Crooks Genealogy
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Crooks Line
The earliest Crooks line is found in Kentucky in the mid 1700s. Jacob Crooks (1790-1853) fought in the War of 1812. When the war was over, he married Hannah Croy (1798-1881) in Ohio in 1816, then they settled in Knox County and then Clay County Indiana. In the mid 1840s, the family moved to Iowa and settled in Boone County. William C. Crooks (1830-1862) was the 5th of Jacob & Hannah's 8 children. William 1st married Elizabeth Hamilton and had 2 sons. When Elizabeth died, he married Charity Mullen (1836-1906) and had 1 son. Charity's family was in PA in the early 1800s, in Ohio in the 1830s, then settled in Cumberland County Illinois in 1850. We don't know how Charity came to Iowa to marry William Crooks. William Crooks was killed in the Civil War (Battle of Shiloh). William & Charity's only son George Crooks married Myrtie Carlton in 1878 and they moved near her parents in Bourbon County, KS. George's mother Charity and her 2nd husband John Spickelmire moved from Iowa to Rawlins County KS in 1880, hearing that there were railroad jobs to be available for a RR going through Achilles. In 1885, George Crooks & family moved to Rawlins County, along with his in-laws Ezra Carlton & family. In 1905, George moved his family to Maricopa County AZ, with only his oldest daughter Maggie remaining behind (she married Leo Agan and remained in Rawlins Co KS).
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