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Note: He "was a farmer and after his father's death he lived on the old homestead in a house close to his mother, where all his children were born. Have a cemetary record where an Isaac Brokaw is buried in the old Ovid (Scott Cor) cemetary near Ovid. This Isaac was a soldier in Co. E of the 148th NY Infantry. No dates given in record sent me, and is possible the above Isaac Brokaw."
Obituary: (Penciled in: July 16, 1906)
The many friends of Mr. Isaac Newton Brokaw were both startled and grieved to learn of his sudden demise last Monday morning. He had been very feeble for some years, yet seemed, last Sunday, in good spirits and in his usual health. On Monday morning he went to the barn, and as he did not return as quickly as he generally did, Mrs. Brokaw went to look for him, and found him lying unconscious on the barn floor. He had been stricken with apoplexy. The doctor was at once sent for, but before he could reach the house, Mr. Brokaw had passed away, without returning to consciousness. The funeral will take place to-morrow afternoon, at half-past two o-clock, at his late residence.
Mr. Brokaw was born in Riga, Monroe county, 74 years ago last February. His parents, who came originally from New Jersey, were Isaac I. and Mrs. Maria Van Nest Brokaw. On his mother's side he was an own cousin of the distinguished lecturer and preacher, T. De Witt Tallmage. He was the youngest and the last survivor of a family of eight brothers and sisters. The family moved from Riga to this town when he was but eighteen months old, and built the house, two miles southeast of this village, which has ever since been his home. He has thus been a resident of the town of Ovid for almost 73 years.
In February, 1854, he was married to Miss Caroline Hooker, of Victory, Cayuga county, who survives him, with three children - Mrs. Don Travis and Mr. Van Nest Brokaw, of Ovid, and Edward Brokaw, of Pennsylvania. His eldest son, Wilmer, died 28 years ago. Besides his widow and children he is survived by five grandchildren - Milnor, Newton B., Nellie B. and H. Smith Travis, and by two great-grandchildren, Elon N. and Elmer A. Travis.
Mr. Brokaw was a sturdy Deomcrat of the old school, and had served the town as assessor and as commissioner of highways. He was also, when in health, a very active member of the Ovid Grange. In his boyhood he united with the Ovid Presbyterian church, under the pastorate of Dr. Lounsbury, and was for years a loyal and working member. Mr. Brokaw was a man of strong convictions and intense feelings, with an honest hatred of anything which seemed to him to savor of injustice or hyypocrisy. He leaves many friends who respected and loved him for his warm heart and sturdy character.
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