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• Reference Number: 8268
• _UID: 8F8F3AF5F1304651882B9FC2081D684CF263

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He was a business executive in Ormond Beach, FL. Charles states Henry m ay not belong to this family.

Family/Spouse: Doris Marion THORNTON. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 8266
• _UID: D859711141614B798371C843A5FD8F054E04

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He was a Superintendent of Washington township School in 1909. Took his f oster parents name, (Block).
The Brock(Block) family also played an active role in the early histo ry of the Trilby, OH area. William Brock arrived from New York State in 1 850. He acquired fifty eight acres located along Secor road and adjace nt to the state line. He married Frances Marion Mallett, daughter of ear ly township pioneers. Two of their seven children, Milford and Nelson, we re lifelong Trilby residents. In 1893 the brothers built a store, the fir st in the area, at the intersection of Secor and Whitford Center Roads. C onsidered somewhat of a midway point between Lambertville, MI and Toled o, OH, the store served a variety of needs for the growing population. T he Grange met on a second floor, which also served at various times as a d ance hall, pool hall, and meeting place for a Baptist congregation. Wh en a post office opened in the store on February 10, 1898, Milford Bro ck served as a postmaster with Giles Pelton as his assistant. Frank Hal l, Mark Webster and Charles Sutherland were mail carriers between Trilby a nd Lamberville. Milford Brock recalled that often "the mail bags we re so muddy that it was difficult to separate the mail." With the comi ng of the automobile, the Brock grocery installed the area's first gasoli ne pump. The Brocks also supplied ice fro the community. Before this, ma ny area farmers maintained their own ice houses, cutting ice from a quar ry along Stern Road.

William married Rose May PELTON about 1885. Rose (daughter of Giles Harrison PELTON and Mary Emma BRIGHT) was born on 13 Sep 1880 in Trilby, Lucas, OH; died on 20 Aug 1979 in Leesburg, Lake, FL; was buried in Aug 1979 in Whitehouse, Lucas, OH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 5417
• _UID: CD9446FEBAE34B119D15E1F708C38DD1511E

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Rose became a teacher and later operated the Rozello, a large boarding hou se converted from a barn. she also had a successful journalism career. S he was a member in the National Audubon Society.

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Married:
Reference Number:75445

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• Reference Number: 3059
• _UID: D3A4DB4B782C4891A79157DD25A99A02F051
• Census: 1870
• Census: 1880
• EMPL: Employment: 1880

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He was a Farmer. He was well-known for his strong religious conviction s. a self-styled preacher, he frequently led prayer meetings in the surro unding communities and schoolhouses. several of his diaries survive whi ch offer evidence of the religious fervor which caused many to regard h im as a fanatic.

Census:
Bedford, Monroe, MI

Census:
Washington, Lucas, OH

EMPL: Employment:
Farmer

Giles married Mary Emma BRIGHT on 12 Jul 1879 in Bedford, Monroe, MI. Mary (daughter of BRIGHT and ?) was born about 29 May 1862 in Bluffton, Wells, IN; died on 18 Jun 1935 in Remus, Mecosta, MI; was buried in Jun 1935 in Sylvania, OH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 5416
• _UID: DC9FCB4780E24620A3601FDA1A8EBD21D7B9
• Census: 1880

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Census:
Washington, Lucas, OH

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Married:
Reference Number:44597

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• Reference Number: 1517
• _UID: AD9739BD72DC41A1BFD0C8D1271B0755301C

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Elias and his wife, Almira, along with eight children traveled west from t heir home in Gustavus, Trumbull, OH. They arrived in Toledo in 1851 by la ke boat, unloaded their household goods and placed them in wagons for t he journey to the west of the city. Giles, the oldest son of eleven year s, retained vivid memories of their arrival. "Summit Street looked more l ike a river of mud in those days than it did like a city street," he recal led years later. "It was hard for the horses to drag our wagons down t he street, and worse when we reached the untraveled trail which is now Mon roe Street. The spring thaw was on and the old plank road through the bus iness section was in bad shape. Many of the planks were floating arou nd in the mud and water." The family settled along present-day Whitefo rd Center Road about two miles north of the state line. After Elias di ed in 1855, his widow maintained the MI farm and it eventually became t he property of the second son Delmar. When Giles purchased his forty acr es he built a house along Alexis Road opposite the end of Tremainsville Ro ad, a site now occupied by a used car lot. From here a path led to the c ow pasture on the north side of the farm. Present-day Burdette Street ext ends along the old farm lane. The widowed mother, Almira, kept house f or her son Giles until his marriage in 1879 to Mary Emma Bright, twenty-t wo years his junior.

Elias married Almira IMAS on 10 Oct 1839 in Gustavus, Trumbull, OH. Almira was born in 1816 in Gustavus, Trumbull, OH; died on 7 Jun 1907 in Trilby, Lucas, OH; was buried in Whitford, Monroe, MI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 3058
• _UID: BCCD92D5D9094812A265AD249A4145577B32

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Married:
Reference Number:23374

married ?. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]