (p. 168).
Note: those attending the marriage of John (s/o Alexander) Ross and Lydia
Hollingsworth (d/o
Stephen) in Orange Co., VA, on 11 Dec. 1735 included Sarah Abrill (see
Cecil O'Dell,
PIONEERS OF OLD FREDERICK CO., VA [Marceline, MO: Walsworth, 1995], p.
137, citing
NOTTINGHAM MONTHLY MEETING, p. 24). See also p. 191.
Odell says that the Abrill family was in Chester Co., PA, by 1719, and
appear in records of the
Nottingham monthly meeting (. 167).
iii.
Susannah Brooks, m. Haynes.
Notes for Susannah Brooks:
Note that a great-niece of SB, Sarah, daughter of Samuel Hollingsworth
and Mary Brooks,
married a Haynes, and may have moved to Franklin Co., GA, with the Hollingsworth
family.
Could Susannah Haynes have also moved to Franklin Co.? See the 1808 deed
of Samuel and
Elizabeth Boling to Jacob and Thomas Hollingsworth, Franklin Co., GA, cited
in file of Jacob
Hollingsworth.
See also the 1817 deed of Charles and Barsheba Sisson to David Hensley,
cited in file of
Samuel, son of Jacob Hollingsworth, which appears to suggest that the wife
of John Haynes
co-owned land with the sons of Samuel Hollingsworth. This strongly suggests
to me that
Susannah m. John Haynes and moved to Franklin Co., GA.
Notes for Haynes:
Robert M. Shores, THE HAYNES FAMILY (Coronado Staton, Box 14255, Tucson,
AZ 85732;
1991), studies a Haynes family of Winchester, Frederick Co., VA. The family
descends from a
Christopher Haynes, who is said to have come from England and to have died
in Philadelphia
around 1763.
HAYNES FAMILY transcribes a monograph written by William Washington Haynes
abt. 1885.
This says that Christopher Haynes came from England in company with General
Muhlenburg,
under the authority of the British government, and was chosen because of
his language skills.
There is some suggestion that he may have been German, and his name Anglicized
to Haynes.
He became a wealthy merchant in Philadelphia. At his death, his daughter
and two sons were
bound out. The youngest son George was taken by a German family to Winchester,
where he
was unhappy. After the Revolution, he m. Margaret McInturff of Winchester,
and the family
moved for a few years to SC, and then on to east TN, settling eventually
in Carter Co.
A chart in the book says George Haynes was b. 1 Dec. 1757, and m. abt.
1782 in Winchester,
dying in 1836 in Carter Co., TN.
iv.
James Brooks.
Notes for James Brooks:
A James Brooks is on the 1790 census (i.e., 1782 tax list) in Hampshire
Co., VA, contiguous to
Frederick Co., and later in WV, with 3 white tithables.
On 7 Nov. 1793, a James Brooks appears in Frederick Co. court order books
as plaintiff in a
debt case vs. vs. Koontz (Frederick Co. Order Bk. 24. [p. 532). I do not
have proof, but this may
be James, son of Mary.
Order Bk. 25, 1794-5, p. 297, has more on this case. James Brooks had evidently
sued John
Koontz for debt. JK was ordered to pay JB 14 pounds plus damages on 5 Nov.
1794.
2.
v.
Mary Brooks, b. Bet. 1745 - 1750; d. Aft. 15 May 1815.
3.
vi.
Thomas Brooks, b. Abt. 1750; d. Bef. 12 Feb 1805, Wythe County, Virginia
Generation No. 2
2. Mary2 Brooks (Thomas1) was born Bet. 1745 - 1750, and
died Aft. 15 May 1815. She married Jacob Hollingsworth Abt.
1768.
Notes for Mary Brooks:
The LDS Ancestral File 4.15 has a family group sheet
for Jacob Hollingsworth and Mary Brooks. This does not identify the MB
who married Jacob Hollingsworth as the daughter of Mary
Brooks, per the latter's Frederick Co. will. However, I believe that it
is likely that this is the MB, daughter of Mary of Frederick
Co.; the ages match her daughter, and her will states that her
daughter Mary married a Hollingsworth. The submitter
of the LDS information is George R. Vernon, 6805 SW Sussex,
Beaverton, OR 97005.
Though various sources (see file of Jacob Hollingsworth)
say that MB married Jacob Hollingsworth in Chester Co., PA, and
was herself of Chester Co., this seems doubtful, for
reasons discussed in file of Jacob Hollingsworth.
Unless otherwise noted, the LDS chart is my source for
all information I have recorded about this family.
Notes for Jacob Hollingsworth:
Unless otherwise noted, my information about JH and his
ancestry is from the LDS Ancestral File pedigree chart, cited in file of
his wife. This source gives JH's date of birth as 1742;
however, Alpheus H. Harlan, HISTORY AND GENEALOGY OF THE
HARLAN FAMILY, p. 83, gives 1740 as the year of birth.
This source and DESCENDANTS OF VALENTINE
HOLLINGSWORTH place JH's death in 1826.
However, an FGS chart for this family prepared in July
1997 by Melrose Trimble (37 St. Andrews Circle, Broken Arrow, OK
74011; m.trimble@worldnet.att.net) gives the date of
death as 15 May 1815-4 Nov. 1821, citing JH's will, and its probation
date.
DESCENDANTS OF VALENTINE HOLLINGSWORTH, cited in VH's
file, says that JH married Mary Brooks "of
Pennsylvania" ca. 1768 (p. 143). Harlan, HARLAN FAMILY,
states that the marriage occurred in Chester Co., PA. These
sources are my source for the children of this couple,
and the information I have recorded about them, unless otherwise noted.
Fred McCaleb, FAMILY HISTORY, vol. 1 of 2 (Rt. 2, Box
50C, Fayette, AL 35355; 1982) (LDS film 1320524, item 1), says
that, in addition to the five sons named in the Hollingsworth
history, there were three daughters. This evidently cites the will
cited below. Unless otherwise noted, this is my source
for the information I have recorded about the daughters.
Both DESCENDANTS (p. 143) and HARLAN FAMILY (p. 83) say
that this family moved from PA to Rutherford Co., NC, and
then to Franklin Co., GA, by 1790. This information is
repeated in Mary Hollingsworth Jamar, HOLLINGSWORTH FAMILY
AND COLLATERAL LINES (Philadelphia: Hist. Soc., 1944),
p. 68.
Note, however, that the research of Dr. Harold Graham
(cited in file of Barbara Shewin) shows that at the death of his father
Samuel, JH's mother Barbara Shewin remarried to Philip
Phillips in 1754 and brought the family to Baltimore, where JH
appears to have grown up. Dr. Graham says that records
show that JH and his brother Samuel were apprenticed as
carpenters while living in MD.
This leads me to conclude that the marriage of JH to Mary
Brooks did not take place in Chester Co., PA, as some sources
have supposed. I believe that this conclusion is based
primarily on the fact that JH's father Samuel died in Chester Co.
According to Dr. Graham, no record has been found of JH
living in VA. Did he married Mary Brooks abt. 1768 in Baltimore?
Note that the LDS IGI, version 3.06, has a Jacob Hollingsworth
marrying a Margaret in Frederick Co., VA, in 1760, citing
batch 6010879, sheet 57.\\\\
After the Baltimore apprentice records, the next record
Dr. Graham has found for JH is his signature, along with brother
Samuel, on the 1765 estate inventory of step-father Philip
Phillips. Dr. Graham does not give a location, but it appears that this
was in Baltimore Co., MD.
The next record Dr. Graham has for JH is a 1772 deed record
in Guilford Co., NC. According to Graham, JH appears in
deeds in Guilford Co. from 1772-5.
Melrose Trimble's FGS chart says that JH was a Revolutionary
soldier, a private in Capt. Hogan's 98th Regiment (evidently
PA), citing INDEX TO VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS, 1784-1811, p.
322; PA ARCHIVES, 5th series, vol. 5, p. 560; and pension
application R5153. If he was in Guilford Co., NC, in
this period, is this a different JH?
Note that contrary to preceding sources, the research
of Dr. Graham appears not to have found records of JH in Rutherford
Co., NC.
Dr. Graham's FGS chart for the Hollingsworth family states
that JH and brother Samuel are on a 1779 tax list for Randolph
Co., NC, SH being in Joseph Hinds' district, and JH being
in John Hinds' district (along with Stephen Harlan). According to
Graham, abt. 1788, JH moved with his brother Samuel to
Burke Co., to that portion that became Buncombe in 1791 and
Haywood in 1809.
Lucas (cited below) says that JH and JH, Jr., are on the
1790 census in Union Co., SC. However, the research of Dr. Harold
Graham indicates that the JH who m. Mary Brooks is on
the 1790 census in Burke Co., NC, with brother Samuel and with JH's
son Samuel.
By 2 Dec. 1790, JH appears as a wit. to the deed of Joseph
Martin Russell of Elbert Co., GA, to William Wofford of Franklin Co.
(Franklin DB C 96). A 3 Oct. 1795 deed of Simon and Sarah
Terrell to Jacob Pennington, all of Franklin Co., notes that the
land was on both sides of Lewis Creek or Coffey's Creek,
which entered into the Middle Fork of the Broad in Jacob
Hollingsworth's land, adj. Widow Bobo, Moses Terrie,
Simon Terrill and near Jeptha Rush, where on Elijah Martin was then
living (Franklin DB L 68-9). Note that JH's son Thomas
married Amelia, a daughter of Simon and Sarah Terrell. Note, too, that
his daughter Mary m. Benjamin, son of Col. Wm. Wofford.
Dr. Harold Graham's 23 July 1997 letter states that various
records indicate that by 1791, JH and brother Samuel claimed
residences both in Franklin Co., GA, and Burke Co., NC.
Dr. Graham notes that both JH and brother Samuel were
carpenters, and may have made various trips into Franklin
Co. to help build forts and residences in this pioneer area.
Dr. Graham's Hollingsworth FGS charts notes that JH lived
along the Middle Fork of Broad River in Franklin Co., and
acquired at least 10 headright grants throughout the
area, each grant being typically of 500 acres, and most so vague in
description that they were never claimed.
From 1793-6, JH was a private in the GA militia.
Dr. Graham's Hollingsworth FGS charts transcribe a 30
Apr. 1796 deed of JH filed in Buncombe Co., NC, DB 3, p. 65, which
states that JH of Franklin Co., NC, was selling to John
Webb of Buncombe Co. 320 acres on Ivy Creek above William
Whitson's land, with Joseph Hughley and Stephen Hamlen
wit. The deed was registered 13 July 1796.
JH is on the 1 Oct. 1798 tax list for district 7, third
division, Franklin Co., with 2 slaves--see HISTORY OF FRANKLIN CO.,
cited in file of JH's son Samuel, p. 247.
According to Dr. Graham, JH is on the 1800 and 1810 census in Buncombe Co., NC.
Martha Walters Acker, comp., INDEX TO THE DEEDS OF FRANKLIN
COUNTY, GEORGIA, 1784-1860 (Birmingham, AL:
MWA, 1979), p. 136, transcribes the Franklin Co. deed
index for Hollingsworths. This lists the following deeds for JH: Bk. RR,
p. 36 (from David Morgan and James Garner); Bk. NN, pp.
5-6 (from Thomas Hollingsworth and Yanekey Payne); Bk. NNN,
pp. 88-9 (from Isaac Thomas); Bk. NNN, p. 100 (from Caleb
Jones); Bk. O, pp. 20-1 (from Clement Walters); Bk. RRR, p. 1
(to Benjamin Echols); Bk. HH, pp. 179-80 (to Alexander
Shaw). A deed from JH and Thomas may be from JH, Sr., or Jr.; this
is in Bk. RRR, pp. 32-3, and is from Samuel and Elizabeth
Boling.
In a 6 Dec. 1997 email message to me, Harold Graham (harold@bayouweb.com)
tells me that JH and son Thomas bought
from Samuel Boling and wife Elizabeth 250 acres in Franklin
Co. on the south side of main Leatherwood Creek on 2 Sept.
1808. The land adj. Isaiah Bailey, Groves Yarbrough,
and land whereon Richard White and Stephen Dixon were living. the
deed was wit. by Lazarus Hinson and John Haynes, the
latter proving the deed on 5 Sept. 1808 (Franklin GA DB RRR, pp.
32-3). Note that JH's wife Mary had a sister Susannah
who m. a Haynes. Could John be her husband?
On 9 Jan. 1815, JH and wife Mary with sons Benjamin and
James sold to Jarmes R. Wyly 287 1/2 acres on Curahee Creek
of Broad River in Franklin Co., out of a survey to Bryant
Ward, with N. Dobson and Hampton Holcomb wit. The deed was pr.
11 Feb. 1826 in Habersham Co. (Lucas, cited below, p.
262, citing Habersham Co. DB C, p. 177). Note that Lucas says this
land was in Franklin Co., but fell into Habersham when
that county was formed. It may have later been in Banks Co.
The Wofford map of Franklin Co., 1793-6, shows a Hollingsworth
Creek running southwest into the middle fork of the Broad
River in northeastern Franklin Co.
HARLAN FAMILY says that JH was a Quaker and a carpenter.
The Quaker affiliation seems doubtful for two reasons,
however. First, JH served as a Revolutionary soldier,
and this would violate Quaker tenets. In addition, after JH's father's
death, JH's mother Barbara Shewin remarried in the Episcopal
church, being disowned by the Friends for marrying out of
unity.
The will of JH is transcribed in the McCaleb history,
p. 268. It is dated 15 May 1815, and was filed in Franklin Co., GA, on
4
Nov. 1821. The will names JH as Jacob, Sr., of Franklin
Co. It leaves to wife Mary a Negro woman named Fanny and child
Caesar, along with right to the household goods during
her life. At her death the household items are to be divided between
sons Jacob, Thomas, James, and Benjamin. The will notes
that during the lifetime of son Samuel, JH had distributed his portion
to Samuel. But in consideration of the great affection
JH has for his memory, he leaves to Samuel's heirs--Sally Haynes, Mary
Robbins, John, Henry, Hannah, and Jacob James Hollingsworth--sums
of money ($1 to all except Jacob James, who
receives $20).
The will notes that during the lifetime of daughter Sally
Garner, JH had also given her share to her heir (husband?) Jacob
Garner, Sr., but in remembrance of her he leaves to her
son Jacob a dollar. The will leaves to daughter Hannah Brown $200.
To daughter Mary Wofford, the will leaves a slave Fanny,
now in her possession, at the death of Mary's mother Mary, along
with her mother's bed and furniture. To the four sons,
the balance of the estate is willed, including slaves Jack, Harvey, Harry,
Lott, and Marion. To James and Benjamin go the smith
tools. The will is wit. by Henry Holcomb, Clement Waters, James Tony,
and Jas. B. Wyly and John Womack, justices of the peace.
The will is signed by mark. I have another transcript of the will that
seems to have been done by Harold Graham (harold@bayouweb.com),
and which was sent to me by Melrose Trimble.
The information in the preceding sources that JH d. in
Franklin Co., GA, may be incorrect. Silas Emmett Lucas, SOME
GEORGIA COUNTY RECORDS, vol. 7 (Greenville, SC: Southern
Hist. P., 1993), p. 290, says that JH is on the 1820 census
in Habersham Co., GA. Lucas notes that the name is spelled
Hollingshade, but is almost certainly Hollingsworth. As he notes,
in 1815 JH and wife Mary, with Benjamin and James Hollingsworth,
all of Franklin Co., sold land in Franklin Co. that is now in
Habersham (see above). Lucas says that the community
of Hollingsworth is about 4 miles south of Cornelia, and is now in
Banks Co. Nonetheless, Lucas shows an 1822 estate record
in Franklin Co., for JH (p. 144).
In addition, Lucas' reconstruction of the lost 1820 census
of Franklin Co. places JH in the district of Capt. Green in Franklin Co.
(p. 179).
According to Melrose Trimble's chart, HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
OF THE GA DAR, vol. 1, p. 324, has informatoin about
this family.
In a 7 Dec. 1997 email message to me, Harold Graham tells
me that JH amassed landholdings amounting to 35,000 acres in
Franklin Co., GA, mostly per headright grants. He notes,
however, that most of this land was never claimed due in part to the
vagueness of the titles.
Children of Mary Brooks and Jacob Hollingsworth are:
4.
i.
Sarah3 Hollingsworth, d. Bef. 1815.
ii.
Hannah Hollingsworth, d. Aft. 1815; m. Brown.
Notes for Hannah Hollingsworth:
The will of HH names HH as Hannah Brown.
iii.
Mary Hollingsworth, b. Abt. 1770; m. (1) Benjamin Wofford; m. (2) Daniel
Brown, 1788.
Notes for Mary Hollingsworth:
The McCaleb history names the spouse of MH as Daniel Brown, but the will
of her father gives
her married name as Wofford.
Melrose Trimble's FGS chart for the family of Jacob Hollingsworth gives
both Daniel Brown and
Benjamin Wofford as MH's spouses, in that order. Trimble cites notes of
Marjorie Morgan and
HOLLINGSWORTH REGISTER 2,3 (Sept. 1966), pp. 103-5, for the information.
According to
the FGS chart of Dr. Harold Graham, cited in files of Jacob Hollingsworth
and his mother Barbara
Shewin, MH married Benjamin, son of Col. William Wofford, Sr. Is the Brown
a mistake? Note that
MH's sister Hannah m. a Brown.
The will suggests to me that MH is the oldest daughter, and the 1788 date
of marriage given by
McCaleb (to D. Brown) seems to confirm that. The will also suggests to
me that mother Mary
Brooks Hollingsworth would have lived with daughter Mary after Jacob's
death.
Melrose Trimble's FGS chart for the family of Jacob Hollingsworth places
MH as the last of Jacob
Hollingsworth's children.
5.
iv.
Samuel Hollingsworth, b. 1770, Guilford or Randolph County, North Carolina;
d. Bef. 06 Aug
1802, Franklin County, Georgia.
6.
v.
Thomas H. Hollingsworth, b. 1775, Guilford or Randolph County, North Carolina;
d. 16 May
1836, Gwinnett County, Georgia.
7.
vi.
Jacob Hollingsworth, b. 11 Aug 1775, Guilford or Randolph County, North
Carolina; d. 16 Dec
1848, Caddo Parish, Louisiana.
8.
vii.
James Hollingsworth, b. 1777, Guilford or Randolph County, North Carolina;
d. 1824, Franklin
(now Grundy) County, Tennessee.
9.
viii.
Benjamin Hollingsworth, b. 1779, Randolph County, North Carolina; d. 18
Aug 1844, Benton
County, Alabama.
3. Thomas2 Brooks (Thomas1) was born Abt. 1750, and died
Bef. 12 Feb 1805 in Wythe County, Virginia. He married
Margaret.
Notes for Thomas Brooks:
If TB is the TB of the 1758 militia record cited below,
then he would seem to have been b. by 1740. Note, however, that the
birth of his oldest daughter Sarah in 1771 appears to
place his birth closer to 1750. Note, too, that TB's sister Mary, who
married Jacob Hollingsworth, had children born from 1770
on, which appears to indicate that she was born in the period
1745-50. The will of their mother Mary seems to indicate
that Thomas was the oldest child, and Mary the next. All these data
point to a birthdate for both around 1750.
I do not have proof positive that the Thomas Brooks who
d. in 1804-5 in Wythe Co., VA, is one of the Thomas Brookses who
appears in Frederick Co., VA, records before this. I
am assuming this on the basis of two pieces of evidence: the death
certificate of TB's daughter Sarah, which says she was
b. in Frederick Co., VA, 1771; and the bible of Thomas Brooks, Jr.,
which says that he was born in Frederick Co., VA, on
28 Oct. 1775.
I have placed TB's death in 1804 in Wythe Co., VA, on the basis of his will and estate records. See below for details.
On 27 Oct. 1758, a Frederick Co. Court Martial ordered
a TB of Capt. Isaac Parkins' company to be fined 20 shillings for
missing two musters in the past month (see Amelia C.
Gilreath, abs. and comp., FREDERICK COUNTY, VIRGINIA, DEED
BOOKS 17 AND 18, 1775-1780, PLUS EARLY TROOP RECORDS,
1755-1761 [14200 Vint Hill Rd., Nokesville, VA 22123;
1993], p. 192). Note that this could mean that, at this
time, TB was a Quaker refusing military service. On the same day, David
Brooks of Capt. Thomas Speake's company was fined 20
shillings for missing two musters (see ibid., p. 181). If my birthdate
for
TB who m. Margaret is correct, this is another TB--his
father?
This David Brooks was a Quaker, per records of Hopewell
Friends Meeting, Frederick Co. See below, and file of Hezekiah
Sanders, who m. Martha Elmore Johnson.
HOPEWELL FRIENDS HISTORY (pp. 18-19) (cited in file of
TB's mother Mary) identifies Parkins as a Friend. It states that he
had a plantation of 735 acres south of, and partly in,
the present limits of Winchester, with two other tracts, to a total of
1425
acres, about 5 miles nw of Winchester. Orange Co., VA,
records show that in 1739 he sold part of the latter piece to William
Hogg, younger, for whom the creek running through the
land, Hogue Creek, is named. When Frederick Co. was erected in
1743, IP was prominent in its affairs, serving as justice,
militia captain, and a vestryman. In 1754-5, he was elected to the
House of Burgesses. HOPEWELL FRIENDS says that IP used
his influence to help Friends, causing those imprisoned for
conscience to be released, and in 1751 asking that the
Frederick Co. vestry be dissolved for misappropriation of funds. In
1752, the vestry was dissolved and a new one formed,
with three Friends, including IP, on it. The first wedding of
Shenandoah Valley Friends was at IP's house on 19 Dec.
1734, and was between George Hollingsworth and Hannah
McKay/McCoy. IP's son IP, Jr., donated land for Center
meeting, whose burial ground was deeded to Hopewell by IP, Jr.,
and is today on the west side of the Valley Pike at the
southwest border of Winchester.
Note the Hollingsworth reference above, and in the various
records of Thomas Brooks below, as well as in the will of Mary,
mother of Thomas Brooks.
Also note that a grandson of William Hogg, James Hoge
(1742-1812) moved to Wythe Co.: see Kegley, EARLY
ADVENTURERS, vol 2, p. 294.
On 3 March 1767, a TB witnessed the rent of land by Patrick
Rice, Frederick Co., to John Rice of same. The land had been
patented by PR on 9 Jan. 1767. Other witnesses to the
deed were Edmond Rice, Robert Hollingsworth, and Thomas
Blackmore (Frederick Co. DB 11, p. 386; see Gilreath,
abs. and comp., FREDERICK COUNTY, VIRGINIA, DEED BOOKS
9, 10, 11, 1763-1767 [1990], p. 152). Robert Hollingsworth
is a son of George Hollingsworth and Hannah McCoy.
The records of Christ Church, Middlesex Co., VA, show
a TB marrying Margaret Beamon there on 29 Jan. 1771. Could this
be TB with wife Margaret who died 1804, Wythe Co., VA?
Note that the marriage date fits with the birth of their first child.
A Thomas and James Brooks were in the 7th VA line, along
with Thomas Whitlock; see his file for details. Could these be TB
and his brother James?
On 26 Oct. 1779, TB witnessed the sale of land by Henry
Shlosher and Elizabeth his wife of Washington Co., MD, to Daniel
Hunsiker of Frederick Co., VA, being a tract of land
at Hollingsworth's line, granted to Edmond Lindsey, 6 Aug. 1762, then
conveyed to EL's son Edmond, then to John Thomas, then
to Shlosher (Frederick Co. DB 18, p. 331; see Gilreath, DEED
BOOKS 17-18, p. 138).
On 5 June 1782, TB made claim for reimbursement in Frederick
Co. court for supplying 55 pounds of flour to the troops of the
Continental Army, with a value of 6 shillings, 10 1/2
pence (Frederick Co., VA, Public Service Claims Court; see Janice L.
Abercrombie and Richard Slatten, comp. and transc., VIRGINIA
REVOLUTIONARY PUBLICK CLAIMS, vol. 2 [Athens, GA:
Iberian, 1992], p. 378).
On 2 Nov. 1782, TB wit. the will of John Rice, Frederick
Co., VA. The will names wife Hannah, daughters Mary and Sarah,
and sons George, Edmond, John, and James. Other witnesses
were Thomas Hale, Thomas Blakemore, and Patrick Rice.
The will was pr. 3 May 1785 (Frederick Co. WB 4, 1770-82).
Note the recurrence of the names John and Patrick Rice in two
records involving TB--this 1782 will, and the 1767 deed
above.
A Thomas Brooks appears on the 1787 tax list in Frederick
Co., VA, with no males 16-21, no slaves, 6 horses, and 17 cows
(see Netti Schreiner-Yantis and Florene Speakman Love,
1787 CENSUS OF VIRGINIA, FREDERICK CO. [Springfield, VA:
Geneal. Books in Print, 1987], p. 491). Other taxpayers
enumerated the same day (15 June) included John Bohannan,
William Campbell, Anthony and Henry Crum, the widow Rice,
and James Saunders. Schreiner-Yantis and Love note that
these may be neighbors (pp 531-2). Note the Saunders/Sanders
family (apparently of Welsh origin); a Saunders family was
associated with the Brookses in Wythe Co., VA, below.
Note, too, that Anthony Crum witnessed the will of TB's mother Mary.
In a 23 May 1994 letter to me, Elsie Davis tells me that
the 1790 census for Frederick Co., VA, is actually the 1782 tax list of
Frederick Co., which shows TB having a household of 10
people, and no slaves. As she notes, the household is roughly the
size of TB's family at his death. Since the 1787 tax
list shows TB with no males over 16, and since we think that James was
TB's oldest son (b. 1772), the TB of the 1782 and 1787
tax list in Frederick Co. is likely to be the TB of Wythe Co., 1804.
On 14 Nov. 1788, TB wit a deed of William Ewing to his
brother John, both heirs of William, Sr., for a bond for 200 acres adj.
Stephensburg in Frederick Co. Other wit. included Samuel
Ewing and Joshua Tharp. The deed was recorded 8 Apr. 1789
(Frederick Co. DB 21, p. 964).
I do not find TB in the records of Montgomery Co., VA,
out of which Wythe was formed in 1790, so I suspect that he moved
directly from Frederick to Wythe Co.
On 3 Apr. 1794, Frederick Co. court order books note that
TB filed a petition against John Casebott in Frederick Co.
(Frederick Co. Order Bk. 25, p. 21).
If this 1794 record refers to the TB who was son of Mary,
then he seems to have moved from Frederick Co. sometime
between this date and 1796, when he appears in court
records in Wythe Co. He is on tax lists in Wythe Co., VA, in 1798,
1799 ,and 1800. In 1798, he was taxed for 1 poll in Capt.
Samuel Crockett's district, in 1799 for 2 polls in Capt. SC's district,
and in 1800 for 1 poll in Capt. Henry Stephens' district
(see Malita Warden Murphy and James L. Douthat, WYTHE COUNTY,
VA, TAX LISTS 1793-1800 [1985], p. 7). Note that the
Stephenses were from Frederick Co.; see file of Mildred Whitlock. In
1798, TB's son Thomas and a Wm. Brooks, Sr., were in
the same tax district. In 1799, TB's sons James and Thomas were in
the same district, as were William Brooks., Sr. and Jr.
In 1800, James, Richard, and Wm. Brooks, Sr. and Jr. were also in TB's
tax district.
Wythe Co. court order books for 9 March 1796 show TB being
ordered along with Wm. Carter to allot hands to work the road
under Moses Austin and Wm. Ross (see Mary B. Kegley,
EARLY ADVENTURERS ON THE WESTERN WATERS, vol. 3
[Marceline, MO: Walsworth, 1995], p. 195; see also Kegley,
ABSTRACTS OF COURT ORDERS, cited in file of Thomas
Whitlock, p. 14). The date makes it possible that this
refers to TB, Jr. On Wm. Carter, see below.
On 16 June 1797, Walter Crockett, Thomas Foster, George
Carter, and TB were ordered by Wythe Co. court to view the way
for altering the highway between William Carter's ferry
and John Miller's on the road to Evans' Ferry. Kegley notes that this
order places Walter Crockett near Evans' (Jackson's)
Ferry (ibid., pp. 259-60, citing Wythe Co. Order Bk. 1796-1799, p. 84;
see also Kegley, ABSTRACTS, p. 26). On George Carter,
see also file of Thomas Whitlock. Again, this record could refer to
TB, Jr. See Kegley, EARLY ADVENTURERS, vol. 3, p. 566,
for a good map of this area.
Kegley, EARLY ADVENTURERS, vol. 3, p. 253 (cited in file
of Thomas Whitlock) says that Walter Crockett was b. in the
1730s, and was son of Joseph Louis Crockett, Jr. and
Jane de Vigne of Shawsville, VA. Note that Walter Crockett's daughter
Agnes married Henry Davis, and that their daughter Mary
married Charles, son of Thomas Whitlock. On WC's relationship to
Jesse Evans, see below.
On 13 Sept. 1797, TB reported that he had viewed the proposed
road, and the road was ordered, TB's neighbor and
kinsman through marriage, Thomas Whitlock, being ordered
to review the road and a portion proposed by Evans (Order Bk.
1795-1801, in Kegley, ABSTRACTS, p. 28).
On 14 Feb. 1798, TB, Sr., was appointed by court to allot
hands (along with others) under Thomas Whitlock and Reubin
Harrill; see file of TW. Note that TB, Jr., had married
in 1796, hence the use of Sr. in this record.
On 13 March 1798, the court paid TB for a wolf head (ibid.,
ABSTRACTS, p. 34). This could be TB, Jr. At the same court, TB
gave report about the road work he was overseeing (ibid.,
ABSTRACTS, p. 35).
A 1799 deed of Thomas and Sarah Herbert of Grayson Co.
to Thomas Foster for 306 acres on the south side of New River
adj. Foster notes that the land joins TB, Jesse Evans,
and others (Wythe DB 2, p. 339; see ibid., EARLY ADVENTURERS,
vol. 2, p. 235).
On 23 May 1803, TB testified in the case of Chas. Whitlock's
heirs vs. Thomas Whitlock. He spoke of a visit of Chas. Whitlock to
his house while a Mr. Carter was present--see file of
Thomas Whitlock.
On 15 June 1803, the court ordered the viewing of a proposed
road between Poplar Camp furnace to James Crockett's
furnace by TB's house (Ct. Order Bk. 1795-1810, in ABSTRACTS,
p. 102).
On 15 Sept. 1803, the court noted that the most convenient
way for the new road was along the river, as proposed by Jesse
Evans. This road would, the court decided, be easier
to build than an alternate road proposed by Peirce, which would have
made drawing iron ore from the mines easier. In addition,
the river route had accomodation for lodgers. Since this road would
pass through the land of TB and Thomas Foster, they were
ordered to show cause why it should not be opened (ibid., in
ABSTRACTS, p. 107; see also EARLY ADVENTURERS, vol. 2,
pp. 325-6, citing Wythe Co. Order Bk. 1801-5, p. 267.
On 13 Feb. 1804, TB bought from Thomas and Sarah Herbert
(the deed spells the name Harbert), all of Wythe Co., a tract of
and on the east side of New River, formerly the property
of William Herbert, Jr., containing 300 acres. The land lay both sides
of Poplar Camp Creek. TB paid $3000 for the tract. The
deed was signed by TB and his wife, and wit. by James Newell, John
Evans, and Robert Sanders, Jr. It was proven at Feb.
ct. by James Newell and John Evans (Wythe Co. DB 5, pp. 67-9; I
have a photocopy). The original deed has a marginal note
saying that Jesse Brooks is the executor of the estate of TB, so this
land belonged to TB, Sr., and not his son Thomas.
Note that both Thomas and William Herbert, Jr., are sons
of William Herbert, Sr., who had a plantation called Poplar Camp
near the present community of Poplar Camp. See file of
Thomas Whitlock for details.
Mary B. Kegley, WYTHE COUNTY, VIRGINIA: A BICENTENNIAL
HISTORY (Marceline, MO: Walsworth, 1989), p. 63,
notes that William Herbert established a ferry at Jackson
Ferry on New River prior to 1770. Following his death, his son
William acquired the land from WH's brother David in
1786. William, Jr.'s, brother owned his father's land on the south (i.e.,
east?) side of the river, whereas William, Jr., owned
the land north of the river. In 1793, WH, Jr., sold the latter tract (now
known as Harbert's Ferry) to William Carter.
Kegley, EARLY ADVENTURERS, vol. 3, pp. 287-8, notes that
an 1812 suit involves William Carter. Sometime after 1774,
David Herbert, brother of William who superintended the
lead mines, transferred land near the lead mines to Jacob Vanhoze,
who sold to Jacob Cane, who sold to WC. WC sold to James
Reddus. Since the title was unclear, a suit resulted. By 1812, WC
was in Wayne Co., KY, according to Kegley (citing James
Reddus vs. William Carter, Superior Ct. Chancery Pleas, vol. 6,
1812). William Lockett and wife Louisa of Wayne Co. also
gave testimony in the trial. Note that Thomas M. Brooks, son of TB,
had also moved from Wythe Co., VA, to Wayne Co., KY.
Note, too, that a Daniel Lockett was the Wythe Co. minister who
married Charles Whitlock, brother of Sarah Whitlock,
who married Thomas M. Brooks.
In Oct. 1811, Thomas Herbert sold his land (the Poplar
Camp plantation) and its ferry farm of 1000 acres to Jesse Evans. In
1813, Evans and Stephen Sanders, Jr., settled a suit
filed with regard to who had the rights to the ferry (ibid.).
Goodspeed's history of Jefferson Co., TN, cited in file
of John Fain Brazelton, has information about an S.G. Sanders, who
was b. in Wythe Co. on 6 Feb. 1838, son of Robert and
Louisa Brawley Sanders. RS was b. in Wythe Co. 4 July 1785, and
was son of Stephen Sanders. In 1839, RS moved to Missouri,
where he died 24 Sept. 1844 (p. 1188). S.G. Sanders settled
in Jefferson Co., TN.
Note, too, that James Newell was an appraiser of TB's
estate, and that two Evans men witnessed the will of TB. JN was a
gentleman justice of the Wythe Co. court in the late
1700s and early 1800s, according to Wythe Co. Order Books. At the same
time, John Davis was a justice; TB's brother-in-law Charles
Whitlock married into this family.
Kegley, WYTHE CO. BICENTENNIAL, p. 336, says that James
Newell (1749-1823), son of JN and Mary Drake, married
Sarah, daughter of William and Martha Drake Wood. Kegley
says that the children of JN, Jr., married into the Sanders,
Kincannon, Evans, and Trigg families of the lead mines
communities in Wythe Co.
Kegley (ibid., p. 328) says that William Herbert originally
came to Wythe Co. when John Chiswell, who discovered lead mining
potential in Wythe Co. in the 1750s, went to Bristol,
England, to secure Welsh lead miners to work in the mines. On 25 Apr.
1763, WH signed a contract in Bristol (where he m. Sarah
Fry on 13 Dec. 1758) to come to VA and mine lead. From this time,
the lead mining community began to be known as the Welsh
Mines. On John Chiswell, see file of Thomas Whitlock. Kegley's
EARLY ADVENTURERS, vol. 3, pp. 273-89, also contains
extensive information about William Herbert. Kegley says that
William Herbert's widow Sarah Fry married, after the
death of WH ca. Sept. 1776, Francis Day, in the fall or winter of 1776,
and that this family went to KY (pp. 282-3). Note that
TB's daughter Margaret married Joseph Day, and that this family also
went to KY. Kegley also notes that Walter Crockett was
an executor of WH's estate and guardian of his children.
According to Kegley, William Herbert's daughter Johanna
married Lawrence Stephens, who lived near the present community
of Patterson in southeast Wythe Co., and whose father
Lawrence, Sr., and grandfather Peter both died in Frederick Co., VA.
See file of Mildred, daughter of Thomas and Hannah Whitlock,
for details.
Note also that in 1805, Thomas Whitlock sold land to Thomas
and William Herbert; this land was also on the east side of New
River, both sides of Little Reed Island Creek (see file
of TW for details). This land was later to be the site of the High Rock
Forge in Wythe Co., a community that now goes by the
name Patterson.
In a 5 May 1993 letter to me, Elsie Davis tells me that
TB's 300 acres in Wythe Co. were on the east side of the New River,
with a boundary line that crossed and re-crossed Poplar
Camp Creek. This letter evidently refers to the tract TB bought in
1804. Note that this land is perhaps only a few miles
from the land of Thomas Whitlock, according to Elsie Davis' 5 May letter:
see file of TW for details.
According to Mary B. Kegley, "Capt. William Herbert,"
WYTHE CO. HIST. REV. 13 (Jan. 1978), p. 3, William Herbert arrived
in what became the community of Poplar Camp sometime
before Jan. 1765, and operated a ferry across the New River. The
eastern end of Wythe Co. was heavily Scotch-Irish (Kegley,
WYTHE CO. BICENTENNIAL, p. 210), and was the location of
two of the earliest churches in the county, Boiling Spring
and Unity, both Presbyterian congregations. William Herbert was an
elder of the Boiling Spring church, whose 18th-century
location is not now known precisely, though it seems to have been on
Reed Creek on the flat below Carter Park (ibid., p. 209).
Johnson, NEW RIVER EARLY SETTLEMENTS (cited in file of
Thomas Whitlock), states (p. 179) that the records of
Hanover Presbytery show that on 13 Apr. 1769, Rev. John Craig
reported that a church had been established at Boiling
Springs on lower Reed Creek, with 42 families enrolled, and with
William Herbert, David Sayers, William Sayers, Nathaniel
Wiltshire, and Robert Montgomery as ruling elders (citing "Capt.
William Herbert Helped in Early Development of this Section,"
SOUTHWEST VA ENTERPRISE, Apr. 1945). On the Sayers
family, see file of Thomas Whitlock.
The community of Poplar Camp still exists in Wythe Co.
It is west of interestate 77 and just south of highway 719--between this
highway and the Carroll Co. line. Eighteenth-century
maps of Wythe Co. show Poplar Camp Creek flowing from what was to
become Carroll Co. into Wythe and emptying into New River
in the extreme southeastern portion of present Wythe Co. Just
upstream (i.e., just east) is Little Reed Island Creek,
on which the Whitlock family lived, which also flowed from present-Carroll
Co. into New River in southeastern Wythe Co. The present
community of Poplar Camp is immediately south of the old shot
tower (now the Shot Tower Historic State Park; indeed,
it must be so close to the tower that pictures of Poplar Camp can be
taken from the tower, since Kegley's 1978 article contains
a photograph of Poplar Camp taken from the shot tower.
Shot Tower Park is located where U.S. highway 52 crosses
New River, at the Poplar Camp exit on I-77. It is one of only
three such towers in the U.S., and was built in the early
1800s to supply frontiersmen and early settlers with shot. I visited this
site in the fall of 1993 and have some good black-and-white
photographs of it. Beneath the park is a log cabin that is still
inhabited, and a collection of farm buildings surrounding
the cabin. The cabin has a steeply pitched tin roof, fireplaces at both
ends, and three doors opening onto a porch across the
front. Crude log pillars meet the roof on the porch. I have no idea how
old the cabin is, but suspect that it is at least a 19th-century
structure, if not older. It is tempting to think that the Brooks family
lived in a house similar to this.
TB's will is dated 4 Nov. 1804, pr. Feb. court, 1805 (Wythe
Co., VA, WB 1, pp. 308-9; I have a photocopy). The will stipulates
that TB's homeplace is to be sold, with TB's beloved
wife Margaret receiving a widow's third of the money from the sale, along
with the household furniture and moveable property until
her death, at which point these are to be divided by their daughter
Rebecca and son John. John's name has following it what
appears to be a middle name that is difficult to read--perhaps Jehu.
If TB's son James pays the estate $200, if TB's son Robert
pays $120, and if TB's son Jesse pays $100, they may have an
equal divide of the monies from the land sale with their
siblings Sally Lahue, Thomas Brooks, Margaret Day, Susanna
Harland, Ruthy Greenwood, and Rachel Brooks. If the sums
mentioned be more than an equal share, then the surplus must
be paid to John Brooks. The plantation tools are to be
equally divided between Robert and Jesse Brooks, who are to be
executors along with their mother Margaret. The will
is signed and sealed by TB, and is wit. by John Folk, Sr., John Folk, Jr.,
Joseph Evans, and Jesse Evans. The will was proven at
Feb. ct. 1805 by John Folks, Jr., and Joseph Evans.
Note that Jesse Evans was a Wythe Co. representative to
the VA legislature in 1793 (Kegley, WYTHE CO. BICENTENNIAL,
p. 261). Note also that the Hollingsworth family into
which TB's sister Mary married had Harlan ancestry, going back to the
Quaker communities of Co. Armagh and Co. Down, Ireland.
See file of Mary Brooks' husband Jacob, tracing his ancestry.
Wythe Co. court orders say the will of TB was pr. 12 Feb.
1805, and that Jesse and Margaret Brooks gave bond with John
Jenkins and John Folks, Jr. Wm. Carter, Jas. Newell,
Jno. and Jesse Evans, and David Pierce were appointed appraisers
(Wythe Co. Ct. Order Bk. 1795-1801, in ABSTRACTS, p.
120).
At March court 1805, an inventory and appraisement of
TB's estate was returned to court by James Newell, Joseph Evans,
and Jesse Evans (Wythe Co. WB 1, pp. 312-3; I have a
photocopy). The entire estate was appraised at $407.09. It consisted
of livestock (including 22 hogs, 3 horses, 6 cows, 27
geese, and 2 sheep), household furniture (3 bedsteads and bedding, 7
chairs, a loom, 2 tables), kitchen and table ware (tinware,
pewter, a brass kettle, a tea kettle, crocks and other cookware), and
various farm implements. The estate also included a lot
of old books, which suggests that members of the family were literate.
Wythe Co. Order Bk. 1803-5 has a note for March court
1805, showing that the inventory had been entered into court
records.
Note that there would have been no sale of TB's moveable
property, since his will stipulates that the household furniture was to
go to his wife, then to his children Rebecca and John,
while the farm tools were to go to Robert and Jesse Brooks.
On 8 Oct. 1805, Robert, Jesse, and Margaret Brooks were
ordered by court to show cause why they should not give counter
security to John Jenkins for faithful executorship of
TB's will. This is the last reference I find to Margaret Brooks in Wythe
Co.
records. Did she go to KY with some of her children at
this point?
Kegley, EARLY ADVENTURERS, vol. 3, pp. 262-7, says that
Jesse Evans was born in the 1750s, and first appears in the
records of southwest VA in 1774, when he was in a militia
company under Capt. Walter Crockett. According to Kegley, JE was
founder of Evansham, the community now known as Wytheville,
and was owner of large land holdings in the best locations in
Wythe Co., including the Jackson place at the shot tower
at Poplar Camp. As noted above, in 1811, JE bought 1000 acres in
the vicinity of Poplar Camp from Thomas and Sarah Herbert.
Wythe Co. court records note that on 9 June 1813, Samuel Folks
was to oversee the road from Evans' Forge to Poplar Camp
Furnace, and in 1814, JE was granted license to keep an
ordinary at his house near his ferry across New River
(p., 265, citing Order Bk. 1812-15, pp. 54, 142). JE's obituary in the
WESTERN CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE says that he was b. in MD
ca. 1755, removed to SC, then to Virginia when he was
about 20 (p. 266, citing original in possession of Wisconsin
Historical Society, 16E67).
I do not have proof positive that the Thomas Brooks of
Wayne Co., KY, and Morgan Co., AL, is the Thomas who was son of
Thomas and Margaret. Elsie Davis has apparently established
the identity of all children named in TB's will (1804) except
Thomas and James.
My reasons for thinking that the Thomas Brooks who died
in 1838 is the son of Thomas and Margaret are as follows. First, the
TB of KY and AL married Sarah Whitlock in Wythe Co.,
VA, since various records place her parents Thomas and Hannah
Phillips Whitlock in Wythe Co. at the time of TB's marriage.
Second, Thomas Brooks is closely associated in Wayne Co., KY,
and in AL with a James Brooks who appears to be the other
"lost" son of TB and Margaret. Note that James married Nancy,
daughter of Godfrey and Hannah Isbell, and that Thomas
Brooks was associated with the Isbell family in Wayne Co., KY.
Note, too, that children of both Thomas and James Brooks
married into the Lindsey family. Note also that both Thomas and
James Brooks named daughters Margaret.
Third, all of the other sons named in the will of TB (d.
1804) show up in Wayne Co., KY, tax records at some point, along with
TB (d. 1838).
Fourth, the Thomas who went to Wayne Co., KY, is in the
same area of Wythe Co. on tax lists as is the Thomas who d. 1804.
The Whitlock family, into which the Thomas of KY and
AL married, also lived very close to the Thomas who d. 1804--just one
stream up the New River in southeastern Wythe Co. In
addition, the Thomas, Jr., of the Wythe Co. tax lists disappears just
when it can be shown that Thomas of Wayne Co., KY, had
moved there and begun to acquire land there.
Finally, there is a genetic argument for Thomas and James
of Wayne Co., KY, and AL as sons of Thomas and Margaret
Brooks. Other children of Thomas and Margaret are known
to have had several generations of twins in their families (see,
e.g., the file of Margaret Brooks, wife of Joseph Day).
Since this gene for twins does not appear to have come from the other
sides of these families, it is evidently inherited from
the Brooks line. Both Thomas and James Brooks of Wayne Co., KY, and AL
also had twins running through their lines. I think that
the preceding facts indicate very strongly that the Thomas Brooks who m.
Sarah Whitlock in Wythe Co., VA, and the James Brooks
who m. Nancy Isbell in Wayne Co., KY, are the Thomas and James
Brooks of the 1804 will of Thomas Brooks, Wythe Co.,
VA.
Because I do not have information about some of TB's children's
ages, I am not sure if I have listed them in correct order of
birth. The will does not help here, unfortunately, because--unlike
many wills in VA at the period--it does not appear to list the
children in their order of birth.
Note that, since TB's son James appears to have named
his first 4 children for their grandparents, and since one of these was
named Thomas R. Brooks, TB's middle name may have begun
with the letter R (for Rice?).
I do not have proof that the TB who died in Wythe Co.,
VA, is the son Thomas named in the 1786 will of Mary Brooks of
Frederick Co., VA. Note that my unproven assumption that
the Wythe Co. Thomas and the Thomas, son of Mary, are the
same person depends on assuming that the Thomas who died
in Wythe Co. is the Thomas who is in Frederick Co. records
prior to his appearance in Wythe Co. And, as I have noted
, that assumption depends on the bible of TB's son Thomas, which
says TB, Jr. was born in Frederick Co. in 1775, and the
death certificate of TB's daughter Sarah, saying she was b. in Fredr.
Co., 1771.
If, on the basis of this evidence, one grants that the
TB of Wythe Co. is the TB of Frederick Co. records, then it seems likely
that
the TB of these Frederick Co. records is also the son
of Mary Brooks of the 1786 will. I think this for a variety of reasons.
First,
I haven't found another TB in Frederick Co. in the time
period in which Mary Brooks' son was living there (her will suggests
that her son TB was living in Frederick Co. when she
died).
Second, the TB of the Frederick Co. records cited above
is closely associated with a Rice and Hollingsworth family, and Mary
Brooks' will notes that two of her daughters had married
into these families (note that the Hollingsworths were Quakers).
Third, the TB who is in the Frederick Co. records, and
apparently in Wythe Co. records after this, appears to be of an age to
be a son of Mary Brooks. Note, too, that the TB in Wythe
Co. records does not appear there until after 1786, which indicates
that he would have moved south only after the death of
his mother and settlement of her estate. To my knowledge, the TB of
Frederick Co. records does not continue to appear in
Frederick Co. records after about 1787, which further suggests to me
that he is the TB who went to Wythe Co. before 1800,
and died there shortly after.
More About Thomas Brooks:
Social Security Number: 132
Notes for Margaret:
Note that females born before 1765 are in the household
of MB's son-in-law John Lahue on the 1810 census in Grayson Co.,
KY, and in the house of MB's son Thomas Brooks. Could
Margaret Brooks have gone to KY after her husband's death, and
lived with her daughter Sarah Lahue in Grayson Co. or
her son Thomas in Wayne Co. until her death? If the latter, then MB
may have died in Wayne Co. between 1810-20. See files
of Sarah Brooks Lahue and Thomas Brooks for details.
The will of MB's son Thomas notes that he had given several
of his children legacy money of $100 each. Receipts in his estate
file say that the money was given to several of the children
in Dec. 1830. Could this money have come from their grandmother
Margaret? If so, where and when did she die?
Note that, since Thomas and Margaret Brooks' son James
appears to have named his first 4 children for their paternal and
maternal grandparents, Margaret's maiden name may have
begun with the letter C., since James named a daughter Margaret
C. Brooks. However, Elsie Davis thinks that Margaret's
middle name may have been Elizabeth, since that name runs through
the Day descendants. See file of Thomas Brooks (d. 1805)
for details.
Mary Allmond of Brandywine Hundred, New Castle Co., DE,
left a will dated 31 July 1794, pr. 16 Aug. 1794, naming son
John, daughters Elizabeth Elliott, Mary McKee, Margaret
Brooks, Ann Derrickson, Sarah Allmond, Rebecca Allmond, and
Isabel Jackson; xr. Isaac Stephenson (see Hist. Res.
Committee of Colonial Dames of DE, A CALENDAR OF DELAWARE
WILLS, NEW CASTLE COUNTY 1682-1800 [NY, 1911], p. 133).
MA appears to have been the daughter of William Forwood,
who left a will dated 13 Aug. 1771, Brandywine Hundred, pr. 18
Jan. 1777, naming wife Mary, sons Wm., John, James, Joseph,
Jacob, and Samuel; daughters Mary, widow of William
Allmond, Rebecca Brierly, wife of Hugh (ibid., pp. 83-4).
Note that Brandywine Hundred may have been close to the first
American settling place of the Hollingsworth and Harlan
families, families intermarried with the Brookses; see files of Valentine
Hollingsworth and George Harlan.
N.B. The Margaret Beamon who married Thomas Brooks in
Middlesex Co., VA, in 1771 appears to have been Margaret, d/o
John and Jane Beamon, b. in Christ Church Psh., Middlesex
Co., on 30 Nov. ? The church records don't appear to give the
year, but it seems to be after 1747.
Children of Thomas Brooks and Margaret are:
i.
John Jehu3 Brooks.
Notes for John Jehu Brooks:
A John Brooks m. Jean Whitley in Wythe Co., VA, on 5 Feb. 1793. Timothy
Burgess was the
minister. However, the FGS of William and Ann Locke Brooks (cited in file
of JJB's father) says
that this John was son of William and Ann Locke Brooks.
A JB was exempted from levies by Wythe Co. court on 12 June 1798, "for
reasons approved"
(Wythe Co. court order bk. 1795-1810, in Kegley, ABSTRACTS, p. 37, cited
in file of Thomas
Whitlock).
A JB appears on the Wayne Co., KY, tax list for 1802 with 200 acres on
Beaver Creek, where
Thomas Brooks (son of Thomas and Margaret) lived. Unless he is the John
Brock who is listed
in 1804, he doesn't appear again until 1807, when he is listed with 150
acres, 2 slaves, 5
horses, 6 studs, and a carriage. No JB appears thereafter in Wayne Co.
tax lists.
If this JB is JB, son of Thomas and Margaret, he may have owned land in
Wayne Co. by 1802,
without living there. I say this because the estate records of Thomas Brooks,
Sr., appear to
indicate that JB, his son, was living in Wythe Co., VA, at the time. The
1807 record might indicate
that JB had received his inheritance, moved to KY, and was settling in
Wayne Co. prior to setting
up a permanent residence elsewhere.
A John Brooks is on the Grayson Co., KY, 1810 tax list with 1 white male
above 21, and 1
horse. He is not on the Grayson Co. tax list in 1811.
Note: a John Brooks, Sr., left an inventory in Barren Co., KY, dated Oct.,
1815. Could this be the
JB who was a son of Thomas and Margaret Brooks? Note that JB's brother
Jesse moved to
Barren Co. ca. 1822. The administrator of the estate was James Brooks.
A John Brooks m.
Betsy Courts in Barren Co., KY, on 21 July 1803. Note that Rev. Jacob Locke,
associated with
many families linked to the Barrens Co. Brooks lines, married this couple--see
file of Margaret
Walters.
Barren Co. Ct. Order Bk. 4, 17 Oct. 1815, shows that administration was
granted on that day to
James Amos and James Brooks. Inventory was returned on 20 Nov. 1815 and
20 May 1816.
On 19 Jan. 1818, court ordered several men to adjust the accounts of the
administrators. The
adjustment was returned on 20 April.
ii.
Susanna Brooks, m. Harland.
Notes for Susanna Brooks:
An Ezekiel Harlin is on the 1810 tax list for Grayson Co., KY, with 150
acres on the Waters of the
Rough, entered for John Ventress. In 1811, he is gone.
A Susannah Harland married Robert Magee in Lincoln Co., KY, 4 Nov. 1825.
Notes for Harland:
In a letter dated 9 July 1994, Elsie Davis tells me that the name Harlan
is represented in the book
HOPEWELL FRIENDS HISTORY, so it is possible that the Harland who married
Susannah
Brooks had Frederick Co., VA, Quaker ancestry (on Elsie Davis, see file
of Thomas Brooks,
SB's father).
iii.
Ruth Brooks, m. William Greenwood.
Notes for Ruth Brooks:
This family went to WV and then to Sangamon Co., IL, according to a 6 Oct.
1983 letter sent to
me by Elsie Davis, 710 Second St., Coronado, CA 92118.
RB seems to have died by 1850, since a William Greenwood, aged 70, is on
the 1850 census in
Sangamon Co., IL, with a younger wife Martha (p. 176). This says he was
b. KY. The record
might suggest that RB was b. ca. 1780, or a few years after that.
iv.
Rachel Brooks.
10.
v.
Sarah Brooks, b. 1771, Frederick County, Virginia; d. 13 Feb 1857, Grayson
County,
Kentucky.
11.
vi.
E. James Brooks, b. 1772, Frederick County, Virginia; d. Oct 1838, Lawrence
County, Alabama.
12.
vii.
Thomas M. Brooks, b. 22 Oct 1775, Frederick County, Virginia; d. 30 Apr
1839, Decatur,
Morgan County, Alabama.
13.
viii.
Margaret Brooks, b. 1782, Frederick County, Virginia; d. 1857, Grayson
County, Kentucky.
14.
ix.
Jesse Brooks, b. Abt. 1784, Frederick County, Virginia; d. 30 Jan 1860,
Edmondson County,
Kentucky.
15.
x.
Rebecca Brooks, b. Abt. 1786, Wythe County, Virginia.
xi.
Robert Brooks, b. Abt. 1786.
Notes for Robert Brooks:
I believe that RB is the Robert Brooks who is enumerated in Warren Co.,
KY, on the 1850
census. Note that Warren is contiguous to Edmonson and Barren, where RB's
siblings Jesse,
Sarah, Rebecca, and Margaret all settled. RB is on p. 29A of the census,
line 33, in Warren Co.,
dist. 1 (2 Sept. 1850; fam./dwel. 393). He is aged 64, a farmer, b. VA,
with land valued at $6000.
In the household are wife Thankful, 52, b. VA, and children Henry, 21,
b. VA, and Virginia A., 9,
b. KY. Also in the household are James L. Johnson, 20, b. VA, a teacher,
and William P. Smith,
72, a carpenter, b. VA, who is blind. Note that this RB would have moved
from VA to KY after
1829, per the birth of his son Henry.
Note that I do not have proof that the RB of Warren Co., 1850, is a son
of Thomas and Margaret.
I am hypothesizing this on the basis of his contiguity to other children
of Thomas and Margaret,
and on his age and place of birth.
Wythe Co. marriage books show a Robert Brooks marrying Rachel Adkins, with
Daniel Lockett
as minister; the marriage record (which I noted on a visit to the Wythe
Co. courthouse) is not
dated, but is in the early 1800s, from its context. If this is the RB of
the census above, then he
appears to have married at least twice.
On 21 Apr. 1798, a Robert Brooks, et al., bought land in Wythe Co. from
James and Phebe
Clancy (Wythe Co. DB 2, p. 276; rec. 9 Oct. 1798). Note: on the same day,
a Thomas Brooks,
et al., bought land from James and Phebe Clancy (ibid.). A Thomas Brooks
married Catherine
Clancy on 27 Apr. 1797 in Washington Co., VA. A 26 Feb. 1990 letter to
me from Jane H.
Glascott, 2720 Briarwood Dr., W., Arlington Hts., IL 60005, tells me that
this Thomas Brooks was
b. 15 Jul. 1788 in Tazewell Co., VA, and was son of William Brooks and
Nancy Ann Locke. JHG
identifies Catherine Clancy as Catherine McClancy. Note that Tazewell is
immediately west of
Wythe Co. JHG tells me that her ancestor, George Ash Brooks, was also a
son of William and
Nancy Brooks. Note that he married in Wythe Co., VA.
But note that the deed to Thomas Brooks from James and Phebe Clancy is
to Thomas and
Richard Brooks. Could the Robert who received land from James and Phebe
actually be
Richard?
An FGS sheet for William and Ann Locke Brooks (see file of Thomas Brooks,
d. 1805) shows this
Thomas and Richard as sons of William and Ann Locke Brooks.
On 12 Aug. 1820, RB was ordered with Thomas Foster and others to view a
proposed road
from William Carter's to James Newell's mill (Wythe Co. Ct. Order Bk. 1795-1810,
in
ABSTRACTS, p. 64, cited in file of Thomas Whitlock).
