Brinkerhoff Family

Journals/Life Histories

2009-12-06T19:03:00.000-08:00

I've been thinking a lot about the importance of journals and life histories lately.

My grandma, Billie Brinkerhoff, just moved out of my aunt's home into an assisted living home, she is 90. This past August 09, we had a family reunion in which all of her descendants attended... over 75 people. It was an amazing testimony to me of the importance of the gospel of Jesus Christ in our lives and that all 75 of us will be able to live together forever as eternal families because of the covenants we have made in temples of the Lord.

At this family reunion, Grandma Billie, gave each of her children and grandchildren a copy of her life history that she has been working on for a while now.

I have learned so much about my grandmother through her life history, because she took the time to write memories down and preserve her past. I learned a lot about my grandfather, Mark Brinkerhoff, who died when I was three. I never really knew him, but I feel like I do because of stories, journal entries and life histories from him and other people.

I wouldn't know these stories or anything about my grandfather had he not kept a journal and had my grandmother not written in down in his life history.

I know I can be better about keeping a journal so that one day, my grandchildren can read about me, the events that occurred in my life, experiences I had, trials and achievements. That's kind of how I feel about Pierce's and my personal blog, one day we will get it printed out and keep it as a history of our life together. Until then, I need to keep writing in my journal daily. Who knows whose life I will touch or what words will inspire!

New Family Search

2009-10-13T10:40:00.001-07:00

I am in love with this website. I can't wait for when I actually have time to do more genealogy. It really is a passion of mine, which I discovered last year. Who wants to hire me as a professional genealogist?!

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Geneartogy

2009-06-18T14:03:00.000-07:00

I thought this would be the perfect place to put this. I love everything genealogy. Seriously.

I found this website where you can upload your family photos and create a Family Tree using them online and then they ship the piece of art to your house and you can frame it. Looks like a good idea!

I think I just might try it. It will help me stay more on top of my family history.

Oral History with Billie Brinkerhoff

2009-04-08T08:17:00.001-07:00

Billie Brinkerhoff Oral History Project
Interview with Billie Lou Benson Brinkerhoff
Date of Interview: March 9, 2009; Orem, Utah
Interviewer: Stacy Brinkerhoff Thiot
Transcriber: Stacy Brinkerhoff Thiot
(Recorded on a Mac Book Pro- Microsoft Notes)

Stacy: The point of this interview is that I am taking a media history class and we need to interview somebody about your recollection working with the media growing up.

Stacy: What was your first source of media exposure?

Billie: You mean like the newspaper or something?

Stacy: Yes, like if you had a radio growing up, or if you wanted to hear or listen to the news, would you listen to the radio or read the newspaper?

Billie: To get the news, I would read the newspaper, but most of the time I would listen to the radio to listen to music. I was just a kid…

Stacy: Did your family receive a newspaper?

Billie: Yes.

Stacy: Which newspaper?

Billie: Kansas City Star.

Stacy: Did you read that from a young age?

Billie: Yes.

Stacy: When did you start evolving to the TV?

Billie: Yeah, I remember we were one of the first ones to get it, my dad was one of the first ones to get television. And it was after Phil was born, around 1948, something like that. My first television was about like this, about that wide (showing 8-12 inches with fingers) he and Phil would sit there and watch it.

Stacy: Was it in black and white?

Billie: Black and white. They would sit there and watch cartoons and some sports.

Stacy: Did you ever, you said earlier you worked with telephones, were you a secretary?

Billie: Yes, when I was in college.

Stacy: What did you do?

Billie: When I was in college, I answered the telephone because the girls didn’t have them in there rooms. That was my job, an hour a day I worked in the office and took messages for the girls that were at school. So when they came home from school they would get a message.

Stacy: They were allowed at that time to go to the office and call?

Billie: Yes.

Stacy: Were you in college at this time?

Billie: Yes.

Stacy: So you would take an hour out of your day?

Billie: Yes, it was a paying job.

Stacy: Do you remember how much you were paid?

Billie: Very little, I don’t know.

Stacy: As of today what is your consumption of television, magazines?

Billie: Haha, as of today I watch even more than I ever have, I have nothing else to do.

Stacy: Is that what you spend most of your time doing; reading newspapers, magazines, and watching television?

Billie: Yes, I read magazines and I read the newspaper. I have a newspaper that comes every day.

Stacy: What magazines do you read?

Billie: People and the Ensign are the main ones I get.

Stacy: So you watch television to keep the time moving?

Billie: Yes.

Stacy: What programs do you like the best?

Billie: I like the news the best.

Stacy: Like CNN?

Billie: No, Fox News. They have some really good commentators that I like to listen to . Of course I like mysteries, the programs like law and order, CSI and those are the ones I like. And I’m not into comedy or anything like that.

