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John A. Brooks (Hopkins + Webster Co. clerk, notary public + attorney )

b. 1837?

Hopkins County and Webster County, Kentucky, clerk, notary public, and attorney. Kentucky native. Son of Nathaniel M. Brooks and Virginia Brooks. Married to Nannie A. Rice in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1861. Student in Hopkins County in 1850. Clerk in Hopkins County in 1860. Notary public in Webster County in 1861. Attorney in Dixon in 1865.

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Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 1, p. 113B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 692.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Hopkins County Marriages, Film #000568132, p. 42.

U.S. IRS Tax Assessment Lists, 1862-1918, Kentucky, 1865, Collection District 1, Division 12, p. 19.

Journal of the Adjourned Session of 1865-6, of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, (Frankfort, Ky.: John H. Harney, Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1867), 201-02.

KYR-0001-017-0062.

Citation

Brooks, John A.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214012 (November 12, 2026).

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