Chesterfield County Military Veterans~Hezekiah ‘Hugh’ Brock

Hezekiah ‘Hugh’ Brock

b. 28 February 1827

d. 12 June 1865

bu. Pt. Lookout, Md.

 

ERECTED BY

THE

UNITED STATES

TO MARK THE BURIAL PLACE

OF

CONFEDERATE

SOLDIERS AND SAILORS

WHO DIED AT POINT LOOKOUT MD.

WHILE PRISONERS OF WAR AND WERE THERE

BURIED TO THE NUMBER OF 3384. BUT WHOSE

REMAINS WERE SUBSEQUENTLY REMOVED,

EITHER TO THEIR RESPECTIVE HOMES OR TO

THIS CEMETERY WHERE THE INDIVIDUAL GRAVES

CANNOT NOW BE IDENTIFIED.

 

Hezekiah ‘Hugh’ Brock was taken prisoner while his wife and children watched him being taken away from their farm home in Chesterfield, SC. Hugh & Sallie's oldest (Benjamin Franklin), my g-grandfather had just turned 14 and the youngest (Pleasant Elmore wasn't quite 12 months old. Hugh never saw his family again. After being taken prisoner he was transferred to the Confederate Prison at Point Lookout, Maryland. On 12 June 1865, exactly 3 months to the day of his imprisonment Hugh passed away at Point Lookout. Cause of death was listed as inflammation of the lungs which probably translates to pneumonia.

There is a Descendants of Point Lookout, POW Organization, for anyone who may be interested. Many soldiers from Chesterfield were incarcerated at this prison including many of my Sellers relatives. In the late 1990’s before moving back to North Carolina I belonged to this organization and submitted paperwork and documents to have Hezekiah Brock named added to the Confederate Memorial. The Park Director, Pearl Buck, failed to make good on her commitment to me and the PLPOW organization and never added Hezekiah name to a plague on this memorial. I checked when I was there in May 2004. ¹

However, as posted on Hezekiah’s FindAGrave Memorial (# 25572002) they did create a list and add his name (“Name is not listed on monument but appears on a list from Baltimore National Cemetery updated May 25, 2006 located at the monument. - FAG#25572002) ²

Hezekiah Brock died at Point Lookout on 12 June 1865. The War that resulted in the loss of his life ended 63 days earlier on 9 April 1865. ^{3 4}

 

 

 

 

 

 

Date of Death

 

 

 

 

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Hezekiah “Hugh” Brock is my 2nd Great Grandfather.







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[1] Descendants of Point Lookout, POW Organization - http://www.plpow.com/
[2] Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, database and digital images, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 4 November 2008); Memorial page for Hezekiah "Hugh" Brock; (1827–12 June 1865); Find a Grave memorial # 25572002, Citing Point Lookout Confederate Cemetery; Scotland, St. Mary's County, Maryland, USA.
[3] Randolph W. Kirkland Jr., Broken Fortunes: South Carolina Soldiers, Sailors and Citizens Who Died in the Service of Their Country and State in the War for Southern Independence, 1861-1865 (Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina, 1997), page 38.
[4] United States, Register of Confederates and Civilians Who Died in the North,1861-1865," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-36735-23991-33?cc=2250054 : accessed 5 April 2015), 007499076 > image 549 of 679; citing NARA microfilm publication M918 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).