The first Brinkley known to have come to America was Michael, in 1635.
In 1684, Jacob Brinkley of Woodbridge, England, came to America and preempted land in both Nansemond County, Virginia and Gates County, North Carolina, around the Great Dismal Swamp.
Freddie L. Brinkley, in "The Brinkley & Allied Families of Nansemond County, Virginia and Gates County, North Carolina," Gateway Press, Inc, Baltimore, MD 1994, stated that Jacob Brinkley had two sons:
Peter Brinkley, married Anne Eley, daughter of William Eley and had a large family. However, only one son, William Brinkley was identified in the Julia (Franklin) Brinkley account.
Isaac Brinkley (It is speculated that he may have had no children or at least no sons).
Elisha Brinkleyis likely a descendant of Jacob. Elisha's father is also believed to be named Elisha.
Elisha Brinkley was born about 1792 in Nansemond County, Virginia. He married about 1820 to Louisa (Celia) Wilkins, born about 1797 near Suffolk, Virginia. They lived in Upper Parish Township of Nansemond County which is now part of the city of Suffolk, Virginia.
Children:
Jacob Brinkley, born 1821, married Elizabeth, born 1827, Child: Archibald, born 1849. D
James Wesley Brinkley, born in Virginia in 1823. D
Charles J. Brinkley, born in Virginia about 1826. D
Jackson Wilkins Brinkley, born in Virginia in 1831. D
Robert W. Brinkley, born in Virginia about 1834-35.
Margaret Brinkley, born in Virginia about 1836.
Elisha Brinkley died between 1850-1860. He is said to have been buried in a graveyard on his own property. Louisa (Wilkins) Brinkley died between 1870 and 1880. Elisha Brinkley is listed as a Pvt. in the 59th Reg't (Riddick's jr.) VA militia, during the War of 1812. (You will notice that the names Elisha, Burwell and Robert are given to descendants of Elisha.)
James Wesley Brinkley, born 1823 in Nansemond County, Virginia, a son of Elisha and Louisa Wilkins Brinkley. He married Amanda Wilkins, born 1825. Census Records
Children:
Sarah Elizabeth Brinkley, born March 27, 1847, married Nathaniel Brinkley, son of Jason and Elizabeth E. Brinkley. Sarah Elizabeth died September 13, 1925, buried at Cypress Chapel Christian Church Cemetery. D
Alexander Brinkley, born 1849.
Barnes W. Brinkley born 1/14/1851, Nansemond Co, VA; died 11/20/1912, married Sara A. Council, born 1849 Bladen Co, NC died 1914 . D
Franklin Brinkley, born 1853.
Richard T. Brinkley, born 1855.
Virginia Brinkley, born 1857.
Hampshire E. “Hamsie” Brinkley was born in 1860, married Lula Benton. D
Jackson W. Brinkley born 1863.
William Jesse, born May 21, 1866, married Katie Saunders, born Feb. 1, 1880, died August 14, 1975. William Jesse died January 1, 1966. D
Burwell R. Brinkley, born in April 1827 in Nansemond County, VA, a son of Elisha and Louisa Brinkley. He married Sarah (Sally) Ann Braswell, (1843-1922).
Children:
Alice Brinkley born 1859.
William Brinkley, born December 19 1860, died June 18, 1891, buried at Elm City.
Sometime after 1860, Burwell R. Brinkley, moved, with his wife and son William, to Wilson County, North Carolina where he ran a saw mill on his farm near Elm City, NC. He died December 31, 1894, and is buried in the Elm City Cemetery along with his wife and their son William.
Jackson Wilkins Brinkley was born on March 15, 1831, in Nansemond County, Virginia, a son of Elisha and Louisa (Celia) Brinkley. Jackson went to Edgecombe County, North Carolina, when he was about nineteen years of age, and there he married Martha Ann Farmer, born March 13, 1834, the 17 year old daughter of Isaac and Tresey Farmer of Edgecombe County. (2) It is not known if they ever lived in Edgecombe County. (3)
On July 4, 1860, Jackson Wilkins and Martha (Farmer) Brinkley were living in Wilson County, NC with three children. On July 30, 1870, Jackson W. and Martha F. Brinkley were living in Brunswick County, NC. In the 1880 Census, Jackson W. and Martha F. Brinkley were living in Columbus County, NC, Ransom Township. Jackson was listed as a merchant and farmer.
