Asa BROCKMAN

1. Asa went to California in 1849 but returned to Ray county, MO in 1851.

2. He farmed in Township 51 Range 28 on land previously owned and farmed

by his father.

3. He enlisted in Company E, 51st Enrolled Missouri Militia (Union Army)

and was captured at the Battle of Glasgow (MO). He was a prisoner for

only a short time and was paroled; he returned to his home and farmed

the land.

4. The cemetery known as the Hugeons Cemetery is also called the Brockman

Cemetery; it is located about 1 mile north of Camden, MO in Ray county.

The cemetery is in a field on the Vandiver brothers farm.

5. Sarah's father, Ballard A. Hudgins was from Ray county, MO. (3 Feb

1801-20 Nov 1871). Her mother was Nancy Jackson.

6. Joseph Emery had three children; Derwood (no children), Gertrude (no

children) and Robert Rice (see OCVF IV:53 for his children.

7. John Creel Brockman was living in Camdem, MO in 1910. He had 4

children; see OCVF III:98 for Clarence's children; Clarence was in

Texas in 1907.

See OCVF III:99 for children of John Creel, jr.

8. Nancy Jane (Brockman) Roselle had 7 children; her son, Harvey was in

Excelsior Springs, MO in 1910. Her daughter, E. Frances Taylor was

living in Daviess county at Gallatin in 1910.

9. See OCVF IV:1 for information about James Arthur Brockman (RIN 1865).

10. Copied from the Richmond Conservator of 20 Oct 1904:

"ANOTHER PIONEER CITIZEN DEAD.

Asa Brockman Passes Away at the Age of 79 Years.

Asa Brockman, another of Ray county's pioneer citizens, died at his

home in Camden, Wednesday morning, October 19th, at seven o'clock. He

had been confined to his home for the past year or two from a complica-

tion of diseases and his death was not unexpected by his family and

friends. The deceased was a native Kentuckian, born in Clark county,

April 19th, 1826, and was in his 79th year when death came to him. He

was a son of Joseph E. and Mary A. Brockman, who were among the very

first settlers of Ray county, and came here with his parents in 1828.

He settled with his parents in Camden township. He was married

September 19th, 1852, to Miss Sarah F. Hudgins, a native of Ray county,

and they became the parents of ten children, six of whom, with the

widow, survive him. Uncle Asa, as the deceased was called by his many

friends, was numbered among the county's most upright and honorable

citizens and his passing away is mourned by a host of friends. Funeral

services will be held at the home this afternoon at two o'clock, at the

conclusion of which the remains will be laid to rest in the family

burying ground on his farm. The Conservator extends sympathy to the

aged widow and children in their bereavement."

11. Copied from the History of Ray County, MO (1881), p. 609:

"ASA BROCKMAN

Asa Brockman is an old settler of Ray county, and was born in Clark

county, Kentucky, in the month of April, 1826. While he was yet an

infant, his father, Mr. Joseph E. Brockman, immigrated to Missouri, and

after stopping about a year in Howard county, settled in Ray (section

22, township 51 range 28), and here has been the home of our subject

ever since. Asa Brockman received his education in the district

schools of this county, and remained at home working upon his father's

farm until he was twenty-two years of age, and then, fired by the

excitement of the discovery of gold, he, in 1849, went to California.

He made the trip overland with an ox team. He engaged in mining in

California, and remained there about eighteen months, returning at the

expiration of that time, to Ray county, by way of the Isthmus of Panama

and New Orleans. On his return home he took charge of his father's

place, and has since conducted and managed the farm. Mr. Brockman was

married in the autum of 1852, to Miss Sarah F. Hudgens, daughter of

B.A. Hudgens, Esq., of Ray county. Ten children have been born as the

result of this union; eight are now living: Joseph E., John C.,

H.M., Nancy Jane, wife of J. Rosell; Lou Isabel, wife of Joseph Brown;

James A., Sarah A., and Asa B. Mr. Brockman lives on the old homestead

of his father, a fine tract of 280 acres of valuable upland. He pays

most attention to grain growing. Both himself and wife are members of

the Christian Church, at South Point, near Albany."

