Benjamin married Jane Freeman, daughter of Jesse Freeman and Sarah Jane Davis, about 1854. This marriage year is based on the birth of their known first born child, James Brock in 1855.
Benjamin at age 16 is enumerated with his parents Benjamin and Temperance in the 1850 Census for Chesterfield County.
1850 Census, Chesterfield Co., SC
Ben Brock and Jane (Freeman) Brock had three known children:
i. James Brock was born about 1855 in Cheraw, Chesterfield, South Carolina. He died on 8 Sep 1856 at the age of 1 in Cheraw, Chesterfield, South Carolina. DEATH-BURIAL: September 8, 1856, at the residents of the Parents in Cheraw, & in the Yard at St. David's Church, James [BROCK], infant son of Benjamin & Jane BROCK, aged 1 year. "St. David's Parish, South Carolina Minutes of the Vestry 1768-1832, Parish Register 1819-1924" by Brent H. Holcomb, 1991. Page 120.
ii. Jane Brock was born in 1856 in Chesterfield, Chesterfield, South Carolina.
iii. Temperance A. "Tempy" Brock, born 10 Aug 1858, Chesterfield, Chesterfield, South Carolina; married Samuel Merkerson Parr, abt 1873; died 20 Nov 1918, Columbia, Richland, South Carolina.
No other record of Benjamin has been found with one possible exception. A Ben Brock was involved in a murder, in Anson County, NC, in February 1860.
DARLINGTON FLAG SUMMER 2003 TOWN COUNTY AND STATE NEWS- MURDER - On Sunday morning last, the body of a free colored man, named Michael Knight, was found near Sandy Plains Church, in this county, under circumstances that lead to believe that he had been foully dealt with. He was entirely nude, excepting socks upon his feet and his body was horribly mangled, having been badly beaten with a stick and his neck dislocated. Coroner A. Niven held an inquest on Monday before whom evidence was brought to light pointing to two white men as the perpetrators of the deed. The evidence however is wholly circumstantial. We suppress the names of the accused for the present understanding warrants are in the hands of the proper officers for their arrest. So far as we understand there are no extenuating circumstances for the perpetration of this horrible deed...
[ARGUS (Anson County, NC), 16 February 1860, page 3]
TOWN COUNTY AND STATE NEWS- THE MURDERS OF KNIGHT- So far as can we learn, the murders of Knight, are still at large. The probability is they have left the State. The two men charged with the crime, Robert Lewis and Ben Brock, are somewhat noted characters. The former it will be recollected was tried in Chesterfield District, South Carolina, last summer for homicide - it was said for causing the death of a man in Cheraw by striking him on the head with a bottle and the latter it is understood is a refugee from the State of Mississippi for causing or very near causing the death of a man by cutting him with a knife. It is presumed if the parties have left the State, the State authorities will take early and energetic measures to have them arrested and brought to justice. The majesty of the laws must be maintained and their strong arm should be felt no matter where the perpetrator of crime should seek to hide himself. We understand that parties in South Carolina say that the offer of sufficient reward they will produce one or both of the parties. Probability is they are hiding just over the State line and these parties know where they are hiding...
[ARGUS (Anson County, NC), 23 February 1860, page 3]
As stated above, no record, after this newspaper article (Feb. 1860) has been found for Benjamin Brock. No record of Jane (Freeman) Brock has been found after July 1881 except She (Jane) and her daughter Tempie Parr are mentioned in a "Bill of Complaint" brought against the estate of her Father, Jesse Freeman.
"granddaughter named Temple Parr, the wife of Samuel Parr who is a child of a daughter of testor named Jane which said daughter of testator had been intermarried with one Benjamin Brock and predeceased her said father Jesse Freeman..."
Was Ben Brock convicted and sent to prison?
Did he leaves the Carolinas for parts unknown?
Did he change his name?
Jane (Freeman) Brock died sometime before July 1881 and most likely before 1880. She cannot be found in the 1880 Census and she was not named in her Father's Will or the Bill of Complaint whereas her only living child, Tempie Parr was named. The WILL did sated that she (Jane) predeceased her said father Jesse Freeman.
Benjamin Brock is my 2nd Great Grand Uncle.
Jane (Freeman) Brock is my 1st Cousin 4X Removed.
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1. 1850 U. S. Census, Chesterfield
County, South Carolina, population schedule, Chesterfield, Chesterfield County,
South Carolina, Page 126B; Line 18, Dwelling 438, Family 438, Household of
Benjamin Brock; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com :
viewed March 2012); citing National
Archives Microfilm M432 Roll 851.
2. Old Darlington District Chapter S.C.G.S., "Anson County, NC – Darlington District, SC Connections;," Darlington Flag, Vol. XV, No. 3 (Summer 2003): Murder of Michael Knight Free Man of Color.
3. Brent H. Holcomb, St. David's Parish, South Carolina
Minutes of the Vestry 1768-1832,: Parish Register 1819-1924 (Greenville,
South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, 1991), page 120.
4. 1850 U. S. Census, Chesterfield County, South Carolina,
Population Schedule, Chesterfield, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, Page:
134B/135A; Line 33, Dwelling 560, Family 560, Household of Jesse FREEMAN.
5. Old Darlington District Chapter S.C.G.S., "Anson County, NC – Darlington District, SC Connections;," Darlington Flag, Vol. XV, No. 3 (Summer 2003): pages 21-23.
6. Holcomb, St. David's Parish, South Carolina Minutes
of the Vestry 1768-1832,, page 120.
7. 1860 U. S. Census, Chesterfield County, South
Carolina, population schedule, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, Page 173B;
Line 27, Dwelling 1123, Family 1122, Household of Jesse FREEMAN; digital
images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 2009);
citing National Archives Microfilm
M653_1217.
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