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Ellen Brock

Daughter of Solomon Alfred Brock · born about 1871

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Ellen Brock

ArkansasProbable

Daughter of Solomon Alfred Brock · born about 1871

Parents: Solomon Alfred Brock & Matilda Pauline Howard
Sources: 2

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Research status: PROBABLE Probable confirm or correct →: as the daughter of Solomon Alfred Brock and Matilda Pauline Howard. Evidence: the 1880 census sheet, read from the image, lists her in Matilda’s household with Iona B., Mary E., Ida C., John B. and James B. S166, and the 1910 census index has her as Matilda P. Brock’s daughter at Clyde S2451. What is weak: the 1910 entry is an index row, no image read; no record names Solomon as her father (he was enumerated away from home in 1880); her own marriage and death are not found.

Evidence: The 1880 census sheet, read from the image, lists Ellen, 9, born in Arkansas, in her mother Matilda Brock's household with Iona B., Mary E., Ida C., John B. and James B. (S166); the 1910 census index has her as Matilda P. Brock's daughter at Clyde, Callahan County, born about 1872 in Arkansas (S2451). Weak or missing: The 1910 entry is an index row with no image read, and no record names Solomon Alfred Brock as her father. Her marriage and death are not found. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

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Ellen Brock, born about 1871 in Arkansas, was a daughter of Matilda Pauline Howard and probably of Solomon Alfred Brock. On 18 June 1880 she was Ellen, 9, born in Arkansas, in her mother Matilda’s household at Hilburn Township, Madison County, Arkansas, between her sisters Mary E. and Ida C. S166. In 1910 she was a daughter in the household of Matilda P. Brock at Clyde, Callahan County, Texas, with her sister Lorena; that index gives her birth as 1872, in Arkansas S2451. Her marriage, if she married, and her death have not been found.

Census2026

History of this card. 26 Oct 2026

card added: she entered the family tree on 26 Oct as a Probable daughter of Solomon and Matilda (PA-1026C), from the 1880 census (S166) and the 1910 Clyde census index (S2451, new).

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Parents

Daughter of Solomon Alfred Brock and Matilda Pauline Howard.

Siblings

Sister of Iona Belle Brock, Mary E. Brock, Ida C. Brock, John B. Brock, Lorena Lucille Brock and Ada May Brock.

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2 of the record's sources are cited here. The numbering is the record's own; the full list, with where else each is cited, is at Sources.

S1661880 U.S. Federal Census — Matilda Brock household, Hilburn Township, County of Madison, State of Arkansas. Ancestry collection 6742, record 5406340, image 4239811-00834. SCHEDULE 1.—Inhabitants, enumerated the Eighteenth day of June, 1880 by Aaron L. Thompson, Enumerator; page 27, S.D. 2, E.D. 104, stamped 554; dwelling and family 228/234, lines 11–17. Read from the image at full resolution — 3888 × 4560 px, 22 September 2026. Brock, Matilda, 33, head, MARRIED, Keeping House, born Kentucky, both parents Ky; Iona B. 14 (Ky), Mary E. 11 (Ky), Ellen 9 (Arkansas), Ida C. 7 (Ark), John B. 6 (Ark), James B. 3 (Ark). Age 33 is the fourth age column to exclude 9 January 1848. Reference day 1 June 1880; 33 puts her birth between 2 June 1846 and 1 June 1847. With 1860 (13) [S165], 1870 (23) [S153] and 1900 (Jan 1847, age 53) [S138], four independent schedules close the year on 1847 and the day remains unattested by any document. She heads her own household and the tick is in the MARRIED column, not Widowed — while Solomon heads a separate household at Eureka Springs, Carroll County, sixty miles north, fourteen days earlier [S168]. These two sheets must be read as a pair. This is NOT early widowhood: the pension index dates his death to on or before 23 May 1904 [S152]. The Kentucky-to-Arkansas move narrows to 1869 × July 1870. Mary E., 11, was born in Kentucky; Ellen, 9, in Arkansas, and the 12 July 1870 sheet already has the family in Madison County with both then-living daughters Kentucky-born [S153]. The wider December 1865 × December 1874 bracket closes to a little over a year. It settles S153's one open reading. The eldest daughter here is Iona B., 14, born Kentucky; four in July 1870 and fourteen in June 1880 is the same child, so the 1870 line-28 given name is Iona B. and Sara B., Jane B. and Ancestry's Imma M. can be retired. A sixth child, James B., 3, born Arkansas — Ancestry's index truncates its household list at "John B. Br" and he has no card on this site. No month, no day. The page gives no reason for the split household, and no separation, desertion or estrangement should be inferred from it.
S24511910 United States Federal Census — Matilda P. Brock household, Clyde, Callahan County, Texas. FamilySearch index, searched 26 October 2026 (PA-1026C). Index entry only — the image was not read. Probable Matilda P. Brock, head, born about 1848 in Kentucky; Ellen, daughter, born about 1872 in Arkansas; Lorena Brock. With the 1880 Hilburn Township sheet (S166) this places Ellen in Matilda’s household thirty years apart. Neither record names Solomon as her father.

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