First Settlements, Brookline Township, Greene County, Missouri

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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In congressional township 28 of Brookline, the first settlers were 
Thomas Hazeltine, who came in about 1834, and settled on section 4;
John McCall of Tennessee, who came also to section 4; N. D. McCall,
from Tennessee, to section 3; Joel Phillips, of Tennessee, to section
2; Wm. Herrington to section 9; Thomas Dodd, to section 7.  John Boyd
settled on section 17, and was the first on the prairie in that quar-
ter.  Other pioneer settlers were Wm. Kerr, L. Robertson, Ben. Hagewood
Magruder Tannehill, Thomas Dodd, and Henry Small.  These settlers came
in at different periods, from 1834 to 1849.  The first school of any 
sort within the present confines of the township was taught by David
Boyd, in Mr. Haseltine's barn.  It was a subscription school and Mr. 
Boyd received a dollar a scholar per month.  The first resident physi-
cian remembered is Dr. R. C. Prunty, now living in Wilson township.
February 25, 1878, John R. Williams, living a few miles south of Brook-
line, and an old citizen of the township, was hauling a load of wood.
The mules he was driving became frightened at a hog and ran, throwing
Mr. Williams from the wagon and fracturing his skull.  He died in a 
few days, aged 64.  Mrs. Margaret D. Boyd is now (March, 1883) the 
oldest inhabitant of Brookline township.  Her age is 88.  She has been
living at her present home since 1849, and has been a resident of the
State for more than 70 years.  The oldest burying ground in the town-
ship is situated on what is now known as the Lindsey Robertson farm,
section 20.

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