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1.	Title: Ancestry Family Trees Page: Ancestry Family Tree Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.
2.	Title: Alabama, County Marriage Records, 1805-1967 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
3.	Title: 1850 United States Federal Census Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
4.	Title: 1860 United States Federal Census Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
5.	Title: Alabama, Compiled Marriages from Selected Counties, 1809-1920 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations Inc
6.	Title: Alabama, Marriage Indexes, 1814-1935 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
7.	Title: Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
8.	Title: U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
9.	Title: Alabama, Select Marriage Indexes, 1816-1942 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc
10.	Title: U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.

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Note: iles south) she died giving birth to her first child, Robert Henry Brookins. Ascerbus remarried that same year - to Lucinda Teel, who was born in Georgia in 1830. They were married in Tallapoosa County, Alabama on 18 October 1849. The couple had eight children between 1852 and 1865. Their last child, Subeth DeCasta, was born after his father had died in a military hospital in Richmond, Virginia, of rubella, also known as the German measles. Ascerbus, for whatever reason, enlisted in the Confederate Army at age 40. He was a private in Company K of the 4th Alabama Infantry from May 26th to July 24th, 1864 when he died – after about two months of service. He probably died in the Chimborazo Hospital and was buried in the Confederate section of the Oakwood Cemetery there. "The American Civil War was the last large-scale military conflict fought before the germ theory of disease was developed… Two-thirds of soldiers who died in that war, 660,000 in all, were killed by uncontrolled infectious diseases. Of these, in the Union Army over 67,000 had measles and more than 4,000 died." Michael B. A Oldstone, Viruses, Plagues, & History, 146-47 (2009) The Confederate Army didn’t – couldn’t, under the circumstances – keep records with the efficiency of the Union Army, but it’s reasonable to assume that the number of southern soldiers who died of measles (and smallpox) was roughly comparable those of the north – tens of thousands. Over all, disease was the most common cause of death in the Civil War. Two of Ascerbus’s brothers were also victims of German measles in service in the Confederate Army. The first two Brooking brothers died the same year, 1862. First was James (30 years old) who joined in March and died in May; next was Sterling (23), who joined in May and died in December; last was Ascerbus (40) who joined in May and died in July, 1864. The disease, a swift killer, took a dreadful toll on the Brooking family. Purgason, Howard. The Cullums and the Brookins: The Joining of the Clans. (Privately published manuscript, 2018.)
Note: LifeSketch: Ascerbus Ellick Brooking was born (1824) in Georgia. He married Pricilla Yarbrough on March 19, 1846 in Tallapoosa County, Alabama. Three years later, in Dale County, Alabama, (about 125 m

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