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Author: N. K. Rogers
BROOKS

Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Brooks

    Mr. and Mrs. Brooks were natives of this county and spent the greater
portion of their lives here.

    Mr. Brooks and his brother Thos. E. were reared by-"Aunt Patsy" Cobb, whose
daughter Angelina, their mother, died when they were small children. Their
father, Charles Brooks, went to Alabama, married a second time and had a family
there.

    The care and devotion of their grandmother were rewarded by the knowledge
that "Pack and Tom" were cheerfully practicing the Christian virtues as taught
by precept and example. For "Aunt Patsy" lived to see these beloved grandsons
happily married and living of sobriety, honesty, and uprightness.

    When he was comparatively a young man, Mr. Thos. E. Brooks with his family
removed to Americus, Ga., where his widow died recently.

    J. P. Brooks married Vandora Osteen Nov. 25, 1875 and they continued to live
in this county until their children were grown and settled in life.

    Mrs. Brooks was a daughter of Gabriel and Zillianne Osteen, kindly,
Christian people and staunch supporters of Harmony Missionary Baptist Church.

    Mr. and Mrs. Brooks, while not possessing much of this world's goods during
the early days of their wedded life, made a home which impressed all who entered
it as one of happiness and good cheer. Mrs. Stella Osteen says it was one of the
pleasantest places to visit that she ever saw. It was one of the most popular
places in Cusseta for, although Mrs. Brooks, on account of her duties and
frailty of body, rarely left home. the friends and neighbors, both old and
young, liked to call and spend hours with her, A lover of flowers, their culture
proved a bond of congeniality between her and others whose tastes were similar.
But whether in her home or yard, the unstudied graciousness of her manner and
tranquility of spirit were magnets which drew all to her. She dispensed true
hospitality; for, as Dr. Howard says guests were at ease and never made to feel
that their entertainment was anything except a pleasure.

    Like many southern people of gentle blood who reared families during the
years immediately subsequent to civil war days, Mr. and Mrs. Brooks possessed a
true sense of values— unconsciously exemplifying the fact that a heritage
emphasizing human dignity and line character is more impressve than earthly
possessons for defining one's social status.

    The charm of this home was interwoven with the lives of the children, and
the daughters, Mrs. Cora Howard and Mrs. Mollie Holt pay their parents the high
tribute of believing mere words inadequate to express their appreciaton of the
persistent industry and cheerful courage which provided for the physical and
spiritual needs of that household.

    Their church held its rightful place in their well ordered lives; for Mrs.
Brooks eventually united with Mt. Olive, the church to which her husband had
been carried in his infancy and the fellowship of which meant so much to him as
the years passed. For years, when Mr. and Mrs. Brooks were among its leading
members, Rev. Hezekiah Bussey, the pastor, spent one week-end of each month at
their home.

    Unostentatious in their religious observances as in all phases of living
their family were more aware of its reality than of any outward form; so when
their son Belmont, who had reached young manhood, lay dying, he asked, "Papa,
are you praying for me?; to which Mr. Brooks replied, "Son, I am and I have
prayed for you every day since you were born." The other son, Tom, a salesman
who lives in Atlanta, has the same high regard as his sisters for the unstinted
care and devotion lavished upon them by their parents.

    In later years Mr. and Mrs. Brooks lived Columbus where he was a salesman
for Bush Hardware Co., to which work he carried much knowledge of the value of
tools acquired in practical experience as a mechanic.

    Their lives in Columbus were marred by the constant illness of Mrs. Brooks,
but their devotion and congeniality, remained the same throughout the years, and
Mr. Brooks survived her less than a year.

    All who knew them remember them as a genial, likable man and a quiet,
attractive woman who wrought well in the years allotted them for life's work.

    A wholesome optimism permeated the whole fabric of their lives and endures
in the lives of their children; and grand-children.


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HISTORY OF CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY, GEORGIA
By N. K. Rogers

Dedicated to

KASIHITA CHAPTER U. D. C.

and all worthy descendants of the County's first settlers.

Copyright 1933

by N. K. ROGERS

PRINTED   BY
COLUMBUS  OFFICE  SUPPLY CO. COLUMBUS, GA.

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