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From: "Dee Thompson" <>
Subject: [NCBLADEN-L] BROOKS of SC SEE LIST OF NAMES AT END
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 20:06:26 -0500

Judith,
In August of last year you asked me for anything on the plantations
Roselands and Leaside and "the elusive Brooks family"
(Edgefield/Newberry/Greenwood County,SC).
At the time I couldn't send you anything
but I have found two sources of information this afternoon and I'm as
thrilled as I would be if I had found my own elusive LeQueux family.
I'm also excited about using a recent acquisition, a106 year old book,
# 326.

>From #283
Old Roads, Communities, and House Seats in Greenwood County
Roselands on Highway 246 west of Ninety Six, first the home of
Whitfield Brooks, dates to 1849 and was in the Brooks family for three
generations before going to other owners. Leaside, not far away, was
the home of Whitfield's famous son, Preston S. Brooks.


>From # 326
Chapter III
"There were other early settlers in that part of Edgefield bordering
on Big Saluda and Persimmon Creek, not yet mentioned. These wee the
Perry's, Colemans, Trotters, Berrys, Nunns, Summerses, Rileys, and
McCartys, to say nothing as yet of the Brookses."

Chapter V
"It was at this school [Edgefield County] that I first saw Preston S.
Brooks, James C. Brooks, Thomas Butler, Butler Thompson, Burt Blocker,
Thomas Bird, Mahlon Padgett, two or three Tomkinses, W.W. Adams, and
many others. . "

General William Butler
". . . . .He had two sisters, Nancy and Elizabeth. The first married
Elisha Brooks, who was a lieutenant in the Revolution; the latter
married Zachariah Brooks, who also was a lieutenant in the Revolution
and subsequently a colonel of State cavalry. . . . "

Chapter VI
Muster Roll-Brook's Company
"General Butler's sister, Elizabeth, became the wife of Zachary Smith
Brooks, Lieutenant during the Revolution, and afterwards Colonel of
State Cavalry. As it may be possibly be of interest to some persons
now living, I give here the muster roll of a company of calvary
commanded by Col. Brooks while he was still only a captain. I greatly
regret that there is no date to the paper, but it is very old. . . it
must be full eighty, or ninety, or perhaps a hundred years old. . .
some of the names I cannot decipher and some are erased:. . [list of
names follows with some family information]"

Zachary Smith Brooks
"Captain Zachary Smith Brooks I remember seeing often in my youth and
early manhood. Zoar Methodist church, Persimmon Creek, as it was then
called, was one to which I frequently went in my youth. Col. Brooks
was a regular attendant. For many years, if my memory is not at fault
here, he was the only carriage in all that part of the country, and
the only one seen at that meeting house. It then seemed to me to be a
very grand sort of life to be able to ride to curch in a two horse
carriage with a servant driving. And then when the carriage stopped to
have him to let the steps down and help the master out. I remember the
horses were bay, with nicked tails, as was the fashion in those days.
I believe the first time I ever shook hands with Col. Brooks was at a
Baptist camp meeting at or near Mt. Enon. Carriages and buggies became
quite common in that community after awhile and the good old fashion
of riding horseback to church gradually gave way, though it is not
entirely abandoned yet. Horseback riding has its advantages - it gave
young folks such splendid opportunities of cutting one another out,
which I dare say, the girls enjoyed, but some of the boys, especially
those who were cut out, did not."

XXIV
Preston S. Brooks
"P.S. Brooks, son of Colonel Whitfield Brooks, and grandson of Colonel
Z. S. Brooks, of Big Creek, celebrated for his bravery and daring as a
Whig in the Revolution, was born at Edgefield Court House, August 6th,
1819, and died in Washington city while a member of Congress in 1856,
only a few months over thirty seven years of age. After the close of
the Mexican war, through which he served as Captain of a company
raised at Edgefield in the Palmetto Regiment, he was elected to the
Legislature, where he served one term, and was then elected as
Representative to Congress. He was a lawyer by profession, but
practiced only a little while. He was a farmer and made his home in
the country in the upper part of the District, not far from
Ninety-Six, near which place his mother lived.
He was educated at Mount Enon, Wilmington, and the South Carolina
College. This writer knew him well at Mount Ennon and all through his
public life. He was always a conspicuous figure. He died young. Had he
lived it is impossible to say what he would have been.
It is hoped that this writer will be pardoned for making mention here
that at Mount Ennon he formed a life-long acquaintance and friendship
with James C. Brooks, a brother, younger by a few years than Preston,
and not far from the same age of this writer."


Partial List of Names in this book with a great deal of information.
A.P. Butler's Family Bible
General William Butler
Christian Priber
Towles
Joseph Culbreath (father Edward)
Abneys
George and Sampson Pope
Dr. John Landrum
Colonel James C. Smyley
Colonel James P. Carroll
General R.G.M. Dunovant
Andrew J. Hammond
William Gregg
Colonel James B. Griffin
General Martin W. Gary
Colonel W.C. Moragne
Colonel James Tomkins
The Blocker Family
John B. Abney
Mark Madison Abney
Captain James Pope Bean
Major Cicero Adams
Joseph Matthew Abney
Joseph Abney
Joseph Haddon
Dietereig and Peter Ouzts

Dee
For details on the reference sources used for lookups, refer to this
link:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncbladen/lookups.htm

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