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John Brooks born 1837 Pennsylvania is found in the 1860
Tennessee census just prior to his marriage to Roxanna Permilia
Smith and then they are found in Texas in 1870 and 1880. Those census
records indicate that his father was born in Holland and his mother in France.
Roxanna's family was in Tennessee long before the Trail of Tears.
Her
mother Caroline Bond was the daughter of John Baptist Bond, and Caroline might
have remarried two or three times. Roxanna's son was named John and he married
Annie Clark Ballard, a daughter of Dora Craig and James Ballard, and her family
was another group of early settlers into Tennessee. Dora's mother was Rebecca
Caroline Pennington.
Annie had only one child, named James who served in
WWI and wrote letters to her from France.
James married Susie Mae Cooper
and we knew her as Mamaw. Susie's parents were Levi Benjamin Cooper and Sarah
Elizabeth "Sally" Carter.
Sally's parents were Mary Josephine Herreferd
and Thomas Randolph Carter. Levi's parents were Sarah F. Lee and Charner P.
Cooper of Chambers County Alabama.
Many of these are buried at
Greenwood Cemetery but when Thomas died, Mary buried him beside his first wife
Lacy Jane Bozeman and their children in Hope Hull's, Carter-Stokes Cemetery on
the old family plantation, a beautiful setting off McLean Road. Mamaw's grandson
Clarence published an article about his survey of this area in the Alabama
Cemetery Preservation webpage and Clarence shared copies of the family photos
that are found within this research.
Mamaw did name a son James Brooks Jr
and he married Mary Thornton, a daughter of Bessie Hood and Milton Elijah
Thornton. Bessie's parents were Ella Olivia Baxley and L. W. Hood while Milton's
parents were Mary Angeline Partridge and George Thornton. Parents of Ella were
Louisa Miranda Holt and James H. Baxley.
Lacy's grandfather Peter
Bozeman is studied on my
other webpage.
With a further study and photos on this
page. And my mother's family research of the
Carter - Fenn - Stone - McClain lineage as continued here.
Of
course when my daughter married a Westbrook, her children will need to learn
about their daddy's ancestors
from Marengo County Alabama. ..
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