Francis Marion Brock was born December 25, 1862 in McMinn County, Tennessee to Andrew "Andy" Jackson and Emeline [Jack] Brock. Everyone called him Frank.
In 1870 he is in the Athens, McMinn County, Tennessee Census with his parents and siblings. He was 8 years old and his father was listed as a laborer.
In 1880 I have been unable to find the family in the Census. I certainly haven't finished looking. But in 1883, in McMinn County, Tennessee, Frank married Irene Matilda Raborn, daughter of John and Rebecca [Rue] Raborn/Raburn/Rabourn. Irene was 16 and Frank was 21 years old.
In 1900 I found them in the McMinn County Census. Frank is listed as a farm hand. He is 38 years old. It says that he cannot read nor write. They are renting the house they live in, which is out in the 5th District. The family at this time consists of Frank, Matilda, Patrick, which is my great-grandfather, Sarah J., Walter, John J, Ernest, Emma and George D. There are no families nearby that I recognize.
In 1910, the family is in Polk County, Tennessee. Frank is 48 years old. They are living on a farm that they are renting. Patrick, my great-grandfather, married in 1906, so he is not in the house. In this census the family consists of Frank, Matilda, Walter, John, Ernest, Emma, Dewey (this is George), Andy, Lawrence, Thomas and Elliot. Matilda is 43, and her youngest child, Elliot, is one.
Matilda died on the 16th of February, 1918.
Frank married Manerva Jane Newton on March 7, 1919.
In the 1920 Cennsus, still in Polk County, Tennessee, same farm, Frank is listed with wife Mary. He is 57 and Mary is listed as 47. She must be Manerva, perhaps the census taker was afraid to even try to spell that. The family consists of Frank, Mary, Bessie Clayton, listed as step-daughter, age 11, Noah Clayton, step-son, age 14, and Alexander Brock, which is listed as Elliot before. Living next door to the family, listed as a lodger of James Copeland, is Lawrence Brock, age 16. A Robert Clayton lives just up the road. Manerva was married to David Clayton, who died in 1914.
In 1930, things have changed a bit. First of all Frank is living in Benton Village in Polk County, Tennessee on Clemmer Street. He is listed as being 65 years old. He is actually 68. His occupation is Laborer at Odd Jobs, and a wage earner. It also says he is unemployed. The household consists of Frank and a Manerva, his wife. She is 62.
On December 22nd, 1936, Frank died. At the time he is listed in Polk County, Tennessee. He is buried in Benton Cemetery, in Polk County, Tennessee. He is 70 years old. I have not yet gotten a copy of his death cert.
Manerva died on the 4th of July, 1945 in Ducktown, Polk County, Tennessee. She was 76 years old.
I have quite a lot to do on this family, at least I have a lot of sources to get.
Sources:
1870 US Census, (Athens, McMinn County, Tennessee - Thirteenth District), Page: 15, Page No. 15.
1900 U.S. Census, (5th-Dist., McMinn County, Tennessee), Page: 167 Dwelling 275 Family 279, 167.
1920 U.S. Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.
1930 U.S. Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002.
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