History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 777.
[Nicholas County]  [Headquarters Precinct]

ANDERSON BROOKS, farmer, P. O. Headquarters, was born in Nicholas County,
Ky., Feb. 18, 1815, and is a son of Zachariah and Frances (Overby)
Brooks, who were among the first settlers in Nicholas County, Ky.; he
was born in Virginia, in 1767; was a farmer by occupation, and died Jan.
2, 1857; his wife, Frances, was also a native of Virginia, born in 1797,
and died Sept. 14, 1839; there was born to them eight children, of whom
Anderson, our subject, was next to the youngest; his education was
limited to the common schools of the county; he commenced his career in
life as a farmer, was married in Nicholas County, Nov. 3, 1843, to Miss
Susan Evans, daughter of Gillead and Anna (Trigg) Evans.  (See hist.)
Mrs. Brooks was born in Nicholas County, Sept. 18, 1826; the result of
their union is ten children, viz: Nathan O., Eveline, William F., Sarah
E., Mary L., Albert, Carrie, Ann Eliza, Gillead F., and Elmire, the
three latter of whom are dead.  Mr. and Mrs. brooks are both members of
the Mt. Carmel Methodist Church; in his political ideas, he is unsettled,
and, as he expresses it, votes for the best man; he is a very energetic
and enterprising man, and a prosperous farmer; owns 226 acres of choice
farm land, and, besides raising the usual farm crops, deals largely in
high grade stock of all kinds.

Brooks Overby Evans Trigg
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VA

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