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.
Begats and Bequeathals 