County:  Lowndes
Title:  Brooks-Henkel Cemetery
Submitter:  Rolfe B. Chase and Clare Herrick
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Cemetery: Brooks-Henkel, Lowndes Co., Miss.

Location: On Crawford- Starkville road about 2 miles west of Crawford and just east of the Oktibbeha-Lowndes county line. It is about three quarters of a mile north of the road at the end of a farm road that gives every evidence of being a private road.

Originally Copied by: Rolfe B. Chase.

Address: 502 Third St. South, Columbus, Miss 39701
 

Updated and Submitted by: Mrs Mary Hendrix.

Address: 408 Dunbar, Jackson, Miss.

Note: This cemetery is in a cedar tree grove. It is enclosed by an iron fence and has not been very wel1 maintained, but is still in reasonably good condition. There have apparently been no burials here since 1947. The county superintendent indicates that this cemetery is not longer used.

T. J. Gray/Oct. 15, 1843/Aug. 6, 1887.

Emma A./dau. of/J. J. & P. C. Gray/Feb. 26, 1853 (or 1858)/May 17, 1863.

Thomas Jefferson Gray/Feb. 25, 1804/May 20, 1858/New stone.

T. J. Gray/Feb. 26, 1804/May 20, 1858/Old stone.

Phebe C Gray/Jul. 19, 1819/Jul. 8, 1882/Age 62 y, 11 m, 19 d.

H. A. Gray/Jan. 19, 1847/Oct. 2, 1889.

Elizabeth/wife of/A. G. Henkel/Apr. 22, 1828/Nov. 29, 1896.

Albert G. Henkel/Dec 6, 1816/Dec. 24, 1872.

AIbert Gilmore Henkel, Married Elizabeth, dau. of Allen Brooks. Jonathan Henkel,

father of Albert, came from Chester, S. C. Settled in Noxubee Co , about

1839. He is buried 2 mile south of Crawford. (Crude stone dated 1860).

Mary Narcissa/dau. of/Albert & E. Henkel/wife of T. Kier/Sep. 1, 1844/Feb. 28,

1873.

Hettie (or Bettie) Kinsler/dau. of/W. K. & M. N. Hollinshead/and stepdaughter

of T. Kier/Jan. 22, 1865/Jul. 5, 1869.

Willie Lella/dau. of/W. K. & M. N. Hollinshead/and stepdaughter of T. Kier/

Dec. 13, 1861/Oct. 9, 1866.

Will Stovall Henkel/Sep. 14, 1881/Oct. 28, 1938.

James A./son of J. O. & Marietta Henkel/Jun. 7, 1878/Aug. 19, 1894.

James Oliver Henkel/Jul. 4, 1858 (Or 1853)/Jul. 28, 1921.

Marietta/wife of/J. O. Henkel/Sep. 20, 1857/Dec. 13, 1883.

Margaret Ann Brooks/Nov. 24, 1839/Sep. 2, 1880/Age 20 y, 9 m, 8 d.

Mary E./dau. of/T. B. & P. G. Williams/Oct. 28, 1837/Aug. 1844

Eva/dau. of/J. G. & N. E. Carroll/Sep. 6, 1875/Oct. 2, 1881.

Allison Perry/son of/Allen & Narcissus Brooks/Nov. 1, 1832/Aug 2, 1842.

Marcissus/consort of/Allen Brooks/Nov. 16, 1804/Oct 9, 1860/Age 55 y, 10 m, 23 d.

Allen Brooks/Jul. 14, 1792/Oct. 21, 1866/Age 74. (See note at end of cemetery data).

Mattie A./wife of/W. H. Harvey, Jr./Sep. 30, 1876/Dec. 1, 1896.

Addie B./wife of J. O. Henkel/May 7, 1853 (or 1859)/Jan. 5, 1900.

Henry Harvey Henkel/Nov. 23, 1895/Oct. 5, 1937.

Hunter S. Henkel/Jul. 10, 1891/Feb. 10, 1947.

Eleanor/wife of/James R. Randle/Oct. 14, 1830/Dec. 4, 1862

John Mac Brooks/Jul. 24, 1837/Aug. 23, 1860.

J W./Infant son of/J. M. & H. T. Brooks/B. Sep. 8, 1849.

J. C. Lee/son of/J. M. & H. T. Brooks/Jun. 19, 1862/Jun 29, 1869.

Mattie Lee/Dau. of/J. M. & H. T. Brooks/Jan. 21, 1868/Sep. 2, 1871.

The following two items were in Cemetery Records of Oktibbeha County

but not found by me (Hendrix):

Catharine/consort of/J. G. Carraway/& dau. of Allen & Narcissus Brooks/

Apr. 25, 1823/Jul. 20, 1858.

After Allen Brooks/1792/1866/(P. 65), The Oktibbeha Records add:

"Nicajah, Allen & Terrell Brooks of Warren Co., Ga. came to Miss.

about 1830. Their father, Jacob Brooks, was a soldier in the Rev.

War. 1960."
 

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