Children:
Joseph B. Brinkley, born October 13, 1853. He married Susan Council, born March 3, 1850. Joseph B. Brinkley was Postmaster at Freeman, Columbus County 1886. D
Sarah Brinkley, born 1856. (apparently died young since they named a later daughter Sarah.)
Elisha Robert Brinkley, born 1858, married Obeda Meares. D
Laura A. Brinkley, born September 13, 1861, married John L. Farmer, born 1850, died 1923. Laura died December 22, 1917. D
Lenora Brinkley, born June 4, 1866 married Franklin Lafayette Mills, son of James and Elizabeth (Jarman) Mills, born July 16, 1858, died October 23, 1938. Lenora died February 26, 1947. A daughter, Vera Mills, born December 2, 1891, died February 4, 1973. All are buried at Oakdale Cemetery in Wilmington, NC.
Caroline (Carrie) Virginia Brinkley was born at Bolton, NC on July 22, 1868. She married James Strauss born 1864, died 1934. Caroline Strauss died May 29, 1935. Both are buried at Oakdale Cemetery in Wilmington, NC. Annie Elizabeth (Smith) Strauss, mother of James and wife of J. H. Strauss for 59 years, was born in 1832, died 1909.
Sarah Brinkley, born 1869.
Mattie Lee Brinkley, born May 22, 1872 married Jollye Clifton. Mattie died May 14, 1956, buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery, Elm City, NC.
Jackson W. Brinkley died on July 3, 1883, in Columbus County, NC, and is buried at Shiloh Methodist Church Cemetery in Bolton, North Carolina, with an iron cross erected by UDC Chapter 874.
Martha (Farmer) Brinkley died June 17, 1895, and is buried at Elm City, North Carolina.
Barnes W. Brinkley was born January 14, 1851 in Nansemond County, Virginia son of James Wesley (1823) & Amanda (Wilkins) Brinkley. He married about 1879 to Sara A. Council, born 1849 Bladen Co, North Carolina, daughter of Kinchen Kitchen Council and wife Catherine Ann (Sikes) Council.
Child:
John Wesley Brinkley, born August 1, 1879, died April 26, 1960, buried at Shiloh Methodist Church Cemetery in Bolton, NC.
In 1880, Barnes W. Brinkley was Section Master on a Railroad.
Barnes W. Brinkley died November 20, 1912 and is buried in the Council Family Cemetery in Bladen County, NC. Sara A. (Council) Brinkley died in 1914.
Joseph Burwell Brinkley was born October 13, 1853, a son of Jackson Wilkins and Martha Farmer Brinkley. He married about 1879 to Susan Alice Council, born March 3, 1850, daughter of Kinchen Kitchen Council and wife Catherine Ann (Sikes) Council, of Bladen County, North Carolina.
Children: (2)
Elizabeth Brinkley, born in Columbus County, North Carolina on January 11, 1883, married Woodall. She died April 1, 1970 in Durham County, buried at Oakdale Cemetery, Wilmington.
Addie F. Brinkley, born 1881.
Mary E. Brinkley, born 1883.
Ella L. Brinkley, born 1883.
Jackson W. (Jack) Brinkley, born 1886, Columbus County, NC. (4)
David O. Brinkley, born 1887.
Joseph Burwell Brinkley, Jr., born June 27, 1889, died January 20, 1956, buried at Oakdale Cemetery.
Susan Alice Brinkley, born January 25, 1891, died June 30, 1917, buried at Oakdale Cemetery.
Joseph B. Brinkley born 1853 was Postmaster at Freeman, Columbus County 1886. (3)
Joseph Burwell Brinkley, Sr. died of a heart attack July 7, 1922 and is buried at Oakdale Cemetery in Wilmington, North Carolina. Susan Alice (Council) Brinkley died April 17, 1928 and is buried beside her husband.
1-Tombstones, Oakdale Cemetery, Wilmington (New Hanover County, NC. 2-Personal research.
Elisha Robert BrinkleyA was born October 9, 1858, son of Jackson Wilkins and Louisa Brinkley of Nansemond County, Virginia. It was in Columbus County, North Carolina that Elisha Robert Brinkley met Obedaline Meares, born Friday, October 18, 1861, daughter of Bethel Mark and Margaret Ann (Perry) Meares. In a newspaper article about Obeda Meares Brinkley in her later years, it was stated that Bethel Mark Meares and Jackson W. Brinkley were apparently friends for many years. Both Families are listed in the census records of Columbus County, North Carolina.
