Elisha Brooks

Elisha Brooks, "United States Census, 1860"
Name: Elisha Brooks
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Minor Civil Division: Bidwell Township
Age (Expanded): 22 years
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Page: 68
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Affiliate Publication Number: M653
GS Film number: 803056
Digital Folder Number: 4211315
Image Number: 00216

Citing this Record

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1900 US Census

Name: Elisha Brooks
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Residence: San Francisco city, San Francisco, California
Birth Date: Jan 1841
Birthplace: Michigan
Relationship to Head of Household: Self
Spouse: Ellen Brooks
Spouse's Titles & Terms: Mrs
Spouse's Birthplace: Massachusetts
Father:
Father's Titles & Terms:
Father's Birthplace: Connecticut
Mother:
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Mother's Birthplace: Connecticut
Race or Color (expanded): White
Head-of-household Name: Elisha Brooks
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Years Married: 31
Estimated Marriage Year: 1869
Mother How Many Children:
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Enumeration District: 0205
Page: 6
Sheet Letter: B
Family Number: 116
Reference Number: 65
Film Number: 1240105
Image Number: 00446
Household Gender Age
Elisha Brooks M
Spouse Ellen Brooks F
Child Alice M Brooks F
Child Joseph S Brooks M
Child Myrtle N Brooks F

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DIRECTORY OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO
1911-1912
LIST OF ANNUITANTS (Pensioners)
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Name.........................Address.......................Date of Retirement
Brooks, Elisha............722 Montgomery st......Aug. 01, 1904

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Elisha Brooks

Birth: Jan. 1, 1841
Colon
St. Joseph County
Michigan, USA
Death: May 11, 1930
Ben Lomond
Santa Cruz County
California, USA

Civil War: Company D, 8th California Infantry

Elisha Brooks was the son of George Washington Brooks (1812, OH-1898, CA) and Eliza Ann Scholfield (1816, CT-1859, CA). He made the long trek to California with his parents in 1852. He was the twin brother of Elijah Brooks and fellow veteran Justus Brooks. Elisha Brooks enlisted as a private at San Pablo, California, November 15, 1864, and was mustered into Company D, 8th California Infantry, November 30. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant January 1, 1865. Lieutenant Brooks was mustered out at the Presidio of San Francisco October 24, 1865 (Orton, 807-08). After the war he resided for many years in San Francisco, where he married Ellen Worth (1844-Dec. 27, 1932, CA) on April 20, 1869. He was a member of Thomas Post, No. 2, San Francisco, California, in 1886. He was also a member of the Society of California Volunteers, a Union veteran's organization. He was living at 1725 Sutter Street, San Francisco, in 1893. Elisha filed for a Civil War veteran's pension July 5, 1904, and received application No. 1,320,048 and certificate No. 1,089,465. He re-filed for his veteran's pension May 6, 1907. After his death in 1930, his wife Ellen filed for a Civil War widow's pension at Ben Lomond June 17, 1930, and received application No. 1,670,282 and certificate No. A11-3-30, later XC2-633-037.
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MARRIAGES.
BROOKS-WORTH. In this city, April 20, at the Green Street Congregational Chapel, by the Rev. M. C. Briggs, DD, Elisha Brooks to Ellen Worth.
(San Francisco Morning Call, April 22, 1869; 3:3)


Family links:
Parents:
George W. Brooks (1812 - 1898)
Eliza Ann Brooks (1816 - 1859)

Spouse:
Ellen Worth Brooks (1844 - 1932)

Siblings:
Elisha Brooks (1841 - 1930)
Elijah Brooks (1841 - 1923)*
Justus Brooks (1842 - 1934)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial:
Santa Cruz Memorial Park
Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz County
California, USA
Plot: Mausoleum