John Harrison Brooks (1887 - 1967)

Born 1 Mar 1887 in Clark, Greene, Illinois, United States

Died 20 Mar 1967 at age 80 in Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States

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Biography

John was born in 1887. He was the son of James Brooks and Rosa (Gard) Brooks.

He attended the University of Illinois in 1903.

Kib Brooks of Casey, Ill. has arrived In the city to attend the university.

He married Ina Heywood about 1908. She died in 1929. John and Ina do not appear to have had children.

John married Katherine Avilla (Warnock) Hinckley about 1932. He became stepfather to her children, Katherine Avilla Hinckley and John Warnock Hinckley Sr. Avilla took the surname Brooks.

Some quotes from Bess Brooks Yanaway's letter: "And now I'll tell you about my two brothers. 'Kib' (John Harrison Brooks) married Ina Haywood, the only daughter of Dr. Haywood. They lived in Tulsa, Oklahoma where 'Kib' was quite well known in the Oil business. Ina died in 1929, and five years later "Kib" married Katherine Warnecke [i.e. Warnock] Hinckley whom he had met in Tulsa. When she died in 1949, she was taken to her home state of Connecticut for burial. 'Kib' asked to be buried there too. He never remarried and there were no children by either of his marriages".--posted to Rootsweb.com in 2001.

The Brooks were active in Tulsa society.

Wednesday evening has been chosen by Mr. and Mrs. John Harrison Brooks who will be at a dinner bridge party in the Tulsa club for the visitor [Mrs. F. David Higham].--Miami News-Record (Miami, OK), June 20, 1935, p. 6.

He passed away in 1967 and was interred at Walnut Grove Cemetery, Meriden, Connecticut.

John H. Brooks, 79, of Tulsa, Okla., died Monday in Tulsa. He was the husband of the late Katherine Warnock Brooks, a native of Meriden who died in 1949. Prior to retiring, Mr. Brooks was employed with Harbison-Fischer Manufacturing Co. in Tulsa. He is survived by a [step-]daughter, Mrs. John R. McFarlin, of San Antonio, Texas; a step-son, Jack W. Hinkley; five grandchildren and one great-grandchild; a brother, James R. Brooks, of Muskogee, Okla; and two sisters, Mrs. Bonnie Yanaway, of Fort Worth, Texas and Mrs. Bonnie B. Yanaway of Englewood, Fla. Graveside services under the direction of the Lamphier-Keeling Funderal Home, 122 West Main St, will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. at Walnut Grove with the Rev. Allan House O'Neil, of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, officiating.--Morning Record (Meriden, CT), March 22, 1967, p. 2.

Sources

• "Final Examinations-April, 1896". Clark County Herald 29-APRIL-1896. USGenWeb Archives [1] Accessed 10 August 2020. Johnson Township-Union School. Brooks, Kib. Age 9. Grade Avg 83.
• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSSD-D51 : accessed 10 August 2020), John H Brooks in household of James Brooks, Johnson Township, Clark, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 8, sheet 13B, family 269, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,242.
• "Personal Notes". Urbana Daily Courier (Urbana, IL), September 16, 1903, p. 5.
• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MK8G-YCP : accessed 10 August 2020), John H Brook [i.e. Brooks], Robinson Ward 2, Crawford, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 33, sheet 20A, family 482, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 283; FHL microfilm 1,374,296.
• Polk-Hoffhine Directory Co's Tulsa City Directory 1916. p. 93. Brooks John H (Ina) dist mngr Republic Supply Co r 1521 S Boston av
• "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZDR-VWS : 24 August 2019), John H Brooks, June 5, 1917.
• "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJM5-LXS : accessed 10 August 2020), John H Brooks, Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States; citing ED 255, sheet 13B, line 64, family 53, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1487; FHL microfilm 1,821,487.
• 1930 United States Federal Census. Year: 1930; Census Place: Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Page: 13A; Enumeration District (ED): 72-158; FHL microfilm: 2341671. Ancestry.com. Entry for John H. Brooks.
• Polk's Tulsa City Directory 1933. p. 115. Brooks, John H (Kath W) v-pres Republic Sup Co h1724 S Newport av.
• "Entertains Former Miamian". Miami News-Record (Miami, OK), June 20, 1935, p. 6.
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VB2D-17J : 30 January 2020), John H Brooks, Area C, Tulsa, Tulsa City, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 79-38A, sheet 11A, line 38, family 376, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3349.
• "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XPTR-G3G : 8 May 2020), John Harrison Brooks, 1942; citing NARA microfilm publication M1936, M1937, M1939, M1951, M1962, M1964, M1986, M2090, and M2097 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• 1950 U.S. Census, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, population schedule, Tulsa, enumeration district (ED) 79-215, sheet 75, dwelling 72, line 13, J.H. Kib Brooks; database with images, Ancestry.com, Accessed 16 May 2022; citing Population Schedules for the 1950 Census; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Record Group 29, Records of the Bureau of the Census; National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC.
• OK2Explore. [2] Oklahoma State Vital Records Index. Accessed 10 August 2020. Death Search Results: Brooks John H. 3/20/1967.
• "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V383-D6K : 22 July 2020), John Brooks, Mar 1967; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
• "John H. Brooks". Morning Record (Meriden, CT), March 22, 1967, p. 2.
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 10 August 2020), memorial page for John H Brooks (unknown–20 Mar 1967), Find a Grave Memorial no. 16046590, citing Walnut Grove Cemetery, Meriden, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA ; Maintained by Jan Franco (contributor 46625834). Includes photo of gravestone.
• Hinckley, Jack and Jo Ann with Elizabeth Sherrill. Breaking Points. Grand Rapids, MI: Chosen Books, 1985.
• "John Harrison (Kib) Brooks". WorldConnect. Rootsweb.com. [3] Posted 25 August 2001. Accessed 30 June 2003.