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James Brotherton was born circa
1820 UN12
or 1823 UN10, UN11 in
Tennessee UN10, UN11, UN12.
He was married to Nancy Farner
on May 20, 1841 in Greene County, Tennessee by William Jack, Justice of the
Peace TE5.
This indicates that he and Nancy likely lived in Greene County before they
resided in Cocke County, where they were enumerated
in 1850.
Two men who were named James Brotherton
and one man named William Brotherton resided in Greene County, Tennessee at the
time of the 1840 census UN9.
James Brotherton, Sr. was between sixty and sixty-nine, and living with him was
a woman between fifty and fifty-nine, a man between twenty and twenty-nine, and
a woman between fifteen and nineteen UN9.
The other man named James Brotherton was between twenty and twenty-nine, and he
resided with a woman between fifteen and nineteen UN9. William Brotherton was between fifty and
fifty-nine, and in his household were one boy under five, one boy between five
and nine, two boys between ten and fourteen, one young man between fifteen and
nineteen, one man and one woman between twenty and twenty-nine, and one woman
who was between fifty and fifty-nine UN9.
The younger James Brotherton of the 1840 Greene County census was most likely
the son of James Brotherton, Sr.
James Brotherton, the subject of this
biographical sketch, probably was a son of William Brotherton, rather than
James Brotherton, Sr., because if James, the subject, was indeed the James who
was enumerated in 1840 with a teenage woman who was almost certainly his wife,
not only would he have been married at a young age (perhaps seventeen or
twenty, because James was born about 1820 or 1823), but this wife would have
died soon after the 1840 census, because she was not Nancy, as James and Nancy
were married in 1841.
James purchased one hundred twenty acres
of land in Bollinger County, Missouri, on April 15, 1857 GE4, and according to census records he was a
farmer, but he did not immediately move to Missouri, for he was still in Cocke County, Tennessee in 1860. The 1860 non-population agricultural
census detailed exactly what he harvested, and at that time, he owned a very small farm, with just thirty improved acres, two
horses, three milk cows, two “other” cattle, ten pigs, twenty bushels of wheat,
one hundred fifty bushels of Indian corn, one hundred pounds of butter, and
fifteen gallons of molasses.
He may have been the same James Brotherton
who fought as a private in Company I of Tennessee’s 62nd Mounted Infantry
Regiment, which was a mounted infantry in the Confederate Army CO28, US6, CI3, TE3. The 62nd Regiment was also known as Rowan’s 80th Infantry Regiment, and it was formed on
October 8, 1862 TE3, NA2 from
men of five Tennessee counties: Bradley, Cocke, Monroe,
Polk, and Roane NA2.
William R. Smith, who led Company I, was later promoted to the rank of major TE3. The regiment’s commanding officers were
Colonel John A. Rowan and Lieutenant Colonel William Parker TE3, NA2. James Brotherton, age forty, enlisted on September 10, 1862 in
Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee by Captain William
R. Smith for a period of three years “or during the war” CO28. He was mustered in on November 11,
1862 according to a Company Muster Roll made in Sweetwater, Tennessee, and was
present on the Company Muster Roll for the months of December 1862 through
April 1863 CO28. Directly after enlistment, the 60th, 61st, and
62nd
Regiments were sorted into Brigadier General John Vaughn’s Brigade and sent to
Mississippi TE3, NA2. From
December 26 until December 29, 1862, the men were in western Mississippi and
eastern Louisiana at Chickasaw Bayou and Chickasaw Bluffs, Mississippi, when
they fought the Federal troops who were assailing the Confederate defenses at
Vicksburg, Mississippi TE3, NA2. At
that time, the 62nd
Regiment was assisting General Lee, and together with the 3rd Confederate and the 30th Tennessee Infantry Regiments, they
occupied the rifle pits at the front on the right-hand side and repelled the
Union advances TE3.
