Born March 6th, 1896
Died Septemeber 20th, 1983
Buried in Brunot, Missouri
Married to Lestie Elizabeth (Kennedy) Brooks (1895 – 1974)
Father of Elizabeth Cooper
Photos
Stories & Documents
Traveling Along Stoney Battery
Charles E. Brooks is shown coming through the Civil War road, Stoney Battery, in an undated photograph. The road ran from Brunot to Patterson. Brooks […] Read More
Uncle Charlie Heard A Different Drummer
Uncle Charlie died Sept. 21. 1983 after celebrating his 87th birthday last March. After the funeral I went over to his home to help his […] Read More
Historical Wayne County: Traveling Along Stoney Battery
Charles E. Brooks is shown coming through the Civil War road, Stoney Battery, in an updated photograph. The road ran from Brunot to Patterson. Brooks […] Read More
The First Train By Charles E. Brooks
Photo above: Des Arc Street & Church After we moved to Upper Camp Creek, Des Arc was our “town”, It was a big day when I […] Read More
The Thing That God Never Saw
The above image is the original build of the Peach Tree Church. During most of the years that we lived on the Old Farm, we […] Read More
Enchanting Mountains By Charles E. Brooks
In my growing-up “years”, one of the most enchanting things about my Wayne County home was the mountains. They are relatively small mountains, but many […] Read More
Social and Family Life By Charles E. Brooks
In this sophisticated, mechanized age none but some who are classed as II senior citizens are likely to remember ever having attended pea hullings. Pea […] Read More
Fishing and Snakes By Charles E. Brooks
When I was a boy. Fishing and swimming were chief summer pastimes. The word. “pastime” might give a wrong connotation; farm boys of that day […] Read More
Prepare For 1906 By Charles E. Brooks
In the early summer of 1905 word got around our neighborhood that a man near Taskee had captured a large rattlesnake, which had the words, […] Read More
Charlie Remembers… Life in Early Wayne County
Pictured Above: THE KIMMEL SCHOOL on Upper Camp Creek about 1902. Some of the pupils were absent because of scarlet fever, including Millard Brooks, Virgie Brooks […] Read More
Early School Days By Charles E. Brooks
The autumn following my fifth birthday which was in March. I remember some talk in our family about starting me to school. But I was […] Read More
The Camp Creek Schools
By: Charles E. Brooks Upper Camp Creek School known in the early days as Kimmel School, was an old school, perhaps one of the oldest […] Read More