The Descendants of Joel Oxley of Fayette Co, Pa.

First Generation

     1. Joel1 Oxley,1 son of Thomas Harris and Rachel Oxley, was born in Loudoun Co, Va Feb 1772. Joel died 1843 in Pennsylvania.

     He married Sarah Troth in Fayette Co, Pa, 28 May 1817. Sarah was born 8 Dec 1787 in Wilmington, Del. Sarah 2 was the daughter of Henry Troth and Hannah Starr. Sarah died 24 Jul 1875 in Columbus, Franklin Co, Oh, at 87 years of age. Her body was interred in Newark, Licking Co, Oh, Cedar Hill cemetery.

     According to his mother's will, Joel was to be raised by James and Hannah Stevens. He came of age in 1793, and his mother's estate was settled that year. Joel was a resident of Loudoun Co, Va. 16 May 1796, when he sold the land he inherited from his mother to Henry Oxley, Jr. This land adjoined that of Hannah Stevens.

     In 1801, Joel was received by request at the Redstone Monthly Meeting in Pennsylvania. He was granted a certificate in 1804 to the Short Creek (Mt. Pleasant) Monthly Meeting (which had just been formed earlier that year), where he was received in 1805. In 1810, Joel was granted a certificate to Hopewell Monthly Meeting in Virginia, where he was received in 1811. In 1814 or 1815, he was granted a certificate to the Redstone Monthly Meeting, where he was received in 1816. Joel was listed as the head of a family on the 1820 Census in Bridgeport, Fayette Co, Pa. In 1829, Joel and Sarah joined the Hicksites, and were disowned by the Quaker Redstone Monthly Meeting.

     Joel Oxley and Sarah Troth had the following children:

    2     i.     Hannah Jane2 Oxley was born in Fayette Co, Pa 5 Jan 1821. Hannah died 1 Apr 1835 in Fayette Co, Pa, at 14 years of age. Her body was interred in Redstone, Fayette Co, Pa.

    3    ii.     Henry Troth Oxley was born in Fayette Co, Pa 12 Jul 1822. His body was interred in Minn, Lakewood cemetery. Henry was listed in the 1860 and 1870 censuses in Newark, Licking Co, Oh.

+  4   iii.    Margaret Truman Oxley was born 19 Dec 1823.




Second Generation

      4. Margaret Truman2 Oxley (Joel1)3 was born in Brownsville, Fayette Co, Pa 19 Dec 1823. Margaret died 11 Jul 1895 in Minneapolis, Minn, at 71 years of age. Her body was interred in Minn, Lakewood cemetery.

      She was married 20 May 1851 in Bridgeporte, Fayette Co, Pa, to Thomas Goff Brooke. Thomas was born 25 Dec 1825 in Oh. Thomas died 24 Dec 1904 in Duluth, St. Louis Co, Minn. When the war broke out, he assisted in the recruiting as Provost Captain, Coman's Company of the 76th Regiment of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and enlisted as a private in Company C. He fought through the war as a Corporal and rose to the post of drum major. Margaret was read out of the Quaker meeting for marrying outside of the faith.

     Margaret Truman Oxley and Thomas Goff Brooke had the following children:

+    5      i.     Howard3 Brooke was born 1853.
      6     ii.     Mary Brooke was born ca 1854. Mary died ca 1926 in Minn. She was married to Howard Rowe. Howard died ca 1920 in California.
+    7    iii.     Clinton Brooke was born ca 1858.
+    8     iv.    Horace Ray Brooke was born 31 Dec 1860.
+    9      v.    William Lee Brooke was born ca 1862.




Third Generation

      5. Howard3 Brooke (Margaret Truman2 Oxley, Joel1) was born 1853. Howard died ca 1906. He married twice. He married Mate Stratton ca 1889. He married Marilla.

      Howard Brooke and Mate Stratton had the following child:

      10      i.     Nell4 Brooke was born 1890. Nell died 1918 at 28 years of age.



      7. Clinton 3 Brooke (Margaret Truman2 Oxley, Joel1) was born ca 1858. He married Elizabeth Battelle.

      Clinton Brooke and Elizabeth Battelle had the following children:

      11      i.     Marie4 Brooke. Marie died 1892 aged 8 months.
      12     ii.     Truman Goff Brooke.
      13    iii.     Clinton Lee Brooke.
      14     iv.     Elizabeth Brooke.

      8. Horace Ray3 Brooke (Margaret Truman2 Oxley, Joel1) was born in Newark, Licking Co, Oh 31 Dec 1860. Horace died 16 Sept 1915 in Gillette, Campbell Co, Wy, at 54 years of age. He married Ann Hughes. Ann was born 6 Aug 1862. Ann died 1935.

      Horace Ray Brooke and Ann Hughes had the following children:

      15      i.     Margaret Oxley4 Brooke was born in Newark, Licking Co, Oh 1882.
      16     ii.     Sarah Alice Brooke was born in Minneapolis, Minn 1884.
      17    iii.     Ray Alpha Brooke was born in Minneapolis, Minn 1886.
      18     iv.     Lenora Bertha Brooke was born in Minneapolis, Minn 1888.
      19      v.     Hazel May Brooke was born in Minneapolis, Minn 1890.
      20     vi.     Frances Gertrude Brooke was born in St. Paul, Minn 1893.
      21    vii.     Thomas Goff Brooke was born in St. Paul, Minn 1895.
      22   viii.     Dorothy Brooke was born in Minneapolis, Minn 1898. Dorothy died at birth.
      23     ix.     Katherine Elizabeth Brooke was born in Minneapolis, Minn 1900.
      24      x.     Anna Miriam Brooke was born in Minneapolis, Minn 1902.

      9. William Lee3 Brooke (Margaret Truman2 Oxley, Joel1) was born ca 1862. He married Kathryn Webster ca 1906.

      William Lee Brooke and Kathryn Webster had the following children:

      25      i.     Webster Lee4 Brooke. Webster died in childhood.
      26     ii.     Robert Oxley Brooke.
      27    iii.     Philip Lee Brooke was born 1912. Philip died 1965 in Minneapolis, Minn.


Notes:

1 In the history of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, ed. by Franklin Ellis, 1882, vol.1, pp.480-81, appears the following: "The first schools of Bridgeport were under the auspices of the Friends who lived there, and the earliest teacher of whom any knowledge can be gained at the present day was Joseph Oxley, a Quaker, and a man of no little fame as a mathematician, who taught in a building that stood near the site of the grist-mill of Mason Rogers & Co." ... "Not only were the Quakers of Bridgeport the first to open a school in the town, but tha fact is also to be recorded that the first building erected here especially as a school-house was built by members of the Society of Friends, on their grounds on Prospect Street." In 1815, the town built a school on Second Street. Could this "Joseph" have been Joel?

2 Children of Henry and Hannah Troth includes Mary married 28 May 1817 to Joel Oxley. (Enclycopedia of American Quaker Genealogy by Wm. Wade hinshaw, Vol. IV, Ohio, p 118, redstone Monthly Meeting)

3 Lenora (Brooke Steinmetz, Descendants of Robert Brooke of Maryland (Centralia Washington, 1966), (hereafter cited as Steinmetz,Desc of Robert Brooke).

by Pamela Riccardi Paschke       November 29, 1999