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Hi,
I may or may not be able to help you.
Your Lydia Alabama (Brooks) Higdon's death certificate (the transcribed version online) lists her parents as John T. BROOKS and (no first name given)SKINNER. Was the middle initial T. really an S. transcribed incorrectly?
I have a John S. (Sawyer?) Brooks in my records who married a Narcissa A. (Allie) Skinner in Monroe Co., Ala., Sept. 12, 1876, but they had no child named Lydia (b. 1879-1880) showing on the 1880 census of Monroe Co.
I did not find Lydia anywhere in 1880, and she was already married by 1900. John S. Brooks and his second wife (Emma Coker) were living in the same area as Frank and Lydia Higdon in 1900 in Conecuh Co. (Mixons Precinct).
My understanding is that this particular Brooks family settled in the Midway/Skinnerton area, which is on or near the Conecuh/Monroe Co. Ala. line. This John S. Brooks is buried at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in Skinnerton, Alabama, and his father Samuel Brooks is buried at Midway Baptist Church Cemetery (on the county line).
1 William Brooks 1780/90 SC-after 1850 (Midway/Skinnerton area, Conecuh/Monroe Co., Ala.)
..+Sarah Unknown 1780/90-after 1856
........2 Samuel Brooks 1829-1895
............+Eliza Ann McClammy 1832-1870
...................3 John S.(Sawyer?) Brooks 1859-1923
....................... +Narcissa A. Skinner 1859-1887
...................*2nd Wife of John Sawyer Brooks:
....................... +Emma Coker 1854-1919
William above is believed to be the brother of John Sawyer Brooks (1796 Ga-1867 Butler Co. Ala.), Samuel Brooks (1790 Ga.-1860s Butler Co., Ala.), and Benjamin Brooks (c. 1789 Ga.?-1830s Monroe Co. Ala.). I have no paper documentation that the four were brothers but there is some circumstantial evidence to say maybe they were.
I have separate files of research on three of these "believed-to-be" brothers--William, Samuel, and John Sawyer Brooks--and a file on the man I believe was their father, William W. Brooks, born Jan. 6, 1757, in Charles City Co., Virginia.
I researched these men and their families while looking for relatives of my gg-gf Felix Brooks, who died in Butler Co., Ala., in 1850.
I hope this is helpful.
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