On May 17, 1863 TE3, several of the
soldiers from the 62nd
Regiment were captured at Big Black River Bridge NA2, TE3. They retreated to Vicksburg and defended
it from the trenches until its surrender to General Grant on July 4, 1863 TE3. They then marched east, and were at
Brandon, Mississippi on July 16, 1863 TE3. Purportedly, they reorganized
as a mounted infantry unit, and participated in the Knoxville Campaign and
fought at the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia NA2. According to
personal correspondence with Dick Dobbins of the website www.civilwardata.com,
the 62nd Infantry was organized on October 8, 1862,
and disbanded on May 9, 1865. Mr. Dobbins stated that this unit had been a part
of the escort for the Confederate president, Jefferson Davis. James
Brotherton was captured in Vicksburg, Mississippi on July 4, 1863 where he
appeared on a Roll of Prisoners of War, and he was
then paroled CO28.
James Brotherton made
his mark on a statement dated July 8, 1863 in Vicksburg, Mississippi CO28:
To
all Whom it may Concern, Know Ye That:
I
James Brotherton a private of Co
I 62nd
Reg’t Tn Vols
Vols.
C. S. A., being a Prisoner of War, in the hands of the United States Forces, in
virtue of the capitulation of the City of Vicksburg and its garrison, by Lieut.
Gen John C. Pemberton, C. S. A., Commanding, on the 4th day of July, 1863, do in pursuance of the
terms of said capitulation, give this my solemn parole under oath ---
That
I will not take up arms again against the United States, nor serve in any
military, police, or constabulary force in any Fort, Garrison or field work, held
by the Confederate States of America, against the United States of America, nor
as guard of prisons, depots or stores, nor discharge any duties usually
performed by Officers or soldiers against the United States of America, until
duly exchanged by the proper authorities.
James was probably
acquainted with Abraham and Daniel Farner, as they
also served in Company I of the 62nd Tennessee Mounted Infantry NA2. He died sometime after July 5, 1870, the date of
the last census in which he appeared.
·
1850 US
Census: lived in District 11, Cocke County, Tennessee.
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1860 US Census: lived in District 8, Cocke County, Tennessee.
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1870
US Census: lived in German Township, Bollinger County, Missouri.
Nancy Farner was born about 1824 in Tennessee UN10. Her surname was written in the Greene
County marriage record book and was either “Farner”
or “Famer”, but an examination of the penmanship of the clerk who recorded
marriage records for James and Nancy, as well as others who married in that
same time frame, indicates that in most instances, this clerk formed the
lowercase letter “r” with a closed downstroke and upstroke, so that the two
strokes converged TE5. When
the clerk wrote Nancy’s surname, he left a gap in between the downstroke and
the upstroke, in the same manner as those instances in which he wrote the
letters “m” or “n” TE5. Thus,
Nancy’s surname, as written by the Greene County clerk, must be read as “Famer”
TE5. One additional instance in which her maiden name was written was located, and this was the death
record of her son, Abe Brotherton, which stated his mother’s name was “N. Farner”.
The 1840 census of
Greene County, Tennessee revealed three men with the surname “Farmer”, and two
with the surname “Farner”: Alex Farmer was between
twenty and twenty-nine, Stephen Farmer was between thirty and thirty-nine, and
Calloway or Callomay Farmer was between twenty and
twenty-nine UN9. The two men with the “Farner” surname in Greene County in 1840 were both named
“Jac” UN9. Between the years 1830 and 1852 in
Greene County, six marriage records were found in which either the bride or the
groom’s surname was clearly “Farmer”, and another six were found in which
either parties’ surname was clearly “Farner”, but
three records, excluding that of James and Nancy, were noticed in which the
individual’s surname was written ambiguously, and could be read as either
“Famer” or “Farner” TE5. Perhaps there was a family with the
“Famer” surname who lived in Greene County, Tennessee around the year 1841,
when James and Nancy married, but there is little evidence to demonstrate this.
It seems a bit more likely that the clerk who wrote the marriage record
misspelled Nancy’s last name, or simply used slapdash handwriting.
Nancy appeared on
the 1850 census, and at that time, James and Nancy had four young children,
named Frances, Peggy, Mary, and Johnny, who born in about the years 1844, 1846,
1848, and 1849, respectively. The 1860 census listed a woman named Elizabeth
who was slightly older than James, but neither the 1860 or 1870 census records
were designed to collect data regarding marital status, and so her relationship
to James is not utterly conclusive. It is very probable that Elizabeth was his
wife, but she did not age from 1860 until 1870; she remained forty-eight years
old. At least three possible scenarios may have occurred: Nancy may have died and James may have married a woman named Elizabeth
before 1860, and then married a different Elizabeth who was ten years younger
before 1870, or one of the census enumerators may have recorded an incorrect
age for the same woman. Alternatively, it is possible that Nancy did not die
between 1850 and 1859, and instead began using a different name (perhaps a
middle name).