Stacy: So you don’t like Chuck?

Billie: I’ve never watched it. ☺

Stacy: Because I know aunt Kris loves Chuck and tries to get us to watch it!

Billie: Yes, I don’t watch that. But that’s ok for her to watch.

Stacy: Over the years, what are your feelings on the changes from the little 6-inch television to today, is it incredible to see all of those changes?

Billie: Oh, sure it is. It’s amazing. The new things you can see now, right in front of your eyes, a plane blow up or something that is very realistic. All of the news you see today.

Stacy: Do you ever go on the internet?

Billie: No, I don’t know anything about the internet.

Stacy: What’s your favorite part about the news? Politics, entertainment, celebrities, crime?

Billie: I like the talking about politics, especially when there is a campaign. I am very interested in the news, very interested, watching it evolve. For instance, like when 9/11 happened, from that time on I was very interested daily about what happened and how it had evolved. I guess that’s my favorite part. I don’t like sitcoms you know.

Stacy: When you were raising children, what do you remember your media consumption being?

Billie: Like the television?

Stacy: Yes, the television. Like did you watch a lot of television? When you were raising kids, you were too busy to watch a lot of television, what did you do to get the news?

Billie: We always took the newspaper and grandpa always took Time magazine and we read that and the Church magazines. Those were the main ones. I had Parrot magazine.

Stacy: So you remember when television went from black and white to color, correct?

Billie: Pretty much, yeah.

Stacy: Do you remember when that was?

Billie: Oh it was after I had kids.

Stacy: Was that a big change?

Billie: Yes, it was a big change, but a gradual change because it was very expensive and people couldn’t afford it. So it wasn’t something they could just start and everyone could get because it was very very expensive.

Stacy: Just speaking of television and kids, I think a lot of people use that as a babysitter today.

Billie: Yes, they do.

Stacy: What did you do to keep your kids entertained? Was television a common babysitter back in the day?

Billie: Very. They liked to watch Howdy Doody, what am I trying to think of… that little horse and gun smoke, not so much that, they were older when they watched that. But there was Lone Ranger, Toado. There were other shows like that, little innocent shows- Cisco Kid, Lone Ranger lots of ones like that. They’re not like the ones today that are violent.

Stacy: What was grandpas favorite form of the media?

Billie: Reading.

Stacy: I know that you like to read the newspaper and magazines like that. So does my dad. But I don’t think my generation really reads the newspaper as much as older generations.

Billie: The newspaper is what we depended on mostly. We watched the 10 O’clock news, the main news in the evening. And we watched other news programs. And at that time, when I was having kids, we watched comedy like I love Lucy and those type of comedies. We all liked that, the whole family. And there were several like that, not as good, but similar.

Stacy: Do you think the media helps families bond or that it separates them?

Billie: It probably separates them. I have to admit that I … I was trying to think. I think it was your dad was the one I was talking to, no it was Kristen, she was about 6-7 years old maybe a little younger. And the kids were upstairs and she and Phil were up in their television room watching television and Mark and I never got to watch the television because the kids took it. So for Christmas time we bought them a little television, for $50, little black and white television- so we could have ours back. I don’t know, a few days after that, Kristen came down and she was hanging around. I didn’t know what was the problem. So I asked, “what’s the matter honey?” she said, “I wanted to watch the…” So I said, “well you and Phil can watch that” and she said, “I know” and I said, “well what’s the matter?” “You’ve got everything we’ve got, you’ve got popcorn and drinks like us.” You’ve got your program and I said, “you don’t like our program” she answered, “no,” and I said, “well, don’t really like Howdy Doody.” And this was a program Mark and I really wanted to see and I said, “well what’s the difference?” she said, “well, you’re not there… I don’t’ like it because you’re not there.” She wanted to watch her program with me.

Stacy: So it was separating the family

Billie: It was.

Stacy: At the same time, do you think that families can get to together to watch movies and it keeps them together like an FHE?

Billie: I’ve never thought of that.

Stacy: So do you think overall that media is a good thing or a bad thing?

Billie: Well…?

Stacy: There are positives and negatives?

Billie: There’s positives and negatives about both. I have seen people now that it is THE babysitter. Real little children, before they’re a year old, they’re plopped in front of a television to keep them distracted. And I understand that, it’s a real distraction to do something, like help the other kids with their homework, so I can understand that, but it is a distraction. And I have thought many times that I didn’t use it as much as I could have because it wasn’t used like that. I don’t know what I would have done if I had the same opportunities as a babysitter does now.

Stacy: We don’t play with kids like we used to back in the days.

Billie: It’s very true. And I know I did it some, but it wasn’t used as much in those times as it is now.