12. Copied from page 407-408 of the Portrait and Biographical Record of

Clay, Ray, Carrol, Chariton and Linn counties, MO (1893):

"ASA BROCKMAN. Possessing a farm in township 51, range 28, Ray County,

adapted to the growing of grain and the raising of stock, our subject

pursues both departments of agriculture with assiduity and success. His

position in the community is one of prominence and he is held in esteem

by all who know him. He was born in Clark County, Ky., April 19, 1826,

and is the son of Joseph E. and Mary J. (Culbertson) Brockman. His

parents were natives of Kentucky, the father born June 1, 1805, and the

mother March 20, 1801.

The father of our subject was educated in the district common school

and remained with his parents until his marriage, which occurred when

he was but eighteen years of age. Afterward he rented land for one

year, and then removed to Howard County, Mo., where he raised one crop.

In the year 1828 he came to Ray County, Mo., and bought the farm now

occupied by our subject, consisting of one hundred and sixty-five acres.

The country was new, he being one of the first settlers, and his farm

was heavily timbered with white oak and walnut, in which deer, turkeys

and bears were plentiful. He drove hither across the country with

horse teams. His first home was built of logs and was roofed with

boards weighted with poles, while the door was of puncheon. The

children of his marriage, eight in number, were: Asa, our subject;

Milton, Clifton, Harmon F.; Israel, who died in early manhood; and

three who died young. He and his wife were devoted members of the

Christian Church. The principles of the Whig party were very dear to

him and he was an enthusiastic follower of Henry Clay. His parents

were Stephen and Elizabeth Brockman, natives of Virginia, who settled

in Kentucky at an early day.

Being but a child when he came to the wilderness, the educational

advantages of our subject were very limited. The primitive schoolhouse

in which he gained a rudimentary education was constructed of logs, with

a log cut out of the whole length of the side for a window. A log split

in two, with sticks for uprights, answered for seats and desks. The

teachers of those early days were not as thoroughly trained for their

work as those of the present time, and "lickin" went along with

"larnin." Our subject left his parents for the first time in 1849 when

he went to California, making the journey with an ox-team in company

with seven others. The party was on the road from April 10 to August

20, when they arrived at Sacramento. The hardships endured in the

journey were many, but were bravely borne. Our subject began work in

the Golden State by chopping wood at $8 per cord, and soon thereafter

went into the mines, where he remained a few months. Later, he proce-

eded to the Sonoma Valley, where he worked at fencing for a large land

company.

In the spring of 1850, Mr. Brockman returned to the mines and there

made sometimes as much at $100 a day with the pan. In a few months he

went back to the valley and worked for $100 a month, after which he took

a trip to the mountains as a hunter of deer and elk. In 1851 he returned

home by way of the ocean, and upon resuming his former occupation

purchased his father's farm. Previous to this, in 1850, his parents

went with him to California, where they resided until their death, the

mother passing away in 1888 and the father in 1890.

Our subject remained in the East after his return in 1851. In 1852 he

married Sarah F., daughter of Ballard and Nancy (Jackson) Hudgens, a

native of Ray County, Mo., her parents being natives of Kentucky. The

children of this marriage were ten, two of them died when young: John

C. married Mary Rush; Harvey M. married Hattie Keller; Nancy J. is the

wife of Joseph Rosell; James A. married Maud Jones; Lou Isabel is the

wife of Joseph A. Brown; Sarah A., deceased, was the wife of Luther

Philips; and Asa B. married Ida Smithey. Mr. Brockman and his wife are

earnest and active members of the Christian Church. In politics, he is

a Democrat, voting and working with that party. In 1861 he entered the

Union army, enlisting in Company E, Fifty-first Enrolled Missouri

Militia, under Col. Barr, and was in the battle of Glasgow, where he

was captured, but fortunately remained a prisoner only a short time.

Soon afterward he was paroled and discharged. Returning home, he

resumed the duties connected with the management of his well-appointed

farm of two hundred and eighty-seven acres, upon which he carries on

general farming and stock raising."

SOURCES INCLUDE:

Richmond Conservator 20 Oct 1904 and 2 Dec 1909

Orange County Virginia Families II:98-99, III and IV:51-52.

History of Ray County, MO, page 609.

1860, 1880 [ED 138, page 406A], 1870, page 368, 1900

[ED 124.15] and 1910 Ray county, MO census.

1910 Johnson county, MO census.

Portrait and Biographical Record of Clay, Ray, Carrol,

Chariton and Linn counties, MO.

Probate records of Ray county, MO.

Cemetery Records of Ray County, MO.

FTM CD #234, Missouri Marriage Index, 1851-1900,

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