WESTBROOK, Mrs. Sarah A.

WESTBROOK, BURTON, WESTON, MCCRACKEN

Posted By: Administrator
Date: 12/9/2001 at 10:37:42

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF De Witt TWP.
From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879) pgs 736-751

MRS. SARAH A. WESTBROOK, nee Burton, De Witt; her parents, S. P. and Eliza Burton, came to Clinton Co. in March, 1840; her father entered the farm now owned and occupied by Mr. Henry Weston; her parents had seven daughters, two now living. Mrs. Westbrook was born in April, 1828; her sister, Mrs. W. H. McCracken, born in 1827, resides in Kansas. Her father, now 75 years of age, is a resident of De Witt. Mrs. Westbrook married, in 1848, Mr. B. L. Westbrook; Has had two sons, both deceased; her eldest son, James A , was born May 13, 1849; he entered the army as drummer-boy in August, 1862; his health failing, he was discharged Feb. 19, 1863, learned the printing-business, and gave bright promise for the future, but the disease he contracted in the army resulted in consumption. He went to California for the benefit of his health, in July, 1871, and died at San Jose, in December of that year; her younger son, Leonard, died at the age of 21 years.