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I was just at Brooke's Bank on Sunday, July 19, and cleaned the 4 remaining stones, the English style tablet which I once thought was a very high garden bench, and later found out after visiting Elmwood that was a style used. I carefully cleaned the years of lichen off, I found that the stone had badly eroded. I am sure that is the tomb of William Thornton Brooke, as it was noted he was buried beside his wife. She predeceased him, as you can tell by her stone. His date of death, from wills and other info was about Aug 2 1859, and he was born about 1785. I am attempting to contact other distant relations who may have inherited more info on the cemetery, but responses are slow in coming. I also thought the St. Anne Parish register may have documentation of his death, which I have yet to contact. The owner feels sure there are other burials,since 1751 when Sarah Taliaferro Brooke was granted the land she built her house on, and those may have been unmarked or they may have fallen and are under sod, or perhaps they were buried at Vauter's I am not sure yet, but will let you know if I find anything else. The stones were in disorderly fashion when the neighbor, B. Baird, who has told me that back in the 1950's he farmed the land for the owners, and that stones were in lying about, he placed them where they thought they belonged, as best he could and fenced the cemetery off, since it was plowed very closely to the graves. He was afraid that some were broken and gone, and he and the owner pointed out the deep depression in the earth surrounding the current fenced grave yard the owner has replaced the fence in the last 10 years. Mr. Baird is at the "Otterburn" farm next to "Brooke's Bank" if you need further info on the recent historyof the cemetery or if you want to quote him.
Good luck. Sue
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