Henry H. Brooks

Birth Date

1818-11-18

Death Date

1897-10-24

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Hopkins County and Webster County, Kentucky, farmer. North Carolina native. Married to Louisa Brooks. Father of John Brooks, Stephen Brooks, Wiley Brooks, Roan Brooks, Joanna Brooks, Nancy Brooks, Virginia Brooks, and Sarah C. Brooks. Farmer in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Hopkins County in 1850. Farmer in Webster County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 2, p. 136B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 2, p. 729.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Webster County, p. 603-04.
"Henry Herbert Brooks (1818-1897)," Find A Grave, Memorial #42958082, accessed December 14, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42958082.

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