Mary Elizabeth ‘Mae’ (Briggs) Brooks (Horr) 1869-1955
Mae at about the time of her marriage to Mae, ca 1900, possibly when she married
Frank
Brooks, 1891.
Photos
graciously shared by Ruth Ann Peake.
Born: February 16, 1869 in
Died: November 1 or 2, 1955 in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
Place of burial:
Spouse: Frank John
Brooks m. September 1, 1891 in
Appleton, Wisconsin, among the witnesses was Karl Mathie,
husband of sister Caroline.
Children: Eunice Ruth
(Brooks) Wingrove
Helen Margaret
(Brooks) Williams
Frances
Josephine (Brooks) Kowald
.
Eunice on the left, Frances is top
center,
Helen is bottom center, and baby
Thomas on the right.
Spouse 2nd: Austin Horr m. before
1901, likely around 1898 or 1899.
Children: Mary
Cora Mae (Horr) Orcutt
Jenny
Elizabeth (Horr) Sellick
(m. Edward Percy Sellick, 2 children: Jay Putnam and
Russell ‘Bud’
Father’s name: Theodore Wood Briggs Birth place:
Mother’s name: Leona Suberville
(Dane) Briggs Birth place:
Siblings: Cornelia
Spaulding (Briggs) Burch
J. Fred Briggs
Jeremiah Briggs (aka: Jay)
There are more details about
the children under Frank John Brooks.
Mae and Frank were separated
or divorced around 1898.
Mae’s second husband,
Austin, died after being scalded by a burst acid pipe at the sulphite mill of the Howard Paper Company where he worked
in
Mary Mae Brooks appears in
the Appleton city directories after Austin’s death in 1904 at 695 Harris and
later, then in 1919 at 428 Hancock.
Later she lived as a widow at 321 Huron,
Grandma Brooks was at a
Kings Daughters Home. I need more
details about this. Kings Daughters had
branches in
Grand-daughter Ruth Ann Peake, daughter of
son Thomas, shares this story, “I don't know if you knew or not, but my father
and Aunt Helen were raised by Aunt Carrie and
Uncle Clarence Ryan. They never had children and Grandma Brooks had
so many children to raise, and Aunt Helen was (as they said then)
"sickly", so they sent the only boy and the little girl to live with
their aunt and uncle in
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