Kentucky Death Certificate #22261.
Occupation: Farmer.
Died from La grippe.
Husband of Letha Jane Long, married Oct. 27, 1864, Crittenden Co. KY.
Son of Thomas Brookshire and Mary Elizabeth Kimsey-Brookshire.
THE CRITTENDEN PRESS ~ February 21, 1918.
Marion, Crittenden County, Kentucky.
David Watts Brookshire, an aged soldier, died Friday, Feb. 15 at his home on East Depot St. this city of la grippe. He was born near Deer Creek, Feb 2, 1840, and was therefore just 78 years of age, most of which was spent in this county, he lived in Illinois a short time and was absent from this county while in the Union Army. He was shot in the ankle in the first battle he was in at Fort Donalson and carried the bullet to his grave. He was seriously wounded April 7, 1862, in the great battle around Shiloh, a bullet passing through him, across his hip, just barely missing his spinal column. The surgeon who dressed the wound passed a silk cloth back and forth through the wound to remove all danger of infection. He never recovered entirely from this wound but suffered with it all his life. Mr. Brookshire was a member of Co. E. 18th Infantry, and his death removes all but six members of that famous band.
He was married Oct. 27th, 1864 to Miss Letha Jane Long, and she with five children survive him, one son, Wyatt of Dixon, Ky, and four daughters, George Ann, wife of Will Manley, of Marion, Mary Tom, wife of Joel Moore of this city, Minnie, wife of Frank Crayne of Zilah, Wash., and Ida, wife of Oscar Woodall of Enon, two sisters also survive him, they being Mrs. Gus Kimsey of Winfield, Kansas, and Mrs. Mary Johndrow of California, and two half-brothers, Al and Newt of Winfield, Kansas.
Occupation: Farmer.
Died from La grippe.
Husband of Letha Jane Long, married Oct. 27, 1864, Crittenden Co. KY.
Son of Thomas Brookshire and Mary Elizabeth Kimsey-Brookshire.
THE CRITTENDEN PRESS ~ February 21, 1918.
Marion, Crittenden County, Kentucky.
David Watts Brookshire, an aged soldier, died Friday, Feb. 15 at his home on East Depot St. this city of la grippe. He was born near Deer Creek, Feb 2, 1840, and was therefore just 78 years of age, most of which was spent in this county, he lived in Illinois a short time and was absent from this county while in the Union Army. He was shot in the ankle in the first battle he was in at Fort Donalson and carried the bullet to his grave. He was seriously wounded April 7, 1862, in the great battle around Shiloh, a bullet passing through him, across his hip, just barely missing his spinal column. The surgeon who dressed the wound passed a silk cloth back and forth through the wound to remove all danger of infection. He never recovered entirely from this wound but suffered with it all his life. Mr. Brookshire was a member of Co. E. 18th Infantry, and his death removes all but six members of that famous band.
He was married Oct. 27th, 1864 to Miss Letha Jane Long, and she with five children survive him, one son, Wyatt of Dixon, Ky, and four daughters, George Ann, wife of Will Manley, of Marion, Mary Tom, wife of Joel Moore of this city, Minnie, wife of Frank Crayne of Zilah, Wash., and Ida, wife of Oscar Woodall of Enon, two sisters also survive him, they being Mrs. Gus Kimsey of Winfield, Kansas, and Mrs. Mary Johndrow of California, and two half-brothers, Al and Newt of Winfield, Kansas.
Kentucky Death Certificate #22261.
Occupation: Farmer.
Died from La grippe.
Husband of Letha Jane Long, married Oct. 27, 1864, Crittenden Co. KY.
Son of Thomas Brookshire and Mary Elizabeth Kimsey-Brookshire.
THE CRITTENDEN PRESS ~ February 21, 1918.
Marion, Crittenden County, Kentucky.
David Watts Brookshire, an aged soldier, died Friday, Feb. 15 at his home on East Depot St. this city of la grippe. He was born near Deer Creek, Feb 2, 1840, and was therefore just 78 years of age, most of which was spent in this county, he lived in Illinois a short time and was absent from this county while in the Union Army. He was shot in the ankle in the first battle he was in at Fort Donalson and carried the bullet to his grave. He was seriously wounded April 7, 1862, in the great battle around Shiloh, a bullet passing through him, across his hip, just barely missing his spinal column. The surgeon who dressed the wound passed a silk cloth back and forth through the wound to remove all danger of infection. He never recovered entirely from this wound but suffered with it all his life. Mr. Brookshire was a member of Co. E. 18th Infantry, and his death removes all but six members of that famous band.
He was married Oct. 27th, 1864 to Miss Letha Jane Long, and she with five children survive him, one son, Wyatt of Dixon, Ky, and four daughters, George Ann, wife of Will Manley, of Marion, Mary Tom, wife of Joel Moore of this city, Minnie, wife of Frank Crayne of Zilah, Wash., and Ida, wife of Oscar Woodall of Enon, two sisters also survive him, they being Mrs. Gus Kimsey of Winfield, Kansas, and Mrs. Mary Johndrow of California, and two half-brothers, Al and Newt of Winfield, Kansas.
Occupation: Farmer.
Died from La grippe.
Husband of Letha Jane Long, married Oct. 27, 1864, Crittenden Co. KY.
Son of Thomas Brookshire and Mary Elizabeth Kimsey-Brookshire.
THE CRITTENDEN PRESS ~ February 21, 1918.
Marion, Crittenden County, Kentucky.
David Watts Brookshire, an aged soldier, died Friday, Feb. 15 at his home on East Depot St. this city of la grippe. He was born near Deer Creek, Feb 2, 1840, and was therefore just 78 years of age, most of which was spent in this county, he lived in Illinois a short time and was absent from this county while in the Union Army. He was shot in the ankle in the first battle he was in at Fort Donalson and carried the bullet to his grave. He was seriously wounded April 7, 1862, in the great battle around Shiloh, a bullet passing through him, across his hip, just barely missing his spinal column. The surgeon who dressed the wound passed a silk cloth back and forth through the wound to remove all danger of infection. He never recovered entirely from this wound but suffered with it all his life. Mr. Brookshire was a member of Co. E. 18th Infantry, and his death removes all but six members of that famous band.
He was married Oct. 27th, 1864 to Miss Letha Jane Long, and she with five children survive him, one son, Wyatt of Dixon, Ky, and four daughters, George Ann, wife of Will Manley, of Marion, Mary Tom, wife of Joel Moore of this city, Minnie, wife of Frank Crayne of Zilah, Wash., and Ida, wife of Oscar Woodall of Enon, two sisters also survive him, they being Mrs. Gus Kimsey of Winfield, Kansas, and Mrs. Mary Johndrow of California, and two half-brothers, Al and Newt of Winfield, Kansas.
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