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1. Served with the Company F, 13th KS Vol. Inf. during the Civil War.
After duty in the field he later was the chief orderly and clerk with
the Provost Marshal in Van Buren, AR. He enlisted on 22 Aug 1862
and was discharged on 26 Jun 1865.
2. After the Civil War, in 1869, he homesteaded land in Nemaha co.,
KS but, due to poor health, he lost his land. In 1877 he lived in
Seneca, KS where he served three terms as the city clerk.
3. He moved to Springfield, MO in 1867 and spent 19 years working
with the Springfield Wagon Company. In 1880 he was working as
a clerk in a lumber yard and according to the 1900 census he was
a "lumber inspector."
4. His birth and death dates were obtained from information Robert
Brockman posted with the Brockman Family Forum plus information
from his obituary. He died at his home in Springfield, MO of Bright's
Disease.
5. He and his wife had six children; his three sons lived in Springfield
MO and one of his daughters was married to G.W. Patterson and
lived in Nashville, TN and the other was married to W.W. Fowler
and they lived in San Francisco, CA..
6. Was he also married to a woman named Cora? Her father was
born in OH and her mother was from IN. In the 1900 census this
the name of his wife; also there was a step-daughter, born Jan 1886
in IA, by the name of Vinie Tarkington with a father born in IA and a
mother born in IL.
SOURCES INCLUDE:
Correspondence (2001) with Bill Brockman of Topeka, KS. (now
deceased)
1870 Nemaha co., KS census, page 93.
1880 Seneca, Nemaha co., KS census [ED 189, page 29 C].
1900 N. Campbell twp., Springfield, Greene co., MO census (ED 41,
Sheet 39 B].
Brockman, Robert. 24 Jul 2002. Re: James L. Brockman.
http://genforum.genealogy.com
Springfield Daily Republican, 4 Jun 1907.
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Ingo
Brockmann
