This tombstone was photographed at the Valley Cemetery in
Manchester, New Hampshire.
MARY ELLEN
DAU. OF
REV. N & MRS R. L.
BROOKS
DIED OCT. 10, 1866
AE. 20 YRS 13 DAYS
BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART
MRS. REBECCA L. BROOKS
WIDOW OF
REV. NAHUM BROOKS
BORN SEPT. 17, 1817
DIED JUNE 20, 1897
HE GIVETH HIS BELOVED SLEEP
REV. NAHUM BROOKS
BORN AT
EAST WAKEFIELD
JUNE 16, 1811
DIED AT MANCHESTER
MARCH 16, 1883
AE. 71 YRS 9 MOS
HIS LIFE WAS A BENEDICTION
The Revered Nahum Brooks was born 11 June 1811 in Wakefield,
New Hampshire, the son of John Brooks and Phebe Chick. He went to school at the Parsonsfield Academy
in Maine. He organized his first Baptist church in Laconia in March 1838 and
was ordained in Sanbornton in May 1838. He was a Baptist minister in Centre
Sandwich, Great Falls, Bath, and the Pine Street Baptist Church in Manchester.
He married first on 14 February 1836 to Emmeline M. Watson,
the daughter of Elijah Watson and Miriam Sawyer. She was born 3 Jan 1815 in Springfield, New
Hampshire, and died in Concord, New on 7 September 1836, almost 7 months after
their wedding.
He married second on 19 September 1838 to Rebecca L. Harmon.
She was the daughter of Henry Harmon and Catherine Franklin, born on 17
September 1817, and died 20 June 1897. Rebecca
gave him two daughters: Emmeline R.
(1842 – 1901), wife of Charles Edward Balch, and Mary Ellen (1844 – 1866), who
died unmarried and is buried next to her parents.
Click on this link for the blog post featuring Emmeline R.
Brooks and Charles Edward Balch:
The Native Ministry of New Hampshire, by Nathan Franklin
Carter, 1906 (see a sketch of Nahum
Brooks on page 769).
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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Tombstone Tuesday ~ The Rev. Nahum Brooks family plot, Manchester, New Hampshire", Nutfield Genealogy, posted August 8, 2017, (
Those headstones look so sturdy, I'd say I can't believe that Mary Ellen's broke except I've been getting an education on that in my own ancestry. Beautiful place.
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