Jack County, TX - History - J.F. Middlebrooks ********************************************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Dorman Holub Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ********************************************************************************** Jacksboro Gazette Jacksboro, Texas Thursday, March 25, 1909 J.F. Middlebrooks died Wednesday of heart failure. Mr. Middlebrooks was one of the oldest members of the Methodist church in Jacksboro and an old time citizen of Jacksboro, but for several years, had lived on his farm on West Fork, where he died. Mr. Middlebrooks was born 25 December 1847 in Jones county, Georgia. He was a farmer boy when the Confederacy called him into the field as a soldier in 1864. He joined Captain Tuff's company, Colonel Blunt's regiment, and went into the trenches before Atlanta in defense of Atlanta. He fought around Atlanta until it fell and soon afterwards surrendered at Macon, Georgia to be a part of Sheridan's army. When the war closed, he went back later, and continued there until 1872 to the farm, where he married a year when he moved to Panola county, Texas. Leaving Panola county, Texas in 1880, he landed in Jack county where he resided until his death. He was a member of the Confederate R.E. Lee Camp No. 1315. Obituaries of the Jacksboro newspapers