Rev. Burrell Bryan "B. B." Brooks^{[1, 2]}

1874 - 1954  (79 years)

• Name	Burrell Bryan "B. B." Brooks
  Prefix	Rev.
  Born	10 Aug 1874	Tennessee
  Gender	Male
  Census	1880	Sweetwater, Cocke County, Tennessee   [3]
  Census	1900	District 15, Cocke County, Tennessee   [4]
  Census	1910	District 7, Cocke County, Tennessee   [5]
  Census	1920	Cocke County, Tennessee   [6]
  Census	1930	District 7, Cocke County, Tennessee   [7]
  Census	1940	District 6, Cocke County, Tennessee   [8]
  Died	24 Mar 1954
  Buried	Union Cemetery, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee   [9]
  Person ID	I97430	Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest
  Last Modified	2 Dec 2014

  
  

  Father	Allen Brooks,   b. Abt 1835, Tennessee
  Mother	Elizabeth Cameron,   b. Dec 1843, Tennessee
  Family ID	F130842	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Mollie B. O'Dell,   b. 7 Jan 1883, Tennessee ,   d. 22 Jan 1960  (Age 77 years)
  Married	2 Apr 1903	Cocke County, Tennessee   [10]
  Children	1. Beatrice Dixie "Tat" Brooks,   b. Abt 1906, Tennessee ,   d. Bef 24 Mar 2003  (Age ~ 97 years) + 2. Cecile Brooks,   b. Abt 1909, Tennessee ,   d. 24 Mar 2003, Baptist Cocke County Convalescent Center  (Age ~ 94 years)   3. Bernice Brooks,   b. 22 Dec 1911, Tennessee ,   d. 15 Jul 1996  (Age 84 years)   4. Stanford Eugene Brooks,   b. 17 Sep 1919, Tennessee ,   d. 6 Sep 1995  (Age 75 years) + 5. Bernard Bill "Billy Sunday" Brooks,   b. 7 Feb 1923, Tennessee ,   d. 14 Jan 1992  (Age 68 years)   6. Kenneth Brooks,   b. Abt 1927, Tennessee  (Age ~ 97 years)
  Family ID	F35470	Group Sheet

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 10 Aug 1874 - Tennessee Married - 2 Apr 1903 - Cocke County, Tennessee Census - 1920 - Cocke County, Tennessee Buried - - Union Cemetery, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
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• Photos		a0097430.jpg
  		b0097430.jpg Rev. B. B. Brooks prepares to baptize a convert at Crestmont, North Carolina. The picture was taken in 1910.

  
  

