Title: DIED

In Chatham county, on the 30th January, Nicy, about 30 years old, wife of John A. BROOKS, leaving an affectionate and kind husband and two children – a daughter about 8 and a son about 5 years old, and a large circle of relatives and friends to mourn their irreparable loss.  Mrs. BROOKS was an affectionate and good wife, a tender mother, and pleasant mistress, and a kind and good neighbor, and we have good reason to hope she is gone to rest.

Weekly Standard (Raleigh), February 9, 1859