Brooks Cemetery

Duplin County, NC

Surveyed by Lillian and Pearl Houston November 2007




The following is a complete listing of the tombstones in the Brooks Cemetery in Duplin County, NC.

Location From Rose Hill going toward Magnolia, turn right on Brooks-Quinn road, cemetery is on the left behind a private home next to the woods in front of Rose Hill--Magnolia Elementary School.



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    GPS Coordinates:
    34.85198 N
    78.02585 W

    The epitaphs are as follows:



    Levie Robert Brooks March 24, 1885 March 22, 1952 Lula Brooks Johnson June 6, 1885 Aug. 16, 1972 William A. Brooks Fire Ant and Stone Buried so deep This is all we could read Tree in way Henry Andrew Brooks Aug. 16, 1873 Dec. 22, 1948 Mary J. Hemby Wife of H. A. Brooks Feb. 2, 1876 Aug. 10, 1942 Harry J. Son of H. A. and Mary Brooks Dec. 25, 1901 Feb. 10, 1904 William A. Brooks Aug. 13, 1818 Feb. 17, 1908 Same stone Elizabeth Wife of William A. Brooks June 6, 1843 Oct. 11, 1912 Cornelia Brooks May 3, 1866 March 28, 1939 Lucy Brooks Wife of Joe Parker May 4, 1876 March 3, 1932 Charles Joseph Parker Feb. 22, 1940 June 5, 1958 Judy Brooks Parker Nov. 5, 1942 Feb. 20, 1944 Lucy Elizabeth Brooks Parker June 23, 1899 Feb. 24, 1991 Jacob Franklin Parker March 14, 1896 Oct. 8, 1958 Forrest Gene Parker II Aug. 5, 1970 Nov. 22, 1996 Lizzie Brooks Wife of Richard Kelly April 26, 1864 Sept. 6, 1918 “Ruby” Joseph William Son of J. F. and Lora Blizzard Sept. 18, 1903 June 25, 1905 James Franklin Blizzard Oct. 12, 1908 June 21, 1917 Durwood Lee Parker, Sr. Feb. 10, 1926 Nov. 18, 2005 CPL US ARMY Same stone Lucy A. Rivenbark Aug. 17, 1932 Nod Wedding date Oct. 28, 1950

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