To complicate
matters further, there lived another James and Elizabeth Brotherton of similar
age in Tennessee at the same time. In 1860, this family lived in Lincoln
County, and they resided in Obion County in 1870. A side-by-side comparison of
the family structures of both Brotherton families revealed that there were
probably eleven children in the Brotherton family of Lincoln and Obion
counties, and of those, two (John and Margarett)
shared the same name as the Brotherton family of Cocke
County, but the name “Moses” was not among the children. In fact, the sole
instance of a ten-year-old child, or thereabouts, with the name matching or similar to “Moses”, and a surname matching or similar to
“Brotherton”, with a birth location of Tennessee, was with the Brothertons of Cocke County.
Cocke County, Tennessee does not seem to have
marriage records for several years, nor was a death
certificate found for Nancy. This means that Moses’ mother is slightly uncertain,
because it is unknown when James remarried to Elizabeth, other than perhaps
sometime between 1850 and 1860. However, Elizabeth may have also been married
before she married James, as can be surmised from the three individuals with
the Shelton surname who resided in the Brotherton household at the time of the
1860 census, Martha Shelton, Julia or Juliet Shelton,
and Elizabeth Shelton, whose ages were twenty, sixteen, and six, respectively. Martha was born about 1840 in North
Carolina, Julia or Juliet was born about 1844 in North Carlolina,
and Elizabeth was born about 1854 in Tennessee UN11. It seems likely that Elizabeth Brotherton was formerly Elizabeth
Shelton. If these children were Elizabeth’s from an earlier marriage, and if
their ages were recorded accurately, then this narrows down the death year of
Nancy to between 1854 and 1860, because both Jane Brotherton and Elizabeth
Shelton were born in about 1854. In that case, Nancy would have been the mother
of Moses, because he was two years older than Elizabeth (Shelton) Brotherton’s
youngest daughter, Elizabeth. Additionally, in the 1880 census, Elizabeth was
listed as a boarder in the Barks household in White Water (Whitewater Township),
Bollinger County, Missouri. This is a bit unusual, because typically a widow
would move into the household of one of her children.
Nancy was the mother of Frances, Margaret, Mary, John, Abraham,
Moses, and Jane Brotherton. Based on their marriage date of May 20,
1841 TE5
and the typical pattern of childbirth at that time, which occurred every two
years, the most logical birth years for Nancy’s children would have been 1842,
1844, 1846, 1848, 1850, 1852, and 1854, and if the 1860 census for the
Brotherton family was accurate, her last four children did follow this
schedule.
Frances
Brotherton was born about 1844
in Tennessee UN10, while Fanny was born about 1840 UN11 or 1850 UN12 in Tennessee UN11, UN12.
Fanny’s age remained twenty in both 1860 and 1870. It is important not to
assume that Frances and Fanny were the same person in any of those decades,
although it seems probable that her age was recorded incorrectly on one or more
censuses. She may have been the “Miss Francis Brotherington” who married Jesse Dunklin on November 9,
1871 in Bolloinger County, Missouri BO24.
The census records
state that Peggy Brotherton was born about 1846 in Tennessee UN10, while Margarett Brotherton
was born about 1842 in Tennessee UN11. A St. Louis County, Missouri death
certificate for her daughter, Mary Jane Sample, recorded that she was born in Cocke County, Tennessee on July 7, 1865 to Richard Cureton
and Margaret Brotherton (who herself was born in Cocke
County, Tennessee) and she died on December 2, 1941 in St. Louis, Missouri. The
1870 US Census indicated that Margaret Cureton, who lived in Cocke County with Richard and her children, was born about
1845 in Tennessee UN12.
Richard and Margaret Cureton had relocated to Whitewater Township, Bollinger
County, Missouri by 1880; she was thirty-seven, and so her approximate birth
year would have been 1843 UN13.
