Miss Margaret P. Brock Dies; Henry County, Ga. 1892

BROCK, MARTHA P. (MISS): Henry County Weekly, Dec 23, 1892:

Obituary: Miss Margaret P. Brock dau of Valentine and Nancy Brock was born Apr. 20, 1838 in Henry Co., Ga and died most triumphantly at the same place on the 28th day of Aug., 1892 at the age of 54 yrs, 3 mo., and 23 days. Miss "Duck" the name by which she was familiarly known lost her father while quite young and was raised in a home of ease and plenty by her mother of whom she was always a close companion and with whom she chose to live a quiet domestic life ever afterwards. Being naturally possessed of an amiable and gentle nature and adhering from childhood to true principles of Christianity, she was the friend of all who knew her exemplifying through all the trials of life the purest Christian virtues and graces being naturally of rather delicate frame and constitution of her life a subject of afflictions through all of which she bore herself with patience and resignation that showed her entire confidence in the divine power and especially during the last days and hours of her beautiful life but sad afflictions maintaining her reason to the last moment knowing full well when death came and what it was she gave us a farewell that told of triumphs and victory and was more an invitation to come on than a farewell. The very high esteem in which she was held and the spirit of the bereavement caused by her death was in part manifested by the very large concourse of sorrowing relatives and friends assembled at her funeral and burial from her Mother's home the next day. She leaves her aged mother, a number of relatives, and a very large circle of friends to mourn her loss but not without hope. John M. Thurman, Locust Grove, Ga., Dec 20, 1892.


Margaret P. Brock was the daughter of Valentine Brock and Nancy Vandigriff and the granddaughter of Valentine Brock and Elizabeth Lundy.

Margaret P. Brock is my 3rd Cousin 3 times removed.

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[1] Genealogical Society of Henry and Clayton Counties, GA, Henry County GA Obituaries 1879-1899; WH Wolfe Associates, July 1993, page 34. Tombstone of Margaret P. Brock; 13 August 1892, Brock Family Cemetery, Henry County, Georgia.
[2] My eternal thanks to Sylvia Watkins for sharing this obituary.
[3] This obituary lists Valentine and Nancy's daughter as Martha but all others documents including her Will she her name to be Margaret.