>Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 13:41:00 -0500 >From: Polly Houser <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] > >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. Hi Polly, I've never been able to match your names/dates with anything in my data, so I thought I'd try an IGI (International Genealogical Index) search for leads. I looked for the birth of any Josiah Brooks, no date, and that scrolled the records dated 1828-1840. 111 hits on this name, but only a few with proper dates for our purposes. ================================ Film 1904022, Official Temple Record for Deceased Individuals, 1991-1996, apparently contains an entry for a Josiah T. Brooks, b. ca. 1828, Meigs, OH. So it appears someone else has researched the same man in the past. But this is a submitted rather than extracted file, and the notes say, "Submitter's name and address are currently not available." That wording suggests availability is a matter of the LDS getting this film indexed rather than legal prohibition on releasing the submitter's name. Film 1761182, same title as above, indexes a Josiah Brooks b. 1831, Pennsylvania. Again, submitter information not available. Film 2034338, same title, indexes a Josiah Brooks b. 1831, Licking, OH, son of Henry Brooks and Elizabeth Mowbray. Submitter unavailable. Finishing out births of Josiahs in the decade of the 1830s, anywhere in the North: Film 1553291, Patron Sheets, 1969-1991 -- Josiah Joseph Brooks, b. 4 Dec 1836, Cincinnati, Hamilton, OH, father "Brooks," mother "Leeper." "Batch numbers may be out of order." Film 1903540, Official Temple Record for Deceased Individuals, 1991-1996 -- submitter unavailable -- Josiah Brooks, b. ca 1837 "of, Hamilton, OH," to Amaniel Brooks/Mrs. Eliza Brooks. Film 2034665, Official Temple Record for Deceased Individuals, 1991-1996 -- submitter unavailable -- Josiah Allen Brooks, s. of Amariah Harris Brooks/Eliza Leeper, b. ca. 1838. "of, Hamilton, OH" And that's it. It appears that others have researched several discrete individuals with the name of Josiah Brooks who could fit with your man. ================================ Working the other direction, I looked for a Melissa Chevalier. Far fewer hits -- 5 in all - but all appear to be your woman. Born 1 Dec 1832, Forked Run, Meigs, OH; married ca. 1853, Meigs County, OH. Unfortunately, they're all submissions again rather than extracted official records of some sort. There are two pedigree submissions (duplicates) which provide the name and mailing address of the (one) submitter, one Judy Mix of Greenfield, IN, so you might want to take a look at www.familysearch.org for yourself to follow up. ================================ Sorry I couldn't provide more specific help, but if any of these are unfamiliar to you, they're probably worth following up. And please keep querying the list from time to time. Even if there's no response at the time, your query is preserved in the list archive. Sooner or later, we hope the "right person" might see it there. Regards, Chris ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Christopher Hapgood Brooks Researching BROOKS Families of New England |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||