Stacy: I feel like there was a different use back then, it was to get news out and have television programs to entertain. And now it’s the kids come home from school and immediately watch television.

Billie: My kids never did that. We always believed in them playing outside. Or they were in boys scouts and girls activities after school. I do like we did a better job at that, but we didn’t know any better. It just happened there were more of those things available than they are now.

Stacy: Do you feel your media consumption nowadays, like reading magazines and watching television, how many hours a day does it take up?

Billie: Mine?

Stacy: Yes

Billie: Well since I don’t have anything to do…

Stacy: Haha.

Billie: No, I’m truthful with you. If I had a job, when I had a job, kids to watch or something to do, then I wouldn’t watch it so much. But when you’re just like me now, I just sit here and look at the pictures. But I Do read the newspaper almost everyday and I have it delivered here.

Stacy: On a typical day, what do you do?

Billie: Wake up, eat breakfast, usually turn the morning news on, to hear if there has been an earthquake or what, you know sort of bringing you up to date. I read the newspaper in the morning. …So strange, I can’t even think of what I do in the morning. I get dressed. Of course at my age it’s a lot different. I’ll go back, before Mark died, we walked a lot, and I walked by myself too, we always walked. I enjoyed doing that, it was different when I walked an talked with him, but it’s different now. That was years before I came up here, more than 15. And after he died, I walked by myself because I enjoyed walking, I’d walk an hour or so, lots of times, in the winter I walked in the mall before it opened. And we just walked in the halls.

Stacy: Toward the afternoon you have your DVR and record your programs… CSI?

Billie: I watch the different programs that I have recorded, and I listen to certain programs in the afternoon. And I read my Ensign and People magazine that I buy.

Stacy: I remember coming to your house and you would always be reading, and I thought my grandma has to be so smart, she reads all of these books and you did crossword puzzles. Do you still do crossword puzzles?

Billie: It was the saddest thing of my life when I had to give them up, I have Dementia now, and I just can’t remember. I just can’t do the things I used to. About 3-4 months ago, I decided I had to give it up because it became so frustrating, and I knew that I knew it and I knew those words and I just sit there and look at them and think oh my heavens. I can’t remember what that word is, and it’s something I’ve known for years, and finally I just gave it up.

Stacy: Do you still read books?

Billie: Oh yea, I still read books. I’m on a series right now about those people in Africa in the 1800s. I’m reading the last one now, there are eight books.

Stacy: So you read some books, and you watch the nighttime news?

Billie: That’s usually the last thing I watch before I go to bed. I watch the weather to see if the weather is bad for the next day. I am very interested in the news around the world.

Stacy: I spend most of my days on the internet, and I don’t watch news programs on television, because I get it off the internet. But it’s different for you, you still watch tem on television.

Billie: Yep. Well I have to admit that I feel really dumb about the internet. It’s part of this whole thing I’ve got in my head. I just cannot remember what to do or where to go….

Stacy: I think it’s definitely a newer generation tool.

Billie: That’s right. And I tried it for a while and it frustrated me so much. And I finally I thought, I either keep trying that and keep getting frustrated or I can just say, That’s not for me and I do what I do through the newspaper. I say, the internet, that’s for my grandchildren. You know like a helicopter, or something else that I can’t do, and I just don’t worry about it. Because it makes me frustrated.

Stacy: Did you listen to the radio a lot when you were younger?

Billie: Oh, yes.

Stacy: Do you remember the programs on the radio?

Billie: Yes. They had one called Ferber McGee and Molly. Haha. That was kind of like I love Lucy, it was a comedy, and it was so funny. She would say, “’tain’t so McGee.” It was a kind of story.

Stacy: Ok, so would you sit down every night and listen?

Billie: Oh they weren’t on every night. They were on one night a week, like I love Lucy. They had all these different kinds of programs.

Stacy: So what if you missed it one week?

Billie: It was more of a comedy so that you could just pick it up and it wasn’t like a mystery like who killed who?

Stacy: So, you’re favorites are the mysteries?

Billie: My favorites were and are mysteries.

Stacy: I love watching Law and Order and I always wondered who I get it from. It’s you!

Billie: You know, not too long ago, while quite a while ago I guess, like 40 years ago, there was Dick Tracy and all kinds of things like that, those kinds of mysteries on television.

Stacy: Anything else you want to mention about the media?

Billie: I can’t think of anything. I have been terribly disappointed in the last few years, where before the media was clean and it might have been a mystery, but it wasn’t violent mystery. For instance, your great-grandmother Brinkerhoff, she loved mysteries, she would go to the Library and get a whole bag of books because that’s what she read. She wouldn’t have been caught dead reading these when they’re butcherin’ people.