In 1806, a RB is found on the tax list of Wayne Co., KY, without land.
This is the only entry I find
for RB in Wayne Co. tax lists. In the same year (1806), James Brooks also
appears for the first
time on the Wayne Co. tax list, also landless. James appears only once
thereafter, in 1807, also
landless.
This suggests to me that RB and his brother James had received their inheritance
in Wythe Co.,
and were moving to KY. They perhaps settled temporarily with their brother
Thomas, who was
an established farmer in Wayne Co. by this time, with 535 acres. Or, possibly,
RB only owned
land in Wayne Co., and did not move there, since the 1850 census suggests
that the RB whom I
have identified as son of Thomas and Margaret moved to KY after 1829.
Generation No. 3
4. Sarah3 Hollingsworth (Mary2 Brooks, Thomas1) died Bef.
1815. She married Jacob Garner in Randolph County, North
Carolina.
Notes for Sarah Hollingsworth:
Spouse and date of death are from McCaleb history, p.
267.
Melrose Trimble's FGS chart for the family of Jacob Hollingsworth
gives the spouse only as Garner. The will of SH's father
says she predeceased him.\\\\
Child of Sarah Hollingsworth and Jacob Garner is:
i.
Jacob4 Garner.
5. Samuel3 Hollingsworth (Mary2 Brooks, Thomas1) was born
1770 in Guilford or Randolph County, North Carolina, and
died Bef. 06 Aug 1802 in Franklin County, Georgia. He
married Mary Garner 1788 in Randolph County, North Carolina.
Notes for Samuel Hollingsworth:
Melrose Trimble's FGS chart for the family of Jacob Hollingsworth
gives 1770 as SH's year of birth, citing Stewart and Harlan.
The chart says that SH was b. in Chester Co., PA, citing
notes of Marjorie Morgan. But note that Jacob Hollingsworth was
brought to Baltimore by his mother after his father's
death; did he ever live in Chester Co.? By 1770, Jacob Hollingsworth was
in Guilford-Randolph Co., NC, which is where his son
would evidently have been b.
Stewart and Harlan say that SH died in 1817, but his father's
will says that he had died before 15 May 1815. Melrose
Trimble's chart says that an unspecified Franklin Co.,
GA, deed shows that SH had died bef. 8 Apr. 1809. According to the
FGS chart of Dr. Harold Graham, cited in files of Jacob
Hollingsworth and his mother Barbara Shewin, an estate inventory for
SH is filed in Franklin Co., and is dated 17 Sept. 1802
(citing Franklin Co. Ct. Minues, 1814-23). Dr. Graham states that SH
died between the latter date and April of the same year.
However, Franklin Co. Ct. of Ordinary Minutes 4, 22, show that on 8
Aug. 1802, SH's widow Mary and father Jacob received
letters of administration for the estate (see Acker, cited below, p. 15).
Acker's transcript of the Franklin Co. deed index lists
a number of deeds involving SH: SH from Peter B. and Penelope Terrell,
Bk. RRR, p. 136; and SH to Peter B. Terrell, Bk. T, pp.
81-2. The heirs of SH, Hannah Hollingsworth Brock and John
Hollingsworth, deeded to Enoch Henslee, per William Brock,
in Bk. HHH, pp. 35-6. Hannah is apparently the daughter of SH
named in the will of SH's father Jacob. Acker is cited
in file of SH's father. Note that Harold Graham shows the name Brock as
Brooks.
On 1 Oct. 1798, SH is on the tax list of district 7, third
division, Franklin Co., with three slaves--see HISTORY OF FRANKLIN
CO., cited below, p. 247.
A Samuel Hollingsworth appears in a list of those not
approved for a passport from Franklin Co, GA, through the Cherokee
nation on 21 Apr. 1804--see Franklin Co. Hist. Soc.,
HISTORY OF FRANKLIN CO., GA (Roswell, GA: W.H. Wolfe, 1986), p.
117. But note that Harold Graham believes this is SH's
uncle Samuel--see his file.
In a 6 Dec. 1997 email message to me, Harold Graham (cited
in file of SH's father) summarizes a 29 May 1817 deed from
Charles and Barsheba Sisson to David Hensley, all of
Franklin Co., G. This conveys 250 acres on Grove Fork of Broad
River, out of 500 acres granted to Peter B. Terrell of
Wilkes Co., GA. The land was conveyed by Peter Terrell to SH, and
then conveyed by John Haynes in right of his wife, and
John and Henry, sons of SH, to Thomas Hollingsworth, who
conveyed it to Sisson. The land adj. Harris Sanders,
Minyard Sanders, Hannah Hollingsworth, and Jacob J. Hollingsworth,
heirs of SH (Franklin DB HHH, pp. 9-10). Note that John
Haynes apears as a wit. to an 1808 deed to Jacob and Thomas
Hollingsworth, and that SH's aunt Susannah Brooks m.
a Haynes. Was he John Haynes?
The McCaleb history cited in file of Jacob Hollingsworth,
p. 267, gives SH's spouse's name as Mary Barner, whereas Melrose
Trimble's FGS chart for Jacob Hollingsworth gives the
name as Garner, citing notes of Marjorie Morgan, who is also the
source for Mary Garner's next marriage. Graham also has
Garner. The LDS Ancestral File (version 4.17) descendancy chart
for Jacob Hollingsworth says that Mary Garner was of
Asheboro, Randolph Co., NC. The estate of SH in Franklin Co. ct.
records shows that by Oct. 1805, SH's widow Mary had
remarried to Thomas Lenoir, since on that date she petitioned for
dower, noting her marriage to TL (Franklin Co. Ct. of
Ordinary Minutes Bk. F; see Acker, cited below, p. 16).
Martha Walters Acker, FRANKLIN CO., GA, CT. OF ORDINARY
RECORDS 1787-1849 (1989), lists the references to SH's
estate in Franklin ct. minutes (pp. 15-16).
Stewart, p. 143, lists the children of SH. Note, however,
that where Stewart lists a daughter Mary, she does not appear in
Graham's list of the children of JH.
The LDS descendancy chart for Jacob Hollingsworth cited
in file of his daughter-in-law Mary Garner also lists a son Enoch, b.
abt. 1810, Dalton, Whitfield Co., GA, with spouse Sarah
Burk, b. 1810, Dalton, GA. This gives children and descendants of this
line through two generations. Since the information conflicts
with that given in preceding sources, I have not recorded it.
Notes for Mary Garner:
The LDS Ancestral File descendancy chart for MG and spouse
Jacob Hollingsworth says that MG was "of Asheboro,
Randolph Co., NC."
Children of Samuel Hollingsworth and Mary Garner are:
16.
i.
Henry4 Hollingsworth.
17.
ii.
Jacob James Hollingsworth, d. Pickens County, Alabama.
iii.
Sarah Hollingsworth, m. John Haynes, Bef. 1816, Franklin County, Georgia.
iv.
Hannah Hollingsworth, m. William Brooks, 29 Jan 1817, Franklin County,
Georgia.
Notes for Hannah Hollingsworth:
Stewart gives HH's spouse as Brock, but the FGS chart of Dr. Harold Graham,
cited in files of
Jacob Hollingsworth and his mother Barbara Shewin, gives the name as William
Brooks. This is
my source for the date and place of marriage. But note that where this
chart gives the marriage
date as 29 Jan. 1817, the Family Tree Maker Archives, GA Marriages, gives
it as 29 Aug. 1817.
18.
v.
John Hollingsworth, b. 03 Sep 1792, Franklin County, Georgia; d. 30 Nov
1880, Alabama.
vi.
Mary Hollingsworth, b. Abt. 1798, Georgia; m. William Robbins.
Notes for Mary Hollingsworth:
Date of birth and spouse are from the LDS descendancy chart for Jacob Hollingsworth
cited in
file of his daughter-in-law Mary Garner.
6. Thomas H.3 Hollingsworth (Mary2 Brooks, Thomas1) was
born 1775 in Guilford or Randolph County, North Carolina, and
died 16 May 1836 in Gwinnett County, Georgia. He married
Amelia Terrell 01 Nov 1808 in Franklin County, Georgia.
Notes for Thomas H. Hollingsworth:
Melrose Trimble's FGS chart for the family of Jacob Hollingsworth
says that TH's birthdate is in Stewart and Harlan. Notes of
Marjorie Morgan give Chester Co., PA, as the place of
birth; on this, see file of TH's brother Samuel. Stewart gives TH's death
date as 1820, Lawrenceville, GA. However, the FGS chart
of Dr. Harold Graham, cited in files of Jacob Hollingsworth and his
mother Barbara Shewin, says that the SOUTHERN RECORDER
(Milledgeville, GA), 31 May 1836, says that TH d. in
Gwinnett Co., GA, on 16 May 1836, leaving a wife and
9 children, 5 sons and 4 daughters.
Acker's index to Franklin Co. deeds (cited in file of
TH's father) lists a number of deeds involving TH: TH and Amelia
Hollingsworth from sheriff, Bk. RR, pp. 21-2; J. and
Thomas Hollingsworth from David Morgan and James Garner, Bk. RR, p.
36; Jacob and TH from Samuel and Elizabeth Boling, Bk.
RRR, pp. 32-3; Jacob, Jr., and TH to John Hollingsworth, Bk.
MMM, p. 82; TH to Henry Hardin, Bk. B, p. 203; TH to
Henry Keasler, Bk. BB, p. 90; TH and wife Amelia to Charles Sisson,
Bk. HH, p. 139. The 1808 deed from Samuel and Elizabeth
Boling is discussed in the file of Jacob Hollingsworth, TH's father.
TH's name is on lists of those in Franklin Co., GA, subscribing
for recommending passports through the Cherokee Nation--see
HISTORY OF FRANKLIN CO., p. 118, cited in file of TH's
brother Samuel.
HISTORY OF FRANKLIN CO. also says that TH was a commissioner for Franklin Co. Academy, 1797-1825 (p. 184).
According to Graham, TH was a justice of the peace in
Franklin Co., GA, and later moved to Lawrenceville GA. In 1808, he
wit. the purchase of land by James Hollingsworth in Jones
Co., GA.
The marriage date of TH and Amelia Terrell is recorded
in diary of her brother William, according to Emma Dicken, TERRELL
GENEALOGY (San Antonio: Naylor, 1987), p. 251. Note that
Trimble's chart gives the name as Amanda, citing Stewart,
Harlan, Marjorie Morgan, and Jimmie Sue Page. Graham
also gives the name as Amanda
Unless otherwise noted, all information I have recorded
about the ancestry of Amelia Terrell is from Dicken, pp. 247-51.
Notes for Amelia Terrell:
The sources cited in files of Mary Brooks Hollingsworth,
AT's mother-in-law, and in file of Valentine Hollingsworth, are my
source for the information that Thomas Hollingsworth
married a Miss Terrell. I have conjectured that Miss Terrell was Amelia
Terrell solely on the basis of the deeds cited in the
file of Thomas Hollingsworth. HARLAN FAMILY (cited in file of TH's father)
(p. 83) gives TH's wife as Miss Terrell. Note that the
FGS chart of Dr. Harold Graham, cited in files of Jacob Hollingsworth and
his mother Barbara Shewin, gives the name as Amanda Terrell.
Children of Thomas Hollingsworth and Amelia Terrell are:
19.
i.
James4 Hollingsworth, d. Abt. 1877, Atlanta, Georgia.
ii.
Thomas Hollingsworth.
iii.
John Hollingsworth.
iv.
Henry Hollingsworth.
v.
William T. Hollingsworth.
Notes for William T. Hollingsworth:
More About William T. Hollingsworth:
Residence: 1917, Madison, Georgia
vi.
Hollingsworth, m. C. L. Williams.
More About Hollingsworth:
Residence: 1917, White County, Georgia
vii.
Hollingsworth, m. C. B. Day.
More About Hollingsworth:
Residence: 1917, Augusta, Georgia
7. Jacob3 Hollingsworth (Mary2 Brooks, Thomas1) was born
11 Aug 1775 in Guilford or Randolph County, North Carolina,
and died 16 Dec 1848 in Caddo Parish, Louisiana. He married
Sarah Martin Abt. 1801 in Franklin County, Georgia.
Notes for Jacob Hollingsworth:
Melrose Trimble's FGS chart for the family of Jacob Hollingsworth,
Sr., says that JH's birthdate is in Stewart and Harlan. Notes
of Marjorie Morgan place the birth in Chester Co., PA,
but note my question about that in file of JH's brother Samuel. Harlan
and Stewart say that JH d. in 1848 in Caddo Psh., LA;
Trimble's chart says that notes of Jimmie Sue Page, Carbon Hill, AL,
give 16 Dec. 1848, Caddo Psh., LA, as the date and place
of death.
According to Graham (cited below), JH moved shortly after
his marriage to Caddo Psh., LA, with members of the Martin family,
and their passport is included in early GA passports.
Graham notes that the family settled first temporarily in Monroe Co., AL,
where JH's son Samuel married in 1829.
Jamar, cited in file of Jacob Hollingsworth who married
Mary Brooks, says that, in addition to sons Samuel, Jacob, and
Thomas, JH had 8 daughters, of whom 4 married. Jamar
(pp. 68-9) is my source for the information I have recorded on the
line of the daughter Mary.
Acker's index to Franklin Co. deeds lists a deed from
JH and brother Thomas to John Hollingsworth, Bk. MMM, p. 82. Acker is
cited in file of JH's father.
A 1963-8 query of Josie Daniels, Box 103, Faison, NC,
in THE SHREVEPORT JOURNAL, reproduced in Mildred deWeir
Smith Watkins, ANCESTOR HUNTING (Baton Rouge: Claitor,
1969), p. 113, seeks information about the descendants of JH,
noting that JH's grandson Jacob lived in Shreveport,
LA, and had a son Robert of Pleasant Hill in De Soto Psh.
Harlan, Stewart, and notes of Marjorie Morgan give JH's
spouse as Miss Jones. But the FGS chart of Dr. Harold Graham,
cited in files of Jacob Hollingsworth and his mother
Barbara Shewin, says that this is incorrect, and that JH married Sarah
Martin. Graham is my source for SM's dates of birth and
death.
Stewart, p. 146, gives four children--Mary, Samuel, Jacob,
and Thomas. But Graham lists 12, citing records of a descendant,
Anna H. Langham, Bay City, TX. Unless otherwise noted,
Graham is the source for the information I have recorded.
Children of Jacob Hollingsworth and Sarah Martin are:
i.
Hollingsworth4.
Notes for Hollingsworth:
Died young.
20.
ii.
Mary Hollingsworth, b. 05 Oct 1802; d. 1864.
iii.
Sarah Hollingsworth, b. 01 Aug 1804; m. Daniel Boazman.
21.
iv.
Samuel Hollingsworth, b. 10 Oct 1806; d. 02 Dec 1870.
22.
v.
Jacob James Hollingsworth, b. 29 Apr 1810; d. 20 Aug 1840.
vi.
Amanda Melvina Hollingsworth, b. 23 May 1812; d. 02 May 1862; m. Richardson
Foster.
vii.
Frances Hollingsworth, b. 24 Apr 1815, Alabama; d. 27 Sep 1860; m. William
Crosby.
viii.
Fidelia Hollingsworth, b. 11 Dec 1817; d. 14 Apr 1858; m. Erastus H. Crosby.
23.
ix.
Thomas A. Hollingsworth, b. 08 Jun 1820; d. 01 Oct 1852.
x.
Emily B. Hollingsworth, b. 03 Aug 1823; d. 21 Jun 1843; m. Clark.
xi.
Helen M. Hollingsworth, b. 06 Dec 1827; d. 24 Aug 1848; m. Richard C. Boney.
xii.
Araminta D. Hollingsworth, b. 05 Aug 1830; d. 09 Jul 1854; m. L.G. Scogi
Descendants of Thomas Brooks
8. James3 Hollingsworth (Mary2 Brooks, Thomas1) was born
1777 in Guilford or Randolph County, North Carolina, and died
1824 in Franklin (now Grundy) County, Tennessee. He married
Mary Jones 16 May 1813 in Franklin County, Georgia.
Notes for James Hollingsworth:
Melrose Trimble's FGS chart for the family of Jacob Hollingsworth
says that JH's date of birth is in Stewart and Harlan. Marjorie
Morgan gives the place of birth as Chester Co., PA; but
see file of brother Samuel on this. Harlan and Stewart are the source
for JH's place of death.
Acker's index to Franklin Co., GA, deeds lists several
deeds involving JH: JH from Frederick and Martha Peyton Beall, Bk. R,
pp. 76-7; and JH from John and Sarah Jones, Bk. TTT,
pp. 170-1.
The FGS chart of Dr. Harold Graham, cited in files of
Jacob Hollingsworth and his mother Barbara Shewin, says that JH also
appears in Habersham Co., GA, records, and transcribes
a deed from Habersham DB C, p. 175, involving the heirs of James
Jones. This deed shows that JH's wife Mary was a daughter
of James Jones and a sister of JH's brother Benjamin's wife
Lucy/Joicy.
DESCENDANTS and the Hollingsworth LDS chart give JH's
place of death as Franklin Co., TN, but HARLAN FAMILY (p.
83) gives it as GA.
The McCaleb history, p. 267, gives JH's spouse and year
of marriage; the complete marriage date I have recorded is from
Trimble, citing Marjorie Morgan's notes and Frances Wyne,
FRANKLIN CO., GA, RECORDS, pp. 30-1.
Child of James Hollingsworth and Mary Jones is:
i.
Hollingsworth4, m. A. E. Patton.
Notes for Hollingsworth:
More About A. E. Patton:
Military service: General of Tracy City, Tennessee
9. Benjamin3 Hollingsworth (Mary2 Brooks, Thomas1) was
born 1779 in Randolph County, North Carolina, and died 18 Aug
1844 in Benton County, Alabama. He married Joicy Jones
03 Sep 1809 in Franklin County, Georgia.
Notes for Benjamin Hollingsworth:
My place of birth for BH is from a Hollingsworth descendancy
chart sent to me in July 1997 by Melrose Trimble, 37 St.
Andrews Circle, Broken Arrow, OK 74011. This cites notes
of Marjorie Morgan, Witchita, KS, for the information.
BH's date of death is given in his probate file in Rusk
Co., TX (#563), of which I have a copy; this is also the source of the
date
and place of death of BH's spouse. The probate file says
that BH died in Benton Co., AL. An estate record was later filed in
Rusk Co., BH's widow having moved there and died there.
The probate petition was made in Dec. 1858 by W.C. Kelly of
Rusk Co., TX, BH's son-in-law.
William B. Hollingsworth, HOLLINGSWORTH GENEALOGICAL MEMORANDA
IN THE UNITED STATES, FROM
1682-1884, pp. 121, 123 also says that BH died at age
65 in 1844.
The date of marriage is from the Bledsoe-Kelly Collection,
which contains a Stone Application, Mexican War, and a letter dated
31 May 1949 from Maud McLure Kelly to Hugh Stone, according
to Melrose Trimble's chart. In a letter accompanying the
chart, Melrose Trimble tells me the Bledsoe-Kelly Collection
is at Sanford Univ., Birmingham, AL. She notes that Maud McLure
Kelly was the first female to practice law in AL, and
the first to practice in the Supreme Court. The FGS chart of Dr. Harold
Graham, cited in files of Jacob Hollingsworth and his
mother Barbara Shewin, says that JH's spouse was Lucy (Joicy),
daughter of James Jones, apparently citing the marriage
record.
Graham notes that BH was a prominent citizen of Franklin Co., GA, prior to his removal to Benton Co., AL.
In a 29 Aug. 1997 email message to me, Melrose Trimble
tells me that the estate of BH was not settled until after his widow
moved to Rusk Co., TX, so his will is filed there. Does
this mean that there are also estate records in Benton Co., AL?
I have a copy of the original will of BH, supplied by
Melrose Trimble. This says that the will was written at BH's home in Walnut
Hill, Benton Co., AL, on 1 May 1841. The will was proven
on 7 Sept. 1844, though the copy I have gives no indication
whether the will was filed in Benton Co., AL, or Rusk
Co., TX. However, the copy of the will in BH's Rusk Co., TX, probate file
indicates that the original is in Calhoun Co., AL.
The will begins by noting that BH has a long journey in
view and expects to start on the second part, and thus feels in
necessary to make his will. The estate is left to wife
Joicey. The will asks that out of the estate, wife Joicey provide education
for
children Benjamin, Benton, and Orlando equal to that
given to the other children. The will says that if there is anything more
to
be divided, it should be divided as follows: Arsenath
and Dr. Allen have had their share; Stephen and Wyly in his lifetime have
had each about $700; when Mary Ann Kelly, Hannah Belzora,
Benjamin, Benton, and Orlando have had $700, the balance
is to be divided between Stephen, Mary, Belzora, Benjamin,
Benton, Orlando, and grandson Thomas, son of Wyly B.
The will also notes that Arsenath Allen has had more than
her proportionate part, having received a slave girl and $700 in
land with a horse and riding gear and cattle. To offset
this, BH wishes the younger children not to be charged for their
schooling. The will also stipulates that BH's widow is
to remain undisturbed in her lifetime, and to give only what she thinks
proper to give to her children, following the stipulations
of the will. The will is wit. by Salina Bose or Box and William Davis.
Unless otherwise noted, all information I have recorded
about BH's children is from Melrose Trimble's FGS chart for this family.
Note that the three daughters are not mentioned in Stewart
and Wm. B. Hollingsworth. Melrose Trimble's chart notes that
Octavus W. and Orlando may be the same person. She also
notes that Maud Kelly's letter to Hugh Stone refers to James B.
and Benton as separate children, and also mentions children
Joicy and Isaac Oran.
In a 28 Aug. 1997 email message to me, Melrose Trimble
tells me that the children of BH moved with their mother to Rusk Co.,
TX, in the early 1840s, along with the family of Wm.
C. and Mary Ann Hollingsworth Kelly. The Rusk Co. probate file says that
the family moved to Rusk Co. in 1845.
Notes for Joicy Jones:
Melrose Trimble's FGS chart for Benjamin Hollingsworth,
cited in his file, says that JJ's date of birth is from the Stone
Application, Mexican War, in the Bledsoe-Kelly collection,
and from the 1850 census. The place of birth is from the Stone
Application, 1850 census, and notes of Marjorie Morgan.
Melrose Trimble's FGS chart for Benjamin Hollingsworth,
cited in his file, says that JJ is on the 1850 census in Rusk Co., TX,
as Josey Hollingsworth.
Children of Benjamin Hollingsworth and Joicy Jones are:
i.
Arsenath4 Hollingsworth, m. Allen.
Notes for Arsenath Hollingsworth:
Melrose Trimble's FGS chart for Benjamin Hollingsworth, cited in his file,
notes that the will of BH
mentions this child as if she is much older than the younger children.
Information on her is from
the will and estate papers of her father.
ii.
Hannah Belzora Hollingsworth, m. C. A. Allen.
Notes for Hannah Belzora Hollingsworth:
Melrose Trimble's FGS chart for Benjamin Hollingsworth, cited in his file,
says that HBH is
mentioned in the will of her father, in the order in which the chart places
her among the children.
iii.
Hollingsworth, b. Abt. 1810; d. Aft. 1840.
Notes for Hollingsworth:
This child is from Melrose Trimble's Hollingsworth descendancy chart, cited
in file of Benjamin
Hollingsworth. This says that this child is mentioned in a 31 May 1949
letter of Maud McLure
Kelly to Hugh Stone, and died unmarried after 1840 and possibly before
his father's will.
24.
iv.
Stephen Perry Hollingsworth, b. 10 Mar 1814, Franklin County, Tennessee;
d. 09 Dec 1879,
Rusk County, Texas.
25.
v.
Wylie B. Hollingsworth, b. 1816, Franklin County, Tennessee; d. 1841, Alabama.
26.
vi.
Mary Ann Hollingsworth, b. Abt. 1820, Franklin County, Tennessee; d. 10
Nov 1861, near
Henderson, Rusk County, Texas.
vii.
Benjamin P. Hollingsworth, b. 1822; d. 1867, Texas.
Notes for Benjamin P. Hollingsworth:
Melrose Trimble's FGS chart for Benjamin Hollingsworth, Sr., cited in his
file, notes that Stewart
and Wm. B. Hollingsworth give BH's date of birth as 1822, where the 1850
census, Rusk Co.,
TX, gives the date as abt. 1828. Date of death is from Stewart and Wm.
B. Hollingsworth.
Melrose Trimble thinks that BH probably died in Rusk Co.
27.
viii.
James Benton Hollingsworth, b. 1824, Franklin County, Tennessee.
ix.
Octavus W. Hollingsworth, b. 1825.
Notes for Octavus W. Hollingsworth:
Melrose Trimble's FGS chart for Benjamin Hollingsworth, cited in his file,
notes that this child of
BH is not mentioned in his will, and may be the same as Orlando, who is
mentioned in various
sources. His date of birth is from Stewart and Wm. B. Hollingsworth. It
also appears in the letter of
Maud McLure Kelly to Hugh Stone cited in file of Benj. Hollingsworth.
More About Octavus W. Hollingsworth:
Residence: Austin, Texas
x.
Orlando Hollingsworth, b. Abt. 1836.
Notes for Orlando Hollingsworth:
Melrose Trimble's FGS chart for Benj. Hollingsworth says that OH may be
the same person as
Octavus W. Hollingsworth. Her information about him is from the letter
of Maud McLure Kelly to
Hugh Stone cited in file of Benj. Hollingsworth. He is also in his mother's
household in Rusk Co.,
TX, on the 1850 census.
10. Sarah3 Brooks (Thomas2, Thomas1) was born 1771 in
Frederick County, Virginia, and died 13 Feb 1857 in Grayson
County, Kentucky. She married John Lehew.
Notes for Sarah Brooks:
Dates of birth and death are from SB's death record,
Grayson Co. Registry of Deaths, 1857 (see Frances Terry Ingmire,
GRAYSON CO., KY, DEATH RECORDS [St. Louis: Ingmire Publications,
1984], p. 23. This says that Sarah Lahue was d/o
Thomas and Margaret Brooks, and was b. Frederick Co.,
VA. She d. 13 Feb. 1857, aged 86, a widow, of old age.
However, SB's tombstone says she was b. 1769, but gives
the same date of death. She is buried in the Lahue Cem. in
northwest Grayson Co., off the north side of highway
79 on the Scott Bradshaw farm (see GRAYSON CO. CEMETERIES, p.
120, cited in file of Mordecai Y. Day).
James Houston Le Hue, PETER LEHEW OF FRONT ROYAL, VIRGINIA
(cited in file of SB's spouse) says that SB is on the
1850 census in Grayson Co., KY, in household of her son
William, aged 81.
This family went to Grayson Co., KY, in 1806, according
to a 6 Oct. 1983 letter sent to me by Elsie Davis, 710 Second St.,
Coronado, CA 92118. James H. Le Hue says tht JL is in
Ohio Co., KY, on an 1807 tax list for 50 acres on Cave Creek,
Grayson having been formed out of Ohio. Since JL's son
William was b. in VA in 1805, according to the 1850 census, the
family appears to have moved to KY ca. 1805-6--that is,
after the death of SB's father.
The family of John Lahue is on the 1810 census in Grayson
Co., KY, p. 240, with males 1/0/0/1/0 and females 1/0/0/1/1. Note
that Sarah Brooks Lahue's sister Margaret Day and her
husband Joseph Day are on p. 241 of this census. Though Mrs.
Davis has not told me that the given name of Sarah Brooks's
husband was John, I have deduced this on the basis of this
census.
John Lahue is on the 1820 census in Grayson Co., p. 143.
I do not find him in Grayson Co. in 1830. James H. Le Hew thinks
that JL died 1820-30, since he is not on the 1830 census.
A JL buried in Lahue Cemetery, Grayson Co., KY, is apparently
husband of Sarah Brooks; his tombstone record apparently
gives no date of death, but the transcribers give "before 1850" as
the date of death.
Could the female whose age was over 45 on the 1810 census in John Lahue's family be Sarah Brooks' mother Margaret?
Note that the Lahue family was connected by marriage to
the Hurst family that married into the Whitlock family of Wythe Co., VA.
See file of Thomas Whitlock.
Absalom Hurst, father of William Hurst, who married Thomas
Whitlock's daughter Mildred, sold to Moses Lehew 196 acres in
Shenandoah Co., VA, on 31 Aug. 1777. See file of AH.
More About Sarah Brooks:
Burial: 13 Feb 1857, Lahue Cemetery, Short Creek, Grayson
County, Kentucky
Notes for John Lehew:
My dates and places of birth and death for JL are from
an LDS Ancestral File chart of his family and ancestry (version 4.16).
The information appears to have been supplied by Gary
W. Watson, 6165 E. Iliff, Suite 316B, Denver, CO 80222.
Unless otherwise noted, the LDS Ancestral File chart cited
above is my source for all the information I have entered about JL's
children and ancestry.
