Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Brooks, Leland F., 1944 

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LELAND FLEETWOOD BROOKS

LELAND BROOKS DIES IN ACTION

   Among war casualties coming close to our people are the recent death of 
Leland Brooks, a former Franklin boy, the son of Mr. and Mrs. B.A. Brooks of 
Bath, N.C., and the news that James Irving Beale, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. 
James Irving Beale, and Warren Beale, the son of Mrs. Chesley Beale and the 
late Chesley Beale, have been wounded while serving in General Patton’s Third 
Army in France, their wounds being described in telegrams from the War 
Department as "slight."

  Leland Fleetwood of this town, uncle of the Brooks boy, was notified of his 
death by wire Saturday.  He had been in the service for some time and was with 
the Glenn L. Martin Aircraft Company in Baltimore before enlisting in the 
armed services.  For several years his parents have been living in Bath, N.C., 
and he is also survived by a sister, Mrs. Dorothy Brooks Tankard, of that 
town.  It was not possible to secure other particulars of the death of this 
young man.

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LELAND FLEETWOOD BROOKS

YOUTHFUL SOLDIER, KILLED IN 1944, IS LAID TO REST HERE

   The remains of T-4 Leland Fleetwood Brooks, AUS, who was killed while 
guarding a road leading into Nancy, France, on September 7, 1944, found a 
final resting place in the town of his birth on Wednesday afternoon of this 
week, when they were re-interred in the family plot in Poplar Spring Cemetery.

   Services were conducted at two o’clock Wednesday afternoon at the graveside 
by Rev. A.C.D. Noe, Episcopal rector of Bath, N.C., assisted by Rev. Randolph 
Gregory, pastor of the Franklin Baptist Church.

   The young soldier, who was attached to General Patton’s army, was the son 
of Braxton Arthur and Ruth Fleetwood Brooks of Bath, N.C., formerly of 
Franklin.  He was inducted into the army shortly after graduating from Bath 
High School at 18 years of age.  He received his basic training at Camp 
Jackson, N.C., before going overseas.

   Besides his parents he is survived by one sister, Mrs. Dorothy Brooks 
Tankard of Bath; five uncles, Leland Fleetwood of Franklin, Jack Fleetwood of 
Durham, N.C., C. Burton Fleetwood of Marion, S.C., Harry Brooks of Pantego, 
N.C., and Denton Brooks of Yeatesville, N.C.; and one aunt, Mrs. W.A. Tankard 
of Bath, N.C.

   The remains were accompanied to Franklin by Sgt. Everett C. McClintock, who 
was one of the pallbearers.  Other pallbearers were Walter Beaman, Robert 
Beale, Cyrus Beale, James Beale, John Allen Daughtrey, James Campbell and J. 
Irving Beale, 3rd.


Leland Fleetwood BROOKS, of Bath, NC, 
b. Franklin, KIA 7 Sep 1944, near Nancy, France, age 20, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 1, Plot 71*), Franklin, 
   15 Dec 1948, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Oct. 6, 1944, p. 1; 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Dec. 17, 1948, p. 1 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar1.txt 

His mother's obit ("Tidewater News," July 14, 1969, p. 2) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b620r3ob.txt 

Both of the other soldiers survived the war and are buried in Poplar Spring- 
   James I. BEALE, Jr. (1895-1950) is in Section 1, Plot 42; 
   Warren S. BEALE (Sr.) (1923-2004) is in Annex 3, Section C, Plot 5B: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx3.txt 


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