Stacy: So is that why you record television, so you can fast forward the bad parts and choose what you watch?

Billie: Yes.

Stacy: That’s the way you like it?

Billie: Yeah, and I… a lot of it I, even when I’m reading g I do that. I’ve got authors I won’t touch, but the ones’ that I do read, if I see something coming up and it’s not what I want, I just flip over three or four pages.

Stacy: Who’s your favorite author?

Billie: James Patterson

Stacy: What’s your favorite movie?

Billie: I love Law and Order and several of those kind of like that, I’m trying to think of what they are. There are three or four that I really don’t like to miss.

Stacy: Thank you!

James Calvin's Kids

2008-12-08T19:39:00.000-08:00

Lucille, Madge, Wayne and James Marcus 1917/18

James Marcus Brinkerhoff- Social Security Death Index

2008-12-08T18:35:00.000-08:00

J.M. Brinkerhoff

Social Security #: 486-12-1907

Last Residence: 84601 Provo, Utah County, Utah, United States of America

Born: 8 May 1915

Died: 19 June 1988

State (Year)SSN issued: Missouri (before 1951)

Madge Brinkerhoff- California Death Index 1940-1997

2008-12-08T18:11:00.000-08:00

I searched Madge Brinkerhoff and found Madge B. Stewart. She was married once before to Delmar Camron Hansen 16 Feb 1932, but was divorced. I assume she married again to a Stewart.

Social Security #: 540012366

Born: 13 Aug 1909 in Indiana

Death: 21 Feb 1984 in Sacramento, California

Mother's maiden name: (on ancestry it says 'Dane', but really is Dain)

Myra Lucille Brinkerhoff- Indiana Births 1880-1920

2008-12-08T15:53:00.000-08:00

Myra Lucille Brinkerhoff

(ancestry.com)

Born: 1 March 1909

County: Vigo

Reference: Vigo County, Indiana

Index to Birth Records

1882-1920

Volume I

Letters A-C Inclusive

Book: CH-24

Page: 42

Vigo County Clerk's Office:

Department Head- Patricia Mansard, County Clerk

33 South 3rd Street

1st Floor, Courthouse

Terre Haute, Indiana 47807

(812)462-3211

Indiana Marriage Collection- James Calvin and Flora Ellen

2008-12-08T15:41:00.001-08:00

Indiana Marriage Collection: 1800-1941

(ancestry.com)

Marriage date: 5 July 1906

Marriage county: Delaware

Source Title 1: Delaware County, Indiana

Source Title 2: Index to Marriage Record 1827-1920 Inclusive Volume

Source Title 3: W.P.A. Original Record Located: County Clerk's Office

Book: C16

OS Page: 366

Delaware County Clerk's Office:

Steven G. Craycraft

100 West Main Street

Muncie, Indiana 47305

(765)747-7726

Records from 1827-1920 on microfilm

Flora Ellen Dain 1900 Census

2008-12-08T14:43:00.000-08:00

United States Federal Census-1900

George Kasson Dain and Hannah family---Lines 34-38

James Calvin 1920 Census

2008-12-08T14:19:00.000-08:00

United States Federal Census-1920

James Calvin and his family---Page 4, line 100 &

Page 5 lines 1-5

I can't believe I just found this census. I have been searching for this record practically all semester while in family history class. There were a couple mistakes made by the transcriber, which probably was the reason I couldn't find them. 1. Flora's name on the census is Laura 2. On ancestry it says the BrinCkerhoff family with a 'c' or the BAinkerhoff with an 'a'.

I'm so glad I found them and now know where they were in 1920... St. Louis, Missouri.

Place: St. Louis Ward 1, St. Louis (Independent City), Missouri

Series: T625

Roll: 947

Page: 2B

James Calvin 1900 Census

2008-12-08T13:54:00.000-08:00

United States Federal Census-1900

James Calvin---Line 35

James Calvin 1910 Census

2008-12-08T13:51:00.000-08:00

United States Federal Census-1910

James Calvin and his family---Lines 27-30

James Calvin 1930 Census

2008-12-08T13:14:00.000-08:00

United States Federal Census-1930

James Calvin and his family---Lines 2-6

James Calvin Brinkerhoff Census Records

2008-12-08T12:52:00.000-08:00

James Calvin (49) lived until 13 July 1946, since the 1940 census was destroyed, I first searched the 1930 census. I found that he was the head of the house and lived in St. Louis Missouri with his wife Flora Ellen Dain (45) and four children; Madge (22), James M (14) and Howard W (13). His occupation at the time was a Mill Wright in the Foundry industry.

I couldn't find anything for the 1920 census, but searched Evert V. Pearson because in 1910, James Calvin and his family lived with Evert, his brother-in-law.

