Madge Winter^{[1, 2]}

1908 - 2004  (95 years)

• Name	Madge Winter
  Born	15 Sep 1908	Parrottsville, Cocke County, Tennessee
  Gender	Female
  Census	1940	District 6, Cocke County, Tennessee   [3]
  Died	12 Jan 2004  [4]
  Buried	Union Cemetery, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee
  Person ID	I74921	Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest
  Last Modified	9 Sep 2013

  
  

  Father	John Sherman Winter,   b. 2 Mar 1886,   d. 3 Aug 1962  (Age 76 years)
  Mother	Jettie Leota Ottinger,   b. 7 Sep 1892,   d. 6 Jul 1978  (Age 85 years)
  Family ID	F29088	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Paul "P. G." Brooks,   b. 27 Feb 1900, Tennessee ,   d. 1978  (Age 77 years)
  Married	1934
  Children	1. John Troyce Brooks,   b. 7 Nov 1935, Tennessee ,   d. 28 Mar 1944  (Age 8 years)   2. Joel Garry Brooks,   b. 11 Dec 1939, Tennessee  (Age 84 years)   3. Richard Van Brooks,   b. 28 Aug 1941  (Age 82 years)
  Family ID	F27769	Group Sheet

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 15 Sep 1908 - Parrottsville, Cocke County, Tennessee Buried - - Union Cemetery, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources

  [S104] Cocke County, Tennessee, and its People, Cocke County Heritage Book Committee, (Walsworth Publishing, 1992), 35. [S9] Smoky Mountain Historical Society Newsletter, Smoky Mountain Historical Society, Vol. XXVI, Issue 1, page 77, 2000. [S112] Census, 1940. Name: Madge Brooks Titles and Terms: Event Type: Census Event Date: 1940 Event Place: Civil District 6, Cocke, Tennessee, United States Gender: Female Age: 30 Marital Status: Married Race (Original): White Race: White Relationship to Head of Household (Original): Wife Relationship to Head of Household: Wife Birthplace: Tennessee Birth Year (Estimated): 1910 Last Place of Residence: Rural, Cocke, Tennessee District: 15-15 Family Number: 69 Sheet Number and Letter: 4B Line Number: 77 Affiliate Publication Number: T627 Affiliate Film Number: 3881 Digital Folder Number: 005461287 Image Number: 00427 Household Gender Age Birthplace Head P G Brooks M 40 Tennessee Wife Madge Brooks F 30 Tennessee Son John Brooks M 4 Tennessee Son Joel Garry Brooks M 0 Tennessee [S24] The Newport Plain Talk, (http://www.newportplaintalk.com), 12 Jan 2004. Madge Winter Brooks died Monday, January 12, 2004, at her home in Newport. She was born September 16, 1908, in the Oak Hill community of Parrottsville and was the oldest of four children of John S. and Jettie Ottinger Winter. She received her education at Oak Hill, Cedar Creek, and Parrottsville schools and was a member of the first high school graduating (1927) of St. James High School, Greene County. She attended Marion Junior College, Marion, Va., and received a permanent teaching certificate from East Tennessee State Teachers College, Johnson City, (ETSU). She taught in the Cocke County School System at Zion Hill, Oak Hill, Long Creek, and Parrottsville prior to her marriage to Paul G. Brooks in 1934. In 1939 they bought a farm near Newport; and after his death in 1978, she continued to operate the farm until she was disabled by a stroke in 1997. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church and faithfully attended as long as her health permitted. In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by a young son, John Troyce Brooks; brothers, Fred Winter and Ted Winter; and sister, Nora Carbaugh. She is survived by sons and daughters-in-law, Garry and Shirley Brooks, of Morristown, and Richard Van and Alice Brooks, of Kingsport; grandchildren and their spouses: John and Courtney Brooks, Clarksville; Suzanne and Phillip Petty, Charlotte; Leanne Brooks, Knoxville; and Ellen Brooks, Greenville, S.C.; great-grandchildren, Steffen and Lauren Brooks, Clarksville; brother-in-law, Henry Carbaugh, Winchester, Va.; and sister-in-law, Louise Winter, Parrottsville. The funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday at First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Freddrick Long officiaiting. Burial will follow at Union Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 5-7 p.m. on Tuesday at the funeral home and 30 minutes prior to the service at the church. Memorials may be made to a church or charity of choice. Manes Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.