Person

Wilie Brooks (Hopkins County and Webster County, Kentucky, farmer, postmaster, and grocer)

b. 1792-01-08 d. 1864-05-16

Hopkins County and Webster County, Kentucky, farmer, postmaster, and grocer. North Carolina native. Married to Nancy Brooks. Father of Tabitha J. Brooks, Thomas H. Brooks, and Yancy W. Brooks. Farmer in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1850. Postmaster of Vanderburgh in Hopkins County from February 15, 1859, to July 22, 1862. Grocer in Webster County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 2, p. 129A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Webster County, p. 612.

Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971 Records of the Post Office Department, NARA Series M841, RG 28, Hopkins County, Kentucky, vol. 28, p. 100.

"Willie Brooks (1792-1864)," Find A Grave, Memorial #42957742, accessed December 16, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42957742.

Citation

Brooks, Wilie. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211127 (November 12, 2026).

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