Additional information about this family is in James Houston
Le Hue and Edith Foster, PETER LEHEW OF FRONT ROYAL,
VIRGINIA (Elburn, IL; 1967), pp. 212-4 (LDS film 1035917).
Le Hue says that most of the information on the line of JL and
Sarah Brooks is from Miss Maude LaHue of Leitchfield,
KY. Le Hue says that he does not have definite information about the
ancestry of JL, but that the Grayson Co., KY, Lahues
seem connected to those of Harrison Co., IN, who stem from Wythe Co.,
VA, and before that from Frederick Co., VA. He says that
it is possible that JL is the son of William Lehew, who left a will in
Wythe Co., 1811, WL being a son of Peter of Front Royal.
In Ohio Co., KY, by 1807, according to Craig, cited in file of JL's sister Rachel.
JL is on the 1810 tax list for Grayson Co., KY, with 50
acres on Cave Creek entered for John Ventress, 1 white male over 21,
and 6 horses. Ditto 1811, with one less horse.
JL is apparently buried in the Lahue Cem., Grayson Co.,
KY. The transcription of the tombstone record (or is this conjecture
about an unmarked grave?) in GRAYSON CO. CEMETERY RECORDS,
p. 120, cited in file of Mordecai Y. Day, says he
was b. about 1775, and died before 1850, son of William
Lahue.
More About John Lehew:
Burial: Bef. 1830, Lahue Cemetery, Short Creek, Grayson
County, Kentucky
Children of Sarah Brooks and John Lehew are:
i.
Mary4 Lahue.
Notes for Mary Lahue:
Married a Lahue relative, according to research of Maude Lahue of Leitchfield,
KY, cited in file of
ML's father.
28.
ii.
William Lahue, b. 17 Oct 1805, Wythe County, Virginia; d. 14 Aug 1863,
Grayson County,
Kentucky.
11. E. James3 Brooks (Thomas2, Thomas1) was born 1772
in Frederick County, Virginia, and died Oct 1838 in Lawrence
County, Alabama. He married Nancy Isbell 08 Mar 1804
in Wayne County, Kentucky.
Notes for E. James Brooks:
My dates of birth and death for EJB are from his family
bible. This states that he was b. 1772 and d. 1838. His estate papers
apparently indicate that he died by Aug. 1838 (see below).
Since the bible of EJB's brother Thomas M. Brooks states that he
was b. in Frederick Co., VA, in 1775, and since I appear
to have located their father Thomas in that county at this period, I
have placed EJB's birth there. EJB's estate papers state
that he was a resident of Lawrence Co., AL, at his death.
My source for EJB's bible record is Memory A. Lester,
"Bible Record of James Brooks," DAR MAGAZINE (Nov. 1952), p.
1177. The transcript of the bible register states that
Memory A. Lester copied the register at the home of the bible's owner Mrs.
C.A. Young, Rt. 2, Moulton, AL, in June 1951. The transcript
of the register has no information about who recorded this
information in the bible of EJB, or when the bible was
published. A note by Memory A. Lester says that the bible appears to
have belonged to EJB's son James Irvin Brooks. Another
note indicates that, in Dec. 1950, Memory A. Lester published a
book with Ida B. Kellam entitled BROOKS AND ALLIED FAMILIES,
and that Ida B. Kellam believes EJB went from the
Shenandoah Valley of VA to KY.
In 1795, EJB was taxed for 1 poll in Capt. James Davis'
distr., Wythe Co., VA. He appears again on the tax list in 1797, 1799,
and 1800, each time with 1 poll. In 1797 and 1799, he
is in Capt. Samuel Crockett's dist. In 1800, he is taxed both in Capt.
James Newell's and Capt. Henry Stephen's dist. (see Murphy
and Douthat, WYTHE CO. TAX, cited in file of JB's father).
The fact that EJB was a landowner by 1795 and living independently
from his family may indicate that he had married a wife
prior to Nancy Isbell. If so, I have no record of this
wife. No wife other than Nancy Isbell is mentioned in the bible register.
Note that EJB should be on the 1800 census in Wythe Co.,
VA. Note that the 1800 census of VA is lost, with the exception of
the Accomack Co. census.
On 7 June 1795, EJB recorded a survey for 45 acres in
the Rich Valley on the waters of the north fork of the Holston River in
Wythe Co., VA. Part of the land (18.985 acres) was under
treasury warrant #10,690. It joined the land of Thomas Dunn,
deceased (Wythe Co. Survey Bk. 2, p. 229; I have a copy
of the original).
Wythe Co., VA, Order Books for 1795-6 show (pp. 3 and 6) that EJB was a juror in Sept. and Dec. 1795.
On 5 Mar. 1804, EJB made bond in Wayne Co., KY, to marry
Nancy, daughter of Godfrey and Hannah Isbell. His surety was
Thomas Isbell, who appears to have been a brother of
Nancy. The minister's return for the marriage is missing. The bond was
accompanied by a note from Godfrey Isbel giving consent
for the marriage, with Thomas Isbell and Samuel Forbes as
witnesses to the note (see June Baldwin Bork, WAYNE CO.,
KY, MARRIAGES AND VITAL RECORDS 1801-1860, vol. 1:
MARRIAGES A-J [Huntington Beach, CA, 1901], p. 35).
EJB is on the tax list of Wayne Co., KY, in 1806-7, both
times without land. I suspect that, after their marriage, EJB and his wife
Nancy lived with her father, or farmed his Wayne Co.
land temporarily, after Godfrey Isbell's move to TN. Godfrey Isbell is
on
Wayne Co. tax lists in 1803-4. After this date, Wayne
Co. deeds place him in Warren Co., TN. EJB and wife Nancy apparently
joined the Isbell family in Warren Co., and then moved
to AL with this family. Censuses show JB having children b. in TN as
early as 1813. I don't find JB in Warren Co. deed records,
however.
A James Brooks does, however, begin to appear in Barren
Co., KY, records (where EJB's brother Jesse and sister Rebecca
lived) by 1808, and was a j.p. there. Is this EJB?
I don't find EJB on the 1810 census in either KY or TN.
By 1819, EJB was in AL. Morgan Co. court records show
that on 14 June 1819, he was among those appointed to view a
road on the west fork of Flint River, from McDonald's
ferry to Elam's horse mill (see Knox, HISTORY OF MORGAN CO., p.
45, cited in file of Mary Jane Dinsmore). Note that Flint
River was the site of the farm of Mark Lindsey, whose son Fielding
Woodruff Lindsey married EJB's daughter Clarissa. Another
child of EJB, James Irvin, married a granddaughter of Mark
Lindsey, Mary Jane, daughter of Dennis Lindsey and Jane
Brooks. Jane was a daughter of EJB's brother Thomas M.
Brooks. Jane's sister Sarah married Dennis and Fielding's
brother David Dinsmore Lindsey.
EJB should be on the 1820 census in Morgan or Lawrence
Co., AL. However, he does not appear in the AISL index to the
census in either county, or, indeed, in AL.
On the 1830 census, EJB is in Lawrence Co., AL, John Glass'
Division, p. 275, with 2 males 5-10, 1 male 10-15, 1 male
15-20, a male 50-60, and 1 female 5-10, 2 females 10-15,
and a female 40-50.
On 15 Mar. 1830, EJB patented 40 acres in Lawrence Co.,
the N 1/2 of sect. 9, twp. 8S, R 6W. This land was available as
river improvement land (see Margaret Matthews Cowart,
LAND RECORDS OF LAWRENCE CO., AL [Huntsville: MMC,
1991]).
Since EJB apparently died in the same month and year as
his brother Thomas M. Brooks, a James Brooks who appears in
the records of the estate of TMB is likely to be either
James, son of Thomas, or James, son of James (probably the former).
A 1 June 1993 letter of Corinne Crider of Corsicana, TX,
to Elsie Davis, Coronado, CA (see files of Thomas M. Brooks and
his father Thomas Brooks for addresses), contains information
about this estate. The letter indicates that the estate records are
filed in Lawrence Co., and that EJB's son Thomas was
the estate administrator.
EJB evidently died bef. or in Aug., 1838, since Aug. Orphans'
court in Lawrence Co. has a minute saying that Thomas
Brooks, administrator of the estate of JB, was ordered
to make settlement of his account by 1 Nov. (Orphans' Ct. Minutes
1836-8, p. 467).
Nov. Orphans' Ct. Minutes note that Thomas R. Brooks did
provide an account of the estate at Nov. court, and this was the
final settlement. The estate, which was small, paid only
Thomas Brooks and Campbell and Balsh (Orphans' Ct. Minutes,
1838-8, p. 467). This suggests to me that EJB d. with
an encumbered estate.
A receipt in the estate file of EJB's brother Thomas suggests
that EJB died at the home of his niece Jane Brooks Lindsey; the
receipt says that Jane nursed and lodged a James Brooks
for 2 months in 1838, the year in which EJB died. This would also
appear to indicate that EJB was somehow a dependent of
TB at the time EJB died.
Note that, if Corinne Crider's information about the estate record of James Brooks is correct, James Brooks' first initial was E.
My primary source for the children of EJB and Nancy Isbell
is the bible register cited above. Note that the transcript of the bible
register gives 8 March 1804 as the date of the couple's
marriage, where the Wayne Co. records (above) show the year as
1805. But note that, if the Wayne Co. date of marriage
is correct, and if the date of birth of EJB's oldest child Godfrey Isbell
Brooks is correct, GIB was born before his parents married.
Where I have used other records as sources for information
about the children of EJB and their lines of descent, I note that in
the files of each child.
Note that EJB and Nancy Isbell appear to have named their
first 4 children for their grandparents: Godfrey Isbell Brooks,
Thomas R. Brooks, Hannah Isbell Brooks, and Margaret
C. Brooks.
Note, too, that EJB and his wife had twin children, Alpha
and Samuel. The gene for twins appears to run through various lines
descending from Thomas Brooks (d. 1805) and his wife
Margaret. On this, see file of Thomas Brooks, d. 1805.
Notes for Nancy Isbell:
My dates of birth and death for NI are from the bible
register of her husband; on this source, see file of E. James Brooks. Since
NI's brother Thomas may have been born in that part of
Montgomery Co., VA, that became Wythe Co. two years before
Nancy, I have placed her birth there. Various records
place the family of James Brooks in Lawrence Co., AL, at the time of
NI's death.
For my source for NI's marriage to James Brooks, see his
file. Note that the marriage file in Wayne Co. shows that NI was
daughter of Godfrey Isbell.
Children of E. Brooks and Nancy Isbell are:
i.
Godfrey Isbell4 Brooks, b. 24 Dec 1804, Wayne County, Kentucky; d. Bef.
12 Sep 1826,
Lawrence County, Alabama; m. Jane White, 18 Oct 1822, Lawrence County,
Alabama.
Notes for Godfrey Isbell Brooks:
My date of birth is from GIB's father's bible; on this, see file of E.
James Brooks.
My date and place of death are from Pauline Jones Gandrud, ALABAMA RECORDS,
vol. 22:
LAWRENCE CO. This states that, on 12 Sept. 1826, Jane Brooks, widow of
Godfrey,
relinquished the right to administer the estate of GIB to Robert W. White
(obviously citing
Lawrence Co. probate or orphan's court records).
My date of marriage, and name of GIB's spouse, is from ibid.
The James Brooks bible gives Godfrey Brooks' middle initial as I. Since
his grandfather was
Godfrey Isbell, it is highly likely that GIB was named for this grandfather.
29.
ii.
Thomas R. Brooks, b. 25 Feb 1807, Wayne County, Kentucky; d. Aft. 1860.
iii.
Hannah Isbell Brooks, b. 24 Apr 1809, Wayne County, Kentucky; d. 06 Mar
1828, Lawrence
County, Alabama.
Notes for Hannah Isbell Brooks:
Dates of birth and death are from her father's family bible; on this source,
see his file.
iv.
Margaret C. Brooks, b. 20 Dec 1811, Wayne County, Kentucky; d. 15 Dec 1826,
Lawrence
County, Alabama?.
Notes for Margaret C. Brooks:
Dates of birth and death are from her father's bible; see his file for
details re: this source.
30.
v.
James Irwin Brooks, b. 29 Nov 1813, Warren County, Tennessee; d. 02 Nov
1878.
vi.
Johnson H. Brooks, b. 13 Aug 1815, Warren County, Tennessee; m. Elizabeth
Galey, 13 Dec
1834.
Notes for Johnson H. Brooks:
JHB's date of birth is in his father's family bible.
An LDS ordinance form (82/207/0798) also has this date of birth for JHB,
and was submitted by
his great-granddaughter, Dorothy C. Ratledge, 3700 Redding Rd., Chattanooga,
TN 37415.
This cites as its source LIFE AND LEGEND OF LAWRENCE CO., AL.
Ratledge states that JHB m. Elizabeth Galey, who was b. ca. 1811, also
citing LIFE AND
LEGEND OF LAWRENCE CO.
In my photocopy of the bible register of James Brooks, someone has penciled
in the information
that JHB married Elizabeth Galey on 13 Dec. 1834.
On the 1850 agricultural schedule, JHB appears in Lawrence Co., AL, with
70 acres improved
and 155 unimproved (see Myra Borden, "Agricultural Schedules, 1840-1910,
OLD
LAWRENCE REMINISCENCES 11,3 [Sept. 1997], p. 68).
In a 3 Feb. 1998 email message to me, George A. O'Reilly (oreilly@HiWaay.net)
tells me that
JHB bought from his brother Thomas R. and wife Vinetta land in Lawrence
Co., AL, on 7 Jan.
1865 (citing Lawrence DB D, p. 396).
O'Reilly also notes that on 3 Feb. 1865, JHB and O.J. Brooks sold to George
Frazier and W.J.
Schiffman of Lowndes Co., MS, land in Lawrence Co. (Lawrence DB D, p. 397).
According to O'Reilly, on 12 Jan. 1872, JH and O.J. Brooks sold more land
in Lawrence Co. to
S.A. Love (DB K, p. 263). O'Reilly wonders if at this point JHB went to
Harrison Co., TX, since
he disappears from Lawrence Co. records. A Johnson Brooks is on the 1800
census in
Harrison Co., ED 49, p. 490.
Who is O.J. Brooks--a second wife of JHB? Or do I have his spouse wrong?
31.
vii.
Clarissa Elizabeth B. Brooks, b. 25 Aug 1818, Warren County, Tennessee;
d. 01 Oct 1896,
Oakville, Lawrence County, Alabama.
viii.
Alpha C. Brooks, b. 05 Aug 1821, Morgan County, Alabama; m. John M. Dair,
08 Oct 1839.
Notes for Alpha C. Brooks:
James Brooks' bible has the date of birth of ACB.
My copy of James Brooks' bible register has penciled in the margin the
information that ACB
married John M. Dair on 8 Oct. 1839.
ix.
Samuel F. Brooks, b. 05 Aug 1821, Morgan County, Alabama; d. Bef. 17 Jul
1846, Lawrence
County, Alabama.
Notes for Samuel F. Brooks:
SFB's date of birth is in the bible of his father James Brooks.
In a 15 Sept. 1993 letter to me, Corinne Crider notes that VALLEY LEAVES,
vol. 11 (Sept.
1976), p. 120, has information about the estate of SFB. This states that
on 17 July 1846, Fielding
W. Lindsey, administrator, gave oath with Thomas R. Brooks and B.W. Isbell
(citing Lawrence
Co. Guardian Bonds 1845-50, pp. 33-4). Note that Fielding W. Lindsey was
the spouse of
Clarissa Brooks, sister of SFB.
x.
John Wesley S. Brooks, b. 28 Jan 1822, Morgan County, Alabama.
Notes for John Wesley S. Brooks:
JWB's date of birth is in the bible of his father James Brooks.
32.
xi.
Charles Wesley Brooks, b. 13 Dec 1829, Lawrence County, Alabama; d. 28
Aug 1896,
Houston, Texas.
xii.
Mary Anne Brooks, b. 22 Apr 1832, Lawrence County, Alabama; m. Elliott
J. Sitler, 14 Nov
1854.
Notes for Mary Anne Brooks:
MAB's date of birth is in the bible of her father. My photocopy of the
bible register has penciled in
the margin the information that MEB married Elliott J. Sitler on 14 Nov.
1854.
12. Thomas M.3 Brooks (Thomas2, Thomas1) was born 22 Oct
1775 in Frederick County, Virginia, and died 30 Apr 1839 in
Decatur, Morgan County, Alabama. He married Sarah Whitlock
Brown 14 Feb 1796 in Wythe County, Virginia.
Notes for Thomas M. Brooks:
My dates of birth and death for TB are from his family
bible. A transcript of the bible register is in ITAWAMBA [MISSISSIPPI]
SETTLERS 8,3 (Sept., 1988), pp. 151-2. This states that
TB was born 28 Oct. 1775 in Frederick Co., VA, and died 25 Oct
1838, aged 62 years, 11 months, and 27 days. TB's will
and estate papers make it evident that he died in Morgan Co., AL.
The bible register is also my source for the dates of
birth and death of TB's spouse, her place of birth, and their date of birth.
Presumably, the marriage would have occurred in Wythe
Co., VA, since various records place the families of both TB and
Sarah Whitlock there in 1796. Wythe Co. marriage records
contain no record of this marriage, however.
Note that the transcript of the bible register has TB
and Sarah Whitlock married on 14 Feb. 1796, while the transcriber read
the
entry for the birth of their oldest daughter Jane as
17 Jan. 1795. However, JB's tombstone says she was b. 19 Feb. 1797, and
the 1850 census has her age as 52. The transcript of
the bible also has Jane's marriage to Dennis Lindsey occurring on 12
Feb. 1810, where Wayne Co., KY, marriage records show
the couple married 18 Feb. 1813.
ITAWAMBA SETTLERS accompanies the transcript of TB's bible
register with a photocopy of some 19th-century entries in the
bible register, but does not have a photocopy of the
portion of the bible register that contains the entries for TB's birth
and
death. There is no publication information, no information
about who owns this bible, and no information about who entered the
entries in the register. The bible apparently passed
down in the family of TB's son Charles: see his file for details.
In 1991, Mr. Frank Ruggles, 912 N. Illinois, Caldwell,
ID 83605, wrote the Itawamba Hist. Soc. (P.O. Box 7, Mantachie, MS
38855) to ask for this information. On 15 Apr. 1991,
Etoyle Grissom, P.O. Box 7, Mantachie, MS 38855, replied to FR's letter,
saying that the society has no name or address for the
owner of the bible transcript.
I haven't found TB on the 1800 census. Since he was apparently
in Pulaski Co., KY, by this date, and there is no 1800 census
for KY, this may be the reason he is not to be found.
On the 1810 census, TB is in Wayne Co., KY, Isaac Crabtree's
Division, Monticello P.O., p. 352. He is enumerated with 2 m.
0-10, 2 m. 10-15, 1 m. 26-45, 1 f. 0-10, 1 f. 16-26,
and 1 f. 45 and up. Note that, if Sarah Whitlock is the female over 45,
her
age is much awry; it should be 36. Could TB's aged mother
Margaret have been living in his household in 1810? Since TB's
oldest daughter Jane was only 13 in 1810, presumably
the female 16-26 is Sarah Whitlock Brooks.
On the 1820 census, TB is again in Wayne co., KY, p. 86,
with 2 m. 0-10, 2 m. 10-15, 1 m. 16-26, 1 m. over 45, 1 f. 0-10, 1
m. 10-16, and 1 f. over 45. Four in the household are
in agriculture. Note that the female over 45 in 1810 appears to have
died.
In 1830, TB is in Wayne Co., KY, p. 258, with 2 m. 5-10, 1 m. 15-20. 1 m. 40-50, 1 m. 0-5, and 1 f. 50-60.
TB appears on tax lists in Wythe Co., VA, in 1793-9 (Murphy
and Douthat, WYTHE CO. TAX, cited in file of TB's father). The
1793 entry would have been made when he was 18, and 3
years before his marriage. Here, he is taxed for 3 tithables in
Capt. James Davis' district. Note that this is 5 years
before his father shows up on Wythe Co. tax lists, so he may have moved
to Wythe Co. from Frederick Co. in advance of his father.
My reason for assuming that the TB on the 1793 tax list is TB, Jr., is
that Murphy and Douthat's transcription shows this TB
as Jr. I have not seen the original.
Note that TB would have been 18 years old in 1793, if
his bible register's birth date is correct. His brother James appears on
Wythe Co. tax lists two years later, and his father 5
years later. Since two other males over 16 are in TB's household in 1793,
it seems reasonable to think that one of these is James,
who had land surveyed in 1795, and thus began to appear on the tax
list separately. Who is the other male over 16? If TB
moved to Wythe Co. in advance of his father, what motivated his move?
Presumably, TB's father TB, Sr., remained in Frederick
Co. until the settlement of his mother's estate in 1787-8.
In 1794-5, TB is taxed for 2 tithables, again in Capt.
Davis' dist. In 1796-7, he has 1 tithable (note that TB's brother James
had
appeared on the tax list in 1795), and in 1798, 2 tithables,
with 1 tithable again in 1799. In these years, he is in Capt. Samuel
Crockett's dist., the district in which his father was
taxed. Could one of the 1798 tithables be a brother of TB, since his father
appears to have moved to Wythe Co. by that year?
TB's removal from the Wythe Co. tax lists corresponds
with his appearance in Pulaski and Wayne Co., KY, land records. On
William Carter's move from Wythe Co., VA, to Wayne Co.,
KY, and that of the Lockett family as well, see file of TB's father
Thomas. The move of TB to KY may have taken place after
the birth of his daughter Jane on 19 Feb. 1797, since the 1850
census places her birth in VA.
According to Corinne Crider, 2908 College Circle N., Corsicana,
TX 75110, in a query submitted to BROOKS FAMILY
EXCHANGE 1,3, p. 23, TB accumulated 785 acres of land
in Pulaski and Wayne Co., KY, between 1799-85.
TB had moved to Pulaski Co., KY, by 1799, when he patented
200 acres on Otter Creek on 24 July 1799 (KY Land Grants,
Bk. 8, p. 469). On 16 Aug., TB patented another 200 acres
in Grassy Valley (ibid., p. 473). Note that his 1836 deed to Daniel
Shearer mentions that his land was in Grassy Valley on
Beaver Creek in Wayne Co. On 18 Nov. 1799, TB patented another
100 acres on Pitman Creek (KY Land Grants, Bk. 10, p.
259). On 29 Oct. 1805, TB patented 135 acres in Wayne Co. on
Beaver and Otter Creeks (ibid., Bk. 7, p. 99). This is
evidently the land on which he was living at the time of his 1836 move
to
AL.
As I understand, in order to patent land in KY during
this period, one had to prove that one had lived on the land for 1 year
prior to claiming the land, so TB had perhaps moved to
KY by 1798. Note that James Ingram of Wythe Co., VA, seems to have
gone to Wayne Co. in the same year; see file of Sarah
Whitlock's brother Charles.
The actual land of TB may now be under lake Cumberland,
according to a 28 Feb. 1997 e-mail message to me from Margaret
Austin (see file of John Hammons).
In the decade in which TB moved to KY, the state's population
increased dramatically, from 7,000 in 1790 to 221,000 in 1800
(see Merrill, JEFFERSON'S NEPHEWS, p. 90, cited in file
of Ezekiel C. Green).
Wayne Co. has a complex genealogy. It derives from Lincoln,
formed in 1780. Out of Lincoln, Green was formed in 1793, and
Pulaski in 1799. Out of Green, Cumberland was formed
in 1799. Wayne derived (in 1801) from both Pulaski and Cumberland
Co.
Micah Taul refers to the early settlers of Wayne Co. as
"rough, backwoodsmen, mostly emigrants, from Western Virginia, & E.
Tennessee." Taul describes these settlers as "a rough
hardy race of men, very large & stout, & altogether an excellent
population, for a new country" ("Memoirs of Micah Taul,"
REGISTER OF KY STATE HIST. SOC. 27 [1929], pp. 361-2, 363).
Taul also provides information about the route he took
when he traveled from Wayne Co. to Washington, DC, in Nov. 1815,
which may be the route by which TB would have moved to
Wayne Co. He notes that he went from Wayne Co. across the
Cumberlands, crossing through Cumberland Gap near Bean's
Station, then via Rogersville, TN, Abingdon, VA, to Wytheville
(p. 495).
Arnow, SEEDTIME ON THE CUMBERLAND (cited in file of Margaret,
wife of David Dinsmore) has abundant information
about the pioneer years of the Cumberland region in KY
and TN. Arnow was born in Wayne Co. and grew up there and in
Pulaski Co. She notes (p. 223) that the normal migration
path VA emigrants followed for their first 200 miles to the KY border
was the Hunter's Trail, which passed through the Cumberland
Gap, then turned to the ford of the Warrior's Path near present
Pineville, KY (p. 156). Pp. 214f of Arnow contain detailed
information about the preparations pioneer emigrants from VA to KY
made as they got ready for their trip, and about the
conditions they encountered en route.
TB paid taxes on the Pulaski Co. tract on 28 July 1800, according to a 20 July 1994 letter of Corinne Crider.
On 10 March 1804, TB made deposition in Wayne Co., KY,
in the case of the heirs of Charles Whitlock vs. Thomas Whitlock.
His deposition notes that he was with his brother-in-law
CW a few hours before his death, and heard him speak of moving to
the backwoods--see files of Chas. and Thomas Whitlock.
In March 1812, TB was appointed to work the road in Isaac
Summers' road precinct, Wayne Co. Order Bk., March 1812 (my
source is Corinne Crider, 17 July 1993). Others appointed
to road work in this precinct were Thomas Isbell, Bright Gilstrap,
Moses Cornelius, and Thomas Calhoun. Note that TB's brother
James married Nancy Isbell, probably a sister of TI, and his
son Charles m. Deniah Cornelius. Note that Bright Gilstrap
appears as a neighbor of TB in his 1836 sale of land to Daniel
Shearer.
At Jan. court 1813, TB was ordered with James Coffey,
James Buchanan, and James Crabtree to mark the way for a road
from the gap of Poplar Mountain, Marston, to Monticello
(Order Bk. A, p. 214; my source is Crider). Note that the Coffey and
Buchanan families were both neighbors of TB's family
in Wythe Co., VA.
By 20 Dec. 1813 , TB appears in Wayne Co. ct. records
as a justice (Order Bk. A, p. 231), and court minutes for 20 Nov.
1815 say that on that day Thomas Brooks, Esqr.,b resigned
his office of j.p. (citing Court Orders Bk. A, p. 284). On the function
of justices at this period, see file of Zachariah Simms
Simpson. I find him in Wayne Co. ct. orders A, 25, Aug. ct. 1814, sitting
as
justice with Reuben Owens, Archibald Woods, Lewis Coffey,
and George McWharter, Esqs.
A 18 Feb. 1997 e-mail message from Margaret Austin (see
file of John Hammons) says that on 18 Sept.; 1815, TB was
appointed along with William Bartleson and Bright Gilstrap
to inventory the estate of Isaac Summmers.
In 1818, TB and his wife sold several pieces of land to
Jacob and Daniel Shearer of Wayne Co. The first sale was on 9 Jan.
1818; for $300, TB and Sarah sold 44 acres on Beaver
Creek in Grassy Valley, a part of the land on which TB was then
living, bounded by Charles Baker, John Hammons, and Daniel
Shearer. The deed was signed by TB, with Sarah making her
mark, and wit. by Charles Baker and Frances Vankory,
and was proven by both witnesses on 21 Sept. 1818 (Wayne Co. DB
C, pp. 4-5; I have a photocopy). Note that John Hammonds
was a brother-in-law of TB, who had married Sarah Whitlock's
sister.
On 9 June 1818, TB and wife Sarah sold to Jacob and Daniel
Shearer of Wayne Co. for $250 35 acres on Beaver Creek in
Grassy Valley out of a tract of 200 acres bought by TB
in 1811. The land bordered on John Henderson. The deed was
signed by TB, with Sarah making her mark, and was wit.
by Charles Baker and Francis Vankory. It was proven by both
witnesses on 21 Sept. 1818, and recorded then (Wayne
Co. DB C, pp. 6-7; I have a photocopy).
I haven't seen a deed for TB's purchase of this land
in 1811.
On 31 May 1819, Robert Gillespie of Wayne Co., KY, willed
to the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal church in Wayne Co.
land on which to erect a meeting house. These included
TB, John Francis (whose family is connected by marriage to the
Isbells), Isaac Huffaker (TB's daughter Hannah m. Wesley
Huffaker), Thomas Isbell, Elliott Jones, John Van Winkle (TB's
daughter Margaret m.Ransom Vanwinkle), James Lear, and
James Frost (Wayne Co. New WB A, p. 17). The will was
proven Sept. 1819 (though Corinne Crider tells me, in
a 13 Apr. 1993 letter, that the will was filed in August court, 1819, so
RG
had evidently died by then). In Aug. 1819, TB was appointed
to appraise RG's estate, with Thomas Moody, John Mills, and
John Francis (Wayne Co. WB A, p. 384; I have the information
from Corinne Crider's letter).
