Or, Subtitled: “He entered land and devoted his time to improving his place and farming”
4. Thomas Whitlock Brooks, the fourth child of Thomas Brooks (1775-1838) and Sarah Whitlock (1774-1837), was born 22 December 1805. This date is recorded in his father’s family bible (and see also here). As the postings I’ve just linked state, I have not seen or found information about the bible’s provenance — except we know that the bible originally belonged to Thomas Brooks and was bought by Thomas’s son Charles at his father’s estate sale in April 1839 — and haven’t seen the original bible register. I’m relying for information on a transcript of the register (by an unidentified person) published in 1988.[1] The transcriber of the bible read the name of this son of Thomas and Sarah Whitlock Brooks as Thomas R. Brooks. A biography of George H. Cottingham, who married Thomas Whitlock Brooks’s daughter Sarah Margaret, in History of Randolph and Macon Counties, Missouri, gives Thomas Whitlock Brooks’s middle initial as B., and a biography of Thomas’s son William C. Brooks in the same work shows it as N.[2]
BEGATS AND BEQUEATHALS 
excited to see the info on Robert and Mara get Gillespie. My note say they married in 1800 Washington county va. And moved to Kentucky. She was daughter of ens Andrew edmondson Kia at battle kings mt in 1780. See find a grave. I left a cenotaph for her today before reading this
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You’re right that Robert and Margaret married 05 November 1800 in Washington County, Virginia, and that Margaret’s father was Andrew Edmondson, who died at the battle of King’s Mountain. When you mention Find a Grave, do you mean there’s a page there for Nancy Gillespie Brooks? If so, I’d love to know about it.
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no I just did a cenopath at rock springs Washington county for Margaret as I did andrews other kids John and Martha to create a path to Andrew. I’m out of John William Moore e John wedding e david. Frank
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