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Articles and Anecdotes
200 Years in Only Two Families
Newspaper
Article (Stanly News and Press, Tuesday, April 20, 1976) by Annie Hill Burris
about the original homestead of William Brooks I
Old King Pharoah Was Stoned
For Goring Man
Newspaper
Article (Stanly News and Press, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 1955) concerning the death
(1875) of King David Brooks by Pharoah the Bull and how "justice" was
delivered by the religious community.
Diary
of Alta Brooks, written in 1901
Transcribed
from SCGS Journal V, 2: p.213-5
This relates
to, Dora Alta Brooks, the daughter of William H. Brooks, son of James Brooks (1785-1829)
and Temperance Jane Tucker… Alta Brooks accompanied her mother on a trip back to
Stanly Co, NC in 1901 and kept this diary of the trip.
