Jack Brockenbrough
Name was misspelled in CSA Pension Index for Texas
Mullen 9/12/13 Comrade Kepser? Austin Texas Dear Sir: As per your request, I forward you the "Original Furlough" for your inspection: and would be pleased to furnish you any information in my power in regard to my honesty and integrity. I was absent from my command on furlough, when my company abandoned their position and retreated |
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(2) Under the Ausfriaus they may have been destroyed. I also send you a letter from my aged sister, which may through some light on my evidence of good faith. I could give you a history of my life since I've resided in Texas but to me it seems superficial. I'm pleased to see you are doing your duty and if I can't obtain the Confederate Army and the Youngest member of my company. Enclosed you'll please find a copy of the furlough subject to your inspection and if requisite I can furnish the Original. Thanking you in Advance for courtesyes received. And hoping to hear from you at your earlyest convenience. Yours Respectfully J.F. Brockenbrough, Mullen RR 2 Mills Co, TX |
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Transcription of Furlough (handwritten document) To all whom it may concern The bearer hereof John F. Brockenbrough, a private of young's Howitzer, CA aged 18years, 5 feet 6 in high, Dark Complexion, blue eyes, a student, born in Richmond County, State of Virginia and enlisted at Chaffius Bluff, State of Virginia he having received a furlough from the 18th day of March to the 1st Day of April at which period he will rejoin his command at Chaffinis Bluff or whereever it then may be. or be considered a deserter, Substance has been furnished to said Private Jno. F. Brockenbrough to the 18th day March and pay to the 1st day of August 1864 both inclusive Given under my hand at Chaffies Bluff this 7th day of March 1865. J. E. Winder 1st Lt. Comdg Young & Hord Company Private John F. Brockenbrough will report to the nearest enrolling officer or be arrested as a deserter. J..E. Winder 1st Com Young Howitzer Co . |
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Fredricksburg March 27, 1912 My Dear John, It was a real treat to receive _______? the address of a letter from you just after X-mas. The very sight of your familiar handwriting gave me inexpressible pleasure, John. I am so rarely favored with tidings from your dear self. I believe however that you sometimes give a thought to your absent sister. Please accept many thanks for the sweet little picture of dear little Keary? Ruth She must be a particularly bright and interesting child, for. |
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both her eyes and forehead indicate a great deal of intellect. I am glad to know that you have two grandsons, perhaps more, as all of your children were girls, which I think was a great disappointment. I don't doubt but that the little darlings are great pets with you, and that you make companions of them. I very often think of the changes that have occurred since we parted, when we regarded you as a mere boy. Now just think! you have been a grandfather several years. Stranger still it came to me, that Branch, who was the youngest child in our large family. |
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and who I had charge of from the time she as eight years old, until her marriage has a granddaughter too, named Lucy Yates for me, who is seven years old, and learning very fast at school. She is the daughter of her oldest child. William Brockenbrough Montgomery who has recently moved from Wilmington, Del. to Philadelphia. I spent several months with them last summer and fall. Buck ( as we call him) has a son two years old, who is called William Austin, so you can see the family names are being repeated. Branch's second child, Sallie Buckner, has been teaching school here for several years and has a reputation for being a fine teacher. Her third child, Harrison, is doing a very good business selling coal, farming implements to. Branch's fourth child and last, Katie Lu who married Mr. Grove(Grave?) , a druggist is living in Washington at present, but expects to move to Fredericksburg the first of April. Sallie Buckner, Harrison and I have been boarding ever since we broke ______? house keeping fall before last. Loula Knox, Buck's oldest child has been living her ever since her marriage. She has only three children, the youngest is a boy, seventeen years old. I visited my friend - Laura Gresham in Rapppahannock. |
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I would be delighted to have you come back to Old Virginia and see the friends of bye-gone days and visit the haughts of your Childhood. No doubt you would observe many, many changes, but perhaps some things would look familiar. I trust that kind providence will so order things to your advantage that you can see your way clear to visit you only sister, nieces, nephews, great nieces and great nephews before I am called home. Do let me know if there is any prospect for such pleasure in store for me (!) You inquire in what year you were born, I am almost certain it occurred Dec 23, 1844, would consult our family |
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Bible but it is packed away in Harrison's warehouse. I hear from Hause?Harise? several times a year. He complains very much of yr silence do write to him occasionally. Love to each of your dear ones with a very large share for your darling self. From your devoted sister. |
In the Mills County Memories, compiled and copyrighted by the Mills County Historical Commission, 1994 on page 8 " When Governor L. S. "Sul" Ross signed the H.S.S.B. No. 85, Mills County was created. Many Petitions had been sent to Austin both for and against creating a New County.. . . .
The page continues with names of some of the men who signed the petitions. M. C. Brockenbrough, M. D. (brother to J. F. Brockenbrough) signed one or more of the petitions for creating Mills County.
The following Chapter lists all the Mills County Elected Officials:
It does not show any "Brockenbrough" as Tax Collector or Sheriff (same office) or for Tax Assessor. On Page 15. The show the names of the Men who helped hold the election of August 30, 1887 and a "Jack Brockenbrough" was listed.
On Page 16 the Justice of the Peace and Constable's were listed. "J.F. Brockenbrough was listed as a Justice of Peace on Nov 5, 1912 Election and Term and again on Nov 3, 1914 for District 3
| CONFEDERATE VETERAN IS CALLED HOME Mr. Jack Brockenbrough, aged 87, died Friday night, after a brief illness, in a Brownwood Hospital. He was noted for his witty cheerful philosophy of life and had a wide circle of friends here, where he has been a resident for many years. "Uncle Jack". as he was better known, was a member of the Presbyterian church. Rev. A.C. Wilkerson. Rev. T. L. Cooper, and Rev. L.J. Vann officiated at the funeral service at the Oakview cemetery Saturday evening. He is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Bert Chesser, Mrs. E. I. Oxley and Mrs. Jennie Sanders, nine grandchildren, twelve great grandchildren. Those from out of town who were called to his bedside and to attend the funeral were, Mr. and Mrs. Will Daniel, Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Daniel, Miss Evelyn Bell, Miss Mary Ruth Sanders |
| MULLIN Editor Eagle; Mrs. Mary Brockenbrough, wife of Uncle Jack, died January 31st and was buried in Oak View cemetery at ? p.m. Feb. 1st. Funeral services conducted by Bros. Locks and Temp?on. Uncle Jack and Aunt Mary were among the early settlers of the region, both of whom, won the esteem and friendship of those among whom they lived. Only those who traveled the same lonely road know how to sympathize with Uncle Jack. May God's richest blessings reach the bereaved husband and children and enable them to live so comprise a united family beyond this tale of tears. The beautiful flowers placed on the grave and the ? plants in full bloom at the head of the grave this very wintry day, impressed us with the thought that death's chilly hand might bring sorrow and loneliness to our homes, but its power is too limitless to keep God's Saints from blooming into eternal life where sickness and death never come. |
| Mary B. Brockenbrough (Single Headstone) Very old and hard to read Born in ? Scotland March 22, 1851 Jan 31, 1916 |
Headstone's Oakview Cemetery Mullin, Texas | J. F. Brockenbrough (Single Headstone) Born in Richmond, VA Dec 23, 1842 Feb 2, 1935 |
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