Charity Brooks

Many thanks to Andy Clay Harris for permission to reproduce some of the Avery family details from the family tree he has posted to Rootsweb.

Charity Brooks Avery

born 1802 NC died after 1880 TN

Siblings

c.1794-Nicy (Midyette)

c.1796-John S

John Williams

(not sure if 2 or error in

will transcription)

1798-Benjamin Samuel

1804-Joseph W

1806-Simeon

1808-James Steven Blackman Brooks

c.1810-Frederick Nash

Notation by Natalie Huntley on Avery Cemetery page of Crockett County section of TNGenWeb says Charity Brooks born 1802 in Johnston Co NC, d/o Jacob Brooks and Sarah/Sally Warrington. Sarah moved to Madison Co TN in 1829 with at least 5 of her children after Jacob's death in 1823

married after 1822 in NC

BGHB Avery

1803 to c.1871

Children

(italics=not certain)

c.1823-Sarah Elizabeth Avery Babb

1828-M.J. (Spencer & Bodkin)

c.1829-James F Avery

c.1830-Margaret Avery Pate

c.1832-John H Avery

c.1834-Martha Avery Tatum

c.1836-Frances Avery Booth

c.1838-Emily Avery Tatum

c.1840-Henry Avery

c.1842-William A.G. Avery

c.1844-Thomas Avery

c.1846 Louisa/Margaret (Aspray)

5 year age gap between 1st and 2nd child is suspect.

parents:

Jacob Brooks

Sarah Warrington

spouse's parents:

Alexander Averet Jr.

Elizabeth Vinson

maternal grandparents:

paternal grandparents:

maternal aunts & uncles:

paternal aunts & uncles:

1756-William Brooks; 1758-Isaac Farrow Brooks; 1764-Stephen Brooks III; Easter/Esther; Charity (Watson); Sarah (Midgette)

Wife: Sarah, tract of land adjoining Reuben Sanders and Rocky Branch during life, then to youngest son, Frederick Nash Brooks; 2 negroes Ned and Sala.

Sons: John William Brooks, Stephen Blockman Brooks & Simon Brooks--remaining land to be divided between these three sons.

Codicil Nov. 19, 1822: If daughter Charity Brooks marry Bolling Green Averet--1 tract of land joining B.G. Averet, to her. Witnesses: Reden Saul and B.G. Averet

1822: North Carolina marriage records, Johnston Co, Boling G Avera wed Charity Brooks 12-21-1822 (note that Nicy Brooks wed Micajah Midyett 1821)

(note that household 495 is his daughter Margaret Pate and household 496 is his brother RTS Avery)

BGHB Avery, age 56, MM and farmer (take that to be Methodist Minister), real estate value 14,000, pers. estate 14,000. Born NC.

Charity, 55, born NC (in this census all the children are listed as born in NC).

NOTE: There are three columns after place of birth, the first is "married within the year." The second is "Attended school within the year." The third is "Persons over 20 years of age who cannot read or write." The census taker has marked 1 in the first column, and 4 in the second. Nothing is marked in the third.

(Household 443 is daughter Margaret Pate, household 444 is brother-in-law Reuben T.S. Avery and wife Mary "Polly" Babb and household 446 is daughter Sarah A.E. Babb, and household 523 is daughter Emily Tatum)

The 1860 slave schedule lists BGHB Avery with 3 slave houses and what looks like a family of slaves (Female 50, male 49, male 23, female 17, female 16, male 14, female 10, female 3, and a mulatto age 1 and a half). The next person listed in the slave schedule is R.L.S. Avery, who also has three slave houses, and has two males, 41, a male 22, female 21, male 15, female 13, and female 1.

The 1860 Gibson, TN mortality schedule has four listings under the name BGHB Avery (he did not bother to supply the names of his dead slaves, but simply put them all under his own name): all females, a 26-year-old in January, a 24-year-old in November, another 24-year-old in June and an infant in September. The 26-year-old died of fever after 9 days illness. The 24-year-olds died of unknown causes with no duration of illness listed. The infant died of unknown causes after 8 days.

B.G. Avery, age 69, farmer, real estate worth $5000, personal estate worth $1000, born NC.