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Kemper Brooks

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Kemper Brooks

Birth
Glen Rogers, Wyoming County, West Virginia, USA
Death
1972 (aged 94–95)
Welch, McDowell County, West Virginia, USA
Burial
Marianna, Wyoming County, West Virginia, USA Add to Map
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Kemper Brooks, 95, of Windon Road in Marianna died Monday night in a Welch hospital.

Born at Glen Rogers, July 16, 1877, he was a son of the late Franklin Pierce Brooks (1853-Deceased) and Emmanzetta Farmer-Brooks (1855-Deceased) (per WV Register of Births, Wyoming County, WV, 1877, Page 29, Line 12); brother of Christopher Brooks (1875-Deceased), Peter G. Brooks (1879-Deceased), Thurman Brooks (1879-Deceased), Ollie J. Brooks (1880-Deceased), Nancy J. Brooks (1882-Deceased), Clayton Brooks (1885-Deceased), Robert Lee Brooks (1888-Deceased), James L. Brooks (1892-Deceased), & John Dee Brooks (1894-1991). He was a retired saw mill worker.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Sarah "Ellen" Brooks-Brooks (1880-Deceased) whom he married on September 27, 1898 in Wyoming County, WV (per WV Marriage License Register, Wyoming County, WV, 1898, Page 305, Application Date: September 26, 1898); and his sons, Lonnie Franklin Brooks (1899-1958), Arthur H. Brooks (1904-1938), and Coy Clayton Brooks (1916-1939); and daughter, Glenna Fay Brooks-Tucker (1913–1964).

Survivors include two daughters, Pansy Brooks-Mankin (1908-1992) of Bolt, and Lila Mae Brooks (1910-2005) of Marianna; one son, Lida Lee Brooks (1902-1975) of St. Augustine, FL; and one foster son, Jimmy Workman of Nashville, TN.

Burial will be in Brooks Cemetery on Windon Road in Marianna.

[Beckley Post-Herald (no date other than 1972)]
Kemper Brooks, 95, of Windon Road in Marianna died Monday night in a Welch hospital.

Born at Glen Rogers, July 16, 1877, he was a son of the late Franklin Pierce Brooks (1853-Deceased) and Emmanzetta Farmer-Brooks (1855-Deceased) (per WV Register of Births, Wyoming County, WV, 1877, Page 29, Line 12); brother of Christopher Brooks (1875-Deceased), Peter G. Brooks (1879-Deceased), Thurman Brooks (1879-Deceased), Ollie J. Brooks (1880-Deceased), Nancy J. Brooks (1882-Deceased), Clayton Brooks (1885-Deceased), Robert Lee Brooks (1888-Deceased), James L. Brooks (1892-Deceased), & John Dee Brooks (1894-1991). He was a retired saw mill worker.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Sarah "Ellen" Brooks-Brooks (1880-Deceased) whom he married on September 27, 1898 in Wyoming County, WV (per WV Marriage License Register, Wyoming County, WV, 1898, Page 305, Application Date: September 26, 1898); and his sons, Lonnie Franklin Brooks (1899-1958), Arthur H. Brooks (1904-1938), and Coy Clayton Brooks (1916-1939); and daughter, Glenna Fay Brooks-Tucker (1913–1964).

Survivors include two daughters, Pansy Brooks-Mankin (1908-1992) of Bolt, and Lila Mae Brooks (1910-2005) of Marianna; one son, Lida Lee Brooks (1902-1975) of St. Augustine, FL; and one foster son, Jimmy Workman of Nashville, TN.

Burial will be in Brooks Cemetery on Windon Road in Marianna.

[Beckley Post-Herald (no date other than 1972)]


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