Elisha Robert Brinkley and Obeda Meares were married on December 9, 1885, at her father's house in Bladen County. A short time afterwards, Elisha Robert (Bob) Brinkley and his new bride Obeda moved to Wilson County, NC and lived in a small house near L.S. Farmer's store while they built a new home in Elm City. Elisha Robert (Bob) Brinkley went into business with two other men, Mr. R. S. Wells and Mr. John Dawes. Together they organized a general merchandise store in Elm City, NC. Mr. Wells and Mr. Dawes later withdrew, but E. R. Brinkley remained there as bookkeeper until his death, August 15, 1940.
Martha Farmer Brinkley, widow of Jackson Wilkins Brinkley apparently lived with Bob and Obeda Brinkley in her last years, and she is buried next to her son Elisha Robert (Bob) Brinkley. Obeda Meares Brinkley, who lived on until 1958, died at the age of 96, and is also buried next to her husband, Elisha Robert (Bob) Brinkley. Nearby are the graves of Jackson Wilkins Brinkley's brother Burwell R. Brinkley, who died December 31, 1894, and Burwell's wife and their son William.
Elisha Robert (Bob) and Obeda (Meares) Brinkley had the following children, all born at Elm City, North Carolina:
Lon Leland Brinkley, born October 6, 1886, died 1927.
Ethel Brinkley, born July 18, 1888. married H. I. Alexander.
Robert Lloyd Brinkley, born November 25, 1891, lived at Wilson, North Carolina.
Edgar Burwell Brinkley, born June 5, 1893, lived at Elm City
Dr. Harvey Meares Brinkley born September 1, 1896 In Wilson County, NC.
Ruth Meares Brinkley, born December 15, 1902, married Dixon Bryan Hood at Elm City, NC. D
Elisha Robert Brinkley died August 15, 1940, after nine months of treatment in Carolina General Hospital. He died in Wilson, North Carolina.
Ruth Meares Brinkley, A born December 15, 1902 at Elm City, NC, daughter of Elisha Robert
(Bob) and Obeda Meares Brinkley, married Dixon Bryan Hood, born July 22, 1899, son of Bold Robin Hood of Smithfield, NC. They were married in the Methodist parsonage in Elm City, on
May 2, 1923, the services being performed by Rev. E. B. Fisher, at three p.m.
Obeda Meares Brinkley
Obeda Meares Brinkley
India Brinkley Hood
India B. Hood
Dixon Bryan Hood, Jr.
Ruth Obeda Meares Hood graduated from Richlands High, Peace College, attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She majored in pharmacy. She worked in the pathology department of a Histology Laboratory from 1952-1960. Obeda married Andrew Joseph Lavin, July 21, 1950, at the Methodist Church in Durham, North Carolina. Her husband is a physicist, and worked for IBM in Endicott, New York until his retirement, then taught in a New York University.
Obeda and Andrew have five sons:
Andrew Joseph Lavin, Jr., born April 20, 1951 at Chapel Hill, NC.
Kevin Liam Lavin, born April 23, 1959 in Indicott, NY.
Keith Alan Lavin, born June 15, 1960 in Endicott, NY.
Kenneth Lyle Lavin, born May 2, 1962 in Endicott, NY.
Bryan Lavin, born October 24, 1967 in Endicott, NY.
Ruth Obeda Meares (Hood) Lavin died February 24, 2014.
Obeda & Andy Lavin
Robert L Hood
Ruth D. Hood
Anna Ruth Capps
Jami Nicole Hartline
Ruth and Jim Hartline
Barbara Susanne Hartline, born at 8:30 a.m., June 20, 1966, at Onslow Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville, NC, delivered by Dr. Russell Barnes, married James W. Lehnerd and they have the following children:
Amanda Danielle Barnett (James’ daughter) b. June 4, 1986, Tupelo, MS.
James Andru Lehnerd, born April 5, 1989, Chesapeake, VA, Married Dianne Dotsler, Child: Gabriel James Lehnerd, born July 11, 2012.
Megan Lehnerd born March 30, 1991 Portsmouth, VA
Tyler Scott Hartline, born November 28, 1997, at Chesapeake, VA
Barbara Susanne Hartline
Ruth married again on June 27, 1964, in Conway, SC to James Buford Hartline, born April 10, 1936 in Jackson County, Alabama. They made their home in Jacksonville, North Carolina, where the three children were born. They later moved to Chesapeake, Virginia for fourteen years and then to Johnson City, Tennessee. Recently (2005) they moved to Kernersville, NC. (Jim is the author of this web page.)
