Finding our ancestors in North Carolina, they spent many years raising their families in Tennesee and now some headstones are found in Alabama, their resting place.

• Allen Wesley Hood (109 KB)
  buried in Slapout AL , brother of Bessie and Barnie - son of Ella O Hood and L Wesley Hood........could be husband of Jessie Swindall
• Annie Clark Ballard Brooks (89 KB)
  wife of John, mother of James; the daughter of Eudora Craig and James Ballard of Lawrence TN plus her four grandparents were all born in Tennessee.
• Brooks - Cooper headstone (69 KB)
  Greenwood Cemetery, behind the Last Supper monument; all the way to the back road of the cemetery.
• Barnie or Buster Hood (88 KB)
  buried in Slapout AL , brother of Bessie and Allen - son of Ella O Hood and L Wesley Hood
• Luther Vernon Ballard (72 KB)
  must have been brother to Annie as all are buried near each other in Greenwood Cemetery, Montgomery AL
• R E Thornton (74 KB)
  Cains Chapel, Slapout Alabama
• L W Hood - great great grandpa (115 KB)
  buried in Slapout AL , husband of Ella Mae O Hood and father of Bessie Mae " Bubber" Hood Thornton............Bessie named her sons Lister and James...........
• James Edgar Brooks SR (106 KB)
  buried by his wife Susie Cooper and near his mother Annie...........we found his father JOHN buried in a different section of the cemetery; yet this section had a large marker named Cooper-Brooks located in Greenwood Cemetery, Montgomery AL
• BROOKS - Mary Ella Thornton (87 KB)
  wife of James Edgar Brooks, mother of Charles Wayne Brooks; buried in Prattville Cemetery beside James and their other son John
• Barnie Hood's wife (98 KB)
  Augusta Hood
• Susie Mae Cooper Brooks (73 KB)
  buried by husband James Edgar Brooks Sr - Susie was known as Mamaw
• BROOKS - James Edgar Jr (68 KB)
  beside wife Mary Ella Thornton and their son John in Prattville Cemetery - father of Charles Wayne Brooks, John Milton and Thomas Earl Brooks
• Dorothy Hood (89 KB)
  Hood family in Slapout/ Holtville, Elmore County, Alabama - this cemetery is behind Cains Chapel Methodist Church on the corner of the intersection of Hwy 111
• Zona Cooper (97 KB)
  buried in the Cooper Brooks plot
• BROOKS - John Milton (73 KB)
  Johnny died young, buried by his parents James and Mary Brooks in Prattville AL
• Jessie Swindall Hood (110 KB)
  Hood family in Slapout
• Walter Cooper (80 KB)
  buried in the Cooper Brooks plot
• BROOKS - Charles Wayne born 1953 (57 KB)
  son of Mary Ella Thornton and James Edgar Brooks; buried in Millbrook Alabama at Brookside Memorial.
• J William Thornton (83 KB)
  Thornton and Hood family in Slapout
• Mollie Cooper (99 KB)
  buried in the Cooper Brooks plot
• John Brooks 1880 Texas census (833 KB)
  shows his father from Holland and mother from France....married Permilia Roxanna Smith in Tennessee and had their son, John Brooks who married Annie Ballard and came to Montgomery AL
• Lela Thornton is beside J Wm Thornton (90 KB)
  Thornton and Hood family in Slapout
• Bessie Mae HOOD Thornton (80 KB)
  buried in Slapout AL wife of Milton Elijah Thornton, and she was mother of Mary Ella Thornton who married James Edgar Brooks JR
• Wesley Hood on 1910 census (342 KB)
  census image shows him as head of household with ELLA as his wife, so it leaves confusion as to the L W Hood headstone
• Marlon Thornton (119 KB)
  Slapout
• Milton Thornton (52 KB)
  buried in Slapout AL , he married Bessie Mae Hood and he is father of Mary Ella Thornton Brooks
• Bessie Hood on census (19 KB)
  census image
• Minnie Hood (79 KB)
  Slapout
• James and Susie Brooks on census (1086 KB)
  1930 census image

Ballard Cooper Brooks

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