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Surnames: Cox, Thomas, Brooks, Hiatt
Classification: Query
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Thanks Andrea!
By 1900, Rebecca was dead. She died in 1888 and is buried in Fountain Park Cemetery in
Winchester, IN
The Nimrod Brooks that you found is Rebecca's brother. This confirms the information
that I had and fills in some more blanks.
I have a very old photograph of two white-haired men sitting on a bank in front of an old
house. The notation says they are David and Nimrod Brooks in front of the old Brooks
home.
Here are some of the names and dates that I have for Rebecca's family starting with
her parents. Much of this information is from a handwritten manuscript authored in the
1950's by a Hiatt/Brooks/Frazier descendent. I have managed to cross reference some
of the dates with information in "Quakers of Ohio in the Miami Valley".
Loruhama Hiatt, daughter of David and Lavina Hiatt was born 26 July 1821 and died 18 Dec
1893. She married Larkin Brooks, son of Nimrod Brooks and Elizabeth Thomas, at the
Backcreek Friends Meeting. I don't have a date. Larkin was born in 1820 and died 19
Feb 1856.
Their children were:
Jane Brooks b 4 Aug 1840; d 5 Mar 1896
David Brooks b 9 May 1842
Rebecca Brooks b 31 Jan 1844; married Joseph Cox 1 Nov 1864; d Sept 1888 (My Great
Grandmother)
Nimrod Brooks b 25 Feb 1847; d 6 Feb 1923
Thomas Brooks b 6 Jan 1851; d 13 Oct 1854
Elwood Brooks b 19 April 1854; d 26 Dec 1854
Calvin Brooks b 2 Dec 1855; d 17 Mar 1856
This family lived in Jonesboro in a brick house that they built across from the
waterworks.
Nimrod was named for his paternal grandfather. He served in the Civil War for 2 years,
enlisting in Co A 89th Ind Vol Infantry when he was 17. My manuscript writer quotes civil
war records as saying that Nimrod was 5' 9" tall, had blue eyes and brown hair.
I have Nimrod's wife's name as Corannah D Rush, b Jan 1849 in Randolph Co NC.
The occupation of Sawer fits my information too. According to my source, Nimrod worked
for a time in a sawmill but lost most of the fingers of his right hand in an accident.
I would like to find out more about the second husband of Rebecca and Nimrod's mother,
Loruhama Hiatt Brooks. According to my information, she married Isaac Thomas - a widower
with 5 children - shortly after Larkin died in 1856. This Isaac was rumored to have
considerable railroad stock and disappeared at a stockholders meeting.
In 1866, Loruhama was running a toll gate 2 miles north of Fairmount Indiana. Her oldest
daughter, Jane, was living with her and Jane's daughter Rosa Jenkins was born there.
Later, she lived in Watseka, Ill where she owned a store building. About 1884, she moved
to Winchester IN to live out the rest of her life with son Nimrod. Her granddaughter Rosa
Jenkins Frazier bought her a headstone about 1940 but I don't know whether the stone
has her last name as Brooks or Thomas.
Are there any descendents of my great grandparents Joseph Cox and Rebecca Brooks still in
Randolph County? I believe that as least some of my grandfather's brothers stayed
there. My father said that a cousin, Walter Cox, ran a photo studio in Winchester for many
years.
Would also like to know about Joseph's second wife Ruth (married about 1889) and third
wife, Mary (married 1919). I have pictures of them and a 1919 letter from Mary.