Tandy BROCKMAN

1. Settled in Shelby, IN and then Johnson co., IN.

2. Note from WFT 8:3133. "Tandy Brockman, a Virginian, came to Johnson

County, Indiana in 1823, building his cabin on the knoll where the Brockman Cem-

etery is now located. He buried his son Richard here in 1824. The Jolity Church

was organized here in 1828. The Cemetery is a dedicated tract, supported by the

interest on an endowment plus donations, controlled by a board. Tandy Brockman,

son of Samuel and Nancy Durrett Brockman, was a native of Virginia and grew to

manhood in Kentucky, having been taken to the latter state when but four years old.

He married Martha Shipp and moved to Shelby County, Indiana, settling in the woods

and for some time lived the life of a rugged pioneer. Mrs. Brockman died at the age

of sixty four. Tandy died at the age of seventy two in Edinburg, Indiana. He is buried

there. Tandy was a Methodist, Protestant, temperance, Whig. In clearing ground he

injured his leg severely and later developed blood poisoning. He was taken to the

then nearest hospital at Madison in Jefferson County, Indiana, where the leg was

amputated. He used an artificial leg or peg and returned home to clear land for

school. He was supposed to help with founding the Jollity M.P. church. Also started

the Brockman graveyard which is still in use and cared for today. Charles Smith,

son of Caroline Brockman, says that shortly after coming to Indiana the two young

sons of Tandy and Martha Brockman died of something like malaria or one of the

fevers so prevalent in those days. The elder Brockman then set aside a portion of

land to be used as a cemetery."

3. Information from the sign at the Brockman Cemetery gives the following information:

"BROCKMAN CEMETERY --- 1824 --- Tandy Brockman, a Virginian, came here in

1823 building his cabin on this knoll and burying his small son Richard here in 1824,

started this burial ground. The Jollity Church was organized here in 1828. This is a

dedicated tract, supported by the interest on an endowment plus donations, control-

led by a board. Many names of neighborhood families are represented here, among

them the Pruitts, descendants of Moses and Elizabeth Hawkins Pruitt. Markers

from the Pruitt cemetery were brought here in 1972."

4. Many of the birth and death dates for members of this family, children and grand-

children have been found through photographs of tombstones located in the

Brockman Cemetery (founded in 1824) near Edinburgh, Johnson co., IN...these

photographs were taken by Jeanne Kersh in 2003 (4700 Westwood

Lane, Manvel, TX 77578-2839).

SOURCES INCLUDE:

Brockman Scrapbook, pages 77-80, 236.

Orange County Virginia Families, IV:29.

WFT 8:3133, information from Kevin A. Lucas, 1311 Walnut St.,

Greenwood, MS 38930.

WFT 36:317. information from Robert S. Matthews, P.O. Box

550064, Birmingham, AL 35255.

WFT 123:91, WFT 124:374

1850 Shelby co., IN census, page 255.

1860 Shelby co., IN census, page 958.

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