Wilburn Herbert Brooks (1900-<1938)

Herbert Brooks (son of Mr. Hu) died young, long before his father Mr. Hu. He was a young man when he died. (He died before Ms Lucille Law was around. She never knew him.)

“He died young. I don’t remember his two children ever mentioning their daddy. I don’t know if they ever met him”. He had three daughters: Lorena (1923-2008), Darlene and Lucile. Lucile had a different mother than Darlene and Lorena. Darlene’s and Lorena’s mother was Cora Mahaffey. Lucile’s mother was Shick.

Lucile Moon Hall was not sure who was the mother of Herbert Brooks.

“I don’t know. I don’t know the name of the wife of Mr. Hu before he married Livy. Her name was Olivia and when they married she had a son, Thomas, whose last name I don’t remember, but he took on the last name of Mr. Hu.”

(most likely the first wife Effie Tate was the mother of Herbert; she died in year of Herbert’s his birth-1899) (Olivia married Mr. Hu in 1904)(John Jackson Wallis married them as Justice of the Peace)