I would appreciate any information you have on Jason Patrick Brooks and wife Margret Brooks. I am great granddaughter.

Do you have any dates like birth, death, or marriage for them to help us get started? It helps to have a time frame.
Kristi

I am trying to get a death certificate on Margret (Margaret) Mathis (Mathus) Brooks. She died on 3-12-l879, but I am unable to get one because Tenn. wasn't required to issue them during that time. She is buried in Hickman County. I have contacted Archives in Nashville (they couldn't help me, but suggested I contact Tenn.State Library & Archives). Our county health dept. said they only keep them 3 years and said probably others do the same. Any suggestions? They lived at Tenn. City at one time and I thought maybe she might have died in Dickson Co. Jason's Chapel Nazarene Church in Tenn. City was named after him but he was a Methodist instead of Nazarene. I'm assuming it was a Methodist church before Nazarene.

Can't help you with the Brooks death certificate, but can explain a little about the church named after him and why today it is not Methodist. The first Methodist Church near Tenn. City was built of logs in 1886 and used for both church and school. Its first Methodist circuit rider preacher was your ancestor Jason Brooks and the church was named for him. The original Jason Chapel Methodist Church was located on what is today Jason Chapel Road; that is also where the original church was rebuilt on the same site in 1893. A few years later that church was torn down and moved further down Garner's Creek adjacent to the Few Cemetery. The Methodists built a new church in Tenn. City, completed in 1904, and the old church building and old Jason Chapel name have been used for many years by the Church of the Nazarene. It has likely since been completely re-built on the same or adjacent site.

My great-grandfather James M. Ewing was on the building committee for the Tenn. City Methodist Episcopal South Church in 1904. Today it is the Tenn. City United Methodist Church. His daughter (and my grandmother) Isabelle Ewing Hemmerly married Ed Few and they were long-time members of the Jason Chapel Church of the Nazarene. Both are buried at Few's Cemetery.

Would like to hear about any information you have about Jason Brooks' old days as a Methodist circuit rider, especially those around Tenn. City.

Ken Hemmerly

Jason Patrick Brooks Was my g-g-uncle and I have a lot of info on him. He was married three not two. The first was to a Clark, I don't know but i'm sure she died. Then he Married my g-g aunt an the Mathis side. Margaret was a Mathis. Then he married a Little. They did live at Tennessee at one time But, When Margaret died they lived on Sugar Creek in Hickman Co. Tn. There is where her and a baby was buried at my family Cemetery. There is a church outside of Dickson , Tennessee that was named after him. If you need any more infro, let know.
Bettie Potter (Mrs. Medford Potter

Jason Patrick Brooks Was my g-g-uncle and I have a lot of info on him. He was married three not two. The first was to a Clark, I don't know but i'm sure she died. Then he Married my g-g aunt an the Mathis side. Margaret was a Mathis. Then he married a Little. They did live at Tennessee at one time But, When Margaret died they lived on Sugar Creek in Hickman Co. Tn. There is where her and a baby was buried at my family Cemetery. There is a church outside of Dickson , Tennessee that was named after him. If you need any more infro, let know.
Bettie Potter (Mrs. Medford Potter

I'm delighted to see your post concerning Jason Patrick Brooks and his three wives. I am researching the ancestry of my father-in-law, Jason's grandson (through Jason's wife Mary Sarah Elizabeth Jane Little and their son John Lee), Virgil Albert Brooks, now of Valdosta, GA. I would be delighted to share with you any information I have that might be of interest to you, and I would appreciate any you're able to give me on the Brookses and allied families. Please tell me how you descend from Jason. I'll be waiting excitedly to hear from you.