Missouri Telegraph, Tuesday October 27, 1908,
Fulton, Callaway, Missouri

Mrs. J. R. Brooks was born April 2, 1844 and died October 23, 1908. She had been a member of Dry Fork Church for a number of years and was the mother of eight children, four of whom are left to mourn her death. William T. Brooks of Fulton, Church Brooks of Columbia, Mrs. Annie Reno of Mokane and Mrs.Clara Rogers of McKittrick. She was the daughter of William Dozier and Sarah Combs, both natives of KY