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Estella's Autobiography Posted on18982018

Estella’s Autobiography: 1898, Baby Fred & Isaac The Blacksmith

My brother Frederick Edwin was born July 30, 1898, the twelfth child in our family. I was nine years old when Fred was born. He […] Read More

Fred & Family Posted on19012018

Fred’s Story

No one has the privilege of choosing the time or place of his birth. Perhaps there are those who would have preferred a different time […] Read More

Estella's Autobiography Posted on19022018

Estella’s Autobiography: 1902: New Baby & Fred’s Accident

In December of 1902 my mother gave birth to her thirteenth and last baby. In the fall before the baby’s birth my brother Fred got […] Read More

Charles' Stories, Isaac & Family Posted on19062018

Social and Family Life By Charles E. Brooks

In this sophisticated, mechanized age none but some who are classed as II senior citizens are likely to remember ever having attended pea hullings. Pea […] Read More

Camp Creek, Isaac & Family Posted on19092018

My Ten Years on Upper Camp Creek by Fred Brooks

Any child who has the good fortune to have older sisters and brothers, some of them young adults, is in a most unique position. He […] Read More

Brunot, Fred & Family Posted on19102018

We say “Good Bye” to the Farm and Move to Brunot by Fred Brooks

To leave this environment [Camp Creek] when only eleven years old was a heart breaking experience. I had not been aware that such a move […] Read More

Fred & Family Posted on19202018

Williamsville High School 1920 (Fred as the teacher)

This distinguished group of young men and women were members of the 1920 graduating class of Williamsville High School. Fred Brooks is the first person […] Read More

Fred & Family Posted on19232018

The Long Trip to St. Louis, 1923 By Fred Brooks

Editor’s note: Few people today can remember what it was like to spend an entire day traveling from Wayne County to St. Louis. Wisking along […] Read More

Fred & Family Posted on19452018

About Fred Brooks

Dr. Fred E. Brooks, Principal of the Hawthorne School for the past seventeen years, began his teaching career in the rural schools of Wayne County, […] Read More

Fred & Family Posted on19622018

Dr. Fred E. Brooks Announces Retirement From Hawthorne

One of University City’s most respected and best loved educators, Dr. Fred E. Brooks, has announced his retirement as principal of the Nathaniel Hawthorne school […] Read More

Fred & Family Posted on19622018

Dr. Garrison Pays Tribute To Ten Teachers Who Retire This Spring

Ten classroom teachers are retiring from positions in the University City public schools this year. Those at the University City Senior high school are: Miss […] Read More

Fred & Family Posted on19772018

NP Couple Observe 55th Anniversary (Fred & Hazel Brooks)

Dr. and Mrs. Fred E. Brooks of North Port will celebrate their 55th wedding annivsary on June 24th. They were married on June 24th 1922 […] Read More

Brunot Posted on19852018

Brunot Spring, Dedication Speech by. Dr. Fred E. Brooks

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

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