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Source: Southwest Louisiana and Biographical and Historical by
William Henry Perrin published in 1891;  page 282.


                        J. A. BROOKSHIER
                         Abbeville, LA

J. A. Brookshier is a native of North Carolina, born in 1845, as
were his parents, Benjamin L. and Margaret A. McCall) Brookshier.
They removed from North Carolina to Green county, Indiana in
1846, where Benjamin L. worked at the blacksmith trade. In 1872
they removed to Vermilion parish, and Mr. Brookshier here
engaged in planting.  He served as registrar of Vermilion parish
for a period of two years, and at the  time of his death, in
1878, he was a resident of Morgan City.  His wife died in
Abbeville in 1848. They reared a family of seven children, of
whom the subject  of this sketch and his sister, Mrs. Eliza
Ewing, of New Iberia, are the only surviving members.
The subject of this sketch received his education in the
schools of Indiana, and learned the blacksmith trade with his
father. Since locating in Abbeville  he has conducted a
blacksmith shop; also a cotton gin, with a capacity for baling 
twenty bales of cotton per day. Mr. Brookshier has served as
tax collector of Vermilion parish for two years, and was
inspector of customs at Redfish Point from 1870 to 1875. He
served for a number of years as president of the parish 
school board, and takes an active interest in public
education.  He married, in 1868, Miss Emeline Mimms, of
Abbeville. Mrs. Brookshier died in 1872, having become the mother
of a son, Claude O. Mr. Brookshier married again, Miss Zerida
Harringtoll, daughter of Joseph W. Harlington, of Vermilion
parish. They are the pill-ellts of one living son, John A. Mr. 
Brookshier is a member of the Masonic and Order K. of H.   In
politics he is a Republican, and for a number of years was
chairman of the parish Republican committee, of which he is the
present secretary.