Note that TB's son Thomas Whitlock Brooks married Nancy, d/o Robert Gillespie.
A 6 March 1987 letter to me from Elizabeth F. Duncan of
Wayne Co. Historical Soc., P.O. Box 320, Monticello, KY, 42633, tells
me that there is a 22 July 1837 deed of William Gillespie
and wife and Andrew Edmonson Gillespie for 2 and 1/2 acres that
refers to the meeting house on Gillespie land (Wayne
Co. DB G, p. 251). Elizabeth Duncan tells me that the church (Methodist)
was named Bethesda, and is in a part of the county now
called Shearer Valley. But note that various deeds (below) describe
TB's farm as being in Grassy Valley. I do not know if
this was an older name of Shearer Valley, or if the church was in a
location different from where TB lived.
A brief history of Bethesda church is in Bess D. Stokes
and Elizabeth F. Duncan, METHODISM IN WAYNE CO., KY,
1802-1974 (Somerset, KY: Commonwealth-Journal, 1974?),
pp. 51-3. This says that the church is one of the older churches
of the county, and notes that the land was deeded in
1839 by Wm. Gillespie.
The Bethesda cemetery, where TB's daughter Hannah is buried,
is on Sunnybrook Rd. 5 miles southwest of Monticello, KY;
on this, see file of Hannah Brooks. Maps of Wayne Co.
show Beaver Creek, on which TB lived, running about 5 southwest of
Monticello. Note that the intermarried Huffaker and Phillips
families also lived in this vicinity (see file of Wesley Huffaker).
A general highway map of Wayne Co. prepared by the KY
Dept. of Highways shows Bethesda at the intersection of highways
856 and 200 west of Monticello. Immediately south is
the community of Cooper. Less than two miles west of Bethesda on
highway 200 is Shearer Valley church, and less than a
mile west on the road from there is Shearer Valley. On these sites, see
below. Beaver Creek runs south of these, along highway
167, which goes to Monticello. Otter Creek, where members of the
Dinsmore family lived, is to the west of Shearer Valley,
near the Clinton Co. line. On Cooper, see below.
The information in the various land records cited in this
file suggests that TB lived somewhere between Beaver and Otter
Creeks, just southwest of Monticello, in the vicinity
of Cooper, Bethesda, and what became Shearer Valley.
Augusta Phillips Johnson, CENTURY OF WAYNE CO., p. 194
(cited in file of Wesley Huffaker) indicates that, from northeast to
southwest, Wayne Co. has a region of upland knob hills
and limestone plains. APJ says that this region contains fine farms.
TB's farm would have been in this strip of land.
On 12 March 1825, TB entered a warrant for 50 acres of
vacant land on Beaver Creek in Wayne Co., under the 1816 vacant
lands act (KY Land Warrants, Bk. S, p. 97). On the same
date, he claimed another 100 acres on Beaver Creek (ibid.).
Wayne Co. Ct. Order Bk. G, p. 68, notes that at March
court 1826, TB was certified by the court as a Methodist minister who
might perform marriages in the county. The court record
states that TB produced credentials of his ordination. Abraham
Vanwinkle and John Eller gave bond with TB (I have a
photocopy of this document).
June Baldwin Bork, WAYNE CO., KY, MARRIAGES AND VITAL
RECORDS 1801-1860 (priv. publ.), vol. 2, notes that TB
was a Methodist minister in Wayne Co., who performed
marriages during the years 1826, 1828, 1829, 1831, and 1836.
The 1824 will of TB's father-in-law Thomas Whitlock left
two slaves, Lucy and her largest child Perlina, to his daughter Sarah
Brooks. At the estate sale, TB bought another male slave.
I suspect that this slave was David, a boy listed in TW's inventory,
and that David was another child of Lucy. None of these
slaves appears in other records involving the family of TB. What
became of them? Note that Methodism disapproved of slave-holding.
Did TB emancipate these slaves, after acquiring them?
Why are the slaves not listed in TB's household on the
1830 census--or did I not check this document carefully enough?
In a sequel to SEEDTIME ON THE CUMBERLAND entitled THE
FLOWERING OF THE CUMBERLAND [NY: Macmillan,
1963]) Harriett Simpson Arnow comments (p. 95) on the
scarcity of slaves in Wayne Co. in the early 19th century. She notes
that the areas of fertile soil in the county were relatively
small, and that in 1801, two districts of Wayne had only 121 slaves to
344 white men above twenty-one. In district two of adjoining
Cumberland Co., only a tenth of the 350 adult males of the county
owned slaves, for a sum of 87.
TB appears in various Cumberland Co. estate documents
of Thomas Whitlock from 1830-32 as the co-administrator of TW's
estate with his brother-in-law Abner Bryson. For details,
see file of Thomas Whitlock.
TB is mentioned with his brother-in-law Abner Bryson in
a 12 March 1832 deed of land in Cumberland Co., KY, to Edward
Vincent (DB G, #297, p. 161). According to Corinne Crider,
who sent me this information in a 12 Dec. 1993 letter, the deed is
from Whitlock Bryson to EV. Since TB and Abner Bryson
were co-executors of the estate of their father-in-law Thomas
Whitlock, who died in 1830, I suspect the land was TW's--or
might it have been jointly owned by Abner Bryson and TW? Note
that Abner Bryson's home farm was contiguous to that
of Thomas Whitlock, and that AB had bought half TW's 500-acre tract on
Illwill Creek in Cumberland Co. See file of Thomas Whitlock.
A Thomas W. Bryson appears as a buyer at the estate sale of
Thomas Whitlock. Could this have been Thomas Whitlock
Bryson, and could he have been a son of Abner Bryson? Is this the
Whitlock Bryson of the deed above?
In a 17 July 1993 letter to me, Corinne Crider tells me
that Wayne Co. Court Order Bk. C, p. 319, shows a Thomas M. Brooks
appointed road overseer at March ct., 1836. Since TB
was the only TB living in Wayne Co. at this time, his middle initial
appears to have been M.
On 7 Nov., 8 Nov., and 10 Nov. 1836, TB and wife Sarah
sold their homeplace in Wayne Co. The land was sold to Daniel
Shearer for $100. The deed mentions that it lay on Beaver
Creek in Grassy Valley, containing 100 acres, on the lines of
James Frost (see the 1819 Gillespie deed above), Daniel
Shearer, and Bright Gilstrap. The deed is signed by TB, with Sarah
making her mark, and was wit. by Jacob Shearer. I have
a photocopy of the original, without notation of its source. This deed
was not recorded until 2 Jan. 1915, according to the
deed book.
I have not seen the 10 Nov. deed. Corinne Crider tells
me (in a letter 13 Apr. 1993) that it is in Wayne Co. DB I, p. 391, and
that the deed is for the 200 acres TB patented on Otter
Creek on 24 July 1799. This land was sold for $600 to Thomas
Marcum, with Jacob Shearer and Samuel Canida wit.
The 10 Nov. 1836 deed was for 200 acres, and was sold
for $1200. The deed notes that the land was in Grassy Valley in
both Wayne and Pulaski Co., and bordered John Henderson
and John Lear. The deed further states that this land was the
tract TB had patented on 16 Aug. 1799. The deed is signed
by TB and wife Sarah (who never previously signs a document
with her signature), and appears to have no witnesses.
On 12 Nov. 1836, TB and Sarah acknowledged the deed, Sarah
relinquishing her dower rights (Wayne Co. DB G, pp. 152-3;
I have a photocopy).
Augusta Phillips Johnson, CENTURY OF WAYNE CO., p. 84
(cited in file of Wesley Huffaker), says that Daniel Shearer
helped build a Church of Christ at Pleasant Bend, now
Cooper, in 1828, and that among the first families to join this church
were the Oatts, Coffeys, Vickerys, Alexanders, and Shearers.
In 1852, these families built a church in Shearer Valley. Note
that the Oatts were a Wythe Co., VA, family.
Johnson indicates that the Shearer family were English
Puritans who had land grants in Northern Ireland under Cromwell (p.
235), and who came ca. 1740 from Co. Armagh to New York,
moving from there to PA, SC, and KY. The Wayne Co.
Shearers stem from William Shearer (1760-1830), who was
born in NC, moved from SC to KY, and was buried in Bethesda
Cemetery in Wayne Co. Daniel Shearer was his son. Daniel
Shearer m. Margaret Vickery; two of their daughters married
Huffakers.
Clarissa Ruth Barnes Smart, THE DESCENDANTS OF MARY BROYLES
VICKERY AND FRANCIS MARION VICKERY
OF WAYNE CO., KY (Charlottesville, VA: Wayside, 1984),
p. 577, has a description of DS and Margaret Vickery. Smart says
that this information comes from their granddaughter
Emma Cook, who was interviewed by Ottie Shearer on 3 Aug. 1942,
when EC was 87 years old. EC noted that he grandfather
Daniel Shearer was "a low man, fair, heavy set, very sociable. He
had blue eyes. All or nearly all of that generation had
blue eyes." According to EC, DS kept the first tavern in his part of Wayne
Co. This was a successful venture, as people came through
that part of the county driving hogs, mules, and cattle. Shearer
Valley Tavern was built to house these people. EC also
notes that her grandfather DS opposed the keeping of slaves.
TB was executor of the estate of William Bartleson of
Wayne Co., a neighbor of his in Grassy Valley. TB appears in a court
case filed by John Ryan on 10 Apr. 1834 vs. his administration
of the estate with WB's son William (June Baldwin Bork,
WAYNE CO., KY, PIONEERS: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES AND CIVIL
COURT RECORDS, vol. 4, pp. 338-99,
transcribing the original court record). Ryan alleged
that WB had mismanaged the proceeds of the estate and had used them
as his own. William Bartleson, Jr., sold this estate's
land to Absolom Miller on 27 Apr. 1840, noting that he and TB were
executors of the estate; the deed does not mention that
TB had died (Wayne Co. DB H, p. 275).
The Nov. 1836 deeds indicate that TB and Sarah were selling
out to move to AL. Since people normally moved in the fall of
the year at this period in the South--after their crops
had been gathered in--I suspect that TB and his wife moved immediately
to Morgan Co., AL. Since both died not too long after
the move to AL, I think that both were old and infirm, and made this move
to spend their final days among their children.
In Nov. 1836, TB appears as a debtor to the estate of
his son-in-law Dennis Lindsey in Lawrence Co., AL. TB owed DL
$13.88, per note; see file of DL for details.
Documents in the estate file of TB (which is on file at
the Morgan Co. Archives [1996]) reinforce the impression that TB and his
wife were sick at the time they moved to AL. An Aug.
1837 receipt of Edward Wise, evidently a doctor or pharmacist, shows
that EW went 2 vials of laudanum to the TB household,
per Mark Lindsey. Note that Sarah Whitlock Brooks died in that month,
so the laudanum was evidently for her. This suggests
that she died of a painful illness such as cancer.
Another receipt from Dr. J.W. Hickey shows that he visited
TB on 11 July 1838 to prescribe medicine. He came again on 38
Sept., giving TB medicine when he was at a campground
meeting. On the 10th, he came to TB's daughter Jane Lindsey's
house to prescribe medicine for TB. TB's illness was
evidently more pronounced after this, because Dr. Hickey came twice on
the 20th, both times giving TB 2 bottles of morphine.
On 24 and 28 Sept. and on 6 Oct., he came again, each time leaving two
bottles of morphine. Note that TB d. the 25th of that
month, per his bible. From the 6th to the 25th, he may have been comatose.
As with his wife, the illness seems to have been painful,
perhaps cancer.
Other documents show that Jane Lindsey cared for both
parents as they died. A 13 Nov. 1839 receipt of Jane Brooks Lindsey
says that she boarded and attended her sick mother 5
months in 1837, and her sick father 3 months that year. In 1838, she
boarded and nursed James Brooks while he was sick; this
is evidently Jane's uncle, who died that year. The receipt also
shows that JBL boarded and nursed her father 2 months
in his final illness in 1838.
Prior to the move to AL, TB had apparently begun to acquire
land in Lawrence and Morgan Co., AL, in anticipation of his
move. On 20 Nov. 1834, he filed a homestead claim on
a tract of river improvement land in Lawrence Co., the N 1/2 of the W
1/2 of the SW 1/4, sect. 31, twp. 4S, R 8W. His estate
records indicate that he also had land in Morgan Co. in the east 1/2 of
the SE 1/4 of section 30, twp. 7, R5W and the east 1/2
of NE 1/4, section 31, twp. 7, R5. This land appears in Orphans Court
minutes in TB's estate, Morgan Co., AL; see below. I
have not yet acquired copies of these land records.
TB's will is dated 2 Oct. 1838. It specifies that TB is
of Morgan Co., AL, and leaves his land in Morgan Co. to his sons Samuel
and James, along with the livestock and farming utensils
on the farm. It leaves to his children Thomas W., Margaret Vanwinkle,
James, and Sarah Lindsey $100 each. To each of his 5
other children--Charles, Jane Lindsey, Alexander, Hannah Huffaker,
and Samuel--TB had already given $100, it being legacy
money, according to the will. On this, see below. The will asks that
all other monies in the estate be equally divided among
all children. Charles Brooks is appointed the executor of the will. The
will is signed and sealed by TB, and was witnessed by
J.W. Hickey and John W. Lindsey (son of Jane Brooks Lindsey). It
was proven in Morgan Co. court on 25 Feb. 1839 by both
witnesses (Morgan Co. Orphans Ct. Records 7, 1837-43, p. 134; I
have a photocopy).
The estate file contains the holographic will, with the
actual signatures of TB, J.W. Hickey, and John W. Lindsey. TB's signature
is very shaky, which further indicates how ill he was.
Note that J.W. Hickey was TB's doctor. Was he present because he had
come to inform TB that he was mortally ill, at which
point TB wrote the will? The signature of JWL is so much like the
handwriting of the will that I am tempted to believe
that TB's grandson John wrote the original will itself.
The will was presented in court by Charles Brooks on 16
Feb. 1839, and proven the 25th of Feb., according to ibid. and
Orphans Ct. Minute Bk. 5, p. 343 and 354. On the latter
date, John W. Lindsey and David Dinsmore Lindsey gave bond with
Charles Brooks (p. 354). Note that JWL was a nephew of
CB--a son of his sister Jane Lindsey--and DDL (JWL's uncle) was
CB's brother-in-law--husband of CB's sister Sarah. The
estate file contains the original document granting CB administration on
25 Feb.
Also on 25 Feb., Edward Wise, Benjamin Johnson, and Drury
Stovall were ordered to inventory the estate, and Charles
Brooks was given permission to hold the estate sale;
these documents are in the estate file.
TB appears to have been buried in a white vest, since
his estate file contains a receipt dated simply 1838 for a white vest
purchased by the firm of Lindsey and Gibson, from Simpson
& Co. The receipt also includes a coffin the family bought from
Lindsey and Gibson for $20, along with silk for a shroud
and 1 1/2 yards cambrick, perhaps to make a shirt for TB to be laid
out in. The Lindsey of Lindsey and company was John W.
Lindsey. Another receipt to Edward Wise shows that the family
bought another 5 yards of cambric on the 26th of October,
the day after TB died--again, I suspect, for the funeral. Yet another
receipt on the day of TB's death shows that the family
bought from William Simpson several items I cannot read; one may be a
pair of hose, in which he may have been buried, if he
was buried in knee-breeches.
Another 1838 receipt to the firm of Hogan & Lindsey
is curious. It shows that in April, TB (or some member of his family)
purchased quite a bit of fine cloth and other such items.
On 14 Apr., 10 yds. fancy silk, 3 1/2 yds. Irish linen, a white belt, 2
1/2
yds. blue ribbon, 3/4 yds. white satin, and 1/2 yd. white
ribbon were bought. Three days later, the family purchased 4 yds of
white ribbon, 4 yds. lace, 1 oz. cinnamon, 2 nutmegs,
a large bowl, a headdress, a bunch of flowers, and a paper of pins. On
the 20th, a pr. of silk gloves was bought, along with
3 skeins yellow silk, and a pr. silk hose. On the 23rd, more white satin
was
bought.
The only explanation I can give for all these purchases
while TB was so ill is that his youngest daughter Sarah married David
Dinsmore Lindsey on 1 May 1838. Evidently, her father
was having the items above purchase in preparation for his
daughter's wedding. The cinnamon, nutmeg, and large bowl
would have been for punch. If the flowers were fresh and not
artificial, they would have been rather wilted by the
wedding date. Or were they for a party prior to the wedding? In March,
TB
had also bought 2 fine combs and 2 jugs of whiskey--perhaps
to celebrate the engagement?
TB's personal estate was inventoried by Henry T. Pendleton,
Stephen Johnson, and Edward Wise on 14 March 1839, rec.
18 May. The estate included 4 beds and their furnishings,
a lot of books, a clock and looking glass, a drop-leaf table, a
cupboard and furniture, a chest, a trunk, 8 chairs, and
various farm implements and kitchen items. The entire estate was
appraised at $219.64 (Morgan Co. Probate Bk. 7; I have
a photocopy, without page numbers). The original is in the estate
file. Since TB and his wife appear to have moved to AL
in their old age, I suspect that they had given much of their estate to
their children before their death, keeping only items
necessary for their livelihood in their last years.
The original is in the estate file, with CB's signature.
For continuation, see nb4.txt.\\
More About Thomas M. Brooks:
Date born 2: 28 Oct 1775, Frederick County, Virginia
Died 2: 25 Oct 1838, Lawrence County, Alabama
Burial: Johnson Cemetery on a plantation
Occupation 1: Methodist Minister
Occupation 2: County Commissioner and farmer
Residence: Reared large family in Wayne County, Kentucky
Notes for Sarah Whitlock Brown:
My dates of birth and death for SW are from her husband's
bible; on this, see file of Thomas Brooks. The bible states that she
was b. in Bedford Co., VA. I have placed her death in
Morgan Co., AL, because I believe that she and her husband moved
there around November 1836, after selling their land
in Wayne Co., KY. The last document I can find for SW is her
relinquishment of dower rights for the sale of one of
these parcels of land; this occurred on 12 Nov. 1836. A reference to her
also appears in the estate file of her husband, which
indicates that SW died at the home of her daughter Jane in Lawrence Co.,
AL.
Note that, with the exception of one of the 1836 deeds
in Wayne Co., KY, SW consistently made her mark when signing
documents, which indicates that she was illiterate.
SW is named in her father's will. The will leaves her
a slave Lucy and Lucy's oldest child Perlina. At the sale of Thomas
Whitlock's estate, Thomas Brooks bought another slave,
a boy. I believe that this slave was a David who appears in the estate
inventory, and I suspect that David was another child
of Lucy. For more on this, see files of Thomas Brooks and Thomas
Whitlock.
SW evidently died at the home of her daughter Jane in
Lawrence Co., AL, though SW and husband Thomas Brooks were
living in Morgan Co. at the time. Receipts in the estate
file of Thomas Brooks show that Jane Brooks Lindsey nursed and
boarded her mother 3 months in the year SW died, and
other receipts show that the doctor or pharmacist sent laudanum to the
house, evidently for SW in her final illness. This suggests
that SW died of some painful illness such as cancer. On these
documents, see file of Thomas Brooks.
More About Sarah Whitlock Brown:
Died 2: 16 Aug 1837, Kentucky
Marriage Notes for Thomas Brooks and Sarah Brown:
These are actually notes for Thomas M. Brooks only, information
was too long to fit in his notes file:
Thomas Brooks was born in Virginia between 1766 and 1780's
and died in Morgan County, Alabama, April 30, 1839. He
married Sarah Brown in the 1790's in Virginia. The census
records show Sarah to be older than Thomas. We haven't found
when or where she died, but it was prior to 1838, as
she was not mentioned in Thomas' will. (Note the death of Sarah was
found).
Thomas Brooks bought hundreds of acres of land in Pulaski
County, Kentucy, and Wayne County, Kentucky, beginning in
1799. He was also a "minister of the gospel" and performed
marriages, including that of his daughter, Hanna Brooks and
Wesley Huffaker in 1828. The nine heirs named in Thomas
Brooks' will were four daughters and five sons. The daughters
were: Jane, Margaret, Hannah, and Sarah. The five sons
were: Charles, Alexander M., Thomas W., Samuel K., and James
R.
Thomas Brooks was buried in the private family cemetery on his plantation, in Morgan County, Alabama, in 1839.
In the will of Thomas Brooks, his executor was son, Charles, who was the father of our John Cornelius Brooks.
See Charles Brooks.
Children of Thomas Brooks and Sarah Brown are:
33.
i.
Jane4 Brooks, b. 19 Feb 1797, Wythe County, Virginia; d. 09 Sep 1852, Oakville,
Lawrence
County, Alabama.
34.
ii.
Charles Brooks, b. Dec 1800, Wayne County, Kentucky; d. 25 Oct 1861, Itawamba
County,
Mississippi.
35.
iii.
Margaret Brooks, b. 06 Feb 1803, Wayne County, Kentucky; d. 04 Oct 1855,
Morgan County,
Illinois.
36.
iv.
Thomas Whitlock Brooks, b. 22 Dec 1805, Wayne County, Kentucky; d. 03 Oct
1879, Prairie
Township, Randolph County, Missouri.
37.
v.
Alexander M. Brooks, b. 08 Nov 1808, Wayne County, Kentucky or Lawrence
County,
Alabama; d. 08 Feb 1899, Woodville, Tyler County, Texas.
38.
vi.
Hannah Brooks, b. 05 Sep 1811, Wayne County, Kentucky; d. 03 Dec 1853,
Beaver Creek,
Wayne County, Kentucky.
vii.
Michael Brooks, b. 14 Sep 1814, Wayne County, Kentucky.
Notes for Michael Brooks:
My source for the date of birth of MB is his father's bible; on this source,
see file of Thomas
Brooks. The transcriber of the bible register was apparently unable to
read the entire name, and
gives only Mic--- as the name. I suspect that the name should be Micajah
or Michael.
Is Mic-- Brooks possibly Alexander M. Brooks? Since we have found no other
evidence of a
son Michael/Micajah, I think that this is likely, and that AMB's middle
name was Michael/Micajah.
The date of birth in the bible would not, however, correspond precisely
to census date re: AMB's
birth. See his file for details.
39.
viii.
Samuel K. Brooks, b. 19 Dec 1815, Wayne County, Kentucky; d. 19 Aug 1898,
Itawamba (Lee)
County, Mississippi.
ix.
James R. Brooks, b. 26 Dec 1818, Wayne County, Kentucky; d. Aft. 1850,
El Dorado County,
California; m. Jane Rickett Pucket, 02 Apr 1840, Lawrence County, Alabama.
Notes for James R. Brooks:
My source for JRB's date of birth is his father's family bible; on this
source, see file of Thomas
Brooks.
On 11 June 1840, JB bought a tract of his father's land, when the land
was sold; the land was in
the E 1/2 of the NE 1/4 of sect. 31, Morgan Co.
A 20 Jan. 1851 list of the heirs of Thomas Brooks' in TB's estate file
notes that JRB was in
California at that date. JRB had evidently gone to CA by 1850, since he
appears on the 1850
census in El Dorado Co., CA, Dutch Creek Twp., p. 418 (dwel. 6/fam. 7).
He is listed as a
miner, aged 32, b. KY. The household contains 9 other men all in their
20s and 30s.
El Dorado Co is in the bend of CA on its eastern side, near the Nevada
border. This was gold
rush country, and that is clearly what brought JRB to CA in the 1840s.
The 1860 census, which I
have not yet consulted, contains two James Brookses in El Dorado Co.--on
pp. 1115 and 1152.
After that, I don't find JRB in census indexes. Did he die in CA after
1850? What happened to his
wife Jane when he went to CA? Had she died by this time?
More About James R. Brooks:
Occupation: 1850, A miner in El Dorado, California, Dutch Creek Township
(age 32)
Notes for Jane Rickett Pucket:
For Puckett information, see file of Caroline A. Puckett.
40.
x.
Sarah Parker Brooks, b. 04 Mar 1822, Wayne County, Kentucky; d. 30 May
1897, Oakville,
Lawrence County, Alabama.
13. Margaret3 Brooks (Thomas2, Thomas1) was born 1782
in Frederick County, Virginia, and died 1857 in Grayson
County, Kentucky. She married Joseph Day Abt. 1792 in
Virginia.
Notes for Margaret Brooks:
According to a 22 May 1993 letter sent to me by Elsie
Davis, 710 Second St., Coronado, CA 92118, MB had 2 sets of twins,
one of twin boys and the other of twin girls. Since no
twins appear to have existed in the lines of MB's husband, Elsie Davis
has concluded that the twin gene runs in the Brooks line.
For other instances of twins in the Brooks line, see files of Thomas
and James Brooks, MB's brothers. ED also notes that MB's
daughter Sarah had two daughters who gave birth to twins.
Note also that MB's brother Jesse had a son John who appears to have had twin children on the 1850 census.
In a 5 May 1993 letter to me, Elsie Davis tells me that
the name Margaret Elizabeth runs through descendants of MB, so she
suspects that Elizabeth was MB's middle name.
The family of Joseph Day is on the 1810 census in Grayson
Co., KY, p. 241, with males 2/4/1/1/0 and females 0/0/1/1/0, with
no slaves. In 1820, the family is again in Grayson Co.
(p. 134); also in 1830 (p. 302) and 1840 (p. 145). According to Elsie
Davis, THREE GENERATIONS OF DAYS, p. 4, Joseph and Margaret
Day are on the 1850 census in the household of son
Jacob, aged 85 and 78 respectively (p. 4). Davis says
that Margaret Brooks appears in Grayson Co. records in 1857 as
having died that year at age 75 (p. 5, citing KY HIST.
SOC. REGISTER 50, pp. 165-83; see also Grayson Co. Death
Registry, in Ingmire, GRAYSON CO. DEATH RECORDS, p. 22,
cited in file of MB's sister Sarah). The death record gives no
date other than 1857, and says that MB was 75, a widow,
and died of old age. Elsie Davis thinks that Joseph and Margaret
Brooks Day are buried in Shain Cemetery, 1/4 mile southeast
of Short Creek, where their sons Jacob and Jesse are buried.
Note that both the 1850 census and the death record place
MB's birth in 1782, and not 1772, as Davis has it. But if Davis'
information about the birthdate of MB's oldest child
is correct, she would have been only 11 at the time of this birth!
Unless otherwise noted, all the information I have recorded
about the children of Joseph and MB Day, and their descendants,
is from Davis, THREE GENERATIONS. Davis says that the
biography of MB's son Isaac E. Day in HISTORY OF DAVIESS
CO., KY (see file of IED) says that his parents had 12
sons and 5 daughters, including two pairs of twins, both male and female
(p. 2).
More About Margaret Brooks:
Burial: 1857, Shain Cemetery, Grayson County, Kentucky
Notes for Joseph Day:
Unless otherwise stated, all my information about the
ancestry of JD is from Elsie Davis, comp., THREE GENERATIONS OF
DAYS AND THEIR WIVES (710 Second St., Coronado, CA 92118).
Davis traces the Ross, Yarnall, and Meredith lines
several generations further back than I have recorded.
In a 5 May 1993 letter to me, Elsie Davis tells me that
JD's parents and uncles were disowned by Hopewell Monthly Friends
Meeting, Frederick Co., VA, in 1768 "for frequenting
places of diversion and dancing." After this, ED says, the family moved
up
the Valley of VA to Botetourt Co., and were in Wythe
Co. by 1800.
In a 23 May 1994 letter, ED tells me that JD had a brother Evan Day, who married in 1801 in Rockbridge Co, VA.
On 4 Sept. 1782, a JD patented 300 acres in Montgomery
Co., VA, on Middle Fork of Elk Creek. The land had been
assigned to JD by James Newell, who received it from
Michael Woods (Kegley, EARLY ADVENTURERS, vol. 2, p. 46, citing
Montgomery Co. Entry Bk. A, p. 74). On 20 June 1786,
JD entered 90 acres on the north side of the Fork of Elk Creek of
New River, out of 300 acres of a treasury warrant. The
land was at his old corner (ibid., vol. 3, p. 54, citing Montgomery Co.
Entry Bk. B, p. 305).
Davis, THREE GENERATIONS OF DAYS, p. 1, says that a JD
is on the Montgomery Co., VA, tax list in 1789, and that this
JD bought land in Montgomery Co. in 1790. The land was
on Elk Creek. Davis thinks that JD may then have moved with his
family to Botetourt Co., where his brothers were then
living, since a JD appears on Botetourt Co. tax lists in 1802 and 1805.
Davis says that the Johnston family bible, originally
owned by Sarah Day, daughter of Joseph Day and Margaret Brooks,
places SD's birth in VA on 4 Dec. 1801, thus proving
that the family had not moved to KY by that date (ibid.). This is confirmed
by the 1850-60 census, which show SD's place of birth
as VA.
