Or, Subtitled: “Often has the editor of this paper heard his father speak of Tom Brooks and of his tender regard for him”
Rebecca Ann Chiek Brooks Collier
As a previous posting indicates, Alexander Mackey Brooks (1808-1899) and his second wife Aletha Sorrells adopted a daughter, Rebecca Ann Chiek, who is enumerated in their household in Houston, Texas, in 1860 as Ann, aged 9.[1] This census gives A.M. Brooks’s surname, but the other family members — his wife Aletha, her granddaughters Mary and Fanny, both of whose surname was Moffatt, and Ann — are not given surnames in this census.
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Begats and Bequeathals 
Researching Elijah McDaniel and family in Lawrence County AL. Needing to know his father and mother and his relationship to Thomas J , Patton Anderson SR, James Looney, James A , and Walter F McDaniel, all residents over a span of 1820-1880 in Lawrence Co AL.
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I don’t seem to have much information on Elijah, unfortunately. I do know that Charles Wesley Brooks, son of James Brooks and Nancy Isbell, is listed in Elijah’s household on the 1850 census in Lawrence County, and Charles was an overseer — I think likely for Elijah. And a 1 May 1877 letter sent by Sarah Lindsey Speake of Lawrence County to her sister Margaret Lindsey Hunter in Red River Parish, Louisiana — Sarah and Margaret were daughters of Dennis Lindsey and Jane Brooks, an aunt of Charles Wesley Brooks — mentions Elijah McDaniel. Sarah tells Margaret that James Dennis Lindsey, son of Fielding Wesley Lindsey and Clarissa Brooks, had bought the old Elijah McDaniel place. Clarissa was a sister of Charles Wesley Brooks. A biography of Elijah’s grandson William T. McDaniel states that his grandfather Colonel Elijah McDaniel (1796-1868) was a native of North Carolina who moved as a young man to Danville, Alabama, spending the rest of his life there engaged in planting (Albert Burton Moore, History of Alabama and Her People, vol. 2 [Chicago and New York: American Historical Society, 1927], p. 120). The 1860 federal agricultural schedule shows Elijah holding 440 acres of cultivated land in Lawrence County’s southern division and 1,000 acres of uncultivated land. That seems to be about all I know about Elijah at present, unfortunately. I can’t say that the other names you mention ring any bells for me, except that I think James Looney may have had ties to the Birdwell family found in early Lawrence County records, most of whose descendants went from there to Texas.
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