• Sources

  [S104] Cocke County, Tennessee, and its People, Cocke County Heritage Book Committee, (Walsworth Publishing, 1992), 209. [S24] The Newport Plain Talk, (http://www.newportplaintalk.com), 13 Oct 2012. A taste of what’s to come! ‘As It Was Give To Me’ Duay O’Neil Over the past several weeks, I have become more and more immersed in the religious history of Cocke County in preparation for the 2012 fall edition of Smoky Mountain Homeplace. For this year’s project, we decided to pull together as many church histories with accompanying photos and side stories as possible. In early summer, when we adopted this project, I thought if as many as 30 churches responded to our request for histories our goal for a good special issue would be met. Would you believe over 80 church histories have crossed my desk? As the young people of today say, "Awesome!" Along with the traditional church histories have come pictures of several of our "old-time" preachers and their stories. How many of you remember Judd Holdway, Pat Davis, and Will Weaver? Another such preacher was Burrell Brooks. Born August 30, 1874, he was the only child of Allen Brooks, a Cocke County Confederate veteran, who, according to his 1915 obituary, carried the ?rst Confederate ?ag "ever seen" in Cocke County, and his wife, Elizabeth (Cameron) Brooks. Better known as "B.B.", Burrell was a Baptist minister and a schoolteacher. He taught at several county schools, including the Tannery, where my mother and her siblings were among his charges. All agreed he was a tough taskmaster. In his later years, he wrote occasional columns about "the old days" and sometimes eulogized his contemporaries and/or his former students when death claimed them. About 1949, he wrote the following article about his own education: MY TEACHERS In August, 1883, I went to my ?rst school at Edwina. My ?rst teacher was Miss Lizzie Susong. Later she became the wife of the late Y. J. McMahan. She is still living in Newport. I went to ten different school [Apparently a line of Brooks’s article was omitted here, but apparently he was naming his teachers.] Miss Addie Cureton, Dave Burke, Thornton Wood, Dan Layman, Sam McSween, Robert Hickey, J. M. Walters, R. P. Driskill, and, last of all, John Weaver at Wilton Springs in August, 1898. Eight of the ten teachers have passed away. Strange as it may seem, my ?rst teacher, Mrs. McMahan, of Newport, and John Weaver, of Santa Rosa, Texas, my last teacher, are both living. Mr. Weaver is in on a visit to see friends and relatives. He does not look very old despit (sic) his three score and ten years. I like to think back to those days and times when I was in school under each one of them. I was nine years old in August, 1883, before I ever went to school a day. I took my old blue back speller and my little half gallon bucket with my dinner and started to school, accompanied by my mother, the ?rst day. She placed me on a seat between John Burke and George Wood, both of them grown young men. I did not have to be persuaded to go any more after the ?rst day. It is a little past ?fty-seven years since that day. I can well remember many things that took place during my old school days at Edwina. There in 1893, I took the examination under the county superintendent, Jasper Hatley; passed on and taught as the assistant teacher under Prof. Rufus Fox at Edwina. I tried to pattern after all of my teachers in different ways during my teaching career of over thirty years. No one knows the ups and downs of a school teacher unless they have had the experience. After all, I look to the distant past and feel that I may have done a little good along educational lines among the hundreds of students I tried to teach. At different times, he left Cocke County to accept calls to preach elsewhere. The photo showing him baptizing a new convert accompanying today’s article was taken at Crestmont, North Carolina, a bustling lumber town, in 1910. The November 14, 1917 issue of The Newport Plain Talk carried the following notice regarding his preaching career. Rev. B. B. Brooks has been called to preach in a church at Maryville which pays a thousand dollars a year. Rev. Brooks has ?lled many of the smaller churches of this county and has been preaching at Crestmont and Sunburst [another North Carolina lumber camp], but his charges have not been good paying ones. He will be missed in this county, but his friends, but his friends are pleased to see him go where his chances of doing good are not lessened and his ?nancial conditions are improved. Rev. Brooks married Mollie Beatrice O’Dell, a daughter of Andrew Jackson O’Dell and his wife, Julia Sprouse, on April 2, 1903. Mollie was known as an excellent seamstress who could look at a magazine picture and copy perfectly the pictured frock. She