Cincinnatus Ney Brooks

He came to the new Hill County, TX in 1853 and was the first County Clerk and built the courthouse. He was raising stock there in 1860. He enlisted at San Antonio as a Private in Company F, 4th Texas Infantry on 31 March 1862.

He was with his Company in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was seriously wounded in he head at Cold Harbor, VA on 5 June 1864, but returned to duty on the 27th. He was with his regiment to at least November 1864 and was a Federal prisoner at Libby Prison in Richmond, VA on 10 April 1865. He was sent to Washington, DC, took an oath of allegiance there, and was sent to Memphis, TN about 17 April with no later military record.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer in Hill County. He was vice president of the Sturgis National Bank in 1887.

Service information from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3, as Cincinnatti Brooks and C.H. Brooks. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Jane Bailey (1830-1887) and they had a daughter Delilah (1848-1935). He married, secondly, Mary Town Kirkpatrick (1833-1853) in about 1850 and they had a son, Romulus (1852-1879). He married again, Sarah Young (1833-1920) in September 1853 in Hill County and they had 8 children by 1872.

Cincinnatus' siblings had equally historic names: DeWitt Clinton (F/17th TX Cav), Kosciusko Byron, and Tamerlane Xenophon Brooks(E/3rd TX Cav).

04/16/1825; Dekalb County, GA

09/15/1890; Hill County, TX; burial in Hickey Cemetery, Hillsboro, TX