Re: Primary Documents,Bibles,Wills,Letters,etc
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Jim S. brooks 11/28/01
Jim, Here's old letters sent to my grandfather and aunt Ola, by R.W.Brooks. Hope you [email protected]
Andrew Floyd Atmore Ala, Sept 12. 1931
Snyder, Tex.
Dear Cousin:-
I suppose when you get this letter and before you will wonder who on earth it is that is writing you from Ala. Well, I have just got a letter from Gelmer Johnson, who is my sister’s son, who is now in Ft. Worth,Tex, and he told me about Uncle sterling and about you and your address, and as I have not heard in years what became of the whole generation of Brooks’ I want to hear.While Lucy was living, she wrote me yearly or oftener, but her letters stopped coming so I suppose she either got to old to write or was dead.Uncle Sterling never wrote to me nor neither did your Mother or any of the girls.
He tells me you are a farmer, and possibly not used to writing much, but I want you to sit down and write me what has happened to Martha, and Fanny and Laura, and when Lucy died and when Uncle Sterling died, and tell me about the children and Grand children and everything that has happened in the last 40 years.
I know it is a big order, but it will do you good to rehearse it and tell me about it, and if you are not up on writing much just get your wife or daughter hold of it, and let them tell me all about the family.Don’t leave out anything.
Now, perhaps you would like to know something about me.Well, here it is:Uncle Sterling was my father’s brother.My father was Jordan Brooks, I am one of eight children, and the only one left, and am 79 years old.I am a Baptist Preacher and have been in the Ministry for 55 years.I have been married the same length of time, and my wife is still living at the age of 72.We have two girls.Lillie the oldest is 52 years old and a widow, and a Telegraph Operator on the Louisville & Nashville Rail Road.She has one boy, a Lawyer in New Orleans.Essie, my next girl is 47 and has 4 children 2 boys and 2 girls.
We are living in a small south Alabama Town 45 miles north of Mobile and 50 miles from Pensacola Florida.The Florida line runs about half mile from our town. Its a beautiful country, and productive as a farming section.
I hope to get a reply from this letter as soon as you consult some one that knows all about what I want to know, if any of them are still living.Tell me especially about your mother.
With kindest regards and best wishes,
I am sincerely yours,
R.W. Brooks.
2nd Letter:
Atmore AlaSept 21, 1931
A.W. Floyd
Snyder Texas.
Dear Cousin;-
I a got your letter a few days ago, and am patiently waiting for the long letter your wife or daughter is going to write me. I certainly was glad to get all the thing you told me about Uncle Sterling and his children, and Cousin Lucy.Uncle Sterling left this country along about 1870 I think and I never heard from him or any of the girls, but I heard of them as Lucy wrote me two or three times a years for years and years, and when they quit coming I was sure she was dead.
My mother, your mother’s Aunt Mary died n 1891.She was the mother of 8 children, 4 boys and 4 girls.My oldest brother Leonidas, was County Judge of Pensacola, Florida.My youngest brother Millard Filmore was Probate Judge of this Escambia County, Ala. for eleven years and died n office and was buried in Brewton, Ala.He left two boys and a girl.Both boys are lawyers.My next to oldestbrother Wilson was rail road man, was retired before he died in Montgomery, last year and was buried in Pensacola by his wife who had died a good many years before. My sister Emily, the oldest, died at Fort Smith, Ark.She was G.B. Johnson’s Mother. My next oldest, Nanie, died about a year ago and was buried beside our mother at Bluff Springs, Florida Dora my youngest sister died during the great war, in Pensacola and was buried there.One more sister Lou died about thirty years ago, and was buried at Westville Fla.So you see I am the only one left of the 8.
Lee had five children by his first wife and two by his last, all girls but two.One boy a lawyer was killed in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the other is living at Jackson, Mississippi.One of the girls died this year, and one lives in DeFuiak Springs, Fla, and the other in Mobile.His two last wife’s girls live here. Wilson had 5 boys and one girl.The girl lives in Marianna, Fla.One boy in Thomasville, Ga, two in Pensacola and one died.
Sister Dora had one girl, who lives with her husband at Tallahassee Fla.Sister Lou had 4 girls and one boy.The boy lives in Savannah, Ga. Is a Engineer on the Seaboard R.R. One girl is in Columbus, Ga., one in Floralia, Ala. one in Jacksonville, Fla and one in DeFuniak, Fla.
All this may not be interesting to you, but some of your young ones will perhaps read it with interest, because young folks like to “Dig into” their line of kin folks, and learn something about them. G.B. Johnson’s address is Box 696, Fort Worth, Texas.Write me again sometime.
Your Couz,
R.W. Brooks.
I told you all about all of them but myself, so here goes about me.My name is Robert Warren.I was about the middle one of the children. I have been a Missionary Baptist Preacher for 55 years.I married a Miss Ellen Bryars in 1876 and we had two girls. One girls is a Telegraph Operator on the L. & N. R. R. and lives at Flomaton Ala.She has one boy who is a lawyer in New Orleans.The other girl lives here.has two boys and two girls, and one boy dead, killed in Automobile wreck.
My wife is 72 years old I am in my 80th year, but can get about pretty well, but not able to do much work.I am not pastor of any churches now as I am too old to get around much.I am moderator of the Association to which I belong, but not as active in church work as I used to be, nor in any other work either.
I am Justice of the Peace in this town, and do a little work of that kind.
I gues you are tired of this so I will swithch off.
I also recon you are tired of raising 5 cent cotton, and if your Texas Legislature had adoppted Gov Longs plan, you would not have had to raise cotton at that price, but every body cant see alike.
With best wishes for you and yours,
I am sincerely Yours,
R.W. Brooks.
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