Taylor County GaArchives News.....Martin Brooks has pocketknife kept in family for 153 years November 4 1887
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The Marion County Patriot
The Marion County Patriot, No. 44
November 4, 1887
Page One

Martin Brooks, living near Ficklin’s mill in Taylor County, has a small, white 
handle pocketknife purchased in South Carolina by the great-grandfather of Mr. 
Brooks in 1734.  It has been kept in the family, and handed down from sire to 
son for 153 years, and is now the property of Mamie, the little daughter of Mr. 
Brooks, who prizes the knife very much, it having been given her by her 
grandmother.  The knife has only one small blade, and is considerably worn from 
having been very much used.  In olden times steel pens were not known, and “old 
Mother Goose” in those days furnished the only instruments for writing, and 
this knife was purchased principally for trimming goose quills for writing pens.

NOTE:
1880 Taylor Census
Brooks, Marton J. 56
Jane McCrary 28 m. 1877 ( d/o Gillah Freeny & Martha Northington McCrary)
Martha 3
John 1
(Mamie b 12-25-1880 m. L.T. Peed)
(Ella m. Leser Appling Peed (s/o Appling B & Delucia McNair Peed)


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