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Jesse Brooke

Birth	:	6 Mar 1839 Fairfield County, Ohio, USA
Death	:	31 Jul 1912 Pleasantville, Fairfield County, Ohio, USA
Burial	:	Winema Cemetery, Weed, Siskiyou County, USA
Coordinate	:	41.4395450, -122.3817780
Description	:	JESSIE BROOKE, a retired merchant and a former school teacher, has been a resident of Pleasantville, Fairfield County, O., since 1880, but still retains his farm in Pleasant Township. He has led a very active and useful life and is a man widely known and highly esteemed. He was born at Havensport, on the old canal, in Fairfield County, March 6, 1839, and has spent life and carried on large business enterprises within the bounds of his native county. He is a son of Hezekiah and Frances Ann (Brant) Brooke. The Brooke family was established in Fairfield County... Read More	JESSIE BROOKE, a retired merchant and a former school teacher, has been a resident of Pleasantville, Fairfield County, O., since 1880, but still retains his farm in Pleasant Township. He has led a very active and useful life and is a man widely known and highly esteemed. He was born at Havensport, on the old canal, in Fairfield County, March 6, 1839, and has spent life and carried on large business enterprises within the bounds of his native county. He is a son of Hezekiah and Frances Ann (Brant) Brooke. The Brooke family was established in Fairfield County by James Brooke, the grandfather, who came here from Virginia but was of English ancestry. He settled in the deep woods of Greenfield Township, Fairfield county, where from forest and swamp he developed a productive farm and here spent a long life, dying at the home of his son James, at Baltimore, O. He had eight children: George, Joseph, James, Benjamin, Izaiah, Hezekiah, Hannah and Ann, all now deceased. Hezekiah Brooke, the sixth member of the above family, spent his entire life in Greenfield Township, where he died in 1895, aged eighty-seven years. He was married first to Mary Pence and they had two children: Effie, who married George Swander (both now deceased), and Sarah, who married John Gessell and they are also both deceased. Hezekiah Brooke married for his second wife, Frances Ann Brant, who was a cousin of his first wife, and eleven children were born to this union, namely: Oliver, who lives at Logan, O.; Emma, who is the wife of Levi Keller, residing at Pleasantville; Jesse; Frances Ann, deceased, who was the wife of Joseph Williamson; Henry, who lives at Columbus, O.; Louisa, deceased, who was the wife of Samuel Kindler; Jane, who is the wife of William Leightnaker, of Basil, O.; James Alanson, who lives in the neighborhood of Kansas City, and is a graduate of Fairfield Union Academy and Wittenberg College and was for twelve years superintendent of Groveport schools; Allen H., whose home is at Logan, O.; Dora E. who is the widow of Arthur Finks, of Basil, O.; and an infant of whom we have no special record. Of these eleven children three attended Wittenberg College and nine became school teachers. Jessie Brooke grew up on the home farm on which his parents settled when he was one year old. He attended the district schools and Wittenberg College in 1858 and 1859 and then taught a term of school. On the outbreak of the Civil War his elder brother entered the army as a soldier, and he remained at home to conduct the farm for his father, afterward resuming school teaching. Subsequently, for some twelve years he was engaged in a lumber business and when he came to Pleasantville, in October, 1880, he moved his saw mill machinery here and for three years afterward operated a planing-mill. He then sold his mill and embarked in the dry goods business, in which he continued for seven years, when he sold it to the Henry Company and went into the coal, grain and tile business, but eighteen months later he turned his attention to hardware, entering into partnership with M. D. Wildermuth. Later he disposed of his interest to J. A. Keller, his nephew, and then bought his farm which is located one mile out of Pleasantville. He operated the farm for a short time but when a business transaction made him the owner of the Knight of Pythias building a Pleasantville, he purchased a furniture business here. In many ways Mr. Brooke has been an enterprising and progressive man in this town and it is said that he has erected more buildings in the place than any other single individual. He erected the first public scales in Pleasantville and in all movements looking to the developments which make a town known to the outside world as well as a desirable place to live in. He has ever been ready to do his full share. Since 1884 Mr. Brooke has been identified with the Prohibition party. On August 30, 1860, Mr. Brooke was married to Miss Elizabeth Yencer, and the following children were born to them: Carrie, who is the wife of T. H. Henry, and they have had three children-Everett B., Margaret and Thomas J.; Henry M., who died at the age of twenty three years; Frances Catherine, deceased, who was the wife of M. C. Wildermuth; Albert H., who married Emma E. Klahr, lives in Lancaster, and has a daughter, Gladys; James who married Iva Dollison and has four children-Marion, Donald, Dorothy and James F.; Jessie, who is the wife of D. E. Sites, and has three children-Elizabeth A., Harriett and Mary Catherine; Mary May, who is the wife of Silas Kissler, and has two children-Isabella and Mary; Ray, who married Carol Kelly, and has three children-Phebe, Phillis, and Jesse Robert; and Lindley Jay, who married Nellie Wooley and has one son, Edward. Mr. Brooke is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mrs. Brooke is a Christian Scientist. *Copied from "History of Fairfield County, Ohio and Representative Citizens 1912"

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Where is Jesse Brooke's memorial?
Jesse Brooke's memorial is located at: Winema Cemetery, Weed, Siskiyou County, USA.
When did Jesse Brooke death?
Jesse Brooke death on 31 Jul 1912 in Pleasantville, Fairfield County, Ohio, USA
Where are the coordinates of the Jesse Brooke's memorial?
Latitude: 41.4395450
Longitude: -122.3817780

Family Members:

Parent

Hezekiah Brooke

(1808 - 1895)

Frances Ann Brandt Brooke

(1813 - 1865)

Spouse

Elizabeth Yancer Brooke

(1841 - 1937)

Siblings

Louisa Jane Brooke Kindler

(1845 - 1867)

Mary Ellen Brooke Miller

(1850 - 1932)

Mary Ellen Brooke Miller

(1851 - 1932)

Laura Jane Brooke Leitnaker

(1855 - 1937)

Children

Carrie Brooke Henry

(1862 - 1947)

Albert Hezekiah Brooke

(1868 - 1953)

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Coordinate: 41.4395450, -122.3817780

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Coordinate: 41.4372810, -122.3899290

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Coordinate: 41.3182983, -122.3330994

7. Foulke Cemetery
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Coordinate: 41.5144120, -122.5185930

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11. Mott Cemetery
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12. Julien Cemetery
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Coordinate: 41.6502700, -122.5346900

13. Dunsmuir City Cemetery
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Coordinate: 41.2033350, -122.2748870

14. Little Shasta Cemetery
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Coordinate: 41.7097015, -122.3803024

15. McCloud Cemetery
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Coordinate: 41.2327860, -122.1357720

16. Grave Creek Cemetery
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Coordinate: 41.2010300, -122.6459600

17. Montague Cemetery
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Coordinate: 41.7275009, -122.5413971

18. Conant Cemetery
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Coordinate: 41.1070700, -122.3334600

19. Tacitus Arbuckle Gravesite
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Coordinate: 41.3486220, -122.8116430

20. Callahan Hayden Cemetery
Callahan, Siskiyou County, USA
Coordinate: 41.3076550, -122.7945570

21. Wolford Cemetery
Siskiyou County, USA
Coordinate: 41.3806600, -122.8240100

22. Hiram Page Cemetery
Yreka, Siskiyou County, USA
Coordinate: 41.7141770, -122.6442580

23. McConaughy Burial Site
Etna, Siskiyou County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4052900, -122.8307800

24. Callahan Catholic Cemetery
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Coordinate: 41.3058370, -122.7984540