In the 1910 census, James Calvin and his family lived in Indiana with Evert V. Pearson (32) and his family; Netter F. Pearson (30), Walter D. Pearson (2) and Genevieve Pearson (8 months). In 1910 James Calvin and Flora Ellen had another child living with them, Myra Lucille (1), but she passed away soon after.

In 1900, James Calvin was living on the United States military base; Sancti Spiritus Barracks, Cuba, Military and Naval Forces. James was 20 years old at this time. He was a private in the infantry in the "K" company and 2nd Region.

Census: 1900

Place: Sancti Spiritus Barracks, Cuba

Description: Series: T623 Roll: 1838 of 1854 Page: 113A

Census: 1910

Place: Center, Delaware, Indiana

Description: Series: T624 Roll: 346 Page: 4A

Census: 1930

Place: St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri

Description: Series: T626 Roll: 1243 Page: 10A

I will continue to search for James Calvin and his family in 1920.

James Calvin and Flora Ellen

2008-12-05T11:52:00.001-08:00

On the steps of their home in St. Louis, Missouri in the 1930s.

James Calvin and Flora Ellen were living with their children, Madge, James Marcus and Howard.

Genealogy Project

2008-12-05T11:22:00.001-08:00

For my Family History class at BYU I am focusing on the family of James Calvin Brinkerhoff (listed below). Over the next while I will be going into more detail about James Calvin himself and his family. I have found pictures, biographies, books and more while researching James Calvin and Flora Ellen Dain and their children. This will be my journal of sorts for my genealogy done thus far. Enjoy!

Stacy Elizabeth Brinkerhoff Thiot

2008-12-05T11:21:00.000-08:00

Born 20 May 1985 and married Pierce Jackson Thiot 16 Aug 2008.

Dirk Michael Brinkerhoff

2008-12-05T11:17:00.000-08:00

Dirk Michael Brinkerhoff was born in Los Angeles, California and married Lori Lee Linnell 21 Dec 1976 in Provo, Utah. Lori's parents are William Lee Linnell and Emily Clementina Appleberry. Dirk and Lori had 5 children.

Children:
Dain Michael Brinkerhoff
Scott Philip Brinkerhoff
Jordan Leigh Brinkerhoff
***Stacy Elizabeth Brinkerhoff
Kathryn Julia Brinkerhoff

James Marcus Brinkerhoff

2008-12-05T11:11:00.001-08:00

James Marcus Brinkerhoff was born 8 May 1915 in Muncie, Indiana and was married to Billie Lou Benson 8 June 1941 in Washington, Missouri. He died 19 Jun 1988 in Provo, Utah due to Cancer. Billie Lou was born 29 Jul 1919 in Newtown, Sullivan, Missouri. Billie is my grandmother and is still living to this day.

Children:
Philip Richard Brinkerhoff: Born in Wilmington, New Hanover, North Carolina
Kristin June Brinkerhoff: Born in South Gate, Los Angeles, California
Kelly Ellen Brinkerhoff: Born 11 Apr 1952 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; Died 11 Apr 1952
Mark Scott Brinkerhoff: Born 12 May 1953 in Los Angeles, California; Died 19 Oct 1973 Salt Lake City, Utah
***Dirk Michael Brinkerhoff: Born in Los Angeles, California (My Daddy)
Heidi Ellen Brinkerhoff: Born in Los Angeles, California

James Calvin Brinkerhoff

2008-12-05T11:04:00.000-08:00

James Calvin Brinkerhoff was born 29 Oct 1880 in Seward, Seward, Nebraska. He married Flora Ellen Dain on 5 July 1906 in Muncie, Delaware, Indiana. He died 13 July 1946 in St. Louis, Missouri. Flora Ellen Dain was born 18 Jan 1885 in Edgar, Illinois and died 10 Dec 1977 in Provo, Utah. Sarah's parents were George Kasson Dain and Hannah Orilla Sutton. James Calvin and Flora had 4 children.

