Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1912 — ANOTHER DAUGHTER. [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER DAUGHTER.

Of the American Revolution Is dead at Indiana Home. Columbus, Ind.- May 11, —Mrs. Catherine Brooks, 98 years old, the only known daughter of the Revolution in -• southern Indiana, is dead here. She died on the same day of the month and hour as that of her husband, Jonathan Brooks, who died in 1903. She was born, in Philadelphia, bu.t moved with her husband to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1853, where they lived for several years. Her father, John Foster, served in the war of the Revolution under General Washington. He also soldiered in the 1812 war. She retained the full strength of her mental faculties and in her declining years delighted to relate lni cidents of her childhood, one of which was that she often played in ■ the old William Penn homestead, ''near which her parents lived.