Per his death certificate found on Ancestry.com: he was a son of J. H. Brooks and Jane Adams. He was single. He was a R. R. Conductor. He died of pulmonary tuberculosis. The informant was E. L. Brooks of Ninety Six, SC.
Found in The State 18 July 1915: News has been received with sorrow by numbers of friends in Columbia of the death yesterday, after a long illness, of Carroll Brooks at Roselands, the home in Greenwood county (formerly Edgefield) of his deceased parents, Capt. and Mrs. J. Hampden Brooks. Mr. Brooks was about 45 years old. In his youth he was a student of the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., and later entered the railroad service, having been a conductor of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad company until his health failed two or three years ago. He was a high-spirited, brave gentleman, full of tenderness and courtesy, to whom all who knew him were greatly attached-one who kept the faith of the race from which he was sprung. His long illness he bore with patience and sweetness and those who were of the wide circle of his friends will remember him with affection. Of his surviving sisters and brothers are: Mrs. J. Q. Marshall, Mrs. William Shannon, Mrs. B. R. Heyward and Berrien and Larry Brooks of Columbia, and Loudon Brooks of Roselands. The interment will be in Elmwood, this city, at 6 o'clock this afternoon.
Found in The State 18 July 1915: News has been received with sorrow by numbers of friends in Columbia of the death yesterday, after a long illness, of Carroll Brooks at Roselands, the home in Greenwood county (formerly Edgefield) of his deceased parents, Capt. and Mrs. J. Hampden Brooks. Mr. Brooks was about 45 years old. In his youth he was a student of the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., and later entered the railroad service, having been a conductor of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad company until his health failed two or three years ago. He was a high-spirited, brave gentleman, full of tenderness and courtesy, to whom all who knew him were greatly attached-one who kept the faith of the race from which he was sprung. His long illness he bore with patience and sweetness and those who were of the wide circle of his friends will remember him with affection. Of his surviving sisters and brothers are: Mrs. J. Q. Marshall, Mrs. William Shannon, Mrs. B. R. Heyward and Berrien and Larry Brooks of Columbia, and Loudon Brooks of Roselands. The interment will be in Elmwood, this city, at 6 o'clock this afternoon.
Per his death certificate found on Ancestry.com: he was a son of J. H. Brooks and Jane Adams. He was single. He was a R. R. Conductor. He died of pulmonary tuberculosis. The informant was E. L. Brooks of Ninety Six, SC.
Found in The State 18 July 1915: News has been received with sorrow by numbers of friends in Columbia of the death yesterday, after a long illness, of Carroll Brooks at Roselands, the home in Greenwood county (formerly Edgefield) of his deceased parents, Capt. and Mrs. J. Hampden Brooks. Mr. Brooks was about 45 years old. In his youth he was a student of the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., and later entered the railroad service, having been a conductor of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad company until his health failed two or three years ago. He was a high-spirited, brave gentleman, full of tenderness and courtesy, to whom all who knew him were greatly attached-one who kept the faith of the race from which he was sprung. His long illness he bore with patience and sweetness and those who were of the wide circle of his friends will remember him with affection. Of his surviving sisters and brothers are: Mrs. J. Q. Marshall, Mrs. William Shannon, Mrs. B. R. Heyward and Berrien and Larry Brooks of Columbia, and Loudon Brooks of Roselands. The interment will be in Elmwood, this city, at 6 o'clock this afternoon.
Found in The State 18 July 1915: News has been received with sorrow by numbers of friends in Columbia of the death yesterday, after a long illness, of Carroll Brooks at Roselands, the home in Greenwood county (formerly Edgefield) of his deceased parents, Capt. and Mrs. J. Hampden Brooks. Mr. Brooks was about 45 years old. In his youth he was a student of the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., and later entered the railroad service, having been a conductor of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad company until his health failed two or three years ago. He was a high-spirited, brave gentleman, full of tenderness and courtesy, to whom all who knew him were greatly attached-one who kept the faith of the race from which he was sprung. His long illness he bore with patience and sweetness and those who were of the wide circle of his friends will remember him with affection. Of his surviving sisters and brothers are: Mrs. J. Q. Marshall, Mrs. William Shannon, Mrs. B. R. Heyward and Berrien and Larry Brooks of Columbia, and Loudon Brooks of Roselands. The interment will be in Elmwood, this city, at 6 o'clock this afternoon.
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