This is quarter-blood Cherokee Will Brooks, "Grandpa Brooks" to me.

BROOKS LINE

GRANDPA WITH HIS BROTHERS AND SISTERS

LEFT TO RIGHT: MOLLIE, JOE, JENNIE, TOM, AND WILL

WILL AND EVA BROOKS WITH THEIR CHILDREN ABOUT 1952

STANDING KATHELENE, RAY, ORVELL, EVA, WILL - KNEELING KENNETH, JUNIOR (REBEL), BOBBY JOE

THIS IS KATHELENE, WILL & EVA BROOKS'S ONLY DAUGHTER

ANOTHER PICTURE OF MY AUNT KATHELENE

Will & Eva after a wintertime fishing trip

After his 5 sons grew up and left home, Will began to take Evy fishing with him.

FAMILY MEMBER WILLIAM HENRY BROOKS

FAMILY MEMBER EVA HANING BROOKS

SHARON BROOKS AT ABOUT AGE 3

THIS WAS IN OUR LARGE FRONT YARD IN DAVIS, OKLAHOMA

THIS IS ME AT ABOUT AGE 6

My little brother Wayne David, aka "Butch"

After this photo, Grandpa Petty took to calling Butch "Bill"

KENNETH ABOUT 1995

This is Ray, Kenneth's older brother shown with him in the baby pic

THE BABY PICTURE PAGE

This is Will's wife, Eva. I usually just called her "Grandma" but sometimes said "Grandma Brooks" to distinguish her from her mother, who was "Grandma Haning" to me and a multitude of other children.

EVA BROOKS AND YOUNGEST SON BOBBY JOE

MY BROTHER BUTCH AND GRANDMA ON THEIR BIRTHDAY 1942

EVA BROOKS AND GRANDSON WAYNE DAVID (BUTCH)

ANOTHER PICTURE AT THE BIRTHDAY PARTY

WILL AND EVA BROOKS OCTOBER 2ND 1942

MY GRANDPARENTS AT THE BIRTHDAY PARTY GIVEN FOR GRANDMA AND BUTCH

MY FATHER KENNETH AND GRANDFATHER WILL

THIS WAS TAKEN AT THE ANNUAL HANING REUNION JUNE 1955

GRANDPA BROOKS'S SISTER JENNIE IN 1980 AGE 91

THIS WAS SEPTEMBER 22. SHE DIED ON NOVEMBER 19.

HANING LINE

GRANDMA SITTING IN ONE OF THE FIRST RECLINERS MANUFACTURED, DECEMBER 1953

THIS IS KENNETH BROOKS, MY FATHER & WILL & EVY'S SON

A springtime picture of Grandma and Grandpa Brooks with their fish. They fished in all seasons.

ME WITH MY OLDER BROTHER AND SISTER

THIS WAS BESIDE THE HOLLYHOCK BUSHES AT THE CORNER OF THE HOUSE WHERE I WAS BORN

THIS IS ME AT AGE 12 - THE DRESS WAS ORANGE WITH A BLACK VELVET RIBBON TIE