George Washington Brookshire

Our enterprising subject first saw the light of day April 25, 1868, in the county where he has always resided. George W. Brookshire, his father, was a native of the Hoosier state, who passed from his earthly labors three months before our subject was born. The mother of Mr. Brookshire was, before her marriage, Mary Ann Rigel, who was born in Ohio, and who now lives on her farm in Grant township, three miles north of Lyons. Both she and her husband spared no pains in raising their children in the paths of duty and rectitude from which they have not departed in their later years, which fact gives the mother great satisfaction and cheer in her declining age.

The subject of this sketch was united in marriage in 1893 with Rosetta Winters, daughter of Quince B. and Elizabeth Winters, a well known citizen of Stockton township. Constituting Mr. Brookshire's family are the following children: Francis P., Edith M., Walter L., Dorris M.

The subject has devoted his life work to farming with evident success, having always been a hard worker and a good manager. He came to Stockton township about 1893, when he purchased a farm of eighty acres which he sold and bought a like farm near Switz City, sold out and came to the farm which he now owns, located two miles east of Linton and which is equal to any in his neighborhood in point of improvements and the productiveness of its soil, the owner having been a close observer of the best methods employed by the other agriculturalists of his township, and adopting their plans so far as consistent with his own ideas in bringing his place up to a high standard of efficiency. Considerable attention is devoted by our subject to the care and raising of stock which forms year to year no small part of his income. His barn was destroyed by fire in 1907 and he rebuilt the same year.

Mr. Brookshire is regarded by all who know him as an honest, industrious farmer, a substantial citizen and a kindly neighbor. Both he and his wife are members of the Baptist church and are known among the best member of the local congregation.

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"Biographical Memoirs of Greene County, Ind. with Reminiscences of Pioneer Days", B.F. Bowen & Co., Indianapolis, IN, 1908, pages 1005-1006.

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