Josephine Margaret Brookes

Josephine Margaret Brookes

• Father: Rev. Iverson Lewis Brookes b. 2 November 1793, d. 14 March 1865
• Mother: Sarah Julia Oliver b. circa 1800

• Josephine Margaret Brookes was born circa 1837 in South Carolina.
• She married Ashley Clinton Wood, son of John Wood and Elizabeth Atkinson, on 10 March 1857.
• In a letter to his cousin Green Wood dated on 24 April 1857, Mathew Wood wrote from Tyler, Texas, "We get letters From our Alabama friends & relations Frequently. they are generly well. Bro John's son Ashley was married a short time since to a Miss Brooks of South Carolina and his daughter Martha to a Mr. Funderberg. I reccon they bowth done well in marrying."
• John Wood and Elizabeth Atkinson appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Fayetteville, Talladega County, Alabama. Other members of the household included Josephine Margaret Brookes, Martha Wood, Caroline Wood, Mourning Evaline Wood, Ashley Clinton Wood, Cornelia Wood and Iveson Brookes Wood. Also in the household mechanics James P. Bradshaw and Ashley Cruise, and brick mason Joseph Pearce.
• Ashley Clinton Wood and Josephine Margaret Brookes appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Talladega County, Alabama. Other members of the household included Cornelia Wood, Iveson Brookes Wood, Clinton Wood, Walker Wood and Julia Wood.
• Ashley Clinton Wood and Josephine Margaret Brookes appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Fayetteville, Talladega County, Alabama. Other members of the household included Cornelia Wood, Clinton Wood, Walker Wood, Julia Wood, Frank Wood and Minnie Wood.
• Her husband Ashley Clinton Wood became a widower at her death.
• Josephine Margaret Brookes died in 1887.

• Last Edited: 27 Mar 2013

• Charts: Descendants of WOOD William & Lydia Ballentine