The Proeger Family · Generation 6 — Earl's 3rd-great-grandparents and their siblings

Sabra Brock Wilson

Daughter of James and Betsy Brock · 1835–1930

On this page

On this pageMenu

Whose family are you here for?

Showing both families — every line on the page. Pick a side to hide the other family's ancestors; Earl, Kristin and their three children stay on either way.

Person · Sabra Brock Wilson

The record

The evidence

The findings

How to read this record

Every claim is tagged

Most family trees flatten everything into the same confident typeface. This one does not. The three research tags below are the whole point of the exercise: they say what a document proves, what the weight of evidence suggests, and what nobody has found yet. A fourth marks what the family stated directly, where no document has been retrieved at all — it is kept separate on purpose and is never quietly promoted to confirmed. A fifth marks biological evidence: a DNA result is not a document, and it is not testimony either. Two further labels mark where this page withholds information rather than lacking it.

Confirmed

Attested by a document that was actually retrieved and read — a census sheet, a government index, a grave marker, a family-written obituary.

Probable

Strongly supported but not nailed down: a user-contributed tree, a masked index field, or a chain of consistent circumstances. Believable, not proven.

Not found

Searched for and not located. This is a statement about the search, not about the person — the record may well exist somewhere unsearched.

Family testimony

Supplied by the family and recorded on their word — no document has been retrieved for it. Note the diamond rather than the dot: this is provenance, not proof, and it stands apart from the three record tags above S24.

DNA evidence

Biological evidence consistent with a claim. It corroborates origins; it does not by itself establish a person or a link. Note the bar rather than a dot or a diamond: no DNA result on this page is ever counted as confirmed, because no document was read for it S46.

Living — withheld

The person is living. On the charts and in the chains of names a living person appears by name and relationship. A living adult’s full record is on their own card, published with the family’s consent and kept out of search engines. A minor appears by name only. The privacy note at the head of the page gives the rule in full.

Research in progress

A branch that is actively being worked on. The node exists in the structure so the shape of the family is honest; the detail is simply not in yet.

Skip to sources ↧

Sabra Brock Wilson

KentuckyProbable

Daughter of James and Betsy Brock · 1835–1930

Born: 15 January 1835
Died: 15 January 1930
Parents: James Brock & Elizabeth "Betsy" Brock
Married: William Wilson (1862)
Sources: 6

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE Probable confirm or correct → as the daughter of James Brock and Elizabeth “Betsy” Brock, and so a sister of Solomon Alfred Brock. The evidence is strong. Evidence: her Kentucky death record of 1930 names her parents as James Brock and Elizabeth Brock S2458; in 1900 her widowed mother, Elizabeth Brock, 97, lived in her home and was listed as her husband's mother-in-law, read on the census image S580; and she is in James and Elizabeth's household twice, as Sabra, 14, in 1850 and Sabrey A., 24, in 1860 S169 S167. In 1870 and 1880 she and her husband lived beside her parents S630 S581. What is weak: her father's name rests on the death-record index, not on an image of the certificate, and on the shared households, since no census before 1880 states relationships. Reading the 1930 certificate image would settle it. If you know more, use “Add to this record”.

Evidence: Her Kentucky death record of 1930 names her parents as James Brock and Elizabeth Brock (S2458); in 1900 her widowed mother Elizabeth Brock, 97, lived in her home as her husband's mother-in-law, read on the census image (S580); and she is in James and Elizabeth's household in 1850 and 1860 (S169, S167). Weak or missing: Her father's name rests on the death-record index, not on an image of the certificate, and the censuses before 1880 state no relationships. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life in the order the records give it

Birth1835

Born 15 January 1835, Laurel County, Kentucky, by her death record S2458; 14 in August 1850 S169 and born January 1835 by the 1900 census S580

Census1870

In 1870, as Sabra, 30, she was the wife of William H. Wilson, 36, farmer, with five children, in Buffalo Precinct, Owsley County, two doors from her parents S630. In 1880, as Sabra, 46, she and William lived next door to James and Elizabeth at Bull Skin, Clay County S581.

Census1900

In 1900 she and William lived at Cornett, Clay County, with her mother Elizabeth Brock, then 97, widowed, the mother of 13 children, 3 of them living S580

Death1930

Died 15 January 1930, Clay County, Kentucky, aged 95 S2458

Family parents, marriages, children, siblings

Parents

Daughter of James Brock and Elizabeth “Betsy” Brock; sister of Solomon Alfred Brock and of Elizabeth Brock Hoskins

Marriage1862

Married William Wilson, 5 November 1862, Harlan County, Kentucky (“Sabry” or “Sabery” Brock in three copies of the county marriage index) S2458. He is named here only.

Parents2026

History of this card. 26 Oct 2026

card added; she was entered on the family tree the same day as the daughter of James and Elizabeth Brock (PROPOSALS-APPLY PA-1026M, card SWEEP-1026K). Her parents' and brother's cards already named her, with the same sources.

Documents and record images for the Brock family →

Sabra Brock Wilson · Sources

Citations

Sources cited on this card

6 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.

