Edgar "Seldon" Seldon Brooks LAST NAME: Brooks FIRST NAME: Edgar MIDDLE NAME: Seldon NICKNAME: Seldon MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3:  TITLE: Mr. GENDER: M MILITARY:  BORN: 31 Jan 1838 DIED: 26 Jul 1900 BURIED: Jul 1900 ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:   BIRTH PLACE:  Beardstown, Cass Co., Illinois DEATH PLACE: Eugene, Lane Co., Oregon NOTES:  IOOF - E. S. Brooks, age 70, died in Southern Oregon of asthma, "deceased was highly esteemed by all who knew him". Spouse: Mrs. Emma F. (Perkins) Brooks (deceased, 26 Jul 1877). RIGDON - Funeral ordered by E. C. Collins. 1870 OR CENSUS  - E. S. Brooks, age 32, occupation farmer, b. Illinois, is enumerated with Emma, age 28, b. Wisconsin.  Also enumerated in the home is Jos. Martell, age 27, occupation laborer, b. Oregon. [ a notation in the record indicates they were married in May of the census year, 1870] BIOGRAPHICAL: [Edgar] Seldon Brooks lost his wife in childbirth of their daughter, Emma. He never remarried, but was one of the first "Bee Keepers" in the Northwest. Iva, his eldest daughter married Eugene Collins, the grandson of Thalia Beard Collins and her husband of Beardstown, Illinois. They had four children; the two oldest boys died before they were eighteen years old. Ivan Collins was their third son. A very talented person. He studied drama at the Pasadena Playhouse in California and is the artist who made the miniature wagons, buggies, etc. that are on permanent display at the Oregon Historical Society. He married Laura Block and had two daughters. Seldon Brooks' youngest daughter Emma Seldena, married William Hillis but she too died in childbirth. OBITUARY:  No obituary found in Oregon Statesman. INSCRIPTION:  E. S. Brooks  Died  July 26, 1900  Aged 61 y's 5 m's 25 d's  (SE side of monument shared with Emma F. Brooks)  Also: footstone - "Papa" SOURCES:  LR  LD  DAR pg 59  1870 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Fairfield, FA #895) Gilman, Geraldine, comp. The Long Trail To Paradise: Linus Brooks 1850 Journey, Vancouver, Washington: Clark Co. Washington Genealogical Society, 1986, pgs. 90, 108, 110. CONTACTS:  LOT: 647 SPACE: 2 NW LONGITUDE: N 44° 55.166' LATITUDE: W 123° 02.916' IMAGES: