Isle of Wight-Nansemond-Prince George County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Brooks, James O., 1945 

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RITES HELD FOR HOLLAND YOUTH 

James Brooks Killed By Gun 

  SUFFOLK, Sept. 24. - Funeral services for James O. Brooks, 15, Holland, who 
shot himself accidentally on Saturday, will be held at 3:30 today at the I.O. 
Hill and Company Funeral Home, in Suffolk. 

  The youth was killed instantly when a bullet went through his right eye into 
his head, according to Dr. C.H. Dawson, county coroner, who examined the body. 
He was going squirrel hunting with a companion when they stopped to clean the 
gun on the farm of Mr. and Mrs. G.C. Wright, with whom the boy made his home 
for three years. 

  Dr. I.W. Johnson will officiate.  Burial will be in the Antioch Church 
cemetery in Isle of Wight County. 

  He is survived by his father, Willie Brooks, of Hopewell; his mother, Mrs. 
C.L. Turner, of Windsor; a sister, Mrs. Edna Brooks, of Meyerhoff, N.C.; a 
brother, William E. Brooks, of U.S. Army; an aunt, Mrs. J.W. Brinkley, of 
Windsor, and a grandfather, Charles Edward Brooks, of Hopewell. 


James O. BROOKS, 
son of John Willie BROOKS & Josephine Bell (FOREHAND BROOKS) TURNER, 
b. 1930, Hopewell, accidently shot self 22 Sep 1945, at home, Holland, 
interred in Antioch Christian Church Cemetery*, near Windsor, 9 Sep 1945, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 30, No. "336" [sic; 36], 
   Mon., Sep. 24, 1945, p. 8 

*Additional information: 

Antioch list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society 
   {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/antioch.txt 
   Isle of Wight County Historical Society {IWCHS} 
   Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTF} report #20: 
   http://www.iwchs.com/Cemetery-Reports.html 

His gravestone shows b. 16 Jan 1930.  A photo is posted with Find a Grave 
   Memorial #104717700. 

D.Cert. 19947 (Holy Neck #279) gives b. 10 Feb 1930. 

His father & step-mother & paternal grandmother are also buried at Antioch. 

His mother is buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Norfolk. 
   Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives, Forest Lawn list: 
http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/norfolkcity/cemeteries/forestlawn/flc09-thr-tyl.html 

He appears as James R. in the 1940 Census - Windsor Dist., Isle of Wight Co. 
   - with maternal aunt & uncle James Preston & Geneva Ellie (FOREHAND) 
   BRINKLEY. 

His estranged parents re-married, then re-married their second spouses. 
   The records are quite confusing. 


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