Isabelle Gillespie, daughter of Elijah Gillespie (1800-1860) and his wife Mary Hewitt (1801-1860) was born about 1828.
Marriage
Isabella "Ibby" Gillespie married 20 Sep 1844 in Smyth County, Virginia, age 16, Archibald Harrison Brooks, son of James Clancy Brooks and his wife Mary "Polly" Asbury.
Children:
James Madison Brooks, b. 26 Jan 1846, d. 25 Feb 1917, m. (1) 21 Apr 1878 Emily Lade or Tade.
Marion H. Brooks, b. 1851, d. aft. 1878, m. 2 Jan 1874 Nancy Ellen Wills
Harvey E. Brooks, b. 29 May 1853, d. , m. 18 Mar 1877 Amelia Burk
Calvin Leonidis Brooks, b. 16 Feb 1855, d. 26 Sep 1932, m. (1) 9 Dec 1875 Mary A. Ballard, m. (2) by 1892 Katherine Sizemore
Death
Ibby passed away after 25 Apr 1910, when she was enumerated in the US Federal Census in Leatherwood, Menifee, Kentucky as Ebbie Brooks, widow age 82, living with her son Calvin L. Brooks 55, his wife Katie 50 and their daughter Callie D. Brooks 16.
Sources
BIRTH
** 1850 - "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M65F-PYT : 22 December 2020), Isabella Brooks in household of Archibald H Brooks, Morgan, Kentucky, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
MARRIAGE of Abby Gillespie and Harrison Brooks 1844
1850 - "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M65F-PYT : 22 December 2020), Isabella Brooks in household of Archibald H Brooks, Morgan, Kentucky, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
1860 -
1910 - "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M26Z-KGY : accessed 24 August 2021), Ebbie Brooks in household of Calvin L Brooks, Leatherwood, Menifee, Kentucky, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 125, sheet 8A, family 96, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 493; FHL microfilm 1,374,506.
"Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2Q6-BMDH : 22 July 2021), Isabell in entry for James M. Brooks and Mary Jane Martin, 9 Jul 1908; citing Marriage Notice, , Clark, Kentucky, United States, various county clerks and county courts, Kentucky; FHL microfilm 1,943,695.
DEATH of son James M. Brooks - 1917
"Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1965," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NSZ3-W3V : 2 March 2021), Isabel Gilispie in entry for James Madison Brooks, 1917; citing Death, Menifee, Kentucky, United States, certificate , Office of Vital Statistics, Frankfort; FHL microfilm 1,942,765.
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