BIRTH: place and date found in Eliza Brookens Bible.
Holmes Co. Death record lists her birth Mt. Pleasant, Fayette Co. PA
(Bro017-10)
MARRIAGE:grandson Elmer Ashbury said Thomas and Jane were married in PA
MARRIAGE: date approximated by birth of eldest son.
1st Marriage: to Mix or Meeks.(both spellings found)
DEATH: Headstone gives date of death, age
OBITUARY: Clipping in bible believed to have belonged to dau Eliza Brookens Callender. Notes she had 12 children, 90 grandchildren, 74 Greatgrchildren, and 3 gggrchildren
CHILDREN: Nine are listed in husband's will. Also it names William Meeks as the "son of my wife". Her obituary said she had 12 children. If she did indeed have 12 children, we are missing the names of 2 children.
PARENTS:per Brookens-Brookins book pg 1. "from the land transfer in Uniontown Pennsylvania we find that Jane Brookens was the daughter of Margaret Jimison and Joseph Jarvis."