Brooks Family Cemetery in Elizabethton, Tennessee

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Get directions 1161 Blue Springs Rd
Elizabethton, Tennessee 37643 United States

Coordinates: 36.39582, -82.10635
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This is a traditional family cemetery, on a hill, within eyesight of the Reuben Brooks Jr. home, surrounded by a three foot high stone wall with a stone staircase at the west wall. The cemetery was restored in 2011-12 by a G-G Granddaughter of Reuben Brooks Jr., Mrs. Myrtle Davis Saucer formerly of Elizabethton, TN, who now lives in Orange Park, FL. A memorial stone dedicated to the Confederate soldiers buried there was also added.

The Reuben Brooks Mansion, now owned by Dr. Daniel Schumaier, is located just west of the cemetery and was a recruiting point for the formation of Company C of the 59th Tennessee Mounted Infantry, CSA, in 1861. Reuben Brooks Jr and his two sons, Captain James Brooks and 2nd Lt William Brooks were charged with the formation of the Company. William Brooks was killed in the line of duty near the family home.

This cemetery is mentioned in the book "Cemeteries of Carter County" by Orville T. Fields. The book, published in 1976, lists three burials, the headstones to which are no longer present in the cemetery. The burials Mr. Fields recorded were: Meander, Son (of J.W. Meander) b 6 May 1882 d 19 June 1882; Meander, Son (of J.W. Meander) b 1 May 1862 d 31 August 1863; Meander, Son (of J.W. Meander) b 8 September 1876 d 18 November 1876.