--=======3CF0283C======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-33C74F; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Forwarding this from Fred A. Cruckson <[email protected]> as there's some question if it reached the list. Apologies if it's a duplication. I'll take another look in my own data tonight for this John Brooks. Chris =============================== I found John B. Brooks, a farmer, age 66 (born 1814 in Maine) listed in the 1880 federal census for Charlton County in Georgia; his wife's name was Sarah, age 63 (born 1817 in Georgia; both of John's parents were born in Maine, whereas both of Sarah's parents were born in Georgia. Listed in the same census was John B. Brooks, a farmer, age 44 (born 1836 in Florida); his wife's name was Mary H., age 33 (born 1847 in Georgia); the husband's father was born in Maine and his mother was born in Georgia; the wife's father was born in North Carolina and her mother was born in Georgia; living with them were five sons and one daughter as follows: William G. 13, Jesse M. 11, John B. 9, Martin L. 6, Mary H. 3, and Simon P. 7/12; all six children were born in Georgia. Apparently, John Brooks Sr. was married to his wife Sarah about 1835 (she would have been eighteen then), and a son, John B. Brooks Jr., was born to them during 1836 in Florida--probably near Jacksonville, Florida because the state of Florida borders on the Charlton county line. I have a Higginson book entitled BROOKS AND KINDRED FAMILIES, which was authored by Ida Brooks Kellam and published in 1950, and names many descendants of John and Susan Brooks, who came to America about 1731-34 with six sons and settled first in Virginia near the James River. It is rumored that when the Brookses left Virginia, three of the sons went north and three went south. Those who went south during 1735 moved to North Carolina and lived in the following counties: Bladen, Cumberland, Orange, and Chatham. Two of the sons ended up in Georgia about 1775, living in the following counties: Wilkes, Warren, Jones, Jasper, Early, Polk, Paulding, Henry, Putman, Columbia, and Harris. I scanned the Higginson book for John B. Brooks 1814-1892, but did not find any mention of him, or his son John B. Brooks, Jr., in it. Charlton County, Georgia is quite thinly populated, and I would recommend searching birth, marriage, death, and land records at the county seat there. --Compliments of Fred Cruckson in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. --=======3CF0283C======= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-avg=cert; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-33C74F Content-Disposition: inline --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.307 / Virus Database: 168 - Release Date: 12/11/01 --=======3CF0283C=======--