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BROOKS FAMILY HISTORY 7-211“about 13 or 14 months old.” On December 22, 1835, Daniel Brooks joinedWinn’s Company of the Georgia volunteers to fight in the Texas Revolution. Hejoined in Macon, Georgia as a Second Lieutenant. Daniel and Caroline Brookshad only one daughter:............Amanda Frances Brooks (2.4.1.1), b. 1834, Talbot County, GeorgiaOn January 18, 1836, Daniel wrote a letter (that exists today) to his father, RobertBrooks, in Talbotton, Georgia from Velsaco, Texas. On March 10, 1836,Daniel Brooks wrote a second letter (that exists today) to his father, RobertBrooks, in Talbotton, Georgia from Fort Defiance at Goliad, Texas. The January18, 1836 letter is included in the back of this book. Daniel Brooks was killed byMexican soldiers on March 21, 1836 while he was stationed at Victoria, Texas.Daniel Brooks was one of sixteen mechanics detailed from Ward’s Command tobuild a boat at Victoria. The following is a quote as found in the Kemp Collectionwhich describes the death of Daniel Brooks as told by Thomas J. Smith, anothermechanic who survived the skirmish at Victoria: “Smith and four otherswere at one time taken to the west bank of the river to throw into it the bodies often murdered Texans, stragglers from Ward’s Command. One of them wasknown as ”Dog" Brooks. Smith and his companions would have been murderedat the same time but for the intercession of Col. Holzinger." Ward’s Commandwas under Colonel Fannin whose command of over 400 men was taken prisonerby the Mexican Army. Later, all but ten to fifteen were brutally executed nearGoliad, Texas what became known as the “Fannin Massacre.”On April 28, 1840, Georgia (Paul) Brooks married a second time to AugustusDarby (born 1810 in Georgia) and they had one daughter, Fannie Darby (born1841 in Georgia). Georgia (Paul) Darby probably died before 1860 as her children,Amanda Brooks and Fannie Darby, were living with Amanda’s father,Robert B. Paul, in Macon County, Alabama in the 1860 census. AugustusDarby was living close by in the census but Georgia Caroline was not found inhis household.References: 1) Deed Book D, Page 179, Talbot County, Georgia, 1835; 2) “Letterfrom D. B. Brooks to Robert Brooks,” mailed from Velasco, Texas to Talbottan, Georgia,dated January 18, 1836, located in the University of Texas Archives, Austin, Texas; 4)“Letter, D. B. Broooks to Robert Brooks,” March 10, 1836, in private collection of descendant;5) 1860 Census, Macon County, Alabama; 6) “Kemp Collection, FanninNotes,” University of Texas Archives; 7) Letters to the University of Texas Archivesfrom Mary (Powell) Hudson, 1938; 8) “Brooks Family History,” by Myrtle (Lackey)Brooks, 1944; 9) “40,000 Early Georgia Marriages,” by Joseph T. Maddox; 10)Email, Hank Wenzler to Robert Casey, February, 2005AMANDA FRANCES BROOKS (2.4.1.1) is the daughter of Daniel BaughBrooks and Georgia Caroline (Paul) Brooks. Amanda was born in 1834 in TalbotCounty, Georgia. When Amanda was just “13 or 14 months old,” her fatherleft for Texas and Daniel’s father, Robert Brooks, was given custody of her onNovember 15, 1835. On February 4, 1851, Amanda Brooks married WilliamDavid Powell in Macon County, Alabama. William was born in August, 1812 inSouth Carolina. William and Amanda Powell were the parents of at least sixchildren: