This Alvin Brooks is the father of my Great great Grand Father Gillman Drew Brooks. The correct name for my Great great Grand Mother is Mary Elizabeth Scrivner another old American family. It's our family belief that we descend from Deacon Doans of the Mayflower. Google Deacon Doans. I still have to prove a couple of things but I reasonably certain of this history to go on this forum and make the statement. I believe that Gillman Drew Brooks moved to LA sometime after my Great Grand Mother Viola was about 3. I think he changed his name to David G Brooks. He joined a group of LDS followers and may have married again. I have that he hooked up with a cousin named James Wesley Clelland, whose history can be found online by googling that name. This genealogy was done by another cousin Stephany Smith of the Healthsmiths. My family was one of the 1st to go to Kansas and another cousin was the last white man (a kid of 10) killed by "wild" Indians in Kansas. I have that article too. Trudy Fielding