Phoebe Carter Brooks was born near the Warrior River in the Mississippi Territory (now Alabama) to Allen Brooks & Narcissa Carter. After the western part of what is now Lowndes Co. was opened for settlement, the family settled on the western border, where the Brooks-Henkel Cemetery is located. She grew up in a large home "not too far" east of the cemetery, which was on her father's land. Her father owned much land.
Her 1st marriage, to Thomas Battle Williams, produced two daughters: Narcissa Elizabeth Williams (Carroll) FAG# 24329746 and Mary E. Williams. Widowed, she then married Thomas Jefferson Gray, who had migrated to MS from SC with a teenage son, Frederick, and a young daughter, Ann Lucinda, from his first marriage. Jeff and Phoebe had several children together: T.J. Gray, Jr., Allen, Joseph Brooks, Emma, and John Micajah.
Jeff was a planter. Per descendants, Phoebe and Jeff had plenty of land, a nice big farmhouse with a large porch that went across the front and around the side of the house. The house is no longer there, but was located shortly to the left (on the part of their land John Micajah inherited) on the rocky road to Agency from the cemetery.
Widowed again shortly before the War Between the States, she held things together at the farm with young children while most men (incl. eldest son T.J., Jr. & son-in-law, Dr John Gillespie Carroll) in the area were at war. The Yankees came through and caused much damage, burning their barn that was full of stored cotton.
Her 1st marriage, to Thomas Battle Williams, produced two daughters: Narcissa Elizabeth Williams (Carroll) FAG# 24329746 and Mary E. Williams. Widowed, she then married Thomas Jefferson Gray, who had migrated to MS from SC with a teenage son, Frederick, and a young daughter, Ann Lucinda, from his first marriage. Jeff and Phoebe had several children together: T.J. Gray, Jr., Allen, Joseph Brooks, Emma, and John Micajah.
Jeff was a planter. Per descendants, Phoebe and Jeff had plenty of land, a nice big farmhouse with a large porch that went across the front and around the side of the house. The house is no longer there, but was located shortly to the left (on the part of their land John Micajah inherited) on the rocky road to Agency from the cemetery.
Widowed again shortly before the War Between the States, she held things together at the farm with young children while most men (incl. eldest son T.J., Jr. & son-in-law, Dr John Gillespie Carroll) in the area were at war. The Yankees came through and caused much damage, burning their barn that was full of stored cotton.
Phoebe Carter Brooks was born near the Warrior River in the Mississippi Territory (now Alabama) to Allen Brooks & Narcissa Carter. After the western part of what is now Lowndes Co. was opened for settlement, the family settled on the western border, where the Brooks-Henkel Cemetery is located. She grew up in a large home "not too far" east of the cemetery, which was on her father's land. Her father owned much land.
Her 1st marriage, to Thomas Battle Williams, produced two daughters: Narcissa Elizabeth Williams (Carroll) FAG# 24329746 and Mary E. Williams. Widowed, she then married Thomas Jefferson Gray, who had migrated to MS from SC with a teenage son, Frederick, and a young daughter, Ann Lucinda, from his first marriage. Jeff and Phoebe had several children together: T.J. Gray, Jr., Allen, Joseph Brooks, Emma, and John Micajah.
Jeff was a planter. Per descendants, Phoebe and Jeff had plenty of land, a nice big farmhouse with a large porch that went across the front and around the side of the house. The house is no longer there, but was located shortly to the left (on the part of their land John Micajah inherited) on the rocky road to Agency from the cemetery.
Widowed again shortly before the War Between the States, she held things together at the farm with young children while most men (incl. eldest son T.J., Jr. & son-in-law, Dr John Gillespie Carroll) in the area were at war. The Yankees came through and caused much damage, burning their barn that was full of stored cotton.
Her 1st marriage, to Thomas Battle Williams, produced two daughters: Narcissa Elizabeth Williams (Carroll) FAG# 24329746 and Mary E. Williams. Widowed, she then married Thomas Jefferson Gray, who had migrated to MS from SC with a teenage son, Frederick, and a young daughter, Ann Lucinda, from his first marriage. Jeff and Phoebe had several children together: T.J. Gray, Jr., Allen, Joseph Brooks, Emma, and John Micajah.
Jeff was a planter. Per descendants, Phoebe and Jeff had plenty of land, a nice big farmhouse with a large porch that went across the front and around the side of the house. The house is no longer there, but was located shortly to the left (on the part of their land John Micajah inherited) on the rocky road to Agency from the cemetery.
Widowed again shortly before the War Between the States, she held things together at the farm with young children while most men (incl. eldest son T.J., Jr. & son-in-law, Dr John Gillespie Carroll) in the area were at war. The Yankees came through and caused much damage, burning their barn that was full of stored cotton.
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