Micajah McGreggor Brooks was born 25 Dec 1761 in Chatham County, North Carolina to John Preston Brooks II (1715-1793) & Jane May (1729-1833).
Photo of Micajah and most likely his first wife Mary Moseley Hunter as he is not aged much in this photo.
He married first Mary Moseley Hunter (1761-1838) in 1785 they had the following children.
The land for this cemetery was given by Micajah’s son-in-law, Woodson Hubbard, in 1850.
a Brooks
1786–1878
John Brooks
1790–1879
Jane Temperance Brooks
1793–1888
Ruth Bertha Brooks
1793–1874
Elizabeth Brooks
1795–1860
Sarah A Brooks
1798–1874
Nancy Brooks
1799–1851
Temperance Brooks
1804–1872
Second he married Margrett Carter (1807-1888) on 27 Jun 1839 in Paulding, Georgia, USA. They had two children.
Carter Brooks
1843–1862
Green Lee Brooks
1846–
Micajah was in the Revolutionary War
Name: Micajah Brooks
Muster Date: 31 Oct 1793
State or Territory: Georgia, USA
Service Year: 1793
Military Unit: Fourth Regiment, Militia (Wilkes County)
Rank: Private
Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution
Here's his headstone application
I found these newspaper articles about him in the war and as a young 14 year old.
Elish Of special interest is the life of Micajah Brooks, a renown Polk County resident who lived more than 100 years and was a Revolutionary War soldier between the years of 1775 to 1782.
Born on Christmas Day in 1761, Micajah McGreggor Brooks lived his early life in Chatham County, North Carolina.
According to oral history passed down, then 14-year-old Micajah was sent to the local gristmill with the family’s horse, but never made it back home. He had met up with recruiting officers, joined the Continental Army, and was not heard from again for seven years—during which time they had assumed he had died.
Brooks, however, returned to marry before once again signing up for military duty. He was wounded at the Battle of Cowpens in 1781.
His path to Polk County, Georgia included several sojourns between North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.
Notably, his military service consisted of an expedition to the Cherokee Nation, and he was present at the Siege of Augusta. Records differ, but sometime before 1786 he moved to Georgia.
He was Captain of the 150 Georgia Militia District and served as Justice of the Peace in Warren County from 1813 to 1817. In 1827, he was granted land in Henry County for his military service.
By 1832, he settled in Paulding County (an area which became Polk County in 1851) in a homestead later known as the Everette plantation, and in 1839 moved near Fish Creek “on a hill above a large spring.” He married twice and had twelve children, several of whom fought in the Civil War.
There’s an extensive genealogy of Brooks’ family online and in the family files at the Genealogical Research Library, located at 205 S. College Street, Cedartown.
Other Polk County Revolutionary War soldiers include Asa Crabb, Henry Peek, Hugh Brewster, Jesse Rowell, and John Hilburn.
Micajah McGreggor Brooks was laid to rest on June 15, 1863 at the Hubbard-Brooks family cemetery on Morgan Valley Road in Rockmart.
Here's the link for this source:
Here is more on his War Service:
Micajah lived to be 101 years old dying on 15 June 1862 in Polk County, Georgia. Could you imagine living to be that old? All the things he saw and experimented during his lifetime, the changes and growth of our country. I am very proud to have him as my 7th Great-Grandfather and to add his story to my tree.
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