Joseph Wiley Brooks

b. September 1847
  • Joseph Wiley Brooks was born in September 1847 in Tennessee.
  • M. Daniel Brooks and Harriet (?) appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Cocke County, Tennessee. Other members of the household included Joseph Wiley Brooks. Apparently son Joseph is identified as Joel (age 2). Also in the household were children Eliza (4) and David (1).
  • M. Daniel Brooks and Harriet (?) appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Parrottsville PO, Cocke County, Tennessee. Other members of the household included Joseph Wiley Brooks. Apparently son Joseph is identified as Joel (age 12). Also in the household were children Eliza (14) and William (9).
  • M. Daniel Brooks and Harriet (?) appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Newport PO, Cocke County, Tennessee. Other members of the household included Joseph Wiley Brooks. Also in the household was son William (age 19), and one young male farm laborer.
  • He was a farmer, according to the 1870 census.
  • M. Daniel Brooks and Harriet (?) appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Bridgeport, Cocke County, Tennessee. Other members of the household included Joseph Wiley Brooks.
  • He married Sallie Elizabeth Murphy on 24 June 1880 in Cocke County, Tennessee, by license issued the 22nd, with J. H. Massey, MG, officiating.
  • Joseph Wiley Brooks and Sallie Elizabeth Murphy appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Bridgeport, Cocke County, Tennessee. Other members of the household included William B. Brooks, M. Daniel Brooks and Harriet (?)
  • He was farming, according to the 1900 census.
  • Joseph Wiley Brooks and Sallie Elizabeth Murphy appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Cocke County, Tennessee. Other members of the household included William B. Brooks and Linnie Angeline Bradford. Also in the household were unmarried children Earl (age 21) , Callie M. (18), Roy B. (16) and Hazel M. (12), as well as son and daughter-in-law Daniel H. (25) and Myrtle (24).
  • He was a farmer, according to the 1910 census.
  • Joseph Wiley Brooks and Sallie Elizabeth Murphy appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Cocke County, Tennessee. Also in the household were children Roy (age 23) and Madge (21).
  • He was a farmer, according to the 1920 census.
  • Last Edited: 3 Dec 2016

Family: Sallie Elizabeth Murphy b. December 1867