S1671860 U.S. Federal Census — James Brock household, County of Laurel, State of Kentucky. Ancestry collection 7667, record 39738881, image 4231191_00444. SCHEDULE 1.—Free Inhabitants, enumerated the 25th day of July 1860 by J. R. Martin, Ass't Marshal; page 112, dwelling 760, family 714, lines 9–17. Read from the image at full resolution — 2237 × 2930 px, 22 September 2026. Brock, James, 56, U.B. Clergym'n, $700 real and $152 personal, born Ky; Elizabeth, 57; Caleb 26 (farm labor, $82); Sabrey A. 24; Soleman, 22, farm labor, $50; Mary J. 19; Mahala 17; Carline C. 13; Hetia C. 10 — all born Ky. A PROBABLE sixth generation on the Brock side. This sheet puts him at 22 in the household of James and Elizabeth Brock with seven others of the surname, and the 1850 Harlan County sheet [S169] shows the same couple with the same children ten years earlier and Solomon at 12. The hedge is the whole point and it is stated plainly: a census names a household, not a parentage. No record read in this research says son of, so the link is graded PROBABLE, in the family tree as on this page. James Brock was a United Brethren minister — U.B. Clergym'n in the occupation column, against page totals of $3,200 and $2,000, with a second U.B. clergyman, B. Cochins, 78, born Georgia, at line 2 of the same page. The first religious vocation anywhere in the Brock line. Solomon is a farm labourer at 22 with $50 to his name — ten years before he is Teaching School in Arkansas [S153]. Laurel County, not Harlan. The family is in Harlan in 1850 [S169], in Laurel in July 1860, and back in Harlan for the marriage of 6 March 1865 [S151]; the birthplace column on both schedules reads only Kentucky. Age 22 points to 1838 and excludes 8 April 1837. Reference day 1 June 1860; 22 requires a birth between 2 June 1837 and 1 June 1838, and born 8 April 1837 he would be 23. Neither schedule carries a month or a day; the day comes from his headstone alone [S1769]. Ancestry indexes him Salman; the image reads Soleman.
S1691850 U.S. Federal Census — James Brock household, District No. 1, County of Harlan, State of Kentucky. Ancestry collection 8054, record 17189309, image 4192493_00369. SCHEDULE I.—Free Inhabitants, enumerated on the 21st day of August 1850; dwelling and family 381/381, lines 20–27, with dwelling 382 next door. Read from the image at full resolution — 3502 × 4498 px, 22 September 2026. Brock, James, 45, Farmer, real estate $600, born Ky; Elizabeth, 46; Caleb 16 (farmer); Sabra 14; Solomon, 12; Mary 9; Mahala 6; Caroline V. 3 — the surname written once on line 20 and dittoed down. Next door, dwelling 382: Brock, Zecheriah, 22, farmer, $100, with Margarett 20, James 2 and Abram 7/12. This is the pair to S167, and it turns the CANDIDATE parentage into a two-census chain. Every member of dwelling 381 reappears in Laurel County ten years later at the right age — Caleb 16→26, Sabra 14→Sabrey A. 24, Solomon 12→22, Mary 9→19, Mahala 6→17, Caroline V. 3→Carline C. 13, James 45→56, Elizabeth 46→57 — nobody drops out, and the only addition in 1860 is Hetia C., 10, born after this sheet was taken. Eight people twice, a decade apart, in two counties. That is what makes it a chain rather than a one-page guess, and it is still an inference. No record here says son of; graded Probable on James Brock's card, with the 1930 death record of Solomon's sister Sabra, which names the same parents. A married Brock next door. Zecheriah, 22, born c.1828, with a wife of 20 and two small sons — exactly where an elder son of James who had already married out would sit. A candidate brother, carded and not claimed. James Brock's calling changed: a farmer with $600 here and a U.B. clergyman with $700 in 1860 [S167]. Both are on the record and neither should be flattened into the other. The given name is written out in full — Solomon, clearer than 1860's Soleman. Age 12 points to 1838 and excludes 8 April 1837: reference day 1 June 1850, so 12 requires a birth between 2 June 1837 and 1 June 1838, and at 8 April 1837 he would be 13. The day comes from his headstone [S1769]. The birthplace column names a state, not a county. The enumeration-day digit reads 21; 31 cannot be wholly excluded, and the arithmetic is the same either way.
S5801900 U.S. census — Cornett, Clay County, Kentucky, ED 29, sheet 20A. Ancestry record 17518209. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed In the home of William Wilson (born June 1844) and his wife Sabra (born January 1835): Elizabeth Brock, mother-in-law, born March 1803 in Kentucky, 97, widowed, the mother of 13 children, 3 of them living.
S5811880 U.S. census — Bull Skin, Clay County, Kentucky, ED 24, p. 35. Ancestry record 42003735. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed James Brock, 74, a cooper, born in Kentucky, his parents born in Virginia; Elizabeth, 76. The next household is William Wilson, 34, and Sabra, 46.
S6301870 U.S. census — Buffalo Precinct, Owsley County, Kentucky, p. 6 (Booneville post office). Ancestry record 18775011. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Dwelling 33, enumerated 13 August 1870: James Brock, 66, minister of the gospel, personal estate $340, born Kentucky; Elizabeth, 64, keeping house; Hiram Hoskins, 13, farm labour; Lee Hoskins, 2. Dwelling 35: William H. Wilson, 36, farmer, and Sabra, 30, with five children.
S2458Sabra (Brock) Wilson — Kentucky death index and Harlan County marriage index. Ancestry, “Kentucky, U.S., Death Records” (db 1222), record 468451; Ancestry, “Kentucky, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1783–1965” (db 61372), records 2094573, 2177866 and 2223851. Found 27 September 2026 (S5-0927P); index entries only — no image was read. Probable Sabra Wilson, maiden name Brock, born 15 January 1835, Laurel County, died 15 January 1930, Clay County, aged 95; father James Brock, mother “Eliszabeth Brock”. William Wilson and Sabry (Sabery) Brock, married 5 November 1862, Harlan County. The index gives the mother under her married surname, so it does not settle her maiden name. The certificate image has not been read.

Know something this page doesn't? Send it to Earl — corrections, names, dates, documents. Nothing appears here until he has reviewed it.

Top