James Lewis BROCKMAN

1. Served with the Company F, 13th KS Vol. Inf. during the Civil War.

After duty in the field he later was the chief orderly and clerk with

the Provost Marshal in Van Buren, AR. He enlisted on 22 Aug 1862

and was discharged on 26 Jun 1865.

2. After the Civil War, in 1869, he homesteaded land in Nemaha co.,

KS but, due to poor health, he lost his land. In 1877 he lived in

Seneca, KS where he served three terms as the city clerk.

3. He moved to Springfield, MO in 1867 and spent 19 years working

with the Springfield Wagon Company. In 1880 he was working as

a clerk in a lumber yard and according to the 1900 census he was

a "lumber inspector."

4. His birth and death dates were obtained from information Robert

Brockman posted with the Brockman Family Forum plus information

from his obituary. He died at his home in Springfield, MO of Bright's

Disease.

5. He and his wife had six children; his three sons lived in Springfield

MO and one of his daughters was married to G.W. Patterson and

lived in Nashville, TN and the other was married to W.W. Fowler

and they lived in San Francisco, CA..

6. Was he also married to a woman named Cora? Her father was

born in OH and her mother was from IN. In the 1900 census this

the name of his wife; also there was a step-daughter, born Jan 1886

in IA, by the name of Vinie Tarkington with a father born in IA and a

mother born in IL.

SOURCES INCLUDE:

Correspondence (2001) with Bill Brockman of Topeka, KS. (now

deceased)

1870 Nemaha co., KS census, page 93.

1880 Seneca, Nemaha co., KS census [ED 189, page 29 C].

1900 N. Campbell twp., Springfield, Greene co., MO census (ED 41,

Sheet 39 B].

Brockman, Robert. 24 Jul 2002. Re: James L. Brockman.

http://genforum.genealogy.com

Springfield Daily Republican, 4 Jun 1907.

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