There is not a whole lot that I know about this particular family as far as occupation, children and that sort of thing. Just starting that part of this tree search. But I can tell you that the family is Brinkert.
William Brinkert was the son of Jacob J Brinkert and Margaret Imlay. He was born in Ontario, Canada on 4 March 1879. In 1910 I can find William living in Clark County, Washington, and my Great Grandfather's hand written entry for William in the family Bible says that William was married to Elsa who was born in Michigan about 1884, whom he married about 1905, location unknown.
George (my g-grpa) was William's brother. George wrote that William Brinkert died in Grass Valley, Oregaon, and did not even mention the date. So this is where my part of the research is beginning. I am hoping to locate several items to help document the tree. I am looking for William Brinkert's death record, obituary, burial location, and hopefully those bits will lead me to know if he had children, when and where he married Elsa and who she was, what he did for an occupation, and more of that sort of thing.
Jacob Brinkert was a poor farmer, and his wife, Margaret Imlay was a Scottish Immigrant. Jacob's father was John Philip Brinkert, a German Immigrant to Canada. Around the turn of the century, most of Jacob and Margaret's children (15 total children for the couple) migrated into the United States. I hired a Canadian researcher to get me information on the familiy while they lived in Ontario, have relatives that have helped with the Michigan branches that settled there, and am now working on this branch. I do believe that William may have come with more of his mother's relatives, the Imlay's to the west. Imlay was pronounced like the girls name Emily.
I have several generations worth of records for the Imlay family tree as well, from Scotland.