Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameJames Smyre BRAKEBILL
Birth Date16 Jul 1869
Birth PlaceClearwater, Monroe County, Tennessee
Death Date17 Dec 1929 Age: 60
Death PlaceSpokane, Spokane County, Washington
Burial PlaceSpokane, Spokane County, Washington, Greenwood Memorial Terrace Cemetery
FatherSpencer BRAKEBILL (1841-1913)
MotherNancy Louisa MOSER (1843-1902)
Spouses
Birth Date2 Mar 1869
Birth PlaceClearwater, McMinn County, Tennessee
Death Date20 Mar 1939 Age: 70
Death PlaceSpokane, Spokane County, Washington
Burial PlaceSpokane, Spokane County, Washington, Greenwood Memorial Terrace Cemetery
Family ID932
Marr Date1892
Marr PlaceTennessee
Notes for James Smyre BRAKEBILL
information was taken from U.S. Census enumerations for 1870 (with parents and sister in Monroe County, Tennessee,) 1900 (with spouse and children in Walla Walla Ward, Walla Walla, Washington,) 1910 and 1920 (with spouse and children in Colfax, Whitman, Washington;) Marriage Records,

On Find A Grave.

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Notes for Sarah Elizabeth (Spouse 1)
Sarah Moser and James Brakebill married circa 1892 in Tennessee. Their children were (or included:)
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Hazel Enid Brakebill Hill (1893-1937,)
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Max Edwin Brakebill (1896-1956,)
* Kathryn Lucille Brakebill (1898-1975,)
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Roy Moser Brakebill (1900-1951,)
* Claude S. Brakebill (perhaps the same person as
Claude S. Brakebill (1904-1943),)
* Jean Brakebill (born circa 1911,) and
* James Russell Brakebill (born circa 1914.)
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Information re: burial location and inscription
came from survey by Maggie Rail, 2001-2012
mrail.net/data/cemete/wash/
spokane/greenwood/index.htm

Additional information was taken from U.S. Census enumerations for 1880 (with parents and siblings in Monroe County, Tennessee,) 1900 (with spouse and children in Walla Walla Ward, Walla Walla, Washington,) 1910 and 1920 (with spouse and children in Colfax, Whitman, Washington,) and 1930 (widowed, with son Russell in Colfax;) U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900; Washington, Deaths, 1883-1960 (giving parents' names as John P. Moser and Catherine M. Roseman;) and, re: daughter Kathryn, Washington Birth Records and California Death Index.

Another contributor has suggested that Sarah's middle name was "Elizabeth." No sources were provided, and I could not find any documents in which she used a middle name.

On Find A Grave.

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