Joe Bethel Brooks

Life and Orange County connections

Dated events connected with this person, in date order. See these 6 dated events in the chronology →

1. March 11, 1926 Black farmers Joe B. Brooks and John W. Jones organize Jones Grove Missionary Baptist Church African American farmers Joe Bethel Brooks and John William Jones founded the Jones Grove congregation north of Hillsboro. Its members were close to Lea's (now Lee's) Chapel Baptist Church at Cedar Grove, where the Brooks family lived. People: Joe Bethel Brooks Place: Jones Grove Missionary Baptist Church, Jones Grove Church Road off Coleman Loop Road, Hillsborough vicinity · Also named: John William JonesSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Ridge Road School, National Register nomination (OR1104), p. 22
2. March 10, 1927 Joseph H. Jones deeds a quarter acre of his farm to the Jones Grove church trustees John Jones's father, Joseph H. Jones, gave a quarter-acre of his farm to the trustees of the new Jones Grove congregation: his son John, Joe Brooks and Joe's brother William Brooks. The deed also marks the line of the Ridge Road School lot to the south. People: Joe Bethel Brooks Place: Jones Grove Missionary Baptist Church, Jones Grove Church Road off Coleman Loop Road, Hillsborough vicinity · Also named: Joseph H. Jones, John William Jones, William Brooks, John Jones · Also mentions: Ridge Road SchoolSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Ridge Road School, National Register nomination (OR1104), p. 22
3. March 11, 1928 Jones Grove Missionary Baptist Church dedicates its first sanctuary Members and neighbors built a front-gable weatherboarded church, finished early in 1928, with Buck Jacobs giving a large cash gift, William Brooks the sand and Aldolphus Hester the logs; John Jones hauled lumber in a white neighbor's truck. Rev. Joe B. Brooks led the dedication. People: Joe Bethel Brooks Place: Jones Grove Missionary Baptist Church, Jones Grove Church Road off Coleman Loop Road, Hillsborough vicinity · Also named: Buck Jacobs, William Brooks, Aldolphus Hester, John William Jones, John JonesSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Ridge Road School, National Register nomination (OR1104), p. 22
4. March 1944 Rev. Joe Brooks is a Ridge Road leader in the Black farm families' wartime food drive Black neighborhood, 4-H and home demonstration club leaders across Orange County pooled efforts to produce and conserve more food for their families and the war effort in 1944. Rev. Joe Brooks was one of the leaders named for the Ridge Road neighborhood. Place: Orange CountySearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 23, 1944, p. 4
5. March 1945 Black rural school districts more than double their Red Cross gifts A Red Cross drive among the county's rural Black residents, run through the rural schools by A. L. Stanback and county agent M. C. Burt, closed with $472.55 from 428 people, against $224 the year before. Ridge Road district, with Mrs. A. A. Burt as principal, gave $36.32. People: Alethea Anne Arrington Burt, A. L. Stanback, Joe Bethel Brooks, Moses Cimuel Burt Place: Orange CountySearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 29, 1945, p. 6
6. January 6, 1954 Rev. Joe B. Brooks, founding pastor of Jones Grove, dies Joe Bethel Brooks, a farmer who helped found Jones Grove Missionary Baptist Church in 1926, led it as pastor until his death. People: Joe Bethel Brooks Place: Jones Grove Missionary Baptist Church, Jones Grove Church Road off Coleman Loop Road, Hillsborough vicinitySearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Ridge Road School, National Register nomination (OR1104), p. 22