John Brooks

BROOKS, ONEIL, BARTY

Posted By: Dorothy Gosse (email)
Date: 3/9/2002 at 23:47:24

Brooks, John, farmer, Section 21 (Auburn township); PO Douglass; born in England in 1816. Married Catherine O'Neil in 1847; she was born in Ireland in 1824; have three children living --- Sarah, William and Earnest; lost five children --- John, born in 1852, died in 1857; Emily, born in 1862, died in 1863; Mary, wife of Thomas Barty, born in 1850, died in 1869; Agnes, born in 1858, died in 1877; Elizabeth, second wife of Thomas Barty, born 1854, died in 1878; there were three children left by the sisters -- Rosella, Mary and Maude. Came to this country in 1846, stopping in NY State, Chicago and Wisconsin, and in 1862, came to this county and settled on present estate; has a farm of sixty-one acres, valued at $35 per acre. Both members of the M. E. Church.

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