Brooke Family

Fort "Frank Brooke," in Taylor county, Florida, was named in honor of Lieutenant Francis John Brooke, graduate of West Point, and killed in the battle of Lake Okeechobee (Seminole Indian war), Christmas day, 1837, Colonel Zachary Taylor commanding. He was the son of John Taliaferro Brooke and of his wife, Ann Mercer Selden, and was brother of Samuel Selden Brooke, of "Millvale," Stafford county (whose wife was Angelina Edrington, and was also brother of the late Henry Lawrence Brooke, of Richmond, Va. (whose wife was Virginia, daughter of Judge Henry St. George Tucker).

Extracted 18 Jun 2019 by Norma Hass, from 1904 The Brooke Family of Virginia, by George Tucker Brooke, article in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 12, pages 102-103

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