James Calvin Brinkerhoff was born on the 29th of October 1880 in Seward, Seward, Nebraska. His father James worked as a mill wright in the foundry business. James Calvin had 5 siblings. He was married to Flora Ellen Dain on the fifth of July 1906 in Muncie, Delaware, Indiana.
In 1918, three years after the birth of my grandfather James Marcus Brinkerhoff, James Calvin and his wife Flora Ellen moved to St. Louis Missouri. They lived in a cold-water “flat” with an outside toilet. Flora had to heat the water to wash the clothes and for James Marcus to take baths in a copper boiler. James Calvin worked for Warner Gear Co. in Muncie, Indiana before the move, and now was employed making Marmon cars. Later, James Calvin, worked in maintenance for United Drug Co., predecessor of Rexall Drug.
James Calvin was a Spanish American War Veteran and belonged to the Veteran’s of Foreign Wars Organization. When the troops came back from World War I in 1919, James Calvin took his son James Marcus to see the parade of returning troops.
In 1921, tragedy struck the family of James Calvin. His daughter Myra Lucille contracted typhoid fever and died soon after. James was heartbroken because Lucille had been “the apple in his eye.”
James Calvin and Flora Ellen had converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints while in Indiana. After the move to Missouri, the Brinkerhoff family attended the then tiny St. Louis branch. The Church was held in a rented German gymnasium. Flora’s brother Moses Dain and his wife Anna and their children attended also, along with Flora’s sister Nettie. Nettie’s husband, Everett Pearson, was not a member, but their children attended off and on.
In the early 1920s the Brinkerhoffs and the Pearsons rented an old mansion, which became known in the family as ‘The House on the Hill.” It was situated on a hill above a large abandoned quarry overlooking Broadway Ave. and the Mississippi River.
James Calvin’s children, Wayne and James Marcus would often play down by the quarry and swim in the river. Often the two boys would be close to drowning because neither knew how to swim.
Years later, the Church bought a small building from a defunct congregation at 5195 Maple Ave. The Brinkerhoff family attended church at this building for many years to come. James Calvin served as branch president for a total of 16 years. Because of James’ calling he often met with mission presidents and general authorities. Heber J. Grant once met with James and the small St. Louis branch and told stories about his youth. He shared with them his creed, “That which you persist in doing, eventually becomes easy, no that the nature of the thing has changed, but your ability to do has increased.”
Around 1926 the Brinkerhoffs moved to the Forest Park area and lived there until 1927. On September 29, 1927 a tornado struck the St. Louis area, stopping all public transportation. The kids were in school and James Calvin had to walk 8 miles home from work. Flora Ellen was shopping downtown and had to walk 6 miles to get home. The family’s second floor flat was missing it’s roof, shards of glass were everywhere and all the clothes had been sucked out of the closets.
James Calvin passed away on the 13th of July 1946 in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri. He died of prostate cancer. He was being seen at the Veteran’s hospital because he was a veteran of the Spanish-American war. He was wounded in action when he was shot in the “buttocks!”

Children:
Madge Brinkerhoff: Born 13 Aug 1907 in Gaston, Delaware, Indiana; Died 21 Feb 1984 in Sacramento, California
Myra Lucille Brinkerhoff: Born 1 Mar 1909 in Terre Haute, Delaware, Indiana; Died 26 Aug 1922 in St. Louis, Missouri
***James Marcus Brinkerhoff: Born 8 May 1915 in Muncie, Delware, Indiana; Died 19 Jun 1988 in Provo, Utah
Howard Wayne Brinkerhoff: Born 2 Dec 1916 in Muncie, Indiana; Died 10 Aug 1968 in Cleveland, Ohio

James Brinkerhoff

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James Brinkerhoff was born 12 Dec 1846 in Dudley, Edgar, Illinois and married Susan Armenta (Ann) Moffett 30 Dec 1870 in Kansas, Illinois. He died 16 Sept 1894 in Hennessey, Oklahoma. Susan was born 4 Oct 1851 in Dudley and died 14 Nov 1927 in Paris, Edgar, Illinois. They had six children.

Children:
Herbert Scott Brinkerhoff: Born 19 Feb 1872 in Dudley; Died 17 Jul 1929
Marcus Gustavus Brinkerhoff: Born 20 Mar 1873 in Dudley; Died 17 Dec 1919 in Chicago, Illinois
Philip Henry Brinkerhoff: Born 29 Dec 1875 in Dudley; Died 20 Aug 1955
Erma Vivian Brinkerhoff: Born 16 Aug 1877 in Seward, Seward, Nebraska; Died 9 Jan 1955
***James Calvin Brinkerhoff: Born 29 Oct 1880 in Seward; Died 13 Jul 1946 in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
Cleveland Moffett Brinkerhoff: Born 30 Sept 1884 in Seward; Died 29 Aug 1931

Philip Brinkerhoff

2008-12-05T10:46:00.000-08:00

Philip Brinkerhoff was born 1 Jan 1811 in Hackensack, Bergen, New Jersey. He married Sarah Scott 12 Feb 1836 in Hackensack. He died 3 March 1898 in Edgar, Illinois. Sarah Scott was born 21 Jan 1819 in Hackensack and died 27 April 1868. Philip then married again to Nancy Kirk on 8 Dec 1870 in Dudley, Edgar, Illinois.

