Henry-Paulding-Haralson County GaArchives Obituaries.....Brooks, Elisha July 5, 1878
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"The Carroll County Times"
Carrollton, Carroll Co., Georgia

NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, JULY 19, 1878 
 
DRAKETOWN News 
 
Elisha Brooks, one of our oldest and best citizens is dead. Peace to his 
ashes! He was one of the first settlers of Draketown, and named the place 
Draketown from Ducktown, Tenn., remarking at the time that the Drake of 
Georgia would beat the Duck of Tennessee, meaning that there would be more 
copper found here than at Ducktown, which is likely. 
 
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OBITUARY OF ELISHA BROOKS 
 
Elisha Brooks died at his home in Draketown, Ga., July 5th 1878 of billious 
fever, age 92 years, one month and eight days. He was born in Warren county, 
Georgia, May 27th 1786. When quite young he moved from there to Putnam county, 
thence to Jasper, thence to Henry and lastly to Paulding, now Haralson, in the 
year 1832. He enlisted and fought in the war of 1812. Married Francis Mosely, 
sister of elder William Mosely, June 2nd 1814. He joined the Primitive Baptist 
church in 1828, fifty years ago, and has been a consistent and faithful member 
ever since, not having had a charge brought against him since he has been a 
member. 
 
Out of twelve children, only five survive him. Uncle Elisha, as he was 
familiarly called, has been a most useful member of society in general, having 
held important offices of trust the greater portion of his life, in the 
performance of which he evinced a firmness and stability of character that is 
rarely equaled. He has served as Judge of the Inferior Court, Clerk of the 
Court of Ordinary, Tax Collector and Justice of the Peace for a number of 
years. The peculiar traits of his character were firmness, truth, temperance, 
a quick and decisive discrimination between right and wrong and a manifest 
disposition to stand firmly by that which was right. In truth and in the 
strictest sense of the word he certainly was one of nature's noblemen, an 
honest man, which is the noblest work of God. No one who knew him doubts but 
that he was a christian. But then; 
 
" Our good old friend is gone, gone to his rest 
 
Where social converse was, itself, a feast, 
 
O ye his friends who recollect, 
 
How once ye loved and eyed with respect, 
 
Both in the firmness of his better day 
 
While yet he ruled you with a father's sway, 
 
And when impaired by time and glad to rest, 
 
Yet still with looks in mild complacence dressed, 
 
He took his daily walk and mingled here, 
 
His sprightly vein with yours, now drop a tear." 
 
W.C. McBrayer 


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