Brooklyn Township Family: Locke

MATCH MAKER: The Worthy Secretary of the Brooklyn Centre Good Templars was Alfred Locke [L447-LLZ].  Alfred would have been 21 years old when elected to that position, and his future wife, Rosa Fletcher [L447-LGK], was also an officer at that time (August 12, 1879), and was just age 15.  They married on 14 March, 1881, farmed forty acres in section 29, and had nine children.  Between 1905 and 1910, the family moved to the state of Washington; the couple died there. 

Alfred's brother, Samuel Eugene, remained in Brooklyn Township. In 1901 he sold his share of the Locke property --originally purchased by their parents, Jonah and Sarah (Brooks) Locke in 1875--and originally in today's Brooklyn Park, and moved on lots in Brooklyn Center; appears they lived about 63rd and Brooklyn Boulevard.  Samuel "Gene" [KZBF-SLT] had married Sarah Katheryn Green [K876-Y38] and they had four children who pretty much stayed in the area; especially their first: Olive (Locke) Ness.

Star Tribune 20 Aug 1967, Sun · Page 113

Samuel and Sarah's son Fred[K46L-L59] , had tentative employment, with the WPA, as a janitor, and ...as a bootlegger:

The Minneapolis Star 28 Apr 1930, Mon · Page 4

IS THIS THE CORRECT FRED LOCKE?

I believe it is as "he returned to Brooklyn Center in 1931."  

How fun.  The Minneapolis Star carried a great story in 1960 when Fred relayed his family history. As a forerunner, the origins of the Locke-Brooks family was Pennsylvania.  They migrated to Ohio, were briefly in Michigan, and then settle in Wright County, Minnesota....or however the area was delineated in 1854.  Mrs. Locke's father, Joseph Brooks, died at Silver Creek, (Wright County), and shortly after his death or maybe the Dakota Uprising, Jonah and Sarah Locke, and Sarah's mother and siblings, moved to Minneapolis. Jonah was a carpenter and tried his hand at having a grocery store.  It appears that after a couple years of the grocery business, he moved to section 29 of Brooklyn Township; and then he died within the year. 

The Minneapolis Star 20 Oct 1960, Thu · Page 7

Fred Locke was quite the storyteller as his grandfather died before he was born, his years in Montana are questionable, and the city directories document a lifestyle in Minneapolis before returning to his roots in Brooklyn Center. I wonder if he'd say he was a direct descendant of John Locke and let others think he was referring to 'The' John Locke.(1) 

(1)   John Locke 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism". 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke