When my father was a child in the 1920′s & 1930′s, he worked at Brookhill Farm in the summers as well as visiting, as his cousins worked there. Some of their names were: Thomas Parker, Frank J. Parker & Robert Parker. I have a brochure from a farmers’ fair in Clarksville with Thomas Parker listed as in charge of at least some part of it.

I have been doing genealogy for several years on my mother’s and father’s families in Lincoln & Pike Counties, MO. Sometimes a whole page of census reports are devoted to workers at Brookhill Farm & their families. Apparently some lived on the farm & others lived closeby in the Clopton area. The farm provided employment & no doubt training over the years for many in the area. My father’s appreciation for horses came from time spent there.

In the 1950′s, my family would travel to Louisiana, MO to visit relatives. We always took the road that passed Clopton School and Brookhill Farm. Daddy would tell stories about the Farm. There was a large stone house that Daddy said was cold in the winter. We loved looking at what we could see of the farm, driving by. It was such an idyllic place.

Looks like an interesting project.

For some of the details you seek on the “vitals” of people such as Walker, Lambert, Clopton, etc., you might want to do some searching around in my database: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=rodohu10

Also of possible interest might be my articles on some of the early, mostly unknown Walker Family history: http://genealogyinstlouis.accessgenealogy.com/RogerHughes.htm

From my in-computer notes, there’s this:

– A chair in economics was endowed in 1928 at Princeton by the Lamberts and others in memory of James Theodore (Teddy) Walker II (1906-27). Gerard B. Lambert gave a gift of $490,000. Overall, the endowment was at $690.000 as of 1930.

– George Lea Lambert, who’d piloted that plane in 1927 (he and Teddy Walker were 1st cousins), died just two years later in another plane crash. Here are two references …

* New York Times, July 30, 1929:
ST. LOUIS, July 29.–George Lea Lambert, 23-year-old vice president of the Von Hoffman Aircraft Corporation, and Harold C. Jones, 13, a student flier, of 249 West 103d Street, New York, were killed this morning when their dual-control Eagle Rock training biplane crashed near Black Jack, St. Louis County, about fifteen miles north of the downtown district.

* Time magazine, Aug 5 1929:
Died. George Lea Lambert, 23, of St. Louis, “Listerine” scion, vice president of Von Hoffman Aircraft Co., son of Major Albert Bond Lambert (official observer of the St. Louis Robin’s endurance flight); near Black Jack, Mo., when his plane crashed, killing also Student Pilot Harold Jones. Last year, flying from his graduation exercises at Princeton University, Airman Lambert crashed with his cousin and classmate, James Theodore Walker near Pottsville, Pa., killing Walker.

Regards,

Roger Hughes
Bloomington-Normal, Illinois

More charitably than Harold, they opine that:

Even though the script was ruthlessly edited by the censorship board, West managed to maintain her signature innuendo.

Similarly, in the Sept. 22, 1934 New York Times, reviewer Andre Sennwald writes:

Although Mae West has graciously permitted the New York censors to make an honest woman of her in her new picture, she has not adopted the emblematic blue-nose [...] it immediately takes its place among the best screen comedies of the year.