George Brock - Margaret Hudson Marriage Bond

Courtesy Gayla Brookman

                                                   Davenport, Wash

                                                   March 27, 1909

Wilbar F. Brock Esq.

Spokane, Wash

Dear Sir – Your letter

was received and contents noted. 

            Have no recollection of ever

receiving a letter from you from Walla

Walla.  Am glad to hear from

you, and will call to see you when

I go to Spokane.

            My family of Brocks come originally

from England about 1770. 

            Two brothers came from Eng. and

settled in N.C. from there went to

east Tennessee and from there Ohio

my grandfather Geo Brock and his

brother Allen went from E Tennessee

to Ohio about 1810, and settled in

Southern Ohio in what was then

known as the French Grant

            My grandfather Geo. Brock was

married three times, my father Sher-

idan and his sister Sarah was

of first wife.  Of his second marriage

came Pleasant, Wilkeinson, Orlan-

do, and Sylvester, and Mary, of

third marrige Sam, David and

John,        Pleasant was very promi

nent in United Brethren Church,

he, being what they called a very

able preacher in that church.

Wilkinson moved to Ill. when

a young married man, and became

a prominent farmer, and the father

of thirteen children 11 boys and 2 girls

            This is about all I know of

the Brocks of our family, except

my father died when he was

about 30 years old

            Hoping to see you soon

I am yours very respectfully yours

                              Jackson Brock

Courtesy Gayla Brookman

Family Legend From the War of 1812

Knox County Kentucky Kinfolks, Vol. 2, No. 3, March 1978

Mrs. Elma Brock Cole, 405 NE 2nd St., Fairfield, Illinois 62837

"George Brock was drafted into the War of 1812 from Montgomery County, Kentucky. He served as a private in the 13th Kentucky Militia, Captain Archibald Morrison's company of infantry. Colonel Dudley commanded the 13th Kentucky regiment. In 1813 this regiment was marching to reinforce William Henry Harrison at Fort Meigs, Ohio, who troops were under the threat of attack from the British General Proctor and Tecumseh. Harrison decided to attack first and Colonel Dudley led the 13th Kentucky in an ambush. The British and Indians were driven back and the Kentuckians chased them for miles, only to be ambushed by the Indians (this was a favorite Indian trick - to retreat, then ambush the pursuers). George Brock was taken prisoner along with 600 others. Our story says that George Brock and several other soldiers were made to run the gauntlet. The captives were told that if they got through the lines of Indians - about 50 rods - and reached an old building at the end of that distance, they would be granted their freedom. But if any should fall beneath the tomahawks and clubs of the savages between whom the captives had to run, they would be put to death. George Brock made it through the gauntlet, attributing his stamina to the fact that he himself was half-Indian and would not show signs of suffering. Tecumseh cam upon the scene just then. He scolded his braves, saying he was ashamed of them for torturing prisoners. He gave George Brock a hunting shirt to cover his naked back and said "he was a man." George was set free at Port Huron and our legend says he walked barefoot back to Lexington to be mustered out of the militia. George Brock was listed on the 1810 Knox County Census. George's War of 1812 pension application states he was 65 years old in 1851, making his birth year 1786. His wife was Elizabeth Hake: one of their children was Lucretia Brock Bailey, b. 1846; d. 1927. We have numerous traditions of life in the backwoods, of hunters and Indian fighters..."

Marriage Record - Wilkinson Brock to Mary Wiltsey

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