It has been my dream for many years to trace my Brooks-Wehtherby ancestry back to the immigrants and toward that end asking questions of my […] Read More
Brunot Spring WHEN I WAS JUST A LITTLE GIRL I LOVED, MORE THAN MOST ANYTHING GOING TO SEE GRANDPA AND GRANDMA BROOKS AND DRINKING FROM […] Read More
MAM-MA’S INDEPENDENCE DAY WE WAITED WITH MAM-MA FOR JESUS TO COME COME TO SET HER FREE AND THERE, AT HER SIDE, I REMEMBERED OLD TIMES […] Read More
GRANDMA’S SPRING THE WAY I DRANK SPRING WATER WHEN I WAS GROWING UP WAS FLAT UPON MY FRONTSIDE, I NEEDED GLASS NOR CUP NO WAY […] Read More
When Rural Electrification come in the early ’30s. a well was drilled on our back porch and the spring was not depended upon for water. […] Read More
The White House Washington September 23, 1935 Reverend and dear sir: Your high calling brings you into intimate daily contact not only with your own […] Read More
Cyrus Hall McCormick in Walnut Grove, Va., worked for years to develop a machine to harvest grain. In 1831, he built the first workable reaper. […] Read More
Charles E. Brooks is shown coming through the Civil War road, Stoney Battery, in an undated photograph. The road ran from Brunot to Patterson. Brooks […] Read More