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Reverend Edgar Marcelus Brooks
Son of Culpeper
P. Brooks and Louisa Lowery Allen
Served as Baptist
Minister / Circuit Preacher.
Wrote History of the Brooks of Union Co, NC, History of the Rocky
River Baptist Church and numerous other scholarly works including articles
in the Baptist Journals of the times.
Rev. E. M. Brooks also hosted many Brooks
family reunions and prepared the history of our family in 1925. Picture taken c1925.
Rev. E.M. Brooks & his wife,
Emma Eugenia Morton
Married
Emma Morton (
Rev. David Stanly Morton and Mary
Jane Tucker
Picture taken c1941
The following photograph is a picture of Rev. E. M. Brooks’ family at
one of the reunions dating at about 1939:
Back row: left to right: ?, Julian Allen
Brooks, ? Poplin, ?, Cullen Paul Brooks, Mary Brooks,
Bottom Row, left to right: Baylus Cade Brooks Sr., ?, ?, Theodosia
Ernest Morton Poplin (wife of "Brack"
Poplin), ?, ?, Dr. Robert Edgar Brooks, Edgar Macon Brooks, ?
A slightly later reunion picture…
This picture was taken by my Dad (Baylus Cade Brooks Sr.) so, he's
not in it. J But, here's who is: top row, left to right: Edward Ford Graham, Cullen Paul Brooks, Mallie Hawley Brooks, Edgar Macon Brooks; second row, left to right: Maryleigh Runge Brooks, Rev. E. M. Brooks, Emma Eugenia Morton
Brooks, Clara Jean Brooks Graham; bottom
row, left to right: Dr. Robert Edgar
Brooks, Gladys Graham, Nancy Lee Brooks, Julian Allen Brooks. This picture was taken c1941 at Rev. E. M.
Brooks' residence in