Davis notes that a biographical sketch of Isaac E. Day,
son of Joseph and Margaret Brooks Day, in HISTORY OF DAVIESS
CO., KY (see file of IED), states that the family of
Joseph Day moved to Hardin Co., KY, 2-3 years before the family settled
in
Grayson Co. (p. 2). According to Davis, JD bought 300
acres in Ohio Co., which was formed from Hardin, in 1808 (citing DB
AA, p. 279, and BB, p. 575). Davis notes that the Hardin
Co. clerk signed the deed in Aug., 1808 (p. 2).
JD is on the 1810 tax list for Grayson Co. with 300 acres
on Bozorth's Fork. The land had been entered for Jacob Linder. JD
had one white male over 21 in the household and 6 horses.
The same for 1811, with an extra horse. Ditto 1812, with 6
horses. I did not check this list for Days after 1812.
Davis states that JD is on the Grayson Co., KY, census
in 1810-1850. On the latter census, JD and wife Margaret, aged 85
and 78 respectively, are in the household of their son
Jacob (pp. 3-4). Davis says that KY vital statistics show that JD died
on 6
Oct. 1855 of flux, aged 86. However, according to Davis,
another record shows him dying 16 Jan. 1854 of a fall (p. 4). This is
evidently see Grayson Co. Death Registry, 1855 (in Ingmire,
GRAYSON CO. DEATH RECORDS, p. 8, cited in file of JD's
sister-in-law Sarah Brooks). The death registry record
says that JD was b. in Botetourt Co., VA, and d. 16 Jan. 1854, from a
fall, aged 86. Note that Ingmire's transcription says
that JD was the son of David and Sophia Allen!?
More About Joseph Day:
Burial: 06 Oct 1855, Shain Cemetery, Grayson County,
Kentucky
Children of Margaret Brooks and Joseph Day are:
i.
John4 Day, b. Abt. 1793.
ii.
Day, b. Abt. 1795.
iii.
Day, b. Abt. 1797.
iv.
Day, b. Abt. 1798.
v.
Day, b. Abt. 1799.
vi.
Day, b. Abt. 1800.
41.
vii.
Sarah Day, b. 04 Dec 1801, Wythe County, Virginia; d. 09 Sep 1865, Pike
County, Illinois.
42.
viii.
Catherine Day, b. Oct 1803, Hardin County, Kentucky; d. 26 Nov 1887.
ix.
Squire Day, b. 08 Nov 1805, Hardin County, Kentucky; d. 09 Mar 1864, Grayson
County,
Kentucky; m. Elizabeth Clagett.
Notes for Squire Day:
Davis, THREE GENERATIONS OF DAYS, pp. 8, 15, says that SD and wife are
on the 1850
census in Grayson Co., KY, fam. #769, with no children, though she also
notes that the 1840
census has a girl aged 5-10 in their household.
More About Squire Day:
Burial: 09 Mar 1864, Harrell Cemetery, Grayson County, Kentucky
More About Elizabeth Clagett:
Burial: 1874, Harrell Cemetery, Grayson County, Kentucky
43.
x.
Mordecai Yarnell Day, b. 17 Sep 1807, Grayson County, Kentucky; d. 01 Aug
1886, Grayson
County, Kentucky.
44.
xi.
Lydia Day, b. 04 Sep 1809, Grayson County, Kentucky; d. 04 Sep 1863, Grayson
County,
Kentucky.
45.
xii.
Elizabeth Day, b. Abt. 1811, Grayson County, Kentucky; d. Aft. 1849, Grayson
County,
Kentucky.
46.
xiii.
Jesse Brooks Day, b. Abt. 1811, Grayson County, Kentucky; d. Aft. 1858.
47.
xiv.
Robert Brooks Day, b. 1813, Short Creek, Grayson County, Kentucky; d. 12
Oct 1876,
Grayson County, Kentucky.
48.
xv.
Jacob Wallace Day, b. 10 Sep 1815, Grayson County, Kentucky; d. Aft. 1864.
49.
xvi.
Isaac E. Day, b. 10 Sep 1815, Grayson County, Kentucky; d. Aft. 1883.
50.
xvii.
Rebecca W. Day, b. 27 Feb 1818, Grayson County, Kentucky; d. 12 Feb 1902.
14. Jesse3 Brooks (Thomas2, Thomas1) was born Abt. 1784
in Frederick County, Virginia, and died 30 Jan 1860 in
Edmondson County, Kentucky. He married Mary.
Notes for Jesse Brooks:
My date of birth for JB is from both the 1850 census,
which shows him as b. ca. 1784, and his death record, which shows him
aged 75 on 30 Jan. 1860. I suspect that the death record
(cited below) is an 1860 mortality schedule record.
This family settled in Butler Co., KY, according to a
6 Oct. 1983 letter sent to me by Elsie Davis, 710 Second St., Coronado,
CA 92118.
For JB in his father's estate records in Wythe Co. 1804-5, see file of Robert Brooks.
On 12 Aug. 1806, Wythe Co. court appointed JB overseer
of the road from Evans' ferry to the county line at Peirce's furnace
(at Poplar Camp) (Wythe Co. ct. order bks. 1795-1810,
in ABSTRACTS, p. 136, cited in file of Thomas Whitlock).
On 12 Sept. 1809, the court appointed Samuel Crockett
to replace JB as road overseer (ibid., in ABSTRACTS, p. 170). An 11
Sept. 1810 court order says that Archibald Hasling was
appointed the road overseer in place of JB (ibid., in ABSTRACTS, p.
179).
In a 23 May 1994 letter to me, Elsie Davis tells me that
a Jesse Brooks household is on the 1810 census in Wayne Co., KY,
but has no male old enough to be head of the household.
I haven't seen this census.
My research has found Jesse Brooks is on the 1810 census
in Wythe Co., VA. Could he have had a household in both Wythe
Co., VA, and Wayne Co., KY, and thus have been enumerated
twice? In that case, he would have been listed as head of the
Wayne Co. household, but his wife would have been running
the house, if he were away in VA. I need to double-check the
1810 Wayne Co. census.
On the 1820 census, JB is in Wayne Co., KY, with 2 males
0-10, 1 males 10-16, 1 male 16-18, 1 male 16-26, 1 male 26-45, 1
female 0-10, 1 female 10-16, and 1 female 26-45. Four
in the household are engaged in agriculture. I have this information
from a 20 July 1994 letter of Corinne Crider, 2908 College
Circle N, Corsicana, TX 75110.
JB is on Wayne Co., KY, tax lists in 1811, 1813-22, without
land. After 1822, he disappears from these lists. Corinne Crider
tells me that the delinquent tax lists for Wayne Co.
have a notation that JB was "removed" in 1814, which she took to mean that
he had paid his taxes and been removed from the list.
She also tells me that the 1823 delinquent lists shows JB as being in
Barren Co., KY, and thus delinquent in Wayne. Evidently,
JB moved in 1822 from Wayne to Barren Co.
The tax data suggest to me that JB remained in Wythe Co.
to settle his father's estate, of which he was an executor, then
moved on to KY with his brothers. The fact that JB was
at home for so much longer than the other brothers also suggests to me
that he was the youngest son of Thomas and Margaret Brooks.
Corinne Crider tells me that JB is on the 1830 census
in Barren Co., KY, with 1 m. under 5, 2 m. 10-15, 1 m. 50-60, 1 f. 5-10,
1 f. 10-15, 1 f. 15-20, 1 f. 20-30, and 1 f. 40-50. Also
in Barren Co. in 1830 are JB's sons James (1 m. 5-10, 1 m. 20-30, 1 f.
20-30) and Thomas (1 m. under 5, 1 m. 20-30, 2 f. under
5, 1 f. 20-30).
On 27 Nov. 1830, JB gave mortgage to Henry Eubank, both
of Barren Co., for debt. The mortgage notes that JB lived on a
farm, and grew tobacco. The mortgage included beds and
furniture, a walnut chest, and 6 split-bottom chairs (Barren Co.
Mortgage Bk. 1, p. 220l; see Gladys Benedict Wilson,
BARREN CO. MORTGAGE BOOK NO. 1, 1829-1833 [128 St. Mary's
Court, Glasgow, KY 42141; 1979], p. 84).
According to Corinne Crider, JB is on the 1850 census
in Barren Co., p. 318 (1st Division; dwel.--, fam. 176). His age is given
as 67, his occupation as farmer, and his place of birth
as VA. In the household are wife Mary, 65, also b. VA, and daughter
Rebecca, 26, b. KY. On p. 310 (fam 53) is the household
of John Brooks, 31, b. KY, with wife Patsy, 37?, b. KY, and children
Susan J., 7, Marietta, 7, and Wm. H., 4, all b. KY. In
her 1 June 1993 letter to Elsie Davis (cited below), Corinne Crider says
that on the 1850 census, JB and his family appear to
be enumerated in the house of Redmund Crews, 34, b. KY, and wife
Winnefred, 33, b. VA, with their children. Next door
is the family of Jacob and Elizabeth Locke and their children.
Corinne Crider also reports that, on p. 319 of the 1850
census in Barren Co. (dwel. 183/fam. 192) is also the family of Joseph
D. Brooks, 24, wife Mary J., 23, and son William T.,
6 months, all b. KY. On p. 356 is the family of Jesse Brooks, Jr., 34,
wife
Lucinda, 31, children George T., 6, Susan E., 4, James
H., 2, and Mary J., 8 months, all b. KY.
In her 20 July 1994 letter (above), Corinne Crider tells
me that BROOKS FAMILY QUERY EXCHANGE 1, 3 (Nov. 1980), p.
22, has a query that reports JB's date of death. The
query is by Kenneth McCracken, Rt. 1, Piedmont, KS 67122. It states that
JB died 30 Jan. 1860 of dropsy, aged 75, and that he
was son of Thomas and Margaret Brooks. Corinne Crider tells me (13
Apr. 1993) that JB died in Edmondson Co., KY. In a 1
June 1993 letter to Elsie Davis of Coronado, CA, a copy of which CC
sent me, she explains that her source for the Edmondson
Co. information is a book listing deaths in Edmondson Co., KY.
Corinne Crider tells me that LINCOLN CO., KY, RECORDS,
vol. 1, p. 77, shows a Jesse Brooks gave bond with Thomas
Gilbert for TG's marriage to Mary Depauw on 5 May 1807,
with Charles and Rachel Depauw giving consent for their
daughter Mary on 27 Apr. 1807. JB also witnessed the
marriage. CC wonders if this JB is the JB who was son of Thomas and
Margaret Brooks, and if Rachel is JB's sister. But note
that the will of TB implies that his daughter Rachel was unmarried in
1804. If so, she could not have had a grown daughter
in 1807.
A Delphy Brooks m. Robert Humphrey, Barren Co., KY, on
30 March 1831. The marriage was performed by Rev. Jacob
Locke. Note that he also married Barret Pace and Margaret
Walters, and that their son Jacob married Susannah Humphrey. A
James Humphrey m. Sarah Walters, 30 March 1826, Barren
Co., KY. For the marriage of Delphy Brooks, Jesse Brooks gave
consent, and James Brooks gave bond. The record is in
BARREN CO., KY, MARRIAGES, p. 138--see file of Margaret
Walters. I suspect that Delphy is a daughter of Jesse
Brooks.
An Elizabeth Brooks m. Jacob Locke, Jr. on 12 March 1836,
with Robert Humphrey giving consent; is she another of the
daughters of Jesse? (see Reneau, p. 27, cited in file
of William Brooks who m. Martha Owen).
James P. Brooks, THE BIOGRAPHY OF ELDER JACOB LOCKE, BARREN
CO., KY (Glasgow, KY: Times Print, 1881; LDS
film 0001232), has information about Jacob Locke. The
book's preface page says that James P. Brooks was living in Horse
Cave, KY, when he wrote the book in 1881. The book says
that Jacob Locke was b. in Hanover Co., VA, on 24 Aug. 1768
(noting that his tombstone shows the year of birth as
1767) (p. 4). He was son of Richard and Mary Locke, Richard Locke
having been b. in England (4).
On 9 March 1787, Jacob Locke m. Margaret Jett, apparently
in VA, family tradition saying that Margaret Jett was a niece of
David Crockett (9). Brooks notes that he had not substantiated
this, but that David Crockett did have a sister who married a Jett
(ibid.). Brooks notes that the father of Margaret Jett
was of Hanover Co., VA (10), and that the couple lived together happily
for
58 years (10).
In March 1789, the family decided to emigrate to KY (13).
The family settled first at Harrodsburg, but in 1799 moved to Barren
Co., their second tract of land there being owned in
1881 by Price Curd (15). The old Mt. Tabor church minutes show that he
joined that church in June 1800 (17-18). In August, the
church licensed him to exhort (ibid.). In March 1801, he was licensed
to preach (18-19). He was ordained in Mrch 1802 (21)
by a presbytery consisting of Elders Alex. Davidson and Alex.
McDougal (ibid.). In 1801, JL represented Mt. Tabor at
the Green River Baptist Assn., when the latter was organized (31-2).
From at least 1815 until Liberty Assn. was organized
in 1840, JL was assn. moderator (ibid.).
James Brooks identifies himself as pastor of Mt. Tabor
church from April 1847 to May 1879, when he retired (65). James
Brooks was ordained in May 1845, about three months after
the death of Jacob Locke (68). Jacob Locke died 18 Jan. 1845,
and was buried near his residence in Barren Co. (78).
Children of Jesse Brooks and Mary are:
51.
i.
William4 Brooks, b. Abt. 1809.
ii.
James Brooks, b. Bef. 1810; m. Mary Parish, 27 Dec 1827, Barren County,
Kentucky.
Notes for James Brooks:
On Jacob Locke see file of Margaret Walters (see Reneau, p. 27, cited in
file of William Brooks
who m. Martha Owen).
iii.
Thomas Brooks, b. Bef. 1810; m. Susan W. Parrish, 23 Jun 1825, Barren County,
Kentucky.
Notes for Thomas Brooks:
Jacob Locke; see file of Margaret Walters (see Reneau, p. 27, cited in
file of William Brooks who
m. Martha Owen).
iv.
Jesse Brooks, b. Abt. 1816; m. Lucinda White, 27 Dec 1842, Barren County,
Kentucky.
Notes for Jesse Brooks:
(see Reneau, p. 27, cited in file of William Brooks who m. Martha Owen).
v.
John Brooks, b. Abt. 1819, Wayne County, Kentucky; m. Patsey White, 25
Jan 1843, Barren
County, Kentucky.
vi.
Rebecca Brooks, b. Abt. 1824, Barren County, Kentucky.
vii.
Joseph D. Brooks, b. Abt. 1826; m. Mary J. Rickets, 27 Sep 1848, Barren
County, Kentucky.
Notes for Joseph D. Brooks:
JDB received bond to marry Mary J. Rickets, and married her on the same
day, on 27 Sept.
1848, Barren Co., KY, James Brooks performing the marriage (see Reneau,
p. 27, cited in file of
William Brooks who m. Martha Owen). Is this James uncle of JDB?
15. Rebecca3 Brooks (Thomas2, Thomas1) was born Abt. 1786
in Wythe County, Virginia. She married Jacob Walters 11
Apr 1807 in Hardin County, Kentucky.
Notes for Rebecca Brooks:
The LDS IGI has entries for a Rebecca Brooks who m. Jacob
Walters, 11 Apr. 1807, Hardin Co., KY (batch 7810201, sheet
40, film 1126274); and a RB who m. John Haden, 16 Aug.
1810, Clark Co., KY (batch 7906505, sheet 46, film 1126497).
Note that Grayson Co., to which several of RB's siblings
moved, was formed from Hardin Co. in 1810, and that, in fact, the
family of RB's sister Margaret and her husband Joseph
Day, seem to have been in Hardin Co. in 1808. This makes me
strongly suspect that the RB who married Jacob Walters
in Hardin Co. is the daughter of Thomas (d. 1804) and Margaret
Brooks.
RB is on the 1850 census in Barren Co., KY, p. 306 (fam./dwel.
8, 18 July), in the household of Barret Pace. Barret Pace is a
farmer aged 44, b. TN, with wife Margaret, 40, b. KY,
and children Rebecca J., 20, Joseph W., 17, Jacob W., 12, W.H., 10,
James B., 8, Martha A., 5, Margaret R., 3, Mary W., 1,
all b. KY. Rebecca Walters is 64, b. VA. The census does not say that
RB is the mother-in-law of Barret Pace, but I suspect
that this is the case. Note that Margaret Walters would have been named
for RB's mother Margaret, and that RB's brother Jesse
also moved to Barren Co. In fact, Jesse's son William is two pages
away from this family in Barren Co., 1850.
Note that a Walters family using Jacob as a given name
was in Wythe Co., VA, during the time period in which the Brookses
lived there.
I find RB's spouse Jacob Walters on the 1810-30 census
in Barren Co. (1810, p. 31; 1820, p. 32; 1830, p. 182), but not the
1840 census.
A James Humphrey m. Sarah Walters on 30 March 1826, Barren
Co., Jacob Locke performing the marriage. Note that
Delphy Brooks, possibly a daughter of Jesse, m. Robert
Humphrey (see file of Jesse Brooks). Note, too, that Jacob W.
Walters, a grandson of Rebecca Brooks, m. Susannah Humphrey.
Note that Jackson Humphrey m. Susan Pace on 14 Nov.
1832, and that Margaret, d/o Jacob Walters and Rebecca
Brooks, m. Barret Pace (see Reneau, p. 27, cited in file of William
Brooks who m. Martha Owen).
Notes for Jacob Walters:
JW's tombstone record appears in Brice T. Leech and Kenneth
Beard, BARREN CO., KY, CEMETERY RECORDS
(Glasgow, KY: South Central KY Hist. and Geneal. Soc.,
1992), p. 507. This says that he is buried in the old Walters
Cemetery near Prewitts Knob on the Oscar Logsdon Farm,
just off old highway 90 and back of a barn. Also said to be buried
here are two Shaw children. The preface to the cemetery
record says that JW had a half-brother killed in TX. The old
cemetery faced the Old Orleans Trace.
More About Jacob Walters:
Burial: 15 Oct 1848, Old Walters Cemetery, near Prewitts
Knob, Barren County, Kentucky
Child of Rebecca Brooks and Jacob Walters is:
52.
i.
Margaret4 Walters, b. 21 Mar 1810, Hardin County, Kentucky; d. 30 Mar 1882,
Barren County,
Kentucky.
Generation No. 4
16. Henry4 Hollingsworth (Samuel3, Mary2 Brooks, Thomas1).
He married <Unnamed>.
Children of Henry Hollingsworth and are:
i.
John5 Hollingsworth.
ii.
Joshua Hollingsworth.
17. Jacob James4 Hollingsworth (Samuel3, Mary2 Brooks, Thomas1) died in Pickens County, Alabama. He married Diana.
Notes for Jacob James Hollingsworth:
DESCENDANTS (p. 144) says that JH resided in Spartanburg
Co., SC, then St. Clair and Pickens Co., AL.
Spouse is from the FGS chart of Dr. Harold Graham, cited in files of Jacob Hollingsworth and his mother Barbara Shewin.
The LDS descendancy chart for Jacob Hollingsworth cited
in file of his daughter-in-law Mary Garner, however, gives JJH's
spouse as Philadelphia Henderson, b. abt. 1800, GA.
Children of Jacob Hollingsworth and Diana are:
i.
Abraham5 Hollingsworth.
More About Abraham Hollingsworth:
Residence: Leon County, Texas
ii.
Thomas Hollingsworth.
More About Thomas Hollingsworth:
Residence 1: Gadsden, Alabama
Residence 2: Texas
iii.
David Hollingsworth.
iv.
Jacob Hollingsworth, d. Pickens County, Alabama.
v.
Daniel I. Hollingsworth.
Notes for Daniel I. Hollingsworth:
More About Daniel I. Hollingsworth:
Residence: Pickens County, Alabama
vi.
William P. Hollingsworth, b. 22 Apr 1828, Gadsden, Alabama; d. 23 Apr 1879;
m. Mary
Josephine Lewis, 27 Nov 1851.
Notes for William P. Hollingsworth:
DESCENDANTS, pp. 144-5, says he was a CSA soldier and merchant of Gadsden,
one of the
most successful businessmen of AL.
More About William P. Hollingsworth:
Military service: CSA Soldier
Occupation: Merchant of Gadsden, one of the most successful businessmen
of Alabama
18. John4 Hollingsworth (Samuel3, Mary2 Brooks, Thomas1)
was born 03 Sep 1792 in Franklin County, Georgia, and died
30 Nov 1880 in Alabama. He married (1) Zilpha Galloway.
He married (2) Matilda White 24 Nov 1816 in Franklin County,
Georgia.
Notes for John Hollingsworth:
Lived on Black Warrior River in Tuscaloosa Co., AL, according
to DESCENDANTS, p. 143. According to Graham (cited
below), JH lived in Habersham Co., GA, then moved to
the Black Warrier River in Tuscaloosa Co., AL.
Dates of birth and death are from the McCaleb history
cited in file of JH's grandfather Jacob Hollingsworth; these appear on
Fred McCaleb's ancestral chart, p. 7. The chart gives
the ancestral lines of all spouses of each generation running down to
Fred McCaleb, but I haven't recorded this information.
McCaleb is my source for JH's second spouse, and her dates. The first
spouse is from the FGS chart of Dr. Harold Graham, cited
in files of Jacob Hollingsworth and his mother Barbara Shewin.
Unless otherwise noted, the McCaleb history is my source
for all information I have recorded about the line of descent from JH
to Fred McCaleb.
According to Graham, JH is said to have had 23 children
by his two spouses. Those that I have listed, and the information I
have recorded for them, are (unless otherwise noted)
from the LDS descendancy chart for Jacob Hollingsworth cited in file of
his daughter-in-law Mary Garner. Note, though, that the
information about John R. Hollingsworth is also from Fred McCaleb.
Notes for Zilpha Galloway:
Place of birth is from the LDS descendancy chart for
Jacob Hollingsworth cited in file of his daughter-in-law Mary Garner.
Children of John Hollingsworth and Zilpha Galloway are:
i.
Jacob5 Hollingsworth, b. 05 Jun 1832, Fayette County, Alabama; m. Sarah
Frances McCaleb.
ii.
John R. Hollingsworth, b. 05 Nov 1837, Fayette County, Alabama; d. 17 Apr
1921, Fayette
County, Alabama; m. Elizabeth Jane McCaleb, 24 Jul 1862.
Notes for John R. Hollingsworth:
All children except Regina are from the LDS descendancy chart for Jacob
Hollingsworth cited in
file of his daughter-in-law Mary Garner.
iii.
Wiley Jackson Hollingsworth, b. 27 Jan 1845, Fayette County, Alabama; m.
Regina A. McCaleb.
iv.
Franklin Pierce Hollingsworth, b. 24 Oct 1852, Fayette County, Alabama;
m. Marguerite Ann
McCaleb.
v.
Marion Galloway Hollingsworth, b. 23 Jan 1855, Fayette County, Alabama;
m. Sarah Alice
McCollum.
Children of John Hollingsworth and Matilda White are:
vi.
Samuel5 Hollingsworth, b. 07 Sep 1817, Franklin County, Georgia; m. (1)
Martha Louise
Galloway; m. (2) Nancy McCollum.
vii.
Jane Hollingsworth, b. 24 Dec 1829, Fayette, Fayette County, Alabama; m.
Daniel Newton
Ford.
19. James4 Hollingsworth (Thomas H.3, Mary2 Brooks, Thomas1)
died Abt. 1877 in Atlanta, Georgia. He married
<Unnamed>.
More About James Hollingsworth:
Residence: Left his family in Augusta, Georgia
Children of James Hollingsworth and are:
i.
Edward H.5 Hollingsworth.
Notes for Edward H. Hollingsworth:
More About Edward H. Hollingsworth:
Residence: Augusta, Georgia
ii.
John B. Hollingsworth.
More About John B. Hollingsworth:
Residence: Savannah, Georgia
iii.
William J. Hollingsworth.
More About William J. Hollingsworth:
Residence: Augusta, Georgia
iv.
James T. Hollingsworth.
More About James T. Hollingsworth:
Residence: Augusta, Georgia
v.
Charles T. Hollingsworth, b. 1850, Augusta, Georgia.
20. Mary4 Hollingsworth (Jacob3, Mary2 Brooks, Thomas1)
was born 05 Oct 1802, and died 1864. She married Flavel
Foster.
More About Flavel Foster:
Residence: Keachie, Louisiana
Child of Mary Hollingsworth and Flavel Foster is:
i.
James Martin5 Foster, b. 1831; d. 1900; m. Mary Ellen Long.
More About James Martin Foster:
Education: Western Military Institute
Occupation: Planter and Authority on Cotton Planting, President of the
Board of Parish
Commissioners of Caddo Parish
Residence: Shreveport, Louisiana
21. Samuel4 Hollingsworth (Jacob3, Mary2 Brooks, Thomas1)
was born 10 Oct 1806, and died 02 Dec 1870. He married
Elizabeth Lindsay 1829 in Monroe County, Alabama.
More About Samuel Hollingsworth:
Residence: 1917, Shreveport, Louisiana
Children of Samuel Hollingsworth and Elizabeth Lindsay
are:
i.
James5 Hollingsworth, m. <Unnamed>.
Notes for James Hollingsworth:
May have married Elizabeth Quarles; see file of Samuel Hollingsworth, his
son.
ii.
Benjamin Hollingsworth.
iii.
Jacob Hollingsworth.
iv.
Elizabeth Hollingsworth.
v.
Amanda Hollingsworth.
22. Jacob James4 Hollingsworth (Jacob3, Mary2 Brooks,
Thomas1) was born 29 Apr 1810, and died 20 Aug 1840. He
married Kittie Jane Boney.
More About Jacob James Hollingsworth:
Residence: 1917, Shreveport, Louisiana
Children of Jacob Hollingsworth and Kittie Boney are:
i.
Robert Bruce5 Hollingsworth.
Notes for Robert Bruce Hollingsworth:
More About Robert Bruce Hollingsworth:
Residence: 1917, Pleasant Hill, De Soto Parish, Louisiana
ii.
William Wallace Hollingsworth.
iii.
Susan Hollingsworth.
iv.
Thomas Hollingsworth.
v.
Richard Hollingsworth.
vi.
Jacob Hollingsworth.
23. Thomas A.4 Hollingsworth (Jacob3, Mary2 Brooks, Thomas1)
was born 08 Jun 1820, and died 01 Oct 1852. He married
(1) Euphemia C. Lindsay. He married (2) Amanda McMillan.
Children of Thomas Hollingsworth and Euphemia Lindsay
are:
i.
Osmus5 Hollingsworth.
ii.
Thomas Hollingsworth.
24. Stephen Perry4 Hollingsworth (Benjamin3, Mary2 Brooks,
Thomas1) was born 10 Mar 1814 in Franklin County,
Tennessee, and died 09 Dec 1879 in Rusk County, Texas.
He married Martha A. Elston 16 Sep 1845 in Benton County,
Alabama.
Notes for Stephen Perry Hollingsworth:
Melrose Trimble's FGS chart for Benjamin Hollingsworth,
cited in his file, says that SPH's date of birth is from Stewart's
DESCENDANTS OF VALENTINE HOLLINGSWORTH, p. 143, and Wm.
B. Hollingsworth's HOLLINGSWORTH
GENEALOGICAL MEMORANDA IN THE U.S., p. 121. The chart
notes that the notes of Marjorie Morgan place the birth in
Franklin Co., TN, where the 1850 census places the birth
in GA (Franklin Co.?). In 1850, SPH was in Rusk Co., TX.
The chart says that SPH's date of death is from Stewart
and Wm. B. Hollingsworth. The date of marriage is from the Stone
Application, Mexican War, in the Bledsoe-Kelly collection,
and from notes of Marjorie Morgan.
Melrose Trimble notes that the children of SPH are listed in Stewart, p. 146, and Wm. B. Hollingsworth, p. 7.
Children of Stephen Hollingsworth and Martha Elston are:
i.
Mary5 Hollingsworth, m. Thomas W. Hollingsworth.
Notes for Thomas W. Hollingsworth:
Note that spouse was his first cousin.
ii.
John E. Hollingsworth, b. 1874, Rusk County, Texas.
More About John E. Hollingsworth:
Residence: Graham City, Young County, Texas
25. Wylie B.4 Hollingsworth (Benjamin3, Mary2 Brooks,
Thomas1) was born 1816 in Franklin County, Tennessee, and died
1841 in Alabama. He married Martha Harris 14 May 1839.
Notes for Wylie B. Hollingsworth:
Melrose Trimble's FGS chart for Benjamin Hollingsworth,
cited in his file, says that WH's dates of birth and death are from
Stewart and Wm. B. Hollingsworth.
The date of marriage is from HOLLINGSWORTH REGISTER 22,1
(March 1986), pp. 1-6.
Son and his family are from Stewart and Wm. B. Hollingsworth.
Child of Wylie Hollingsworth and Martha Harris is:
i.
Thomas W.5 Hollingsworth, m. Mary Hollingsworth.
