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- [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.
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