BROOKS FAMILY HISTORY - Interactive Family Histories

7-312 INTERACTIVE FAMILY HISTORIESJOHN CLARK BROOKS (3.2) is the son of Williamson Brooks (3) andSusannah (Olliff) Brooks. John was born on September 30, 1825 in Georgia. InJanuary of 1848, John Brooks married Sarah Ann Shoemaker (born 1831 in Tennessee).In 1850, John and Sarah Brooks were living in Pike County, Alabama.From 1858 to 1861, they were living in Austin County, Texas. From 1867 to1880, John and Sarah Brooks were living in Lavaca County, Texas. John andSarah Brooks were the parents of at least eight children:............Amanda Maude Brooks (3.2.1), b. November, 1849, Alabama............Mary L. Brooks, b. 1852, Texas............Levi W. Brooks (3.2.3), b. November 3, 1854, Texas............John Calvin Brooks (3.2.4), b. June, 1860, Austin County, Texas............James Robert Brooks (3.2.5), b. April 20, 1864, Lavaca County, Texas............William E. Brooks, b. 1867, Lavaca County, Texas............Eugene O. Brooks, b. May 5, 1870, Lavaca County, Texas............Alonzo Webb Brooks (3.2.8), b. May 26, 1871, Lavaca County, TexasJohn Clark Brooks served as First Lieutenant in the Confederate Army from1862 to 1863. John served under Captains Daniel and Martin (Company A) andColonel Elmore (Second Regiment). John Clark Brooks died on January 28,1891 and Sarah (Shoemaker) Brooks died in 1921. Both were buried in the GeigerCemetery near Sublime, Texas. It is not certain what John C. Brooks’ middlename actually was. According to Susie (Brooks) Danforth, it was Clark butaccording to Noma (Brooks) Grunewald, it was Calvin. Mary Brooks marriedLon Bray. Eugene Brooks died on October 29, 1873 and was buried in the GeigerCemetery.References: 1) 1850 Census, Pike County, Alabama; 2) 1860 Census, Austin County,Texas; 3) 1870 and 1880 Censuses, Lavaca County, Texas; 4) Tax Rolls, AustinCounty, Texas, 1858 to 1861; 5) Tax Rolls, Lavaca County, Texas, 1867 to 1875; 6)Civil War Pension Records, J. C. Brooks; 7) Geiger Cemetery, Sublime, Texas; 8)“Brooks Family History,” by Susie (Brooks) Danforth, 1946; 9) Interview, Noma(Brooks) Grunewald by Robert Casey, January, 1981Photograph, John Clark Brooks, Unknown Son, Sarah (Shoemaker) BrooksAMANDA MAUDE BROOKS (3.2.1) is the daughter of John Clark Brooks andSarah Ann (Shoemaker) Brooks. Amanda was born in November of 1849 in Alabama.In 1890, Amanda married William Norsworthy. Willie was born in Augustof 1865. In 1900, William and Maude Norsworthy and Maude’s brother,Webb Brooks, were living in Lavaca County, Texas. Willie and AmandaNorsworthy had no children but raised an orphan, Maggie Walker (born in1896). On February 28, 1919, Maggie Walker married Louis Knox Hopper.Maggie lives in El Campo, Texas. Amanda (Brooks) Norsworthy was buried inthe Geiger Cemetery near Sublime, Texas.References: 1) 1900 Census, Lavaca County, Texas; 2) Geiger Cemetery, Sublime,Texas; 3) Interview, Noma (Brooks) Grunewald by Robert Casey, January, 1981; 4)Interview, Maggie (Walker) Hopper by Bernice Casey, April, 1981