passed this talent to her three daughters. Children of B. B. and Mollie were the parents of eight children: Dixie Lillian Beatrice, Cecile Lee, Bernice Marjorie, Walter Stanley, Eugene Stanford, Billy Bernard Sunday, Paul Tennyson, and Kenneth 'Bud'. Rev. Brooks died March 24, 1954. Mollie, born January 17, 1883, died January 22, 1960. They are buried in Union Cemetery in Newport. [S112] Census, 1880. name : Bur Brooks event: Census event date: 1880 event place: Sweetwater, Cocke, Tennessee, United States gender: Male age: 5 marital status : Single occupation : race or color (original) : ethnicity (standardized) : American relationship to head : Son birthplace : Tennessee, United States birthdate : 1875 spouse's name : spouse's birthplace : father's name : Allen Brooks father's birthplace : Tennessee, United States mother's name : Elisabeth Brooks mother's birthplace : Tennessee, United States page : 416 page character : D entry number : 165 nara film number : T9-1248 gs film number : 1255248 digital folder number: 004244538 image number: 00458 Household Gender Age Birthplace self Allen Brooks M 44 Tennessee, United States wife Elisabeth Brooks F 37 Tennessee, United States son Bur Brooks M 5 Tennessee, United States [S112] Census, 1900. name: Burrell B Brook titles & terms: event: Census event date: 1900 event place: ED 165 Civil Districts 8, 15, Cocke, Tennessee, United States birth date: Aug 1874 birthplace: Tennessee relationship to head of household: Son father's birthplace: Tennessee mother's birthplace: Tennessee race or color (standardized): White gender: Male marital status: Single years married: estimated marriage year: mother how many children: number living children: immigration year: page: 4 sheet letter: A family number: 67 reference number: 28 film number: 1241562 digital folder number: 004118949 image number: 00448 Household Gender Age Birthplace head Allen Brook M 65 Tennessee wife Elsabeth Brook F 57 Tennessee son Burrell B Brook M 26 Tennessee sister-in-law Polly Cameron F 73 Tennessee [S112] Census, 1910. name: Burl B Brooks birthplace: Tennessee relationship to head of household: Self residence: Civil District 7, Cocke, Tennessee marital status: Married race : White gender: Male immigration year: father's birthplace: Tennessee mother's birthplace: Tennessee family number: 170 page number: 9 Household Gender Age Birthplace self Burl B Brooks M 35y Tennessee wife Mollie B Brooks F 27y Tennessee dau Dixie B Brooks F 5y Tennessee dau Cecil E Brooks F 1y 7m Tennessee [S112] Census, 1920. name: Burl B Brooks residence: , Cocke, Tennessee estimated birth year: 1873 age: 47 birthplace: Tennessee relationship to head of household: Self gender: Male race: White marital status: Married father's birthplace: Tennessee mother's birthplace: Tennessee film number: 1821733 digital folder number: 4390325 image number: 00275 sheet number: 4 Household Gender Age Birthplace self Burl B Brooks M 47y Tennessee wife Mollie B Brooks F 36y Tennessee dau Beatrice L Brooks F 14y Tennessee dau Cecie L Brooks F 11y Tennessee dau Bernice M Brooks F 8y Tennessee son Eugene S Brooks M 1y Tennessee [S112] Census, 1930. name: B B Brooks event: Census event date: 1930 event place: District 07, Cocke, Tennessee gender: Male age: 55 marital status: Married race: White birthplace: Tennessee estimated birth year: 1875 immigration year: relationship to head of household: Head father's birthplace: Tennessee mother's birthplace: Tennessee enumeration district number: 0016 family number: 152 sheet number and letter: 7B line number: 61 nara publication: T626, roll 2238 film number: 2341972 digital folder number: 4548152 image number: 00358 Household Gender Age Birthplace head B B Brooks M 55 Tennessee wife Mollie B Brooks F 47 Tennessee son Stanford Brooks M 11 Tennessee son Bernard B Brooks M 7 Tennessee son Kenneth Brooks M 2 Tennessee [S112] Census, 1940. name: Eugene S Brooks residence: , Cocke, Tennessee estimated birth year: 1919 age: 1 birthplace: Tennessee relationship to head of household: Son gender: Male race: White marital status: Single father's birthplace: Tennessee mother's birthplace: Tennessee film number: 1821733 digital folder number: 4390325 image number: 00275 sheet number: 4 Household Gender Age Birthplace self Burl B Brooks M 47y Tennessee wife Mollie B Brooks F 36y Tennessee dau Beatrice L Brooks F 14y Tennessee dau Cecie L Brooks F 11y Tennessee dau Bernice M Brooks F 8y Tennessee son Eugene S Brooks M 1y Tennessee [S147] Find a Grave, (Memorial: 50870054). [S58] Marriage Certificate. name: Mollie B Odell also known as: suffix: event: Marriage event date: 02 Apr 1903 event place: Cocke, Tennessee, United States gender: Female spouse: Burrell B Brooks spouse's also known as: spouse's prefix: spouse's suffix: page: 482