JIM AND LONIE PG 2

JIM BROOKS (CONTINUED)

LONIE EUGENIA BROOKS was born on Monday, December 8, 1920. Eugenia married Frank Chambers on Thursday, March 14, 1946 . They live in Columbus, Georgia.

JAMES ROBERT (J.R.) BROOKS, JR., was born on Friday, April 20, 1923. J. R. married Rushiebelle Ingram on Sunday, 20 December 1942. They live on their farm just west of Edison, Georgia.

Jim and Lonie moved to St. Augustine, Florida in 1923, where Jim worked for the Seaboard RR as a "car knocker" , then in sugar cane before returning to Calhoun County.

About 1925, Lonie's Aunt Roxie (Holloway) Massey died and her husband, Sam Massey, needed someone to stay with him on his farm. So Jim and Lonie moved back to Calhoun County and moved in with Sam Massey. Later, they moved to a farm house about 1/4 mile from Uncle Jud and Aunt Lizzie (Elizabeth Lewis) Strickland's home, about 3 miles southeast of Edison, Ga.

This is the house where, on Tuesday, May 22, 1928, FRANK GORDON BROOKS was born. Gordon married Isabel Pitts on Saturday, June 28, 1952. They live in Jacksonville, Florida.

After farming on the Strickland farm for a couple of years, Jim and Lonie moved to Edison, Ga. in what was then called the Section House on Depot Street (usually used by the Railroad Section Foreman). Here is where I have my first memories of the family and "happens"

LAURA JUNE BROOKS was born here on Wednesday, May 11, 1932. June married Moncree Barnett Settles on Saturday, December 31,1949. They lived in Warner Robbins, Georgia. Moncree is now deceased(2002).

Jim and Lonie now (1932) had their full family. One son married and on his own, one daughter died at 9 months, two sons and two daughters still at home.

(More on the children later.)

Here, also, on Sunday, September 6, 1931, Albert Lee Brooks and Annie Lou Linsey were married. They lived for a while with Jim and Lonie before moving into their own apartment.

From the Section House, Jim, Lonie and family moved to a house in Southeast Edison but still within the city limits. They only lived here a couple of years before moving, in 1933, to the house on first street where they lived out their lives.

REMEMBER????

where most of us called "HOME". Jim and Lonie lived here the rest of their lives.

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