Links to parents sent by Alberta Knotts ( 47361965)

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Glasco Sun, Sept. 5, 1885, page 4:

Suicided

About two o'clock Wednesday afternoon, J.D. Brassfield was discovered by his family hanging in a young cottonwood tree, about one hundred yards southeast of his house. They cut him down and one of the boys hurriedly notified the neighbors.

The last his family had seen of him was between ten and eleven o'clock in the forenoon, and had supposed he had gone to one of the neighbors.

The deceased had taken a halter and fastened it to the top of the tree about twelve feet from the ground, climbing the tree with his boots on, and then as everything was fixed satisfactory to him, took off his boots and stood them a few feet from the tree selected for his own destruction. He again climbed the tree, adjusted the noose around his neck and swung himself into eternity. The only reason for this rash step is that he was working under a temporary spell of insanity, which seemed to trouble him every fall, yet no one supposed that it would ever cause him to plan or carry out his own destruction.

John Brassfield was a good man, industrious and prosperous. A good neighbor, a loving husband, and a kind father, and to whose family the sympathy of the entire community is extended in this their darkest hour of sorrow.

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Cloud County Cemetery Book, Volume 4, page 155:

41 yr 11 mo 26 da; husband of Mattie

last name listed as Branfield

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Private, Company M, 7th Iowa Cavalry. Enlisted January 13, 1865. Transferred to Company M, 7th Iowa Cavalry (reorganized). [No date of discharge found. See, Roster & Record of Iowa Soldiers in the War of Rebellion.]

Sent by Roger Adams, (46562712)