Children of Philip and Sarah:
Jane Brinkerhoff: Born 4 Dec 1836 Hackensack; Died 2 Feb 1837
Abby Ann Brinkerhoff: Born 13 March 1838 Hackensack
Jacob Brinkerhoff: Born 2 Oct 1842 Hackensack; Died 25 Nov 1893 Des Moines, Polk, Iowa
Jane Ann Brinkerhoff: Born 4 Apr 1840 Hackensack; Died 15 Sept 1843
John Brinkerhoff: Born 1845
John Henry Guchen Brinkerhoff: Born 14 Dec 1844 Bloomfield, New Jersey; Died 25 Aug 1915 Salem, Marion, Illinois
***James Brinkerhoff: Born 12 Dec 1846 Dudley, Edgar, Illinois; Died 16 Sept 1894 Hennessey, Oklahoma
Abigail Brinkerhoff: Born abt 1861 Dudley

Jacob G. Brinkerhoff

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Jacob G. Brinkerhoff was born July 11, 1772 in Ridgefield Park, Bergen County, New Jersey. He married Abigail Van Bussum August 3, 1799. He died September 25, 1852 in Wood-Ridge, Bergen, New Jersey. (Abigail was born January 4, 1782 in Hackensack and died February 18, 1814)

Children:
Eleanor Brinkerhoff: Born 28 July 1800 Wood-Ridge; Died 12 August 1805
Phillip Brinkerhoff: Born 3 December 1802 Wood-Ridge; Died about 1803
Phillip Brinkerhoff: Born 6 August 1804 Wood-Ridge; Died about 1804
Eleanor Brinkerhoff: Born 3 August 1806 Hackensack; Died 16 March 1878
Elizabeth Brinkerhoff: Born 9 October 1809 Hackensack; Died 13 December 1870 Oregon
***Philip Brinkerhoff: Born 1 January 1811 Hackensack; Died 3 March 1898 Edgar, Illinois
Henry Brinkerhoff: Born 3 March 1813 Hackensack; Died 14 February 1888 Grandview, Illinois
George Brinkerhoff: 3 March 1813 Hackensack; Died 2 March 1901 Paris, Edgar, Illinois

George Brinkerhoff

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George Brinkerhoff was born October 17, 1744 in Hackensack, Bergen County, New Jersey. He married Magdalena Banta and died about 1789 in Wood-Ridge, Bergen, New Jersey.

Lt. George Brinkerhoff, 1744-1790, a lieutenant in the NJ Continental Army in the American Revolution.

http://www.njstatelib.org/NJ_Information/Searchable_Publications/civil%20war/NJCWn762.html
NEW JERSEY VOLUNTEERS.

Company A, Twenty-second Regiment.

3 George A. Brinkerhoff Sergeant Sept. 1, '62 Sept. 22, '62 9 Mos June 25, '63 Corp. Sept. 1, '62; Serj. March 11, '63.

Hendrick Brinkerhoff

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Hendrick Brinkerhoff had five children:

1. Cobus, who had two sons and a daughter (Hendrick and Garret), and a son of one of them (Garret) was the Rev. James G. Brinkerhoff.

2. Nicoussie, who had one son, who died at youth and three daughters.

3. ***George, who had four sons (Hendrick, ***Jacob, Cobus, and Cornelius) and a son of one of them (Hendrick) was sheriff; George Brinkerhoff.

4. Hendrick

5. Ann

http://www.conovergenealogy.com/ancestor-p/p40.htm#i32821
Hendrick Brinkerhoff was the son of Jacobus Hendricks Brinkerhoff and Angenitie Banta. Hendrick Brinkerhoff was baptized on 29-Oct-1710. Hendrick Brinkerhoff was born on 1-Nov-1710 at Hackensack, Bergen County, New Jersey. Hendrick Brinkerhoff was born on 1-Nov-1710 at Hackensack, Bergen County, New Jersey; brop bap. He married Elisabeth Kip, daughter of Nicasius Kip and Antie Breyant, on 19-Nov-1731 at Hackensack, Bergen County, New Jersey. Hendrick Brinkerhoff died in 1760 at Hackensack, Bergen County, New Jersey.

Jacobus Hendricks Brinkerhoff

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Jacobus Brinkerhoff, like his father, Hendrick, and his grandfather, Joris, was a man of high character and standing in the community in which he lived. At the death of his father, he and his brother Dirck took the paternal homestead upon the Hackensack, where he resided until his death. He was a county magistrate, an elder of the church (of which all his family were members), and a man of mark in all the relations of life. In a stone, in the center of the church at Hackensack, his name is cut in bold letters as one of its early founders.

He married Agnitie Banta, daughter of Hendrick Banta, April 17, 1708 in Hackensack, New Jersey. They had five children.

Children:

Hartman: born May 1, 1709.

