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Mrs. S.
P. Brooks, of Waco, was
born in Johnson County, Texas. Her
parents came from Louisiana just after the Civil War. Her father, \V.
F. Sims, was a farmer of retiring disposition, and was for four years
a Confederate soldier of experience on many battlefields, and a
Christian gentleman of high merit. He lived to be 78 years of age. Her
mother was educated in Keatchie College, but in a practical fashion
reared to maturity a family of five sons and three daughters. She yet
lives near Cleburne.
Mrs. Brooks was educated in living's
Select School for women. She was a teacher for several years in the
public schools of Cleburni1,
having the friendship of all who knew her. She was married to S. I.
Brooks, of Waco, a teacher in Baylor University, who was afterwards
elected president of that institution.
She has met well every detail of the manifold duties required
of her in the twenty years of married life. She has two children—Anrelia.
a senior in the Waco High School, and Sims Palmer in the grammar
grade.
With her husband she has traveled much throughout the United States and
Mexico. She lives at 1024 Speight Street, Waco, where she often
entertains the Faculty, officers and students of Bavlor, as well as
her many friends in the city. -- Texas Women’s Hall of Fame, edited by
Sinclair Moreland, 1917 |
