Life History

Notes

• Robert is a 2-year old in the 1870 census in Dyer County, Tennessee.There was some confusion in trying to find the documentation for thechildren in this family and reconciling that with family information.There was a Robert C Brinkley documented in later censuses matchingfamily information on a Robert Brinkley born in 1876.  This Robert Cis documented in la R C Brinkley in the 1900 census in Johnson County,Texas, where we know Brinkley family members moved.  James Andersonmarried his second wife Martha Garrison in Johnson County.
  
  My cousin and coresearcher Marion Mixon suggests:
  "The Robert listed born 1868 is a different one than the one born in1876 and perhaps died then The other Robert in the 1880 census withthe 1876 birth was named after him.  Family records, which I have nodocumentation on other than census and what others have, shows Maggiedied in 1877."
  --  Marion Mixon, Personal email to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 6 October2009
  
  We have not found any of this family in the 1860 census to confirmsome of the missing details.  Other family members are searching localrecords for clarification.  The first Robert, reported here in the1870 census,  must have died between 1871 and 1876, if the later childRobert C was named for him.
  
  1870 Federal Census, Dyer County, Tennessee, 21 July, Civil District6, Page 33 (scan 99), Hse/Fam #241
  James Brinkly 24 M Farmer b Tennessee
  Maggie Brinkly 22 F b Tennessee
  Robt Brinkly 2 M born Tennessee

Sources

• 1. 1870 Federal Census, Dyer County, Tennessee
  • 21 July, Civil District 6, Page 33 (scan 99), Hse/Fam #241