"A HISTORY OF THE DAVIESS-McLEAN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION IN KENTUCKY, 
1844-1943" by Wendell H. Rone.  Probably published in 1944 by 
Messenger Job Printing Co., Inc., Owensboro, Kentucky, 
pp. 291-292.  Used by permission.  [Daviess]

ADDISON JASPER BROOKS:  This lovable brother was born in Fayette 
County, Tennessee, on January 3, 1833.  His father was Henry Brooks, 
a native of North Carolina.  Young Brooks was reared on a farm and 
received a good common school education, but was for the most part a 
self-educated man.
     The next record we have of him is that he moved to Kentucky and 
married Miss Frances E. Kennedy in 1854.  During the Civil War he 
served in Company C., Seventeenth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, 
U. S. A., and participated in the battles of Chickamauga, Missionary 
Ridge, Chattanooga, Fort Donaldson, Shiloh, and Corinth.  While in the 
service of his country he became disabled with erysipelas in the face 
the effect of which could be seen in a constant twitching of the right 
cheek.  We have no information about his early religious life but on 
October 17, 1874, he was ordained to the ministry at Brushy Fork 
Church by a presbytery composed of Elders D. E. Yeiser, William 
Stevens, L. C. Tichenor, and A. B. Smith.  His first pastorate was 
with the Mt. Vernon Church which he helped to organize.  This 
pastorate began in 1876.  He continued to serve this church until the 
year 1883 when the cause lingered for a while only to be revived in 
1886.  After the organization of the Green River Church he served it 
as pastor from 1885 to 1888.  He also served Rumsey Church in 1890 and 
1891, and churches in Henderson and Webster Counties, but we have no 
record of them.
     His untimely death occurred on March 2, 1892, and came after a 
ministry of about eighteen years. He had two children.  One, a boy, 
with his mother, survived him.  
     His remains are interred in the old Brushy Fork cemetery. Besides 
his pastoral work in Daviess and adjoining counties he also served on 
several occasions as a voluntary and unpaid missionary.

Brooks Kennedy Yeiser Stevens Tichenor Smith
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Fayette-TN NC Rockcastle Henderson Webster 

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