Jesse Bradford Brooks of Cherokee Co, SC

Jesse Bradford Brooks was born about 1786. He is probably the son of William Brooks I. Jesse B. Brooks left Ansonville, Anson Co, NC in 1831 for "Grassy Pond," Cherokee Co, SC (then a part of Spartanburg District, SC). Jesse married c1810 Anne Phillips before leaving Anson Co, NC. He is rumored to have passed away in Dora, Walker Co, AL. Researcher for this family is Jim S. Brooks of Spartanburg, SC. Please contact him if you have information regarding this branch of the family. Or you can relay it through this site.

Children of Jesse Bradford Brooks and Anne Phillips:

James Brooks "went west"

John Brooks

b. 23 Dec 1822 Anson Co, NC? d. 12 Jul 1885 Rutherfordton, Rutherford Co, NC

William Wellington Brooks

went west as a child with sister Delilah and her husband, Lloyd, he married Rutha Lucinda Long and stayed in Winston County, Alabama

Cornelius Bradford Brooks

C.B. was apprenticed as a printer to Thomas Eccles in 1844 in Lincoln County,N.C. He was only 10. All the others seemed to stay in groups but him. He ran away in 1850 and is listed in the newspapers as such. He was then 16. He came to Darlington,S.C. and started a Newspaper called the FAMILY FRIEND. He had worked for the Darlington Flag. He married in 1859 and went to Texas and started the RISING SUN in Livingston, Polk Co, TX. The war started and he joined Wauls Texas Legion. Captured and paroled at Vicksburg. Assigned to Special Services and seems to have encountered Ben (Brooks) They would have been a good match. C.B. and Ben had a newspaper in Memphis called THE DAILEY REVIEW. C.B.'s wife ran a boarding house as her mother had in Darlington.(Her name was Eliza Jane Summerford). She died from illness in Memphis in 1867-illness derived from sinking of a river boat after the war when she and family were in the Mississippi several hours. C.B. moved to Searcy, AR AND Ben Brooks went to Nashville. C.B. is rumored to have been killed in 1870 in White County when KKK trouble erupted .Probably wrote something he regreted. (from Jim S. Brooks)

Delilah Brooks

Delilah, with husband Lloyd, settled in Jefferson, then Winston County, Alabama.

Emma Brooks

seems to have been spinster and died in Rutherford, N.C. about 1890

Mary Brooks

b.1840 d. 23 Aug 1920 Spartanburg, SC, married John Coan and stayed in Spartanburg, SC

Jemima Brooks

b. 1828 Anson Co, NC d. 23 June 1917 Cherokee Co, SC. Jemima Brooks Jones obit notice in Cherokee County stated that Jesse and Ann Phillips Brooks came down from "Ansonville" in 1831

Elizabeth Brooks

b. 1818 Anson Co, NC d. 1895 Jefferson Co, AL

m. Abisha Wilson (b. 1810) and moved to Jefferson and Winston County, AL. He died 1872 in Jefferson Co, AL

Nancy Brooks

Please see reference to Brooks-Bradford connection.

Records for Jesse Bradford Brooks:

1830 Anson Co, NC (1 male 5-10, 1 male 10-15, 1 male 40-50, 2 females <5, 1 female 5-10, 1 female 10-15, 1 female 15-20, 1 female 30-40)