Mary Amarilla Root Brooks

1847 - 1919  (72 years)

• Name	Mary Amarilla Root Brooks
  Born	1847	Otisoo, Iona County, Michigan
  Gender	Female
  Died	7 Aug 1919	Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas
  Buried	8 Aug 1919	Rossville Cemetery, Rossville, Shawnee County, Kansas
  Person ID	I2687	Rossville
  Last Modified	3 Jul 2018

  
  

  Father	Edwin F Root,   b. 1811, Connecticut ,   d. 13 Feb 1899, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois  (Age 88 years)
  Family ID	F762	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Phineas Manning Brooks,   b. 16 Feb 1842, Independence, Cuyahoga County, Ohio ,   d. 10 Apr 1918, Rossville, Shawnee County, Kansas  (Age 76 years)
  Married	9 Dec 1868	Lyons, Ionia County, Michigan
  Children	1. Ernest Roy Brooks,   b. 8 Nov 1874, Kent County, Michigan ,   d. 1 Jul 1956, Council Grove, Morris County, Kansas  (Age 81 years) + 2. Newton E Brooks + 3. Ina Marion Brooks James,   b. 1873,   d. 24 Jul 1959, Pasadena, Los Angeles County, California  (Age 86 years)   4. Edna Brooks Wallace
  Last Modified	22 Sep 2017 11:55:54
  Family ID	F763	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Documents

  Obituary- Brooks, Mary A. Mrs. Brooks Passed Away Thursday Mrs. Mary Brooks died at 5 p.m. last Thursday in St. Frances hospital where she had been taken a few days previous for treatment. Death was due to heart trouble. She had been in poor health for the past year and after the death of Mr. Brooks in April, 1918, had divided her time between her rooms in Mrs. Kassebaum’s home and the home of her daughter, Mrs. H. E. James. Mrs. Brooks was born in Otisco, Iona county, Michigan, and at the time of her death was 71 years old. She came to Rossville in 1900 with her family and had lived in Kansas since 1882, living first at Smith Center, Kan. The funeral services were held in the Rossville M. E. church Sunday, Aug. 3 at 2:30 p.m. conducted by Rev, Shaffer and interment made in the Rossville cemetery. Beside one brother, E.P. Root, of Fairbury, Neb., she is survived by four children, Mrs. H. E. James, Rossville; Ernest, of Maple Hill, Newton of Ringling, Okla., and Mrs. Edna Wallace of Salt Lake, Utah.