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