When Cornelius Henry Brockman was born on 12 December 1884, in Star City, Lincoln, Arkansas, United States, his father, Henry Castleman " Seay" Brockman, was 23 and his mother, Malinda Alice Joyce, was 18. He married Lela Agnes Ligon on 23 March 1913, in Lincoln, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Lincoln, Arkansas, United States in 1920 and Justice Precinct 1, Smith, Texas, United States in 1940. He died on 2 November 1957, in Tyler, Smith, Texas, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Tyler, Smith, Texas, United States.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Bauxite a rock with relatively high aluminum content, is the main source of aluminum for the world. When it was discovered in Arkansas it changed the state. The city of Bauxite, Arkansas was the site of the discovery.
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
English (Kent): variant of Brookman , a topographic name for someone who lived by a brook or stream (see Brook 1).
Americanized form of Jewish (from Poland) Brokman: occupational name, an agent form based on the Yiddish verb brokn ‘to crumble, shred’.
Americanized form of German Brockmann .
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