It’s Family Time~Dr. and Mrs. Fleet William Brock

Dr. Fleet William Brock, son of Alexander and Sarah Elizabeth (Williams) Brock, was born February 28, 1883 at Dillon, Mississippi and spent his boyhood schooldays at Tylertown, Mississippi. His Grandparents, James Brock and Mary Elizabeth Purvis brought the family to Mississippi about 1820. Fleet’s father Alexander Brock was born in Mississippi about the year 1829. 

After graduating from high school, Fleet attended medical college in Tennessee and graduated from Tulane School of Medicine in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1907. 

He was married to Miss Maud Draughon of Lake Charles, Louisiana on 9 October 1906. Dr. Fleet Brock was a physician on the hospital staff at Bogalusa. Fleet and Maude would have five children, of which two died young, before her unexpected death in November 1920. They had only been married a short 14 years before untimely death. 

After the death of his wife Maude, Dr. Fleet W. Brock married Miss Mattie E. Hale, surgical supervisor of the Elizabeth Sullivan Memorial Hospital, September 15, 1922. Sadly, this marriage would only be celebrated for 11 months and 6 days when Dr. Fleet William Brock was killed in an automobile accident. 

Bogalusa, La., Aug. 21---Dr. F. W. Brock, 42 years old, a member of the staff of the Elizabeth Sullivan Memorial hospital here, was killed, and Major J. H. Friend, chief engineer of the Great Southern Lumber Company injured seriously when an automobile in which they were riding from Slidell to Bogalusa overturned at 7:30 o'clock this evening at a curve in the road two miles from Talisheek. An ambulance from the local hospital brought the accident victims to Bogalusa, twenty miles from the scene of the smash. 

    Dr. Brock and Major Friend had been to New Orleans and returned by train to Slidell late today, then got in the automobile to complete their journey. The car turned over three times in rounding a curve. Dr. Brock's skull was crushed and Major Friend's shoulder and three of his ribs were broken. 

    Dr. Brock is survived by a wife and three children, also three brothers, Jap Brock, state bank examiner; Col. (J. Vol) Brock, district attorney, and Dr. J. L. Brock, coroner of Washington parish. He was a native of Franklinton and has been residing in Bogalusa for many years. Major Friend has been connected with the Great Southern Lumber Company, for a long period, but was absent during the war serving overseas..

 ["The Times-Picayune", Wednesday, August 22, 1923, Page 17, Col 5]

Fleet William Brock and Maude O. Draughon had the following children:

i. Leslie William Brock, born 9 Oct 1907, Walthall County, Mississippi; married Dollie Lura Smith, 2 Jul 1929, Pike County, Mississippi; died 16 Jan 1975, Walthall County, Mississippi.

ii. Mildred Louise Brock, born 13 Dec 1909, Warnerton, LA; married John Hampton Magee, 23 Sep 1932, Lexie, MS; died 7 Aug 2002, Clifton, LA.

iii. Female Child Brock was born in Nov 1911 in Louisiana. She died on 10 Nov 1913 at the age of 2 in New Orleans, Louisiana. She was buried on 11 Nov 1913 at Brock Cemetery in Washington Parish, Louisiana.

iv. Robert Draughon Brock was born on 6 Jan 1912 in Washington Parish, Louisiana. He died on 15 Nov 1916 at the age of 4 in Washington Parish, Louisiana.

v. Freddie Marguerite Brock, born 1 Sep 1914, Washington Parish, Louisiana; married Nelson Wood, 13 Aug 1932, Walthall County, Mississippi; died 26 Dec 2003, Tylertown, Walthall County, Mississippi.

Fleet William Brock and Mattie Elizabeth Hale had no known children.

Fleet William Brock is my 3rd Cousin 3X Removed.

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1. "Louisiana, Marriages Index, 1718-1925," database, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 20 January 2022), Marriage: Fleet Brock & Maud Draughon, https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/62116:7837.

2. Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, database and digital images, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 21 January 2022); Memorial page for Dr. Fleet William Brock; (1 March 1883–21 August 1923); Find a Grave memorial:#34891413, Citing Jerry Smith Cemetery; Washington Parish, Louisiana, USA.

3. 1910 U. S. Census, Police Jury Ward 1, Washington Parish, Louisiana, population schedule, Police Jury Ward 3, Washington, Louisiana, enumeration district (ED) 0127, Page:#7A/56 (Stamped); Line:#14, Dwelling:#93, Family:#96, Household of Fleet W. BROCK; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com : viewed 6 January 2022); citing National Archives Microfilm  T624_534.

4. 1920, Police Jury Ward 2, Washington Parish, Louisiana, population schedule, Bogalusa, Washington, Louisiana, enumeration district (ED) 0140, Page: 4B/111(stamped); Line#53, Dwelling#NL, Family#80, Household of F. W. BROCK; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 20 January 2022); citing National Archives Microfilm T625_635.

5. Obituary for Dr. Fleet William Brock Killed in Auto Accident, The Times-Picayune, 22 August 1923.

5. "Mrs. Fleet Brock Dead," Obituary, The Era-Leader, (Franklin, La.), 2 December 1920, , Image 2, column 3]; Digital On-Line Archives, ChroniclingAmerica (https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ : viewed, transcribed January 2022), Historic America Newspapers.

7. Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, database, "Record, Maude Irene Draughon Brock (26 April 1886–23 November 1920), Memorial:#234891424.