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