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- RITES SATURDAY FOR FIRE VICTIM.
Funeral services for Mrs. Mattie Brock, wife of Mack Brock, whose death Thursday morning resulted from burns received Wednesday evening while she was kindling a fire in a stove at her residence near Darrtown, will be conducted Saturday, at 10 o’clock at the residence of her mother, Mrs. Frances Bullock McDaniel, Hamilton. Interment will be made in Darrtown Cemetery. Mrs. Brock was born Oct. 1, 1911, & had lived in Hamilton & Milford Township her entire life. Her tragic death brought deep sorrow to countless friends.
Surviving are the widower, Mack Brock, who carried from their burning house their three children, Nellie Frances, age 3, Enoch, age 2, & Alice & Mrs. Brock’s mother, Mrs. McDaniel. The children are now in the care of relatives. The Brock home, a landmark in Milford township, was completely destroyed by fire, with a loss estimated at $15,000.
Printed 4-18-1930 Hamilton Evening Journal.
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- Darrtown Woman Dies of Burns; Babies Saved
Fire Destroys Dwelling; Oil Poured On Flames
Mack Brock Forced To Break Windos To Get Wife Out of Home – Three Children In Another Room Escape Injury
Mrs. Mattie Brock, 33, wife of Mack Brock, a farmer living near Darrtown, died at 10 a.m. Thursday in Ft. Hamilton hospital, the result of burns suffered when the Brock home was destroyed by fire Wednesday evening. Her burns covered practically her entire body and were deep. Most of her clothing was burned from her body.
Mrs. Brock was in the house at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday with her three children, the eldest three years of age. She was engaged in the preparation of the evening meal while her husband was at work outside the house. Hearing an explosion followed by screams of Mrs. Brock, he ran to the house.
Barred At Doors
Entrance was delayed by the fact that he found the doors locked. Breaking a window, he entered the dwelling, finding Mrs. Brock in the kitchen, a mass of flames. The interior of the kitchen also was in flames. Brock carried Mrs. Brock outside and fought to extinguish the flames.
She had poured kerosene on a fire in the stove and the flash set fire to her dress.
By good fortune the three Brock children, the youngest nine months, were in another room of the downstairs part of the house. None of them was burned, being brough to safety by their father.
Neighbors living three-quarters of a mile distant saw the flames and gave the alarm. The house, a frame dwelling, burned rapidly and was entirely destroyed. A summer kitchen located near the house also was burned. Very little of the contents could be carried out so rapid was the advance of the flames. The loss is estimated at $3,000.
Stove Blamed
Mrs. Brock was taken to the office of Dr. A.B. Wilkle in Darrtown by Fred Kramer, on whose farm the Brocks were tenants. Dr. Wilkle directed Mrs. Brock be taken to the Ft. Hamilton hospital.
The Brock home is on the Fred Kramer farm, one and one-half miles north of Darrtown, on the Richmond pike.
The three Brock children were taken to the home of relatives near Darrtown.
Mrs. Brock is survived by three children, Nellie Frances, 3; Enoch, 2, and a baby girl, Alice, 9 months old. Mrs. Brock was burned on the hands and arms when he rescued the baby from the flames by climgin through a window in the house.
The Brock family, one of the oldest in Darrtown, lived on the Kramer farm for the past years. The house is said to more than 50 years old.
The Kramer family, which owns the farm, live about one-half mile from the Brock residence. Mrs. Kramer saw the flames first and notified the Darrtown telephone exchange.
The Journal News, Hamilton, Ohio. Thursday, 17 April 1930, page 1.
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- LKH note:
After Mattie's death in 1930, Mack married a second time to Mahala Elizabeth Miller.
Mattie and Mack has three children. In the 1930 census they were ages 3, 2, and 0. It appears from records that the oldest daughter was taken in by her maternal grandparents, William and Frances McDaniel. The young son and youngest daughter were adopted into other families. All three are listed among Mack Brock's ten children in his obituary.
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