Jim and Ruth have the following children:
Tami Marie Hartline
Tami Obeda Marie Hartline, born at 8:47 a.m., November 25, 1970, at Onslow Memorial Hospital, Jacksonville, NC, delivered by Dr. Franklin Dill, married Charles A. Lehnerd (brother to James Lehnerd) and they have the following children:
Sylvan DeJesus Lehnerd, born December 24, 1990, Obeci Hospital, Suffolk, Virginia.
Lauren Rachel Lehnerd, born July 22, 1992, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Charles Adrian Lehnerd, Jr., born November 2, 1993.
Robin Hood Lehnerd, born August 26, 1995.
Forest Lehnerd, born June 25, 1998.
Rosalie Felice Lehnerd, born December 23, 2000.
Halie Lehnerd, born July 11, 2002.
Cassandra Lehnerd, born September 1, 2004.
Jami Nicole Hartline, born at 9:33 a.m., on December 3, 1974 at the New Onslow Memorial Hospital, Jacksonville, NC, delivered by Dr. Russell Barnes. The family moved to Chesapeake, Virginia when she was almost three years old, where she grew-up and went to school.
Jami married James Ogles, who was in the Coast Guard. They lived in the Tidewater Virginia area and they had the following children:
Lacey Nicole Ogles b. October 6, 1992.
Ashley Rae Ogles b. May 28, 1994.
Daughter: Lakota Tesla Barron, born October 27, 2011.
Second marriage to Jason Valdez, child:
Sydney Marie Valdez b. September 9, 1999.
Ryan Picard and Jami child:
Riley Sierra Picard b. December 16, 2001.
Third marriage to Jason Huber, no children.
Divorced and married in 2011 to Chris Cady.
Susanne Lehnerd with daughter Megan in G-Grandmother's Rocker.
Ruth Dixon Hood
Robert Lonn Hood
Ruth Dixon Hood, born December 13, 1938, attended Richlands schools and Peace College in Raleigh, North Carolina. She trained in a histology laboratory in Charlotte, NC. She married on October 24, 1959 at the Methodist Church in Richlands, NC to Julian McElree Capps. He was an officer in the U.S. Air Force, and was stationed at Rhine Main Air Base, in Frankfurt, Germany, where a daughter, Anna Ruth Capps was born.
Dixon Bryan & Ruth (Brinkley) Hood Family
L to R: Dick Hood, Bob Hood, India Brinkley Hood, Dixon Bryan Hood, Ruth Meares Brinkley Hood, R. Obeda Meares Hood & Ruth Dixon Hood .
India Brinkley Hood graduated from Richlands High School and Woman's College in Greensboro, NC. She taught chemistry at Richlands High School for about two years, then worked for Buckeye Chemical. She later attended the University of Tennessee School of Pharmacy at Mempis and graduated in three years. She worked as a Pharmacist at several locations in NC, including Hood's Drug Store in Richlands and the Hood Drug Stores in Kinston, NC. India Brinkley Hood died of pulmonary hypertension, on April 19, 2012 at age 87, and was buried on April 23rd, 2012 at Onslow Memorial Park in Jacksonville, North Carolina.
Dixon Bryan Hood, Jr. attended school at Richlands and at EMI at Pineland, NC, graduating at EMI. He served in WWII and the Korean War, in the U.S. Army. He married Betty Jean Graham in Charlotte, NC, on December 6, 1952 and resided in Charlotte until his death on December 11, 1961.
Children: Both born in Charlotte, NC.
Kay Frances Hood, born September 22, 1958.
David Bryan Hood, born July 26, 1961, died September 10, 2009.
Robert Lonn Hood attended school at Richlands and Kinston, North Carolina and the University of North Carolina. He married on November 2, 1952 to Rowena Meares Buie. He enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in 1952, and was stationed at Lackland A.F.B. in Texas, then spent three years in Newfoundland. Then he continued his education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he graduated from the school of Pharmacy. He worked for Brewer Drug Store, owned by his first cousin Marsha Hood Brewer and her husband William Brewer, until he opened his own Hood's Drug Store in Pink Hill, North Carolina.
Bob has a doctorate degree in Pharmacology. They have two children Robert Lonn Hood, Jr., born April 6, 1964 and Tay Rett Buie Hood, born October 27, 1966, both adopted. Bob and Rowe divorced after the children were grown and Bob later married Jennie Mae Jarman. They reside in Richlands, North Carolina. Robert Lonn Hood died January 31, 2013 and is buried in Onslow Memorial Park at Jacksonville, North Carolina.
