At 12:00 PM 11/17/01 -0700, you wrote: >BROOKS-NE-D Digest Volume 01 : Issue 112 > >Today's Topics: > #1 [B-NE] JOSIAH T. BROOKS [Polly Houser > <[email protected]] > >Administrivia: >To unsubscribe, send a message to > > [email protected] >or > [email protected] > >with *only the command UNSUBSCRIBE in >the body of the message. No subject line >is necessary, but if your software wants >one, just use UNSUBSCRIBE there as well. > >To contact the list administrator: > [email protected] > > > >______________________________X-Message: #1 >Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 13:41:00 -0500 >From: Polly Houser <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <B81AC7EB.BB9%[email protected]> >Subject: [B-NE] JOSIAH T. BROOKS >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > >I am hoping that someone out there can help me locate the parents and >siblings of Josiah T. Brooks. He was born around 1832 possibly in Ohio >or maybe PA. He married a Melissa Jane Chevalier from Reedsville, >Meigs Co., Ohio in 1853 and they had 5 children that I know of: Laura >Alice (died at an earlier age and cannot find here grave or death date), >Elizabeth Florence, John Ellison, Charles Hopkins, and James Finley. >Josiah T. joined the 4th West Virginia Infantry on July 30. 1861 and his >military papers list his age as 28 on that day. He came down with >pneumonia while serving and was sent to the Gallipolis Hospital in Ohio >and he died there in July of 1864. > >I do have an obituary for Charles Hopkins Brooks ( Josiah's son) and it >says that he was born in Reedsville, Ohio in 1857. So that puts Josiah >in Reedsville before going to Pickaway County where I found him on the >1860 census. I hope some of these names connect with one of you. I >am avidly reading each days e-mail hoping to connect. This is my >brick wall and any help would be greatly apprecaited. > Polly in Ohio