Brock, John 1833 - 1924

BROCK, THOMPSON

Posted By: Barbara Hug (email)
Date: 10/4/2007 at 08:31:38

Father is Dead

John Brock, Father of Newton Councilman,
Dies at Hays, Kansas

John Brock was born near Knoxville, Tenn., Dec. 14th, 1833, and died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Mary Thompson, at Hays, Kansas, March 27th, 1924 at the age of 90 years three months and 12 days. Mr. Brock was the father of W. H. and George Brock of this county. The Civil war left him in poverty and at middle life he came to Jasper county to begin life over again.

Though not a soldier in the Civil war he did his bit serving as a patrol guard in the telegraph service open from Cumberland Gap to Cincinnati and Mr. Brock was also on duty when Gen. Morgan made his northern raid.

Mr. Brock's ancestors settled in Virginia long before the Revolutionary war. Two of his maternal sire were in that war, one a Lieutenant in Capt. Clark's Co., of Virginians and the other in the ranks. One grandsire was a captain in the war of 1812, two of his father's brothers marched with the American army to the city of Mexico where one of them lost his life at the storming of that city.

Mr. Brock's ancestors were all anti-slavery men; though living in the limits of slave territory. Seven generations lived and died as farmers. Mr. Brock being typical of his ancestors, loving the great out doors and though all else had been forgotten, he remembered and loved the wooded hills and rich agricultural valleys of his native southland.

Mr. Brock leaves to his children an unblemished name, more to be valued than material wealth.
Services were held for Mr. Brock at Bownell, Kansas, on Sunday March 30th, at which place Mr. Brock's wife and two daughters who preceded him in death are buried. ~ Jasper County Record. April 3, 1924, page 1, column 6