This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RgB.2ACE/198 Message Board Post: I would like to know if this person was my grandfather's older brother James Monroe Brookshire son of Alva( Alvin, Alvy) Brookshire 11/1/1850 - 3/1/1889 & Mary Pauline Holden 1/10/1851-4/17/1911 both of Ellijay, Gilmer County, Georgia. Madisonville Democrat, (Monroe Co. TN) Wednesday, May 25, 1949: “State’s Oldest Convict From Monroe, Freed---A dispatch from Nashville states that the oldest inmate of the state penitentiary is going to be freed. He is J.M. Brookshire, said to have been a prisoner longer than any other inmate. Gov. Browning is permitting his release by granting a commutation of sentence. The prisoner appeared in a wheel chair recently when he asked the board of pardons and paroles for clemency. He was sent to the penitentiary in 1923 for 99 years, on conviction of murdering his wife.”