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Anna Ruth Capps born October 31, 1960, at the U.S. Army Hospital at Weisbaden. She was delivered by Dr. Vestal Brandt, at 2:12 a.m. Anna married in Portsmouth, VA, October 4, 1981 to James Thomas Pensyl, b. September 8, 1954 in Spartanburg, S.C. They have four children:
Rosanna Marie Pensyl, b. March 5, 1983, Portsmouth, VA.
Christina Ruth Pensyl, b. September 15, 1985, Portsmouth, VA.
Thomas Wesley Pensyl, b. May 7, 1988, Hampton, VA.
Johh Calvin Pensyl, b. June 20, 1991, Depaul Hospital, Norfolk. VA.
Ruth's father died in 1961, and she returned to Richlands, NC with Anna. Her first marriage ended in 1963. Ruth and Anna lived with her mother, Mrs. Dixon Bryan Hood.
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Five children were born to Dixon Bryan Hood and his wife Ruth Meares Brinkley Hood:
1. India Brinkley Hood was born May 7, 1924 in Varina, NC.
The family moved to Kinston, NC.
2. Dixon Bryan Hood, Jr., born November 22, 1926.
3. Ruth Obeda Meares Hood was born April 22, 1929, in Kinston.
The family then moved to near Cullen, Virginia.
4. Robert Lonn Hood was born on July 29, 1933.
The family returned to NC and occupied the old Christian Church parsonage on
Church Street in Richlands.
5. Ruth Dixon Hood was born December 13, 1938.
Dixon Bryan Hood owned and operated his own Pharmacy on Hargett Street in
Richlands, North Carolina. Dixon Bryan Hood died in March, 1961. Ruth Brinkley Hood
died December 8, 1970.
Photos below taken on their Golden Wedding
Anniversary, December 9, 1935
Wedding Photos, December 9, 1885
James Wesley Brinkley
Note--Dates of birth are added, calculated from Census year and age listed in Census. The two listings are the same persons ten years apart, 1860 and 1870. The names are reversed, however the list of children matches up. Because the two census were not taken in the same months of 1860 and 1870, the age calculates out to within one year.
1860 U. S. Census, Nansemond County, VA
James W. Brinkley, 37, Farmer, born in Virginia in 1823.
Hampshire E. “Hamsie” Brinkley was born in 1860, a son James Wesley Brinkley (1823) and wife Amanda Wilkins Brinkley. Hamsie married Lula Benton, born 1867, d. 1919.
Children:
Floyd James Brinkley, born September 1890, died March 8, 1971, married Susie Baines. He was a PVT in the infantry WWII.
Hampshire E. Brinkley died in 1934 and is buried at Cypress Chapel Christian Church Cemetery in Suffolk (formerly Nansemond County), VA.
1-U.S. Census 1880.
The E. in Hampshire's name is likely for "Elisha," his grandfather.
William Jesse Brinkley was born about May 21, 1866 in Nansemond, County, Virginia, a son of James Wesley Brinkley (1823) and wife, Amanda (Wilkins) Brinkley . He married Katie Saunders, born February 1, 1880.
Children:
Harry Lewis Brinkley, born October 26, 1898. D
Richard Tate Brinkley, born January 16, 1901 d. 3-3-75.
Pattie Brinkley, born 1899
Dona Adlia Brinkley, born 10-28,1902, died 9-14-10.
Gladys May Brinkley, born November 4, 1904, d. 3-6-44.
Fannie Olivia Brinkley, born October 15, 1906, d. 3-8-76.
Essie Catherine Brinkley, born June 23, 1908, d. 6-21-91.
Josiah Wesley Brinkley, born June 5, 1910. WWII, died April 2, 1995 at 84.
Amanda Elizabeth Brinkley, born May 31, 1912, died 9-24-2002.
Marvin Jesse Brinkley, born July 8, 1914, died June 8, 1914.
Ollie Alta Brinkley, born November 22, 1915, died 9-15-90.
William Clarence Brinkley, born October 2, 1922, died 2-10-73.
William Jesse died January 1, 1966. Katie (Saunders) Brinkley died August 14, 1975. Both are buried at Cypress Chapel Christian Church Cemetery, Suffolk, Virginia.
1-1920 U. S. census of Nansemond County, VA. 2-Walt Brinkley. 3-Children's birth dates courtesy Mary Anne Eure.
Elisha Brinkley was born about 1792 in Nansemond County, Virginia. They lived in Upper Parish Township. Nansemond County is now part of the city of Suffolk, Virginia. Elisha and
Louisa had about seven children.
