Jeremiah Frock

As printed in 1908

JEREMIAH FROCK, one of Clark County's most substantial citizens, residing in a pleasant home at Vienna Cross Roads, owns 160 acres of valuable farming land in Harmony Township and 203 acres in Moorfield and Springfield Townships. He is a native of Ohio and was born May 12, 1836. His parents were Samuel and Mary Ann (Wient) Frock. The paternal grandparents of Mr. Frock, Benjamin and Malinda Frock, were Maryland people, who came to Ohio in 1844".

Samuel Frock, father of Jeremiah, was born March 7, 1812. He was married, first, to Mary Ann AVient and they had six children: Jeremiah, Henry, John and Daniel (twins), Amos and an infant, llenrv was born June 12, 1840, and died in 1906. He served for over three years in the Inion Army during the Civil War. In 1865 be married Martha Clark and they had two children, Harry and Frank. John and Daniel were born January 6, 1842. John died in 1861 and Daniel died in 1864, while serving as a soldier in the Cinl War. Amos was born June 7, 1846. He married Sarah Pentony and they have two children, Pearl and George; they reside in Indiana. The mother of the above family died November 15, 1854, and the father was married, secondly, to Barbara A. Teach, who was born August 29, 1826. They had four children, namely: Samuel, born in 1859, who married Emma Stanford in 1882 and has one child, Maud; Fannie J., born in 1856, who married Emory White in 1877 and has three children— Arthur, Fred, and Edward; Edward, born in 1867, who died in 1904. He married Minnie Rathburn in 1890 and they had one child, Ellen. The fourth child died an infant.

Jeremiah Frock has been a resident of Clark County since 1859, with the exception of three years spent in Illinois prior to his marriage. He first rented farming land on Mad River. In 1868 he bought forty-seven acres of his present farm and has kept adding to it until he now owns a great amount of property. He has carried on a large business in raising grain and stock and has been one of the largest hog-raisers in Clark County. He now lives retired at Vienna. In 1864 he enlisted at Camp Dennison and sei'ved until the close of the war as a member of Company F, One Hundred and Fifty-third Regiment. Ohio Volunteer Infantry. His main service was in doing guard duty at Harper's Ferry and other points, and during this period he took part in a number of sharp skirmishes. For ten days he was confined in a hospital suffering from measles, but otherwise he returned unharmed to his home when his services were no longer needed.

On January 16, 1862, Mr. Frock was married to Sophia Christina Rudolph, who was born August 14, 1844, and who was the only child of John W. and Elizabeth (Baldner) Rudolph. Mrs. Frock's father was born in Pennsylvania in 1810, and died in 1873. Her mother was born in Germany in 1816, and died in August, 1896. Mr. and Mrs. Frock have had four children, as follows: Charles, born in 1862, married Jessie Walker in 1886, and they have one son, Robert; George Edward, born in 1864, lives at Vienna; Effie J., born in 1867, died aged ten years; and Orran, born in 1868, married Minnie Shellebarger in 1903, and they reside in Clark County. Mr. Frock is of German ancestrv.

As printed in 20th century history of Springfield, and Clark County, Ohio, and representative citizens (1908). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.