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Ida C. Brock

Daughter of Solomon Alfred Brock · 1873–1956

Ida C. Brock

Confirmed

Daughter of Solomon Alfred Brock · 1873–1956

Born
on 8 April 1873
Died
on 23 April 1956
Sources
3

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED daughter of Solomon Alfred Brock and Matilda Pauline Howard, and sister of Iona Belle Brock. Three records agree: the 1880 census of Hilburn Township, Madison County, Arkansas, read from the image, lists Ida C., 7, born Arkansas, in her mother Matilda Brock’s household S166; the California Death Index gives the mother’s maiden name of Ida C. Stansbury as Howard S1639; and Iona’s obituary of 1947 names a sister “Ida Stansburry” of Los Angeles S1632. Added to the family tree on 10 October 2026

Life in the order the records give it

Birth1873
Born on 8 April 1873 in Arkansas; died on 23 April 1956 in Lassen County, California, under the name Ida C. Stansbury. Both dates are from the California Death Index, which is an index with no image S1639

Open questions what is probable, weak or missing — confirm or correct it

Probable
Probable confirm or correct → She married first John Bance, in Taylor County, Texas, on 22 December 1892, and second A. B. Stansbury. Evidence: the surname Stansbury in the death index and in the 1947 obituary S1639S1632. What is weak or missing: neither marriage record has been read, and no record read joins the Ida of the 1892 marriage to the Ida Stansbury of 1956 in one document. Know more? Use “Add to this record”.
Not found
What else is weak or missing: the death index is not an original and cannot be checked against an image; the obituary is read from newspaper text, not from the page; her burial has not been found; her children are not named here. Her death certificate, or either marriage record, would settle the dates and the marriages.

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Ida C. Brock · Sources

Citations

Sources cited on this card

3 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.

  1. 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 is not in the tree. ⚠ No month, no day. ⚠ The page gives no reason for the split household, and no separation, desertion or estrangement should be inferred from it.
  2. S1632Obituary of Mrs. Iona Belle Bowles — Abilene Reporter-News, 5 July 1947, p. 1; burial report 8 July 1947, p. 5. Newspapers.com pages 761535105 and 761535181. Read from the newspaper text (OCR); the page images are not yet read by eye. Died Friday 4 July at the home of her son John W. Bowles near Potosi; born 31 December 1865 near London, Kentucky; married 24 December 1880 at Taft, Arkansas; to Taylor County in 1892. Names nine daughters, six sons, one brother (John Brock, Louisiana) and three sisters (Ada Estes, Mary Stansburry, Ida Stansburry). No parent is named.
  3. S1639California Death Index, 1940–1997 — Ida C. Stansbury. Ancestry collection 5180. An index; no image exists for it. Born 8 April 1873, Arkansas; died 23 April 1956, Lassen County, California; mother’s maiden name Howard. Ida C. Brock, daughter of Solomon Alfred Brock and Matilda Pauline Howard. Read 1 October 2026.

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