Chancy Brooks

BROOKS, CASEBEER, BURLING, MOYNE

Posted By: Dorothy Gosse (email)
Date: 2/10/2002 at 14:46:59

Brooks, Chancy, farmer and stock raiser, Section 12 (Smithfield township); PO Brush Creek; born in Ontario Co., NY, Sept. 18, 1817; has 199 acres of land, valued at $5,000. Belongs to the United Brethren Church. Married Hannah Casebeer (deceased), who was born in Wayne Co., Ohio, July 26, 1826; have had nine children --- Hiram H., born March 18, 1847; Manda, born May 10, 1848; Eliza A., born Dec. 9, 1849; Mary E., born Oct. 12, 1851; Charles H., born Aug. 6, 1854; James C., born Aug. 28, 1857; Lydia, born May 3, 1861; Sarah O., born Dec. 15, 1863; Edwina, born Aug. 29, 1865. For his second wife, married Ann Burling; born in England, Aug. 10, 1844; one child -- Jennie I., born May 23, 1877. Emigrated from New York to Canada West, when he was two years old, in 1819; from there he went to Muscatine, Iowa, in 1838; made his home there until 1845; from there he went to Linn Co.; remained there two years, and in 1847, came to Fayette Co., where he has resided since; May, the same year, he cut logs and built a shanty. Mr. Brooks claims to be the oldest living settler in the county; there was a man by the name of J. P. Moyne who came in and made a claim, but did not make it his home until after Mr. Brooks came in and built his shanty.

Page 680, "1878 History of Fayette County, Iowa"