William Brooke (1824 - 1880)

Born 20 May 1824 in Alleghany Co., Maryland, USA

Husband of Paulina R. (Healey) Brooke — married 4 Nov 1853 in Ogle, Illinois, United States

Died 29 Feb 1880 at age 55 in Illinois, United States [uncertain]

Biography

BROOKE WILLIAM, Farmer; Sec. 10; P. O. Eagle Point; owns 132 acres in Sec.11, 40 acres in Pine Creek Tp. and 20 acres in Elkhorn Grove, Carroll Co.; Mr. B. was born in Allegheny Co., Md., May 20, 18244; came to Princeton, Bureau Co., Ill., in May, 1834; settled near there; came to Pine Creek Tp., Ogle Co., in May 1836; in March, 1849, he went overland, with ox teams, to California, being six months and thirteen days going there; remained there until the Spring of 1853; returned to Ogle Co. April 7, 1853; in Spring of 1854 he removed to Carroll Co., where he resided three years; in the Fall of 1857 he went to Mount Morris, Ogle Co., where he lived until the Spring of 1858, when he engaged in farming in Pine Creek Tp. again; but in the Spring of 1859 he removed to Jefferson Co., Kan., where he resided until the Spring of1863, when he came to Genesee Tp., Whiteside Co., Ill.; lived there until 1870 when he came to his present location; Mr. B. married Paulina R. Healey, Nov. 4, 1853; she was born in Middlebury, Wyoming Co., N. Y., in 1831; they have hd twelve children, two died in infancy; the living are --- John S., William H., Charles M., Freeborne D., Franklin E., Horace, Fred, Jennie M., Emma and Ella; Mr. and Mrs. Brooke are members of the M. E. Church.

Sources

• The History of Ogle County, Illinois, Containing A History of the County---Its Cities, Towns, Etc., A Biographical Directory of Its Citizens, War Records of Its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, PORTRAITS OF EARLY SETTLERS AND PROMINENT MEN, History of the Northwest, History of Illinois, Map of Ogle County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, Etc., ILLUSTRATED, Chicago, H. F. Kett & Co., Times Building, 1878, pp. 812-13.

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 08 May 2020), memorial page for William Brooke (unknown–29 Feb 1880), Find a Grave Memorial no. 28359319, citing Brick Church Cemetery, Polo, Ogle County, Illinois, USA ; Maintained by ogleCounty (contributor 46623374) .