***Hendrick: born November 1, 1710 (October 29, 1710); died 1760 (May 27, 1760).

Joris: born October 9, 1719; died January 3, 1810.

Jacob: born November 19, 1721.

Martje (Maria): born October 22, 1724.

http://www.conovergenealogy.com/ancestor-p/p40.htm#i25696
Jacobus Hendricks Brinkerhoff was the son of Hendrick Jorisen Brinkerhoff and Claesie Cornelils Bogert. Jacobus Hendricks Brinkerhoff was baptized on 29-Mar-1685 at Ridgefield Park, Bergen County, New Jersey. He married Angenitie Banta, daughter of Hendrick Epkese Banta and Maritje Lubbertse Westervelt, on 17-Apr-1708 at Hackensack, Bergen County, New Jersey. Jacobus Hendricks Brinkerhoff died in 1770 at Hackensack, Bergen County, New Jersey.

Hendrick Jorisen Brinkerhoff

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Hendrick married Claasie Boomgaert, daughter of Cornelius Boomgaert, and settled in Hempstead, Long Island, where he remained until his removal to New Jersey during the Revolutionary War.

In 1677 he purchased a tract of land in Bergen, now part of Jersey City, which, after his death became the residence of his widow and his son Cornelius, and on this tract some of his descendants still reside.

In 1679, he joined with a few other Dutchmen from Bergen and purchased the Indian title to the site of what is now Passaic City, but soon afterwards disposed of his interest there, and subsequently purchased of Hendrick Epske Banta, by deed bearing the date June 17, 1685, the farm upon the Hackensack, just below the present Ridgefield Park Station, on the West Shore Railroad, and formerly known as old Hackensack, upon which he resided until his death, and which remained in the family until 1878.

In "Early Settlers of Kings County," page 49, it is stated as follows: "Hendrick Jorise married Classie Cornelise Boomgaert of Bougoert, of Middlewout (Flushing). Name on Indian deed of Flushing of 1670, and on Assembly roll of 1675. Member of the Hempstead Assembly of 1665, from Flushing, and a magistrate of said town in 1662-'63 and '73. Removed from Flushing to the eastern branch of the Hackensack River, N.J., where he bought land June 17, 1685. His descendants in New Jersey sometimes write their names Blinckerhoff. Issue: Susanna: baptized January 1661; married Roelof Von Der Linde, of Hackensack. Cornelius married Algie Vreeland, and resided at Hackensack. Dirck of Hackensack married Margaret Siba Banta; and Jacobus of Hackensack, baptized March 29, 1685, married Angenietye Banta."

In a book entitled "Hudson County (N.J.) Land Titles," page 136, it is stated "The Dutch West India Company deeded (Lot No. 13 on map) to Jan Evertse Bout and he to Michael Jansen. Jansen's widow, Fitjie Hartmans, sold to Claes Jansame, May 30, 1667, to Hendrick Jorise Van Blinkerhoef; he conveyed it to his son Cornelius, February 24, 1708."

This seems to have been his first purchase in New Jersey, and to this property his widow and his son Cornelius removed after his death. He had five children, of whom we have historic record, but some accounts name a sixth child, a daughter named Gertie, born February 20, 1670, which is probably correct, and that the child died in infancy.

Children:

Margrietje: born June 13, 1671.

Cornelius: born 1673; died September 1, 1770.

Joris: born 1673; died February 5 1692.

Dirck

***Jacobus: (Born March 29, 1685) baptized March 29, 1685; died September 1, 1770.

The Family of Joris Dircksen Brinckerhoff- 1638

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Joris Dircksen Brinkerhoff, the founder of the American branch of the Brinkerhoff family, came from the Province of Drenthe, in the Netherlands, and having lived for some time at Flushing, in the Province of Zealand, emigrated to the New Netherlands (now New York) in 1638, and settled upon a farm within the present limits of the city of Brooklyn, where he resided until his death, January 16, 1661.

He married Susanna Dubbels, and all his children were born in Holland.

In a book entitled, "The Early Settlers of Kings County," it is stated that "Joris Dircksen Brinckerhoef arrived in 1638. He settled on Staten Island, and entered into a contract with Cornelius Melyn, the owner of the island, to reside there; but owing to the murder of some of the neighboring planters by the indians in 1641, he obtained a release from the contract August 15, 1641. He went to Long Island and settled in Brooklyn. He died January 16, 1661.

From other sources it would seem that Cornelius Melyn, mentioned above, was the son-in-law of Joris, and the first husband of Altie. After his death she married William Covenhoven.

Children:

Dirck: killed by Indians on Staten Island.

***Hendrick: born 25 February 1629 and died 24 February 1708.

Abraham: born 1632 and died about 1714.

Altie: married William Covenhoven.