Jonas Figley Brock

BROCK, HOUSH

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 9/15/2004 at 21:33:24

J. F. Brock, Lincoln twp.; farmer, Sec. 6; P.O. Winterset; born in Ohio in 1822, and removed to Kentucky where he remained nine years; came to this county in February, 1856; owns 217 acres of land; has held the office of sheriff for four and one half years; he enlisted in the Thirty-ninth Infantry in 1862, and was discharged in 1865; he was taken prisoner at Allatoona, Georgia, and was confined in various Southern prisons and escaped twice, the first time he was recaptured, but in the second attempt he was successful; after his second escape he was taken sick with typhoid fever and lay concealed in the woods during that time, and all the attention and care he received was from loyal Negroes; he married Miss Elizabeth Housh, a native of Brown county, Ohio, in 1855; has five children: Harriet A., Ella I., William E., Charlie and Frank.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 616