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id	first	middle	last	dob	dod	cod
12	Francis		Brooks		3/18/1855

veteran	exhumed	purchaser	cemetery
	FALSE		Adams Street

lot	plot
	R2 unmarked grave A? Mrs. Martha Brooks bought lot 3, but Francis' mother was H. A. Brooks. Stone on lot says "Maggie", may be displaced or for some unknown person.

relations

H.A. Brooks (mother)

comments

This infant was buried before Berea kept a record of burials. The tombstone was recorded in 1904: "Francis Brooks, son of Mrs. H. A. Brooks, d. March 18, 1855 ae. 9 mo." The stone is not recorded on the 1934 inscription survey, and no stone was found in 2007. Lot 3 was purchased by Mrs. Martha Brooks and Leslie Murphy; no relationship could be definitively established. A GPR scan found one unmarked or displaced burial on that lot; the stone on the lot is a footstone bearing the inscription "MAGGIE," possibly displaced from the neighboring grave of Margaret Crawford.

sources

E. S. Loomis and D. T. Gould, "Inscriptions from the Old Berea Cemetery," 1904; Adams Street Cemetery folder, Berea Historical Society "Number of burial lots and price," Adams Street Cemetery folder, Berea Historical Society. Ground penetrating radar scan of cemetery, Geosearches, Inc., 27 July 2006.