Delaware County OhArchives History .....James B. Brooke Family History November 2, 1826 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Lynn Beatty klbeatty@npgcable.com May 5, 2007, 5:12 pm At residence of Mrs Mary Gould Brooke No 120 E. Main St, Eaton, O Nov 2, 1926 8:15 AM Mrs Brooke says that Mr V.W. Lake aged 88 living on corner of Wadsworth & Cherry St here knew both Revs J.B. Finley & Rev John C. Brooke & his own father is a Methodist minister & he can tell more than anyone here about the Finley & Brooke family. Her husband's sister, Lida McGranz [best guess] Brooke Ressler lives at No 2216 Sedgwick St Chicago, on the North side near Lincoln Park. Her husband is living & her single daughter Marie is there also. Harold lives in St Louis Mo connected with the Ryerson Steel Co & has three children. Rev Jno C. Brooke's daughter, Miss Clifford Brooke married James Fleming who had a dry good store here & then moved to Walnut Hills,Cincin & died there about 1888 or 89 & brought here & buried & his son Carrington Fleming. Had another son Wm who went to Los Angeles, Calif with his mother & she died there 4 or 5 yrs ago & was buried there. Think he is still living. Had but these two children but had an adopted daughter who married. Jas B. Brooke, son of Rev Jno C. had a daughter whose mother died soon after her birth & her Aunt "Cliff" raised her. Her name was Nannie Brooke & she married Dickson Hendricks, son of Geo D. Hendricks who was said to be the first white child born in Preble Co, O. Dickson Hendricks died recently & Mrs Adda Hendricks Gilmore widow, his sister here can tell her mother's name & give address of Mrs Nannie Hendricks who lives in Wash. D.C. & has 2 or 3 children. Don't think Jas B. Brooke had any other children. A large white frame house 4th beyond the RR east on south side of st was the Rev Jno C. Brooke home & went to his son Chas Finley Brooke & then to his son Chas Finley Brooke Jr & now belongs to my informant. Chas Finley Brooke married 1st Susan Matthews from Winchester this Co or Gratis & has seven children (had 9 by 1st wife & 5 by 2d) Married 2d Mary Martin & had six that lived & a couple died in infancy. she says no bible of his with a record was ever about the house after she married & she lived there until her husband died. His children as she can give them were: 1. Elizabeth married Andrew Thompson. No issue 2. Chas Finley Brooke Jr born Mch 21, 1857 & died May 24, 1919 married Aug 28, 1888 to Mary Van Ansdal Gould, daughter of Levi Gallatin Gould fr Carlisle Pa & his wife Emily Van Ansdal who was born here in Eaton, O May 22, 1858. No issue. He was born on Clinton, St Cincin, O & was Vice Pt of the Eaton NBK when he died. 3. Edward, twin 4. James Finley, twin d.y. Edward married Cora Turpin of Kingston, Md. he died there & she lives at Marion Sta & had 3 children: 1. Charles married 2. Aurelia married 3. Winnie married Wm T. Cullen both living in Clarksburg, WVA 5. Eliza Meharry Brooke married Henry A. Ressler both living at 2216 Sedgwick St, Chicago. Have 2 children see above. 6. Thomas Asbury Brooke, youngest by 1st wife married here to Miss Kitty Rossman daughter of Wm Rossman & wife Sarah Hambridge. He is at 239 Madison [rest of line & half of next unreadable] 7. Finley Martin Brooke died aged 6 mos 8. Mary Evangeline Brooke married a Geo? Turner of Los Angeles, Calif. She died & left children but knows nothing of them. 9. Harry (twin) married & lives Ressville, O 10. Clarence (twin) thinks married & lives in Cincin, O or its suburbs. 11. Maxwell grew & went west & don't know where or anything further about him. This is evidently Judge Marshall see b 20 p 539. Wm McKendree Brooke married Elizabeth Hoffman & lived at Walnut Hills & had a young son died there & buried here & had three daughters. Thinks born at Walnut Hills. 1. Nona, see below 2. Eva married Saml Lockwood 3. Eliza married Harry Finnegan did live in Nebraska & St Louis. John C. Brooke died in Huntington WVA but was brought here for burial. He had sons Wm McK & Finley Brooke who both now live at Huntington, WVA. Jas B. Brooke married 2d Nellie Woodruff & had one child that she has heard of except James who brought his mother here for burial about 7 yrs ago, August soon after the death of my informant's husband. Aunt Kitty Taylor, she thinks lived at Montclair NJ. Ask Tom or Mrs Ressler. Never knew about Mrs Roberts. Never knew about Mrs Mooney. Aunt Hannah Clawson had two sons, [lists following:] James, Carrington, Edward & Finley. James & Carrington went to Carrington & died there. Edward & Finley went to Indianapolis Ind with their mother & she died there. The present pastor of the Meth Epis church here, Rev Busler might have the biog of Rev Jas B. Finley prepared for a memorial service on the Finley lot, but says Mr Lake can tell more than anyone else. Elizabeth Brooke who married Andrew Thompson was buried at Hartwell, Hamilton, Co, O on his insistence. NO issue. She died [rest of line faded & unreadable] Wm McK Brooke's daughter Nona married George Pinney who has died & she is living as his widow in Los Angeles, Calif. Additional Comments: Extracted from Josiah V. Thompson Journals, Vol. 19 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/delaware/history/other/jamesbbr40gms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ohfiles/ File size: 5.7 Kb