Mira (Tuttle) Brooks (1790)

Born 5 Nov 1790 in Cheshire, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States of America

Ancestors

Wife of Jesse Brooks — married 18 Jul 1816 in Cheshire, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States of America

Descendants

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Biography

Myra (or Mira) Tuttle was born in Cheshire, New Haven County, Connecticut on 5 Nov 1790. She was the daughter of Edmund Tuttle, Sr. and Sarah Loly Roys.^[1][2]

Myra married Jesse Brooks in Cheshire on 18 Jul 1816.^[3][4]

Their children:

1. Edmund Tuttle Brooks (b. 12 Jan 1817, Cheshire)^[5]
2. Jesse Royce Brooks (b. 1 Oct 1820, Cheshire)^[6]
3. Caroline Nancy Brooks (b. 13 Oct 1824, Cheshire)

Jesse Brooks died in Cheshire at the age of 35 (in hia 36th year), on 5 Jun 1826, according to his gravestone in Cheshire Cemetery. He was killed while helping with the construction of Cheshire's new Congregational church.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ "Children of Edmund, Sr., and Sarah Tuttle: ... Mira, b. Nov. 5, 1790:" Beach, History of Cheshire, Connecticut, Page 469.
2. ↑ "Tuttle, Mira, d. Edmund Sr. & Sarah, b. Nov. 5, 1790," citing Beach, History of Cheshire, Connecticut, Page 469: Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Cheshire, Page 71 (accessed 7 Aug 2020 - subscription required).
3. ↑ "Jesse Brooks and Myra Tuttle m. July 18, 1816:" Beach, History of Cheshire Connecticut, Page 474.
4. ↑ "Tuttle, Myra, m. Jesse Brooks, July 18, 1816," citing Beach, History of Cheshire Connecticut, Page 474: Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Cheshire, Page 71 (accessed 7 Aug 2020 - subscription required).
5. ↑ "Children of Jesse and Mira Brooks: Edmund Tuttle, b. Jan. 12, 1817:" Beach, History of Cheshire Connecticut, Page 451.
6. ↑ "Children of Jesse and Mira Brooks: ... Jesse Royce Brooks, b. Oct. 1, 1820:" Beach, History of Cheshire Connecticut, Page 451.
7. ↑ See photo of gravestone: Memorial# 23723907, Jesse Brooks (accessed 7 Aug 2020).

• Beach, Joseph Perkins, History of Cheshire, Connecticut, from 1694 to 1840, including Prospect, Which, as Columbia Parish, Was a Part of Cheshire until 1829, published by the Lady Fenwick Chapter, D.A.R., Cheshire, Connecticut, Meriden, Connecticut: Press of the Journal Publishing Co., 1912.
• Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928 (subscription required).