Notes for Thomas W. Hollingsworth:
Note that spouse was his first cousin.
26. Mary Ann4 Hollingsworth (Benjamin3, Mary2 Brooks,
Thomas1) was born Abt. 1820 in Franklin County, Tennessee, and
died 10 Nov 1861 in near Henderson, Rusk County, Texas.
She married William Clark Kelly 05 Sep 1839 in Benton County,
Alabama.
Notes for Mary Ann Hollingsworth:
Melrose Trimble's FGS chart for Benjamin Hollingsworth,
cited in his file, says that information about this child of Benj. H. is
from
Maud McLure Kelly, citing a 14 Sept. 1956 letter to Dalton
Scales. In addition, information is in a 10 Dec. 1946 letter of H.L.
Stone to Dalton Scales, both letters being in the Bledsoe-Kelly
collection.
In 1850-60, MAH and spouse were on Rusk Co., TX, census. This is the source of her date of birth.
Death date is from her estate papers.
Spouse's dates of birth and death are from Maud McLure
Kelly, SOME DATA ON WM. STARK KELLY AND HIS
DESCENDANTS.
Melrose Trimble sent me charts in July 1997 giving all
the children of Wm. Clark Kelly and Mary Ann Hollingsworth, followed
by charts for the families of John Russwurm Scales and
Texana Salina Kelly, John Melrose Scales and Mattie Anderson,
Samuel Melrose Scales and Christine Williams, and Robert
Glyn Trimble and Melrose Scales. From these charts, I have
recorded only the line from MAH to Melrose Scales Trimble.
Child of Mary Hollingsworth and William Kelly is:
i.
Texana Salina5 Kelly, b. 10 Feb 1842, Jacksonville, Benton (later Calhoun)
County, Alabama;
d. 12 Mar 1922, Birmingham, Alabama; m. John Russwurm Scales, 09 Jan 1861,
Henderson,
Rusk County, Texas.
More About Texana Salina Kelly:
Burial: 12 Mar 1922, Old Oak Cliff Cemetery, Dallas, Texas
More About John Russwurm Scales:
Burial: 01 Oct 1902, Old Oak Cliff Cemetery, Dallas, Texas
27. James Benton4 Hollingsworth (Benjamin3, Mary2 Brooks,
Thomas1) was born 1824 in Franklin County, Tennessee. He
married <Unnamed>.
Notes for James Benton Hollingsworth:
Melrose Trimble's FGS chart for Benjamin Hollingsworth,
cited in his file, says that Stewart and Wm. B. Hollingsworth give
JBH's date of birth as 1824, where the 1850 census, Rusk
Co., TX, gives it as abt. 1830.
Melrose Trimble thinks that this is possibly the James
Hollingsworth who married Sarah Carpenter on 13 Jan. 1859 (where?),
citing HOLLINGSWORTH REGISTER 22,1 (March 1986), pp.
1-6.
Children are from Stewart and Wm. B. Hollingsworth.
More About James Benton Hollingsworth:
Residence: 1917, Rusk County, Texas
Children of James Hollingsworth and are:
i.
S. H.5 Hollingsworth.
ii.
Wylie C. Hollingsworth.
iii.
Wat Hollingsworth.
iv.
James B. Hollingsworth.
28. William4 Lahue (Sarah3 Brooks, Thomas2, Thomas1) was
born 17 Oct 1805 in Wythe County, Virginia, and died 14 Aug
1863 in Grayson County, Kentucky. He married (1) Mary
or Elizabeth Litsey. He married (2) Margaret Sebastian.
Notes for William Lahue:
WL's dates of birth and death are from his tombstone;
see GRAYSON CO. CEMETERIES, p. 120, cited in file of Mordecai Y.
Day. Note that this source says his first wife was Elizabeth
Litsey, and not Mary Litsey. It shows her tombstone record as b. 4
May 1806, d. 2 March 1828. It gives Margaret Sebastian
Lahue's record as 12 March 1807, 19 Sept. 1860.
Note that the family of Margaret Brooks Day, sister of WL's mother Sarah, also married Litseys in Grayson Co., KY.
James H. Lehew, cited in file of WL's father, says that
the first census on which WL shows up is the 1830, and that on the 1850
census, he and wife Margaret are listed with 10 children,
plus WL's mother. He notes that many of the children migrated to KY,
settling in communities named Caviness, Paris, and Honey
Grove.
In 1840, a WL is on the Grayson Co. census on p. 144.
James H. Le Hew's dates of birth and death for WL are
the same as those given by Gary Watkins. Unless otherwise noted,
JHL is my source for all information I have recorded
about WL and his descendants.
More About William Lahue:
Burial: 14 Aug 1863, Lahue Cemetery, Short Creek, Grayson
County, Kentucky
More About Mary or Elizabeth Litsey:
Burial: 02 Mar 1828, Lahue Cemetery, Short Creek, Grayson
County, Kentucky
More About Margaret Sebastian:
Burial: 19 Sep 1860, Lahue Cemetery, Short Creek, Grayson
County, Kentucky
Child of William Lahue and Mary Litsey is:
i.
John5 Lahue, b. Bef. 1830, Grayson County, Kentucky; d. Texas.
Children of William Lahue and Margaret Sebastian are:
ii.
Nancy5 Lahue, b. 01 Nov 1831, Grayson County, Kentucky; m. William Duggins.
iii.
Louisa Lahue, b. Abt. 1834, Grayson County, Kentucky; m. Ellis Kimble.
iv.
James B. Lahue, b. Abt. 1836, Grayson County, Kentucky; d. Texas; m. Sarah
Harrell.
v.
George Washington Lahue, b. 28 Oct 1838, Grayson County, Kentucky; d. 17
Sep 1915, Short
Creek, Grayson County, Kentucky; m. Lucretia Robinson.
More About George Washington Lahue:
Burial: 17 Sep 1915, Lahue Cemetery, Short Creek, Grayson County, Kentucky
vi.
Spencer Lahue, b. Abt. 1841; d. Texas; m. Agnes.
vii.
Sarah Lahue, b. Abt. 1842, Grayson County, Kentucky; d. 1844, Grayson County,
Kentucky.
Notes for Sarah Lahue:
Sarah is the twin sister to Mary Elizabeth.
viii.
Mary Elizabeth Lahue, b. Abt. 1842; m. Anthony T. Litsey.
Notes for Mary Elizabeth Lahue:
Mary Elizabeth is the twin sister to Sarah.
Note that ML's spouse was a cousin through the Brooks blood.
More About Mary Elizabeth Lahue:
Residence: Leitchfield, Kentucky
ix.
William R. Lahue, b. Abt. 1845, Grayson County, Kentucky; d. Texas; m.
Letitia Davison.
Notes for William R. Lahue:
A twin.
x.
Margaret Lahue, b. Abt. 1845, Grayson County, Kentucky; d. Texas; m. Hosea
Collord.
Notes for Margaret Lahue:
A twin.
xi.
Benjamin Franklin Lahue, b. 09 May 1846, Grayson County, Kentucky; d. 15
Feb 1913, Falls of
Rough, Kentucky; m. Sarah Catherine Purcell, 19 Mar 1871, Grayson County,
Kentucky.
Notes for Benjamin Franklin Lahue:
Note that BFL's spouse was a cousin in the Brooks line.
More About Benjamin Franklin Lahue:
Burial: 15 Feb 1913, Lahue Cemetery, Short Creek, Grayson County, Kentucky
xii.
Hester Anna Lahue, b. Abt. 1847, Grayson County, Kentucky; d. Texas; m.
John Davison.
xiii.
Emma Lahue, b. Abt. 1850, Grayson County, Kentucky; d. Texas; m. Samuel
Favors.
xiv.
Samantha Lahue, b. Aft. 1850.
29. Thomas R.4 Brooks (E. James3, Thomas2, Thomas1) was
born 25 Feb 1807 in Wayne County, Kentucky, and died Aft.
1860. He married (1) Sirena Shannon 20 Oct 1835. He married
(2) Vinetta Job 1854.
Notes for Thomas R. Brooks:
My date of birth for TRB is from his father's family
bible; see file of James Brooks for information. Since the 1850-60 census
apparently give KY as TRB's place of birth (I do not
have these censuses), I have placed his birth in Wayne Co., where
various records show his parents living prior to their
move to TN.
My photocopy of the James Brooks bible register has been
annotated, apparently by Sammie Simpson, a descendant of
James Brooks' son James Irvin Brooks (and a descendant
of James Brooks' brother Thomas as well). This states that TRB
was still living on the 1860 census, and also gives his
second marriage, which is not recorded in the bible. The first marriage
is, along with Sirena Shannon's date of death and the
birth date of their son Alexander Johnson Brooks.
TRB was a security for his brother-in-law Fielding W.
Lindsey when FWL was made constable of Lawrence Co., AL, on 17
March 1847; see file of Fielding W. Lindsey.
TRB was also administrator of his father's estate in Lawrence Co., 1838; see file of E. James Brooks.
Is this the Thomas Brooks who is on the 1850 agricultural
schedule, Lawrence Co., AL, with 160 acres improved, 320 acres
unimproved (see Myra Borden, "Agricultural Schedules,
1840-1910, OLD LAWRENCE REMINISCENCES 11,3 [Sept.
1997], p. 68)?
TRB may be the TB mentioned as a guardian of William and
Martha Calloway (who m. James O.J. Smith) in a 28 June 1853
Morgan Co., AL, deed. The deed notes that a suit filed
by Henry and Elizabeth Grizzard in chancery court, June 1851, had
settled a dispute over the Calloway land in favor of
the Grizzards (Morgan Co. DB G, p. 392).
On 1 July 1865, TRB and wife Vinetta sold land in Lawrence Co., AL, to TRB's brother Johnson--see his file.
If this is the TRB who deeded land to the Methodist Episcopal
Church on 16 Apr. 1880 in Lawrence Co., AL, then he lived until
that date. The land was in sect. 33, t6, r6w, and is
believed to have been the location of the Antioch Methodist church
(Lawrence DB S, p. 371).
Child of Thomas Brooks and Sirena Shannon is:
i.
Alexander Johnson5 Brooks, b. 20 Dec 1836.
30. James Irwin4 Brooks (E. James3, Thomas2, Thomas1)
was born 29 Nov 1813 in Warren County, Tennessee, and died
02 Nov 1878. He married (1) Mary Jane Lindsey 22 Feb
1840 in Lawrence County, Alabama, daughter of Dennis Lindsey
and Jane Brooks. He married (2) Mary Minerva Tuttle 22
Mar 1853 in Lawrence County, Alabama. He married (3) Sarah A.
Hightower 02 Dec 1866 in Lawrence County, Alabama.
Notes for James Irwin Brooks:
My dates of birth and death for JIB are from his father's
bible; on this source, see file of E. James Brooks. Memory A. Lester
(transcriber of the bible register) notes in her transcription
that the bible appears to have belonged to JIB. Lester transcribes
the middle name as Irvin. However, Sammie Simpson, a
descendant of this line, tells me that the name was Irwin, so I have
used that spelling. On Sammie Simpson, see file of James
Dennis Brooks.
The bible register records three marriages for JIB, with
children by the three wives. It also records the dates of death of the
second and third wife, as well as the date of birth of
his first wife, Mary Jane Lindsey.
Note that the bible register does not record a child,
Nettie Raymond Brooks, as a child of JIV and Mary Minerva Tuttle.
Memory A. Lester says, however, that she assumes that
NRB is a sibling of Thomas W. and Mary Frances Brooks, children of
JIV and Mary M. Tuttle. I have placed NRB as a child
of JIV and Mary Minerva Tuttle on the strength of this assumption; note,
however, that this is entirely without proof.
This may be the JB to whom Mark and Mary Dinsmore Lindsey
sold land in Morgan Co. on 26 July 1840; see file of Mark
Lindsey. The land was the w 1/2 of the sw 1/4 of section
32, twp. 7, range 5 w, 80 acres. Otherwise, the James of the record
is perhaps JIB's cousin James R. Brooks.
On the 1850 census, JIB is in 8th dist., Lawrence Co.,
AL, p. 379 (dwel. and fam. 216; 4 Nov.). His age is 36, his occupation
farming, and his place of birth TN. In the household
are sons John, 7, and James, 4, both b. AL.
On 20 June 1835, JIB gave bond with Fielding W. Lindsey
for the marriage of FWL to JIB's sister Clarissa; see file of FWL.
Notes for Mary Jane Lindsey:
MJL's date of birth is in the bible of her great-uncle
(and father-in-law), James Brooks; on this source, see his file.
MJL had died by 4 Nov. 1850, since she is not in the household
of her husband on the 1850 census; see his file. The
descendancy chart of Sammie Simpson (cited in file of
James Dennis Lindsey) says that MJL died between 14 Oct. 1846 and
the 1850 census. The 1846 date is the date of birth of
James I. Brooks and Mary Jane Lindsey's second son, James Dennis,
according to Sammie Simpson. However, the bible of James
Brooks gives the date of birth as 14 July 1845. Could MJL have
died giving birth to this son?
Notes for Sarah A. Hightower:
Dates of marriage and of death are in the bible of E.
James Brooks; see his file for details. This is also my source for the
two
children, and their dates of death.
Children of James Brooks and Mary Lindsey are:
i.
John Fletcher5 Brooks, b. 11 Apr 1843, Lawrence County, Alabama.
Notes for John Fletcher Brooks:
SUCH AS I HAVE, I GIVE THEE: A HISTORY OF THE EAST TEXAS STONES, cited
in file of
William Jefferson McCaskill, says that a John Fletcher Brooks, b. 1844,
m. Margaret, d/o John
Stone and Orra Janet Orr (see their files for details). This source says
that John Fletcher Brooks
d. 1930, and served in the CSA 20th TX Cavalry, 1862-5. But this source
identifies JFB as son
of Rev. Asbury Brooks and Emily Hoskins of Knoxville, TN.
ii.
James Dennis Brooks, b. 14 Jul 1845, Lawrence County, Alabama; d. 22 Mar
1891, Moody,
McLennan County, Texas; m. Mary Frances Lindsey, 02 Feb 1870, McLennan
County, Texas.
Notes for James Dennis Brooks:
I have conflicting information about the date of birth of JDL. The bible
of his grandfather James
Brooks gives the date as 14 July 1845. The descendancy chart of Sammie
Simpson (see below)
gives the date as 14 Oct. 1846. The 1850 census shows him as aged 4 on
4 Nov. 1850. See his
father's file for details on this source.
My other information about JB and Mary Frances Lindsey and their child
Minnie Daniel Brooks
is from a descendancy chart supplied on 1 Oct. 1983 by Sammie Simpson,
Box 78, Goodland,
TX 79327.
The marriage of JDB to Mary Frances Lindsey is also discussed in Henry
C. Lindsey, THE
MARK LINDSEY HERITAGE 1740-1983 (Brownwood, TX; 1982), p. 135. This source
notes
that JDB and MFL married on 2 Feb. 1870 in McLennan Co., TX, with Thomas
Stanford
conducting the marriage ceremony. Information on this line was supplied
to Dr. Lindsey by Mrs.
Carl R. Smith, 3904 Greenmountain Ln., Austin, TX 78759.
H.C. Lindsey cites information of Mrs. Smith that shows this family on
the 1870 census in Waco,
McLennan Co., TX, p. 114 (fam. 119; 10 Aug.), with JDB aged 21, a farmer,
b. AL, and wife
Mary, 19, b. AL.
Note that JDL and his spouse were first cousins through the Lindsey line,
but were also cousins
in the Brooks line.
Children of James Brooks and Mary Tuttle are:
iii.
Nettie Raymond5 Brooks, m. Charles Abner Young, 18 May 1898.
Notes for Nettie Raymond Brooks:
In 1951, NRB was the owner of the James Brooks bible. Her address then
was Rt. 2, Moulton,
AL. For more information about this, see file of E. James Brooks.
Note the 3 sets of twins in NRB's family. For a discussion of the twin
gene that appears to run
through various Brooks families descending from Thomas Brooks, d. 1805,
and his wife
Margaret, see file of TB.
iv.
Clarissa I. Brooks, b. 09 Feb 1854, Lawrence County, Alabama; d. Bef. 1860,
Lawrence
County, Alabama.
Notes for Clarissa I. Brooks:
Date of birth is in the bible of E. James Brooks; see his file for details.
Sammie Simpson tells me that this child had died by the 1860 census.
v.
Thomas W. Brooks, b. 04 Mar 1855, Lawrence County, Alabama; m. Etta Hamilton,
18 Dec
1888, Lawrence County, Alabama.
Notes for Thomas W. Brooks:
Date of birth and marriage, with spouse's name, are in the bible of James
Brooks.
vi.
Susan C. Brooks, b. 10 Sep 1857, Lawrence County, Alabama.
Notes for Susan C. Brooks:
Date of birth is in the bible of E. James Brooks; see his file for details.
vii.
Mary Frances Brooks, b. 24 Feb 1860, Lawrence County, Alabama; m. James
Milton Byars, 11
Nov 1885.
Notes for Mary Frances Brooks:
Dates of birth and of marriage (with spouse's name) are in the bible of
E. James Brooks; see his
file for details. The bible also records the names and dates of birth of
the children I have listed for
MFB and her spouse.
Children of James Brooks and Sarah Hightower are:
viii.
Charles W.5 Brooks, d. 20 May 1875.
ix.
Jackson S. Brooks, d. 23 Jul 1897
Descendants of Thomas Brooks
31. Clarissa Elizabeth B.4 Brooks (E. James3, Thomas2,
Thomas1) was born 25 Aug 1818 in Warren County, Tennessee,
and died 01 Oct 1896 in Oakville, Lawrence County, Alabama.
She married Fielding Woodruff Lindsey 20 Jun 1835 in
Lawrence County, Alabama.
Notes for Clarissa Elizabeth B. Brooks:
CEB's date of birth is from her father's family bible.
My date and place of death for CEBB is from her obituary
in MOULTON ADVERTISER, 15 Oct. 1896: Died at home of her
son Mr. Samuel Lindsey, near Oakville, on the 1st inst.,
Mrs. Clarissa Lindsey, in her 77th year (Myra Thrasher Borden,
abs., FOOTPRINTS IN TIME: ABSTRACTS FROM LAWRENCE COUNTY,
AL, NEWSPAPERS, 1891-1905 [Mt. Hope, AL:
Borden, 1993], p. 117).
On 2 July 1855, the diary of Frances J. Torrence notes
that she, her mother, and her sister had gone to visit Mrs. Lindsey,
who lived 3/4 mile from the family. I cannot positively
identify this Mrs. Lindsey, but believe that she is Clarissa Brooks Lindsey,
since the Torrence family lived near Oakville. FJT observes,
"We enjoyed ourselves very well as Mrs. Lindsey was looking
for us. She is so lively. I really believe her to be
one of the liveliest women I ever saw. She kept us laughing all day."
A 17 Oct. diary entry notes that on that day, her mother
had been to visit Mrs. W. Lindsay. FJT also says that Brother and
Sister Coapland had been to visit, and that she had sent
them home with saddle bag full of large nice apples. On this source,
see file of Thomas M. Lindsey.
My list of children for CEBB and Fielding W. Lindsey is
from MARK LINDSEY HERITAGE, p. 38 (cited in file of Thomas
Madison Lindsey). Unless otherwise noted, this is also
the source for my information about their spouses. Note that CEBB and
her spouse had twins; on the gene for twins that appears
to run through the Brooks lines, see file of Thomas Brooks, d. 1805.
MARK LINDSEY HERITAGE says that FWL is buried in Speake
Cemetery in Lawrence Co. This may mean that CEBB is also
buried in Speake Cemetery.
More About Clarissa Elizabeth B. Brooks:
Burial: 01 Oct 1896, Valley Grove Baptist Cemetery, Lawrence
County, Alabama
Notes for Fielding Woodruff Lindsey:
The marriage bond of FWL is dated 20 June 1835. FWL gave
bond with James I. Brooks, both signing the bond. Clarissa
Brooks' name is given as Clarissa E.B. Brooks. I have
a copy of the original on file at Lawrence Co. court house.
On 17 July 1846, FWL administered the estate of his brother-in-law Samuel F. Brooks; see file of SFB.
FWL is on the 1850 agricultural schedule, Lawrence Co.,
AL, dist. 8, with 30 improved acres (see Myra Borden, "Agricultural
Schedules, 1840-1910, OLD LAWRENCE REMINISCENCES 11,3
[Sept. 1997], p. 79).
More About Fielding Woodruff Lindsey:
Burial: 21 Mar 1868, Valley Grove Baptist Cemetery, Lawrence
County, Alabama
Children of Clarissa Brooks and Fielding Lindsey are:
i.
James D.5 Lindsey, b. 17 Jan 1838, Lawrence County, Alabama; d. 03 Aug
1883; m. Martha J.
Kitchens, 20 Jun 1872, Lawrence County, Alabama.
More About James D. Lindsey:
Burial: 03 Aug 1883, Valley Grove Baptist Cemetery, Lawrence County, Alabama
Military service: Company B 5th Alabama Cavalry, CSA, wife M.D.
ii.
William J. T. Lindsey, b. 21 Sep 1839, Lawrence County, Alabama; d. 13
Jan 1892; m. Martha
J. Livingston, 02 Dec 1868, Lawrence County, Alabama.
More About William J. T. Lindsey:
Burial: 13 Jan 1892, Valley Grove Baptist Cemetery, Lawrence County, Alabama
iii.
George Lindsey, b. 1843, Lawrence County, Alabama.
iv.
Mary Caroline Lindsey, b. 17 May 1844, Lawrence County, Alabama; d. 1928;
m. Samuel
Henry Hampton, 10 Sep 1865, Home of F. W. Lindsey, Lawrence County, Alabama..
More About Mary Caroline Lindsey:
Burial: 1928, Lebanon Cemetery, Speake, Lawrence County, Alabama
More About Samuel Henry Hampton:
Burial: 08 Jun 1919, Lebanon Cemetery, Speak, Lawrence County, Alabama
v.
Samuel Mark Lindsey, b. 1847, Lawrence County, Alabama; m. Mary Ann Pitt,
13 Mar 1869,
Lawrence County, Alabama.
vi.
John Lindsey, b. 08 Jun 1851, Lawrence County, Alabama; d. 08 Jun 1851,
Lawrence County,
Alabama.
More About John Lindsey:
Burial: 08 Jun 1851, Lindsey Cemetery, Oakville, Lawrence County, Alabama
vii.
David Lindsey, b. 08 Jun 1851, Lawrence County, Alabama; d. 08 Jun 1851,
Lawrence
County, Alabama.
More About David Lindsey:
Burial: 08 Jun 1851, Lindsey Cemetery, Oakville, Lawrence County, Alabama
32. Charles Wesley4 Brooks (E. James3, Thomas2, Thomas1)
was born 13 Dec 1829 in Lawrence County, Alabama, and
died 28 Aug 1896 in Houston, Texas. He married Elizabeth
Burleson 08 May 1855 in Bastrop County, Texas.
Notes for Charles Wesley Brooks:
CWB's date of birth is from his father's bible. In a
15 Sept. 1993 letter, Corinne Crider (see file of Thomas M. Brooks for
her
address) tells me that the tombstone has the same date.
The tombstone record is my source for CWB's date of death.
Corinne Crider's letter is also my source for CWB's date and place of marriage.
The biography of CWB's son Richard Edward Brooks says
that CWB was born in AL and came to TX in 1854, bringing with
him the slaves of Judge Richard Townes. After establishing
a farm in Bastrop Co. for Judge Townes, when the Townes family
arrived, CWB began to farm himself, becoming one of the
most prosperous and successful men in his community. The
biography gives an incorrect date of death for CWB: 1869,
where his tombstone says he died in 1896. On this source, see file
of Richard Edward Brooks.
On the 1850 census, CWB is in the house of Elijah McDaniel
in Lawrence Co., AL, aged 20, b. AL (as per Corinne Crider's
letter).
On the 1880 census, CWB is in Georgetown, Williamston
Co., TX, aged 50, b. AL, parents b. NC (as per Corinne Crider's
letter).
More About Charles Wesley Brooks:
Burial: 28 Aug 1896, I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Georgetown, Texas
Notes for Elizabeth Burleson:
My information about the ancestry of EB is from the 1914
biography of her son; on this, see file of Richard E. Brooks.
More About Elizabeth Burleson:
Burial: 15 Feb 1920, I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Georgetown, Texas
Child of Charles Brooks and Elizabeth Burleson is:
i.
Richard Edward5 Brooks, b. 02 Aug 1864, Bastrop County, Texas; m. Frances
Booty, 28 Nov
1889, Georgetown, Bastrop County, Texas.
Notes for Richard Edward Brooks:
Col. Frank W. Johnson, A HISTORY OF TEXAS AND TEXANS (Chicago: Am. Hist.
Soc.,
1914), p. 1641, has a biography of REB. This states that REB was b. in
Bastrop Co., TX, on 2
Aug. 1864. Since his family were among the more prosperous Texans, he was
educated at
Southwestern University in Georgetown, and then read law with Judge John
C. Townes (whose
slaves REB's father Charles Wesley Brooks brought to Texas: see file of
CWB).
Johnson says that REB was admitted to the bar in 1885, practicing law at
Georgetown in
partnership with Judge Robert John, and then with Judge Cochran. In 1895,
Gov. Culberson
appointed REB to serve the unexpired term as judge of the 26th judicial
district (Travis and
Williamson Co.). After this, REB was twice elected to the office, continuing
as district judge until
1901, when he resigned.
After this, REB moved to Houston, where he was connected with the oil syndicate
of
Hogg-Swayne. REB helped organize the Texas Fuel company, of which he was
president until
1 Jan. 1913, when he resigned to become president of Producers Oil Co.
In 1914, REB still held
this position.
In 1914, REB was also a director of the Bankers Trust Co. of Houston, of
the Union National
Bank of Houston, president of the Roywood Canal & Milling Co., director
of the Houston Land
Corporation, vice president ot Texas Wagon Co., and vice president of J.W.
Carter Music Co.
This biography is my source for REB's spouse and children. In 1914, REB
was living at 2616
Travis St. in Houston.
More About Frances Booty:
Last residence ZIP: 75225 (Dallas, Texas)
Residence: Texas
Social Security Number: 467-74-8099
SS# issued in: Texas
33. Jane4 Brooks (Thomas M.3, Thomas2, Thomas1) was born
19 Feb 1797 in Wythe County, Virginia, and died 09 Sep
1852 in Oakville, Lawrence County, Alabama. She married
Dennis Lindsey 18 Feb 1813 in Wayne County, Kentucky, son of
Mark Lindsey and Mary Dinsmore.
Notes for Jane Brooks:
My dates of birth and death for JL are from JB's tombstone
in Lindsey cemetery near Speake, Lawrence Co., AL. I have
visited this cemetery several times. On my first visit
in May 1985, I transcribed the tombstone, which is broken. It read, "In
memory of Jane Lindsey; Was born Feb. 19, 1797; Died
Sept. 9, 1852." Perhaps because the stone is broken, Phil Waldren's
survey of the Lindsey cemetery in CEMETERIES OF LAWRENCE
CO., AL (1993) (cited in file of JB's father-in-law Mark
Lindsey) missed JB's tombstone. JB is buried beside her
husband Dennis Lindsey.
Note that the bible of JB's father Thomas Brooks gives
her date of birth as 17 Jan. 1795, and gives the date of his marriage to
Sarah Whitlock, JB's mother, as 14 Feb. 1796. The 1850
census implies a date of birth that corresponds to that on the
tombstone; it shows JB as aged 52. This census gives
her birthplace as VA. Since various records place her parents in Wythe
Co., VA, prior to their move to Wayne Co., KY, I have
put her birth there. The 1850 census, and her burial at the old Lindsey
cemetery, make it evident that she died in Lawrence Co.,
KY, on the family farm near the now-defunct town of Oakville.
JB is on the 1840 census in Lawrence Co., AL, p. 209,
with a male under 5, a male 10-15, 2 females 5-10, 1 female 10-15,
and a female 40-50. Next door is her son Mark Jefferson
Lindsey.
On the 1850 census, JB is in 8th district of Lawrence
Co., p. 383 (dwel. and fam. 285; 6 Nov.). Her age is 52, her real worth
$1200, and her birthplace is VA. In the household are
daughter Margaret, 16, and son Dennis, 14, both b. AL.
The 1850 agricultural census shows JB in the same location,
with her son-in-law James B. Speake as enumerator (p. 11, line
6; 6 Nov.). She is listed as owning 120 acres improved
and 123 acres unimproved land. Her tools and machines are valued
at $8. She owns 4 horses, 5 milk cows, 4 other cows,
13 sheep, 26 swine, all valued at $185. Her farm produced 300 bushels
of corn, 30 bushels of oats, a bale of cotton, 20 bushels
of sweet potatoes, and 150 pounds of butter in the year leading up to
the census.
For JB's marriage to Dennis Lindsey in Wayne Co., KY, see file of Dennis Lindsey.
