Bracketed numbers following peoples' names are identification numbers.
I included them here in case you would like to follow any of these people in the various family trees located on this site. The ID numbers are a great help since the given names are quite repetitive. This became the basis of my research. Yes, both of these brothers were my great-great grandfathers. You see, my grandfather and my grandmother were 2nd cousins, which has led my family research in circles . . .