She probably died between 1880 and 1884, when Richard Cureton was enumerated in
Castor, Madison County, Missouri with his wife of sixteen years, Sarah J.
Cureton UN14.
Mary
Brotherton was born about 1844 UN11 or 1848 UN10 in Tennessee UN10, UN11.
Johnny or John Brotherton was born
about 1848 UN11 or 1849 UN10 in Tennessee UN10, UN11.
He may have been the John W. “Brotherington”
who married Mary Hanners on August 13, 1868 in
Bollinger County BO24.
He also might have been the John Brotherton who lived in Union Township,
Bollinger County in 1880 with his wife, Mary E. Brotherton, and children,
William James, Mariah F.E., Sarah D.J., and John Brotherton UN13. This particular John
was thirty and was born in Tennessee to parents who were also born in Tennessee
UN13.
A Commerce County, Missouri death certificate for his son, William Brotherton,
recorded that William was born on January 21, 1869 in Bollinger County to John
Brotherton and Mary Hanners, and died on June 29,
1924 in Commerce, Scott County, Missouri.
Abraham Brotherton was born about 1850 UN11 or 1852 UN12 in Tennessee UN11, UN12. He was probably the Abraham Brotherton
who married Miss Mary Richards on September 11, 1871
in Bollinger County, Missouri BO24.
However, the Howell County, Missouri death certificate for Mary Hester
Brotherton stated that she was born in 1855 to a father whose surname was
“Stevens” and a mother whose surname was “Bollinger”, and that she died as the
widow of “A. Brotherton” on January 14, 1932 in West Plains, Howell County,
Missouri. Abraham Brotherton, age twenty-nine, and his wife, Mary, lived next
to Moses and Margaret Brotherton in German Township, Bollinger County, Missouri
in 1880 UN13. Abraham
Brotherton and Mary Stephens were listed as the parents of Gurdine
Brotherton, who was born on December 29, 1886 in West Plains, Missouri US27. In 1910, Abraham and his wife of
thirty-seven years, Mary H. Brotherton, lived in West Sisson, Howell County,
Missouri UN15. If
the information about their length of marriage was correct, this would indicate
that they were married in 1873. The Howell County, Missouri death certificate for Abraham
Brotherton stated that he was about the age of eighty-four at the time of his
death on December 27, 1928; his birth year was unknown, but it did state that
he was born in Tennessee to Jim Brotherton and N. Farner,
who themselves were born in Tennessee. This death certificate stated that at the time of his death, he
was married to “Nannie Brotherton”. The name of Abraham’s wife seems to have
been Mary Hester Stevens, and perhaps her nickname was Nannie. The marriage
record between Abraham and Miss Mary Richards may have
been for a different man named Abraham Brotherton, or it could have been
Abraham’s first marriage, and he later married Mary Stevens, or the individual
who recorded the marriage could have written an incorrect surname.
Moses Brotherton was born about 1852 UN11 or 1854 UN12 in Tennessee UN11, UN12.
He may have been born in March 1850 in
Tennessee UN14,
but he was not enumerated with James and Nancy in 1850. His Bollinger County,
Missouri death certificate stated that Moses was born to James Brotherton (who
was born in Tennessee) and an unknown mother on January 1, 1850 in Missouri.
Moses was listed after his brother, Abraham, on the 1860 and 1870 US Census
records; his age was two years younger than Abraham on both of those census
records.
Jane Brotherton was born about 1854 UN11 or 1856 UN12 in Tennessee UN11, UN12. She may have been the “Miss Martha Jane
Brotherton” who married William Crook on December 31, 1874 in Madison County,
Missouri MA37. Martha J. and William D. Crook resided
in German Township, Madison County, Missouri in 1900; this census recorded that
Martha J. Crook was born in April 1856 and had been married for twenty-six
years UN14. Jane may have been
the “Martha Jane Crook” whose Madison County, Missouri death certificate stated
that she was born on April 8, 1856 in Madison County, and
died on September 13, 1926 in Marquand; the father of Martha Jane was
“Brotherton”, but her mother’s maiden name was unknown.
·
1850
US Census: lived in District 11, Cocke County,
Tennessee.
