Brief Life History of Walter B
When Walter B Brock was born on 25 April 1920, in Kentucky, United States, his father, Fred Brock, was 25 and his mother, Lucy Ann Sullivan, was 22. He married Rebecca Davis Church on 11 July 1945, in Manchester, Clay, Kentucky, United States. He lived in District 2, Spencer, Kentucky, United States in 1930 and Magisterial District 2, Laurel, Kentucky, United States in 1940. He died on 15 August 1992, in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Green Meadows Memorial Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States.
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- Walter Brock in household of Fred Brock, "United States Census, 1920"
- Walter Brack, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Walter B. Brock, "Find A Grave Index"
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1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
1926 · Mammoth Cave is Discovered
In 1926, in central Kentucky, Mammoth Cave was discovered. It dates back to Mississippian times and consists of over four hundred miles of passageway. On July 1, 1941, the cave was made a National Park.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and North German: variant of Brook .
English and Scandinavian: nickname for a person supposedly resembling a badger, from Middle English brok(ke) ‘badger’ (Old English brocc) and Danish brok (a word of Celtic origin; compare Welsh broch, Cornish brogh, Irish broc). In the Middle Ages badgers were regarded as unpleasant creatures.
Dutch and Flemish: from a personal name, a short form of Brockert .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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