Brief Life History of John Henry
When John Henry Brooks was born on 28 October 1856, in Jasper, Georgia, United States, his father, Russell Brooks, was 48 and his mother, Tabitha Elliott, was 24. He married Joanna B Smith on 18 March 1875, in Newton, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. He lived in Georgia, United States in 1870 and District 1071, Taylor, Georgia, United States in 1920. He died on 8 August 1934, in Coweta, Georgia, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Jenkinsburg, Butts, Georgia, United States.
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- John H Brooks, "United States Census, 1920"
- John H. Brooke, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
- John Henry Brooks, "Find A Grave Index"
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1861
Civil War History - Some 11,000 Georgians gave their lives in defense of their state a state that suffered immense destruction. But wars end brought about an even more dramatic figure to tell: 460,000 African-Americans were set free from the shackles of slavery to begin new lives as free people.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
English: usually a variant of Brook , with excrescent -s. The optional addition of -s, with no grammatical function, is usually post-medieval, but some examples of the same person's name occurring with and without -(e)s have been noted as early as the 14th century in South Lancashire. The -es in such cases probably has neither a plural nor a genitival function, and the name means ‘dweller at the brook’, not ‘dweller at the brooks’. A plural sense cannot be ruled out elsewhere, but a non-grammatical -(e)s must also be considered a strong possibility.
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.
Americanized form of German Brucks .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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