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Descendants of Isom Arthur Brooks

Generation No. 1

1. ISOM ARTHUR² BROOKS (ALAXANDER¹) was born March 31, 1838 in South Carolina (Pickens District), and died October 05, 1919 in Siloam Springs, Benton County, Arkansas. He married (1) MARTHA MELVINA COWART 1860 in Georgia, daughter of ROBERT COWART and AMELIA MCBRAYER. He married (2) LUCINDA ANNE WATSON December 26, 1876 in Gravette, Benton County, Arkansas, daughter of ABRAHAM WATSON and MATILDA HOBBS. She was born March 07, 1848 in Greenville, Hunt County, Texas, and died November 17, 1922 in Gravette, Benton County, Arkansas.

Notes for ISOM ARTHUR BROOKS:
Name also spelled Isham. He supposedly came home during war at planting time and disguised himself as a woman dressed in dress and bonnet.

More About ISOM ARTHUR BROOKS:
Fact 1: 1895, Tax records of Benton Co. Arkansas-Sec. 10, Twnship 20n, range 33w.-40 acres
Fact 2: Bet. 1861 - 1865, Fought for Union army-came home at planting/harvest time.Co K, 5th Reg. Tenn
Fact 3: Bet. 1897 - 1901, Postmaster in Benton County at Nebo, later Gravette.
Fact 4: Isom was half Cherokee
Fact 5: 1864, Injured at Elijay Ga. Blinded in Right Eye.

Children of ISOM BROOKS and MARTHA COWART are:

2.	i.	ELI COLUMBUS³ BROOKS, b. 1864.
3.	ii.	BENSON BERRY BROOKS, b. October 10, 1863, Gravette, Benton County, Arkansas.
	iii.	WILLIAM S. BROOKS, b. 1867.
	iv.	MARGARET BROOKS, b. 1868; m. ANDREW RUSSELL.
4.	v.	JAMES JASON BROOKS, b. 1870.
	vi.	MARIAH BROOKS, b. February 1872; m. WILLIAM GARMON, February 06, 1893.
	vii.	HARRIET EMALINE BROOKS, b. October 01, 1873; m. FRANK HUNT.
5.	viii.	MARTHA BROOKS, b. June 10, 1875; d. Gravette, Benton County, Arkansas.

Children of ISOM BROOKS and LUCINDA WATSON are:

6.	ix.	EMILY MATILDA³ BROOKS, b. January 09, 1878, Gravette, Benton County, Arkansas.
	x.	MARY JANE BROOKS, b. May 09, 1880, Gravette, Benton County, Arkansas; m. VAN LOONAN MOORE.
	xi.	ETHEL VICTORIA BROOKS, b. 1882, Gravette, Benton County, Arkansas; m. JEFF MORE.
	xii.	NANCY LUCRETIA BROOKS, b. February 28, 1885, Gravette, Benton County, Arkansas; d. September 09, 1889, Gravette, Benton County, Arkansas.
	xiii.	ISHAM ARTHUR BROOKS, b. May 02, 1888, Gravette, Benton County, Arkansas; d. 1956; m. ALMA HARGROVE.
7.	xiv.	CARRIE MABEL BROOKS, b. February 07, 1891, Gravette, Benton County, Arkansas; d. April 02, 1984, Fort worth, Texas.
8.	xv.	WINNIE BROOKS, b. September 11, 1893.

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