At the sale of the estate of her husband Dennis Lindsey
in Lawrence Co., AL, in June 1837, JB was the principal buyer. Most
of the items she purchased were household items, including
a book case, 2 tables, chest, bedstead, reel, bedding, 13 chairs
(the Windsor chairs of his inventory, evidently), a clock,
a looking glass, a bureau, a cupboard, a trundle bed, a loom, and
kitchen ware. JB also bought a side saddle a various
items of farm equipment, and livestock, including 5 cows with their calves,
a sow and her litter, a lot of hogs, 2 horses and a gray
mare, and a heifer. JB also bought 4 volumes of the Methodist
Magazine, a volume of Wesley's sermons, a life of Wesley
and notes, and 2 other lots of books. Since JB's father was a
Methodist minister, these may have been sources he used
in his ministry. In addition, JB purchased slaves named Lester,
Betsy, and Katie and her child.
Receipts in her father's estate file show that JB boarded
and nursed her mother for 3 months in 1837--evidently, during Sarah
Whitlock Brooks' final illness, so the months were perhaps
June-August, since SW died in Aug. 1837. The receipts also show
that JB nursed and boarded her father the next year for
5 months, as Thomas Brooks died, and that she nursed and boarded
a James Brooks for 2 months in 1838. This is evidently
her uncle James, who died in 1838.
JB's life during those years would no doubt have been
arduous, since her husband had just died the year before Sarah
Whitlock died, leaving JB with a number of small children
to care for, as she cared for her parents and uncle in their final
illnesses. See estate file of Thomas Brooks for details.
The preceding documents contain JB's signature.
As the Dennis Lindsey estate was settled in the years
following this, JB's name appears often in the estate records. See DL's
file for details.
The 2 Oct. 1838 will of JB's father names her as his daughter,
and notes that he had given her $100 legacy money. On this,
see file of TB.
On 20 Apr 1839, JB was a buyer at the estate sale of her
father Thomas Brooks in Morgan Co., AL. Among the items she
purchased were 3 books, a half bushel, and a shovel and
tongs. The account of the estate proceeds in Orphan's Court
Minutes Bk. 5 shows JB owing a note for $2.75 for items
purchased at the sale, jointly with her son Mark J. Lindsey and
brother James Brooks. See file of TB for details.
A 1 May 1877 letter of JB's daughter Sarah Brooks Lindsey
Speake of Speake, Lawrence Co., AL, to her sister Margaret
Tranquilla Hunter of Coushatta in Red River Parish, LA,
speaks of JB. In the letter, SBLS says, "I think often of what I used to
hear our dear mother say she wanted, to live to see her
children grown and after they were grown, she wanted to live to see
her grandchildren grown." See file of Sarah Brooks Lindsey
for details.
An FGS chart compiled by Esther Brooks in the Lawrence
Co., AL, Archives gives JB's middle name as Finnie.
More About Jane Brooks:
Date born 2: 17 Jan 1795, Virginia
Date born 3: 19 Feb 1797, Wayne County, Kentucky
Died 2: 22 Sep 1852, Lawrence County, Alabama
Burial: 09 Sep 1852, Lindsey Family Cemetery, Lawrence
County, Alabama
Notes for Dennis Lindsey:
The autobiography of Cushion Hassell Biggs (see his file
for details) notes that in the spring of 1837, a depression occurred
due to the failure of about 400 mercantile houses in
NY City, and the suspension of banks throughout the country. This
reduced thousands throughout the country to bankruptcy.
Lawrence Co. Orphans Ct. Bk. 1825, pp. 29-30: DL gives
bond with Samuel Forbes, Thomas A. Strain, William Faris,
Spotswood Jones, and John Manning, $14,000, for Littleberry
H. Jones to be guardian of Edwin, Robert, John, Charles W.,
and Mary Ann Price, minor heirs of Robert Price, 21 Dec.
1825. Note that Samuel Forbes witnessed the permission note of
Godfrey Isbell for the marriage of James Brooks to GI's
daughter Nancy Isbell in Wayne Co., KY, in 1805. James Brooks was
the uncle of Dennis Lindsey's wife Jane Brooks.
On 26 March 1829, DL gave bond with John Stewart for Joel
Burnam as constable in Capt. Thomas' co., Lawrence Co., AL
(Lawrence Co. Official Bond Records 1829-50, p. 2; see
Anne S. Lee, "Court Records," OLD LAWRENCE
REMINISCENCES 10,3 [Sept. 1996], p. 109).
On 3 June 1833, DL bought from the U.S. land office at
Huntsville, AL, 159.50 acres, the SW 1/4 of sect. 15, twp. 7, range 6W.
I have a copy of the certificate, #1003.
Brother to David D. Lindsey who married another Brooks sister.
Family Group Record IGS for Jane Brooks and Dennis Lindsey:
The Brooks and Lindsey families were very close and it
is believed that they traveled together in a caravan from South
Carolina to Wayne County, Kentucky when they helped to
settle that area and then from Kentucky to the North West Alabama
territory in the early 1800's before Alabama became a
state. After settling in the Oakville, Alabama area in Lawrence County
where there was only an indian trading post, other marriages
between the Lindsey and Brooks families took place. J. B.
Speake of Kentucky also moved to the Oakville area and
settled. He was a venerable educator and married the oldest
daughter of Dennis Lindsey (Sarah Brooks Lindsey).
More About Dennis Lindsey:
Burial: 28 Aug 1836, Lindsey Family Cemetery, Lawrence
County, Alabama
Census: 1830, Alabama Census showed they owned 6 slaves
Children of Jane Brooks and Dennis Lindsey are:
i.
Charles Wesley5 Lindsey, d. 04 Apr 1865, Oakville, Lawrence County, Alabama.
ii.
Martha A. Lindsey, m. Kitchens.
More About Martha A. Lindsey:
Residence: Lousiana
iii.
John Wesley Lindsey, b. 1814, Wayne County, Kentucky; d. Itawamba County,
Mississippi; m.
Margaret Gibson, 18 Mar 1836.
Notes for John Wesley Lindsey:
Appears to have been in business as a merchant with Gibson, per receipt
for his grandfather
Thomas Brooks' coffin and other funeral items mentioned in the estate file;
see file of Thomas
Brooks.
In 1838, wit. the will of his grandfather Thomas Brooks; see TB's file.
The original, of which I
have a copy, contains JWL's signature. In fact, the will itself may have
been written by JWL, who
had a very clear and beautiful handwriting.
On 25 Feb. 1839, JWL proved the will in court. Morgan Co., AL, and gave
bond with his uncle
David Dinsmore Lindsey on behalf of Charles Brooks, the will's executor
(also JWL's uncle). See
file of Thomas Brooks for details.
iv.
Sarah Brooks Lindsey, b. 01 Aug 1818, Oakville, Lawrence County, Alabama;
d. 10 Jan 1889,
Speake, Lawrence County, Alabama; m. James B. Speake, 01 Jun 1833.
53.
v.
Thomas Madison Lindsey, b. 09 Oct 1821, Oakville, Lawrence County, Alabama;
d. 01 Nov
1898, Moody, McLennan County, Texas.
54.
vi.
Mark Jefferson Lindsey, b. 1822, Oakville, Lawrence County, Alabama; d.
1894, Coushatta,
Red River Parish, Louisiana.
vii.
Samuel Asbury Lindsey, b. 1825, Oakville, Lawrence County, Alabama; d.
04 Apr 1865, In
combat at Old Spanish Fort, Alabama; m. (1) Lenora Elizabeth Bickley; m.
(2) Mary Jane
Hunter, 12 Oct 1848.
Notes for Samuel Asbury Lindsey:
Marriage to Louisa D. Bibb is in Morgan Co. Marriage Bk., A, p. 285.
SAL is on the 1850 agricultural census in Lawrence Co., AL, with 40 acres
improved, 40
unimproved, dist. 8 (see Myra Borden, "Agricultural Schedules, 1840-1910,
OLD LAWRENCE
REMINISCENCES 11,3 [Sept. 1997], p. p. 80).
More About Samuel Asbury Lindsey:
Residence: Lousiana
55.
viii.
Mary Jane Lindsey, b. 10 Nov 1826, Oakville, Lawrence County, Alabama;
d. Bef. 04 Nov
1850, Lawrence County, Alabama.
ix.
Frances Rebecca Lindsey, b. 23 Sep 1831, Oakville, Lawrence County, Alabama;
d. Apr 1916,
Coushatta, Red River Parish, Louisiana; m. Samuel H. Kellogg, 08 Nov 1848.
More About Frances Rebecca Lindsey:
Residence: Lousiana
x.
Margaret Tranquilla Lindsey, b. 14 Jan 1834, Oakville, Lawrence County,
Alabama; d. 26 Aug
1921, Coushatta, Red River Parish, Louisiana; m. William Hunter, 12 Nov
1851, Oakville,
Lawrence, Alabama.
Notes for Margaret Tranquilla Lindsey:
For notes on Margaret T. Lindsey, see notes on her husband William Hunter.
Both the Red River Parish history and H.C. Lindsey's book on the Mark Lindsey
family have a
number of pictures of Margaret T. Lindsey. H.C. Lindsey's book has two
letters from Sarah
Brooks Lindsey Speake of Oakville, Alabama, to Margaret T. Hunter in Martin,
La. These are
now in the possession of Mrs. Barbara Kellogg, who lives on the Ringgold
road north of
Coushatta. In the 1 May 1877 letter, Sarah Speake laments the fact that
Marshall Hunter (s/o
William and Margaret T. Hunter) had left home. Apparently, his mother feared
that he would be
ruined by "bad associations." Sarah Speake notes that she reckons Marshall
will be glad to
return in a year. He must have done so, since he settled at Coushatta.
A 31 May 1880 letter has
interesting information about various family members, including plans of
Sarah Speake's son
Henry to run for Congress as a Democrat from the area. Apparently, he thought
it best not to
run. He did eventually serve as judge of the Northern Distr., Ala., court.
A descendant of the
Speake family, Mr. Harold Speake of Moulton, has pictures of Henry Clay
Speake and other
Lindsey descendants of his generation. These line the walls of the hallway
to Mr. Speake's law
office. H.C. Lindsey's book has a number of these, including one of Henry
Clay Speake.
H.C. Lindsey's book also has a 14 June 1920 letter from Marshall Hunter
to his mother Margaret
T. Hunter. It is on the letterhead of U.H. Hunter's store, which also carries
the names of W.M.
Hunter and I.T. Hunter. Marshall Hunter notes that he had taken dinner
the day before at the
home of Elbert and Ida Mae Hunter Snead. He states that Lucy Dupree Lake
and her baby, of
Delhi, La., had been at the dinner. He also notes that Elbert and Ida Mae
Snead lived at Liberty.
The letter also mentions that Hattie Snead Cotton had had dinner in the
evening with Marshall
Hunter and his family, and alludes to a trip Marshall Hunter had taken
recently to
Alabama--presumably, to visit relatives at Oakville.
The name Tranquilla appears to come from the Brooks family. On this, see
FGS for children of
Thomas and Sarah Whitlock Brooks.
More About Margaret Tranquilla Lindsey:
Burial: 26 Aug 1921, Liberty Cemetery, Red River Parish, Louisiana
Residence: Lousiana
Notes for William Hunter:
Red River Parish Hist. Society, RED RIVER PARISH, OUR HERITAGE (Bossier
City: Everett,
1989), pp. 251-268 has extensive information on the Hunter family, as does
Henry Carlton
Lindsey, THE MARK LINDSEY HERITAGE (priv. publ., 1982, Brownwood, Texas).
The
information in the former source was submitted by Barney Hunter and other
members of the
Hunter family.
Barney Hunter states that William Hunter's parents, John T. and Luvisa
Bentley Hunter, came
from Ga. to what became Lawrence Co., Ala., prior to Alabama statehood.
They settled near the
Lindsey family at what became the town of Oakville, which Dennis Lindsey
helped found. Family
tradition says that John and Luvisa lost 4 children on one day (12 Apr
1861)--Nancy A. and
Sarah L. from diphtheria, and James and Asbury in the Civil War. John became
so depressed
because of this and the loss of wealth in the war that he shot himself
on 12 Nov. 1868 at Oakville.
Barney Hunter also notes that William and Margaret Hunter moved to Louisiana
between 1859
and 1860, and settled near Martin, where they lived the rest of their lives.
After her husband's
death, Margaret Lindsey Hunter filed a pension application for CSA service;
it was denied
because of insufficient evidence. The sources cited above have a number
of pictures of William
and Margaret Hunter. One in Dr. Lindsey's book shows Margaret to have been
tall and thin, as
were many of the Lindseys of her generation. Dr. Lindsey's book also has
a letter from Marshall
Hunter to his mother Margaret Lindsey Hunter, speaking of various relatives,
including members
of the Snead family. «LA1»
xi.
Dennis James Lindsey, b. 1836, Oakville, Lawrence County, Alabama; m. Kitchens,
20 Jul
1892.
Notes for Dennis James Lindsey:
On 14 Sept. 1855, the diary of Frances J. Torrence of Oakville, AL, notes
that James Lindsey
had visited her family that day. On this source, see file of Thomas Madison
Lindsey.
34. Charles4 Brooks (Thomas M.3, Thomas2, Thomas1) was
born Dec 1800 in Wayne County, Kentucky, and died 25 Oct
1861 in Itawamba County, Mississippi. He married Deniah
Cornelius 27 Jan 1823 in Lawrence County, Alabama, daughter of
Rowland Cornelius and Eleanor Watkins.
Notes for Charles Brooks:
My date of birth for CB is from his father's bible register.
The transcriber of the register was apparently unable to read the
precise day of birth. On this document, see file of Thomas
Brooks. Since CB's parents were living in Wayne Co., KY, at this
date, I have placed his birth there.
My date and place of death for CB are from a 10 Nov. 1983
descendancy chart compiled by Kathleen Sullivan Grigsby, 5403
79th St., Lubbock, TX; and from the FGS of Corinne Crider,
cited in file of Deniah Cornelius.
Marriage record is in Lawrence Co. Marriage Bk. A, p.
110; marriage was solemnized by Nathanial Norwood. See also
Pauline Jones Gandrud, ALABAMA RECORDS, vol. 22.
On the 1830 census, CB is in Lawrence Co., AL, with 2 m. under 5, 1 m. 20-30, 1 f. under 5, 1 f. 5-10, and 1 f. 20-30.
On the 1850 census, CB is in 6th dist., Itawamba Co.,
MS, p. 700 (fam. 652; 9 Oct.). His age is 50, he is a farmer, b. KY. In
the
household are wife Deniah, 47, b. GA, and children David,
21, Frances, 18, John, 16, James, 15, Margaret, 7, Martha, 5,
and William, 3, all b. AL. Also in the household are
Thomas Smith, 19, and John Tully, 22, both hired men, and both b. SC.
On the 1860 census, CB is in Mooreville Dist., Itawamba
Co., p. 313 (fam. 852; 7 Aug. 1860. CB's age is 59, his birthplace
KY, his wife (Dinah, here) is 55, b. GA, and in the household
is daughter Martha L., 16, b. MS.
The Nov. 1836 inventory of the estate of Dennis Lindsey,
brother-in-law of CB, shows that CB owed several notes to this
estate; see file of DL for details.
CB was executor of his father's estate in 1838-1839, Morgan
Co., AL. At the estate sale, he bought the family bible; see file of
Thomas Brooks for details. In a 13 Apr. 1993 letter to
me, Corinne Crider (see file of CB's father Thomas for details) tells me
that the bible apparently went to from CB to his nephew
son Christopher J., son of Samuel K. Brooks, who settled in Itawamba
Co., MS, as did CB. She bases this assumption on the
fact that the bible records the birth of CJB and his spouse Sarah, and
of
their children. Note that the bible register was published
in ITAWAMBA SETTLERS.
On 10 March 1840, CB made a statement of his execution
of his father's estate, and the execution passed from him to Milton
McClanahan. This suggests to me that CB was in the process
of preparing to move to MS at this time. See file of Thomas
Brooks for details.
Various documents in the estate file, including a 20 Apr.
1840 letter to his brother-in-law Wesley Huffaker, have the signature of
CB.
I have a copy of a transcript of an 18 Jan. 1878 deed
in which CB's children sell land in Lee Co., MS, to Robert C. Johnson.
The land is 20 acres in the NE corner of the NE 1/4,
section 10, twp. 9, range 7E. Since all the siblings sell this land together,
it
must have been an inheritance from their mother or father
(Lee Co. DB 27, p. 265).
Unless otherwise noted, Kathleen Grigsby's chart is my
source for all information I have recorded about the line of Sarah
Eleanor Brooks.
My primary source for the information I have recorded
about the children of CB is the 1993 FGS of Corinne Crider, cited in file
of Deniah Cornelius. Where I have used other sources,
I cite them in particular files.
Charles Brooks was born in the state of Kentucky about
1800-1801. He married Deniah Cornelius, who was born in Franklin
County, Georgia, about 1803-1805. Their marriage took
place in Lawrence County, Alabama, on January 27, 1823, and is
recorded in Marriage Book I, of Lawrence County, Alabama.
Miss Cornelius was the daughter of Rowland Cornelius (c.
1755-1822) and Eleanor Watkins (C. 1777-1861) of Madison
County, Alabama.
Charles Brooks was engaged in farming, spending his entire
life in his endeavor. He died in Itawamba County, Mississippi,
about November, 1861. His son, James M. Brooks, was named
administrator of his estate. His bond was dated November 25,
1861, according to Chancery Records, of Itawamba County,
Mississippi. Deniah died some time after the year 1880, in Lee
County, Mississippi, at the home of her grandson, Charles
Simeon Brooks.
According to the 1850 Census of Itawamba County, Mississippi
the following nine children of Charles and Deniah Brooks were
listed: David, Frances, John, and James (all born in
Alabama), Margaret, Martha, and William (all born in Mississippi). Two
children, both of whom were also born in Alabama, Malinda,
who married Malijah Payne, and Thomas R., were already
married and gone from home at the time of the 1850 census.
See John Cornelius Brooks.
Notes for Deniah Cornelius:
Deniah Cornelius' date of birth is in the bible of her
father-in-law Thomas Brooks; on this, see his file. My place of birth and
date and place of death for DC are from a 1993 FGS for
Charles Brooks and Deniah Cornelius compiled by Corinne Crider.
This cites the Thomas Brooks bible, cemetery records,
marriage records, census, and court records. On Corinne Crider, see
file of Thomas Brooks, CB's father.
Corinne Crider sent me an abstract of the 1870 and 1880
census entry for DC. In 1870, she is listed as Venair Brooks, 66, b.
GA, with a household of John, 16, Jane, 12, George, 10,
and Susan, 8, all Brooks, all b. AL. CC tells me she cannot identify
the children in the household.
In 1880, DC is in the household of her grandson Charles
S. Brooks in Lee Co., MS. See his file for details. Her, her age is 75,
her birthplace is GA, her father's birthplace is VA,
and her mother's is PA. She is illiterate.
Information about DC's ancestry is to be found in John
Bennett Boddie, HISTORICAL SOUTHERN FAMILIES, vol. 22
(Baltimore: Geneal. Publ. Co., 1978), pp. 46-66. Unless
otherwise noted, this is my primary source for the information I have
recorded about DC's ancestry.
Children of Charles Brooks and Deniah Cornelius are:
i.
Sarah Eleanor5 Brooks, b. 08 Dec 1823, Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama;
d. 22 Feb
1904, San Saba, Bexar County, Texas; m. Isaac Saul Fletcher Sullivan, 23
Jun 1842,
Itawamba County, Mississippi.
Notes for Sarah Eleanor Brooks:
SEB's date of birth is recorded in the bible of her grandfather Thomas
Brooks; on this, see file of
Thomas Brooks.
Note that SB appears to be named for her grandmothers Sarah Whitlock and
Eleanor
Thompson.
More About Sarah Eleanor Brooks:
Burial: 22 Feb 1904, San Saba Cemetery, Bexar County, Texas
56.
ii.
Thomas Rowland Brooks, b. 13 Jun 1825, Lawrence County, Alabama; d. 23
Jan 1863,
Itawamba County, Mississippi.
iii.
Malinda J. Brooks, b. 29 Oct 1827, Lawrence County, Alabama; d. Van Zandt
County, Texas;
m. Malcijah Payne, 13 Feb 1845, Itawamba County, Mississippi.
Notes for Malinda J. Brooks:
Date of birth is in bible of grandfather Thomas Brooks; on this, see file
of TB.
iv.
David A. Brooks, b. 25 Jul 1828, Lawrence County, Alabama; d. Bef. 1870;
m. Elvira Cook, 06
Feb 1851, Itawamba County, Mississippi.
Notes for David A. Brooks:
Date of birth is in bible of grandfather Thomas Brooks; on this, see file
of TB.
More About David A. Brooks:
Cause of Death: Killed in War Between the States
v.
Eunus Frances Brooks, b. 11 Jul 1830, Lawrence County, Alabama; d. Itawamba
County,
Mississippi; m. William D. Johnson, 03 Jul 1856, Itawamba County, Mississippi.
Notes for Eunus Frances Brooks:
Date of birth is in bible of grandfather Thomas Brooks; on this, see file
of TB.
57.
vi.
John Cornelius Brooks, b. 12 Feb 1832, Lawrence County, Alabama; d. 29
Apr 1900, Mabank,
Kaufman County or Van Zandt County, Texas.
vii.
James M. Brooks, b. 12 Apr 1835, Lawrence County, Alabama; d. 05 Nov 1896,
Hunt County,
Texas; m. Margaret Frances Hancock, 07 Nov 1857, Itawamba County, Mississippi.
Notes for James M. Brooks:
Date of birth is in bible of grandfather Thomas Brooks; on this, see file
of TB.
More About James M. Brooks:
Administrator: 25 Nov 1861, Bonded as administrator Charles Brooks Estate,
chancery records,
Itawamba County, Mississippi
Burial: 05 Nov 1896, Sahara Cemetery, Hunt County, Texas
58.
viii.
Margaret Lindsey Brooks, b. 02 Oct 1841, Itawamba County, Mississippi;
d. 30 Jun 1889,
Itawamba County, Mississippi.
ix.
Martha Ledbetter Brooks, b. 21 May 1844, Itawamba County, Mississippi;
d. 16 Oct 1912, Lee
County, Mississippi; m. William M. Brooks, 04 Jan 1865, Itawamba County,
Mississippi.
More About Martha Ledbetter Brooks:
Burial: 16 Oct 1912, Eggville Cemetery, Lee County, Mississippi
More About William M. Brooks:
Burial: 26 Jun 1919, Eggville Cemetery, Lee County, Mississippi
x.
William Glen Brooks, b. 16 Feb 1847, Itawamba County, Mississippi; d. 04
Dec 1855, Itawamba
County, Mississippi.
Notes for William Glen Brooks:
WGB's dates of birth and death are in the bible of his grandfather Thomas
Brooks; see file of TB.
35. Margaret4 Brooks (Thomas M.3, Thomas2, Thomas1) was
born 06 Feb 1803 in Wayne County, Kentucky, and died 04
Oct 1855 in Morgan County, Illinois. She married Ransom
Van Winkle 09 Sep 1823 in Wayne County, Kentucky.
Notes for Margaret Brooks:
My source for MB's date of birth is the bible of her
father; on this source, see file of Thomas Brooks. This states that she
was
baptized by the Rev. Elliott Joiner.
The marriage record of MB appears in Bork, WAYNE CO.,
cited in file of Thomas Brooks, vol. --, p. 174. Bond was given by
Ransom Van Winkle, with Micajah Philips as surety, on
29 Aug. 1823, and the marriage occurred on 9 Sept., James Porter
solemnizing it.
Corinne Crider's query in BROOKS FAMILY QUERY EXCHANGE,
cited in file of MB's father, states that the family moved to
Morgan Co., IL. The move to IL appears to have taken
place by 1829, since the 1830 delinquent tax list for Wayne Co.
contains a notation that Ransom Van
winkle had moved to IL.
In a 15 Sept. 1993 letter to me, Corinne Crider tells
me that the family of Ransom Vanwinkle is on the 1830 census in Morgan
Co., IL. The letter also cites 1850 census information
for this family, presumably from Morgan Co., IL: the census apparently
shows children Hiram, 25, Mary, 22, Alexander, 19, James,
14, Marietta (?), 12, Atherton (?), 9, John, all b. IL. Next door is a
Thomas Van Winkle, 22, with wife and two children; Crider
thinks that TV is a son of Ransom and Margaret. The census data
would appear to indicate that the family moved to IL
by 1825. Crider notes that the names Marietta and Atherton were illegible
on the census, and that these may not be correct transcriptions.
More complete information about the children of MB and
Ransom Van Winkle is to be found in James C. Van Winkle, A
GENEALOGY OF THE VAN WINKLE FAMILY, cited in file of
RVW's father Abraham (p. 299), and in Daniel Van Winkle, A
GENEALOGY OF THE VAN WINKLE FAMILY (Jersey City, NJ;
?), p. 222. The date of the latter publication is illegible in the
photocopy I have; the book was reproduced by UMI, Ann
Arbor, MI, in 1989).
Notes for Ransom Van Winkle:
For my source for the birthdate of RVW, see file of his
father. Note that the LDS IGI has an entry for Ransom Van Winkle, which
says he was b. ca. 1802, Belleville, Essex Co., NJ (film
445828).
Note that the 1819 will of Robert Gillespie, cited in
file of RV's father-in-law Thomas Brooks, left land for a Methodist church
in
Wayne Co., KY, with trustees that included Thomas Brooks
and John Van Winkle. This JVW appears to be an uncle of RVW, a
brother of RVW's father Abraham.
Wayne Co. Order Bks. B and C mention Ransom Vanwinkle.
At Sept. court 1829, Bk. B notes that the records and papers of
Ransom Vanwinkle, Esq., had been removed, returned to
court, and given to the custody of Edward Sandusky (p. 265). This
action is mentioned again on p. 282 (Dec. court 1829),
and in Bk. C, p. 87.
On 29 June 1849, RVW was in Morgan Co., AL, to collect
his wife's share of her father's estate. A receipt in Thomas Brooks'
estate file notes the RVW collected $250 for his wife,
and another $250 for his brother-in-law Thomas Whitlock Brooks. Both
contain RVW's signature.
More About Ransom Van Winkle:
Burial: 10 Jan 1862, Franklin, Illinois
Children of Margaret Brooks and Ransom Van Winkle are:
i.
Hiram J.5 Van Winkle, b. 22 Dec 1824, Wayne County, Kentucky; m. Mary H.
Van Meter, 26
Apr 1855, Sangamon County, Illinois.
ii.
Thomas Brooks Van Winkle, b. 15 Oct 1826, Illinois; m. Orpha Ann Bourland,
05 Oct 1847,
Morgan County, Illinois.
iii.
Mary Roxilanna Van Winkle, b. 26 Sep 1828, Illinois; m. James Monroe Mayfield,
20 Aug 1845.
Notes for Mary Roxilanna Van Winkle:
James C. Van Winkle and Daniel Van Winkle (cited in file of Margaret Brooks,
wife of Ransom
Van Winkle) both identify this child as Roxilanna. Since the 1850 census
has a Mary Van Winkle
of the same age, I am assuming that Roxilanna is Mary Roxilanna.
iv.
Alexander Van Winkle, b. 11 Jan 1831, Morgan County, Illinois; m. (1) Henrietta
Keplinger, 31
Jan 1862, Morgan County, Illinois; m. (2) Malissa J. Criswell, 19 Oct 1890,
Morgan County,
Illinois.
More About Alexander Van Winkle:
Military service: Company A, 32nd Illinois Infantry, and Company B, 10th
Illinois Infantry as
Adjutant Sergeant-Major during Civil War
v.
Sarah Jane Van Winkle, b. 24 Apr 1833, Morgan County, Illinois; m. Reed.
vi.
James Van Winkle, b. Abt. 1836; m. Pulsifer.
Notes for James Van Winkle:
James C. Van Winkle and Daniel Van Winkle both place this child as the
last child of Ransom and
Margaret Van Winkle, without a date of birth.
vii.
Martinette Van Winkle, b. 08 Jan 1839, Morgan County, Illinois; d. 27 Oct
1858, Morgan County,
Illinois.
viii.
Atherton Van Winkle, b. 02 Aug 1841, Morgan County, Illinois; m. Tabitha
Ellen Luttrell, 17 May
1866.
More About Atherton Van Winkle:
Military service: Company A, 32nd Illinois Infantry, and Company B, 10th
Illinois Infantry during
Civil War
ix.
John Hardin Van Winkle, b. 08 Aug 1844, Morgan County, Illinois; m. Elizabeth
Gibson, 28 Oct
1868.
Notes for John Hardin Van Winkle:
JHVW enlisted at age 18 in Co. H, 32nd IL Volunteers in the Civil War;
he was at the siege of
Vicksburg and on Sherman's march through GA. He was discharged on 15 Jan.
1865 (see
HISTORY OF MORGAN CO., IL, 1878).