They had four sons whose names are not listed in 1850 Census.
The U. S. Census records of 1850, Nansemond County, Virginia include the following information:
Head of Household: Brinkley, Elisha, 58, Farmer, born Nansemond County, Virginia.
Wife: Louisa, 50, born in North Carolina. (1860 Census lists her age at 63, 1870 at 73).
Children:
(One son, name not found in 1850 census would be Jacob b. 1821.)
(James Wesley Brinkley, born in Virginia1823.) (Census lists age 37 in 1860, 48 in 1870 making him born in 1822-24.)
(Charles J. Brinkley, born in Virginia Ca. 1826. (Not in Census records of 1850 because he was grown and not at home.)
Burwell, 22, born in Virginia (Burwell R., born 1827, according to family records and his tombstone at Elm City, NC.)
(Jackson Wilkins Brinkley born in Virginia1831, fits here, (not listed in the Census, because he was already gone from home.)
Robert, 17, born in Virginia (Robert W., was born about 1834-35)
Margaret 14, born in Virginia (born about 1836).
NOTE: All information in parenthesis is supplied by author.
In the 1860 Census, there is a listing of the household of Robert W. Brinkley, 25, Farmer, born in Virginia, with Louisa Brinkley, 63, born in North Carolina living in his household. (Elisha died between 1850 and 1860. Louisa was Robert's mother, widow of Elisha Brinkley). In the 1870 census, Louisa age 73, was living with her son Charles J. Brinkley.
1. Joseph B. Brinkley, born 1854 (later m.Susan Alice Council b. 1851 Bladen Co, NC)
2. Elishus (Elisha Robert) Brinkley, born October 9, 1858.
3. Laura H. Brinkley, born 1861.
4. Lenora Brinkley, born 1866.
5. Carolina Brinkley, born 1868.
6. Sarah Brinkley, born 1869.
Jackson Wilkins Brinkley notes: (Nansemond County was later annexed into Suffolk and is no longer
a county). 1-This family lived in Upper Parish Township, later called Cyprus Chapel Township of Nansemond County.
2-Jackson Wilkins Brinkley is listed in "North Carolina Troops": 1861-1865, enlisted May 4, 1862, Wilson Co., NC, transferred from Co. H, 7th Reg. 75th NC Confederate Cavalry July 11, 1864. Detailed in Quartermaster Department in Wilmington, NC, September 19, 1864 and detail extended December 22, 1864. Paroled at Goldsboro, NC, May 15, 1865.
There is a deed in Suffolk, Virginia Courthouse, dated December 4, 1858, which is the transfer of their 108 acres of land in Nansemond County, VA, to Thomas London Brinkley and John F. Brinkley, both children of Charles J. Brinkley, of Nansemond County, an older brother to Jackson. The price received for the land was five ($5) dollars. The deed is signed by Jackson W. Brinkley and his wife, being unable to write her name, made her mark, and the deed is dated December 4, 1858. The land adjoined that of Abram Brinkley and George Wilkins as well as others. This document was witnessed by Jackson's brother Burwell R. Brinkley. On July 4, 1860, Jackson Wilkins and Martha Farmer Brinkley were living in Wilson County, NC with three children. On July 30, 1870, Jackson W. and Martha F. Brinkley were living in Brunswick County, NC. with four more children. In the 1880 Census, Jackson W. and Martha F. Brinkley were living in Columbus County, NC, Ransom Township. Jackson was listed as a merchant and farmer.
Jackson worked as a railroad engineer for Wilmington and Manchester Railway on a line that went out of Wilmington, NC and went through the Columbus County area. The second station on that line was call Brinkley's Station. Jackson W. Brinkley passed away on July 3, 1883, in Columbus County, NC, and is buried there at Shiloh Church.
(Our birth and death dates for Jackson Wilkins Brinkley are from the Brinkley family records of Obeda Meares Brinkley. The cemetery dates of birth and death are both exactly one year later than the family records.)
William J. & Katie Saunders
Brinkley
Photo
courtesy
Walt
Brinkley
Burwell R. Brinkley, born in April 1827 in Nansemond County, VA, a son of Elisha and Louisa Brinkley married Sarah (Sally) Ann Braswell, (1843-1922). Children: Alice Brinkley born 1859 and William Brinkley. Sometime after 1860, Burwell R. Brinkley, moved, with his wife and son William, to Wilson County, North Carolina where he ran a sawmill on his farm near Elm City, NC. He died December 31, 1894, and is buried in the Elm City Cemetery along with his wife and their son William.
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