Old Brooks Family Cemetery |
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New Salem Township, Union County, North Carolina |
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Located off New Salem Rd. behind New
Hope Baptist Church |
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Once called Bigfoot there are very few legible stones
there now. The earliest appears to be 1842. |
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Listed by Margie Williams Baucom. Confirmed by Ann
Medlin Price & Louise B. Shirley Mar 13, 2006 |
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From the cemetery files of Ann M.
Price |
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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] |
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[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 |
Feb 1800-Dec 1857 |
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1815-1889 |
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S/o William & Mary Brooks |
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(Davidson Brooks married first Kiziah Tarlton |
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Polk in 1842. He married second Nancy A. |
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Pyron Sept 28, 1869 and third Nancy Griffin
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d/o Charles P. Griffin, Aug 16, 1871. The
total |
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of children with his three wives was 26. Nine
of |
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them are buried here) |
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1825-1864 |
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W/o Davidson Brooks |
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("Kizzie" Melinda Tarlton married first at age 16 |
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Colonel Thomas Polk, Revolutionary War |
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soldier. She was the granddaughter of a full |
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blooded Waxhaw Indian) |
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Brooks, Millard Jefferson [1] |
March 31, 1889-Nov 20, 1906 |
Brooks,
Nancy A. Pyron (Angeline) |
1847-1871 |
2nd wife of Davidson Brooks, daughter of |
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Samuel and Clarinda Pyron |
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CHILDREN OF DAVIDSON
BROOKS: |
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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] |
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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 |
May 10, 1857-Feb 10, 1873 |
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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 |
This page created
June 17, 2008 by Julie Hampton Ganis
– updated June 4, 2010 |
[1] - Per Ron and Gail Austin: His grave was the first one on the right of the path into the cemetery (unmarked grave).