1830s Pennsylvania, bound out to learn the Tailor trade, he ran away after his parents died, losing touch with his siblings.

1861 married in Giles County TN

1870 John removed to Paris Texas -census shows wife as R.P who was Roxanna Permilia Smith of TN and that his father Hans was from Holland and mother from France. When John died Roxanna went back to TN and remarried. John Jr married Anne Ballard and named a son James and they migrated to Montgomery Alabama. James was a bookkeeper working for the State and married Susie Mae Cooper, naming a son James Jr in 1925. James Jr. married Mary Ella Thornton and had sons, Johnny, Tommy, Frank and Charlie.

Tracing the many surnames intermarried with the Brooks families.

• WWI (63 KB)
  Grandfather Brooks
• Marriage Records (524 KB)
  Brooks of Tennessee
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  Brooks of Tennessee
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  Grandfather Carter

Charles Brooks
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