Old Brooks Family Cemetery

New Salem Township, Union County, North Carolina

Located off New Salem Rd. behind New Hope Baptist Church

Once called Bigfoot there are very few legible

stones there now. The earliest appears to be 1842.

Listed by Margie Williams Baucom.

Confirmed by Ann Medlin Price & Louise B. Shirley  Mar 13, 2006

From the cemetery files of Ann M. Price

Austin, C.C.

     [s/o Bryant and Mariah Austin]

Died 1853-Age 21, years

Austin, Christopher C.

Jan 31, 1832-Sept 24, 1853

   Age 21 years 7 months 23 days

    [s/o Bryant and Mariah Austin]

Austin, Hester

     [d/o Bryant and Mariah Austin]

Aug 8, 1833-Jan 23, 1853

Austin, Maria

   [Mariah Tarlton Austin, w/o Bryant Austin]

Jan 6, 1806-May 15, 1876

Austin, Wade

1838-1869

B.W.P.

Feb 1800-Dec 1857

Brooks, Davidson

1815-1889

   S/o William & Mary Brooks

   (Davidson Brooks married first Kiziah Tarlton

   Polk in 1842. He married second Nancy A.

   Pyron Sept 28, 1869 and third Nancy Griffin ,

   d/o Charles P. Griffin, Aug 16, 1871. The total

   of children with his three wives was 26. Nine of

   them are buried here)

Brooks, Kiziah Tarlton Polk

1825-1864

   W/o Davidson Brooks

   ("Kizzie" Melinda Tarlton married first at age 16

   Colonel Thomas Polk, Revolutionary War

   soldier. She was the granddaughter of a full

   blooded Waxhaw Indian)

Brooks, Millard Jefferson [1]

March 31, 1889-Nov 20, 1906

Brooks, Nancy A. Pyron (Angeline)

1847-1871

   2nd wife of Davidson Brooks, daughter of

   Samuel and Clarinda Pyron

CHILDREN OF DAVIDSON BROOKS:

Brooks, Eliza Jane

1849-Only Date

Brooks, Emeline [b. Sep 24, 1859]

1859-1860

Brooks, Infant

1864-1864

Brooks, Infant

1884-1884

Brooks, Lucy [b. Sep 1, 1844]

1844-1860

Brooks, Mary Elizabeth [b. Apr 27, 1848]

1848-Only Date

Brooks, Mary Isabelle [b. Apr 1, 1842]

1842-1842

Brooks, Tabitha (Bitha)

     [Tabitha Katherine Brooks b.May 14, 1856]

1856-Only Date

Brooks, William (Billy) [b. Oct 24, 1853]

1853-Only Date

Brooks, Paul Keesler

No Information

   S/o James Thomas & Martha Smith Brooks

     [Oct 27, 1885-Aug 7, 1886 also has tombstone at

     New Hope Baptist Church]

Haigler, Hiram s/o R.N. Haigler

July 29, 1885-Feb 7, 1886

Haigler, Marcie Reta

1859-1860

Haigler, Margaret A. [died from flux]

Mar 4, 1859-May 24, 1860

Helms, C.P. [Cull Pepper Helms, s/o Calvin and

     Margaret Helms]

Aug 14, 1851-Aug 14, 1924

Helms, M.J. Dulan w/o C.P. Helms

    [Jane Lemmond, d/o John T. Lemmond and

    Sarina Dulin]

Jan 9, 1849-Dec 5, 1910

M.E.M.

Died June 16, 1858

M.M.T.

July 13, 1892-May 11, 1894

Mullis, Calvin

     [also has tombstone at New Hope Baptist 

     Church]

Feb 11, 1818-Apr 7, 1883

Mullis, C.N.

Died June 18, 1858

Pusser, J.W.

May 10, 1857-Feb 10, 1873

Pusser, N.W.

Died 1872

Rushing, E.

Died July 26, 1858-Age 1 year

S.T. (The S is backward on the stone)

1856-Only Information

Simpson, S.A.

Sept 18, 1878-Only Date

Tarlton, C.W.  

     [possibly Caldwell Tarlton who d.1859 of

     Typhoid Fever, bro/o Kiziah Malinda Tarlton]

Died July 10, 1859-Age 22 Years

T.K. or K.T.

1842-Only date

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This page created June 17, 2008 by Julie Hampton Ganis – updated June 4, 2010