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Family tradition from The Biographical & Historical Memoirs Of Muskingum County OH pages 398-399 The Muskingum Valley is one of the most fertile agricultural regions of the state of Ohio, and in Salt Creek Township, near this locality, Milton Clay Brookover Is the owner of 136 acres, which he tills in a careful manner, and is also engaged in the buying and selling of stock. He is of German decent and traces his ancestry back to JACOB BROOKOVER, who was born in Germany on the 29th of February 1738, near the Rhine River. At quite an early age he left Germany, with the rest of his fathers family to come to this country, and after a long journey of seventeen weeks (all of his family but himself having died on the voyage), he landed on the American shores. The ship on which he sailed was manned by a desperate crew, who attempted to starve the passengers to death, and were only prevented from doing so by the threats of the passengers to throw the captain of the vessel overboard unless he reached land in time. Jacob Brookover learned the tailor trade in Maryland; afterward married, and raised a family of eight children. Three of his sons served in the Revolutionary War, one being in the regular army. After the close of the war he moved to Virginia and afterward, to Ohio where he died at the age of eighty-nine years. Richard Brookover his son, and father of Milton Clay Brookover was born in Fredericksburg, MD, Oct 26, 1771, was a farmer and carpenter by occupation.................

Family tradition
from The Biographical & Historical Memoirs Of Muskingum County OH pages 398-399

The Muskingum Valley is one of the most fertile agricultural regions of the state of Ohio, and in Salt Creek Township, near this locality, Milton Clay Brookover Is the owner of 136 acres, which he tills in a careful manner, and is also engaged in the buying and selling of stock. He is of German decent and traces his ancestry back to JACOB BROOKOVER, who was born in Germany on the 29th of February 1738, near the Rhine River. At quite an early age he left Germany, with the rest of his fathers family to come to this country, and after a long journey of seventeen weeks (all of his family but himself having died on the voyage), he landed on the American shores.

The ship on which he sailed was manned by a desperate crew, who attempted to starve the passengers to death, and were only prevented from doing so by the threats of the passengers to throw the captain of the vessel overboard unless he reached land in time. Jacob Brookover learned the tailor trade in Maryland; afterward married, and raised a family of eight children. Three of his sons served in the Revolutionary War, one being in the regular army. After the close of the war he moved to Virginia and afterward, to Ohio where he died at the age of eighty-nine years. Richard Brookover his son, and father of Milton Clay Brookover was born in Fredericksburg, MD, Oct 26, 1771, was a farmer and carpenter by occupation.................

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