We Start the Brock Story with the marrage of James Marvin Brock, Sr.
Marvin grew to be five foot ten inches in height and to weigh about 175 pounds as a young man of 18 years. He left the Morehead farm to take a job in the Flanders' saw mill in southern Calhoun County area near Clarksville, Florida. The mill was owned and operated by Floyd, Lucien and Robert Flanders. There he met Buelah Flanders Boggs, a divorcee with a child of three or four years old, whose name was Theo and nicknamed Preacher.
Marvin Clemmons and Buelah Flanders Boggs were married in 1923. At some point after the marriage, Marvin started to use the name of Brock. On February 5, 1924, James Earl Brock was born. Earl grew to be a soldier in WORLD WAR II and died on July 6, 1944 on Mont Garten near La Haye de Puits, France, as a member of the 79th Infantry Division, Third United States Army. Nita Belle Brock was born on June 25, 1926. There were to be three additional children born to Marvin and Buelah between 1923 and 1932. Marvin Eugene was born in 1928 and lived for approximately six months, then a son in 1930 that didn't survive the night of his birth and then a still born daughter in 1932. Buelah died in September 1932 leaving Marvin with a eight year old son and a six year old daughter.
Buelah is buried in the Flanders plot in the New Shiloh cemetery near the community of Page Pond in western Calhoun County Florida, along with James Earl Brock and the three infants.

During the time Marvin was working at the lumber mill, Uncle Richard Clemmons, came to Blountstown to be with his brother. At some point after arriving in Blountstown, Uncle Richard went to work for Morgan “Morg” Yon, the son of Levy Yon near Blountstown on the east side of Florida Highway 69, toward the Apalachicola River across the Stafford Creed from what is now Pine Island Housing Development. Morgan had a daughter named Jessie. Uncle Richard showed some fondness for Jessie Yon, according to Marvin. She was about 6 years older than him and was married to a man by the name of Hubert McCollum.
On May 26, 1932, when Richard was 24 years old, he was supposed to go on a trip hauling moonshine whiskey with Jessie. Someone changed the plans and he was not to go. On May 5, 1999 I was privileged to meet George McCollum, son of Jessie Yon McCollum, daughter of Morgan and Georgie Yon, who was the employer of Richard Clemmons at the time of his death. This is the story George told me.
He, as a 5 year old boy, was present when Richard fired a gun into his own head, resulting in his death. George said that Jessie was looking in the mirror of a dresser and that Uncle Richard was sitting on a trunk behind her. He said Morgan Yon was in the room along with himself and his father, Hubert McCollum. Uncle Richard said, with a pistol pointed at his head, “Hey Morg, Jessie, watch this.” and pulled the trigger and the gun went off. George said that the pistol was a .38 Smith & Wesson, left hand wheel cylinder. He noted that Uncle Richard might have been playing and lost, with the empty chamber on the wrong side of the barrel, thinking it was a right hand wheel pistol. George said that the Yon family was in shock for days over the untimely death of Richard. The question of why he did it has always trouble George McCollum. George said that Richard was a good looking man, with black hair, blue eyes and fair complexion at about 5’10” and 150 pounds at 24 years of age.

Marvin was told much the same story when he was called to the Yon home to find his brother laid-out on the porch with a quilt over him. The coroner's jury ruled the death as accidental. Marvin never was able to believe the story. I met Jessie Yon at Granddaddy Foxworth's home during the time that he was bedridden just before he died. She repeated the story to Daddy at that time. Daddy said, some time just after that day, "I would like to talk to here on her death bed and ask her again how Richard died." He never had the opportunity to do that as far as I know. Daddy showed me Uncle Richard's grave once, in about 1947-48, in Nettle Ridge Cemetery. This cemetery is just north of Blountstown on Florida Highway 69, just before Stafford Creek. On May 5, 1999, George McCollum took me to Nettle Ridge Cemetary and showed me approximately where Uncle Richard is buried. He is in the plot with Morgan Yon and his family. The right hand northwest corner of the plot has Mary J. Dau of Mr and Mrs J. M Yon, died 1912 on a Woodmen of the World headstone. To her right is Buddy Yon her brother, died approximately 1915. To his right is Meggie Yon, 5 year old daughter of Jessie Yon McCollum, who was born on Oct 21, 1920, died Oct 21, 1925. At Mary’s feet is Georgie Yon, wife of Morgan, died 1957 and to her left is Morgan Yon, died 1950. There is room for a grave at Morgans right. At Georgie’s feet is Pat Yon, another of Morg and Georgie’s children, a son died 1953. At Pat’s right is a grave that could be Uncle Richard. George believes that is all of the graves in the plot. There is that possibility that Richard could be at Morg’s right. Since he was buried in 1932 it would have left the row of three grave sites between him and Mary, Buddy and Meggie if he was buried at Morg’s feet. Some time past before my brother C. J. and I visited the grave site. To my suprise there was a cave in a the feet of Morg Yon about the middle of where a grave would be. This seem to confirm the fact that this is where Uncle Richard was buried. I had a stone place at the head of the grave site with RICHARD CLEMMONS BROCK, 1906-MAY 16, 1932 engrave on it. I believe that is where Uncle Richard is buried. There is an error on the stone. Death date is May 26, 1932 per Aunt Fannie's bible. George said there was a pickett fence around the plot at one time. The Morg Yon Plot is just north of the Warren Family Plot, which contains the parents of and the former Governor of Florida, Fuller Warren.

George told me Richard had lived with the Morgan Yon family for some good long time and had been treated as one of the family. He further stated that he knew Richard had been married and was separated and he believed divorced at the time he died. Uncle Richard had a wife by the name of Ada Belle and a daughter. The exact circumstances that caused him to be away from her at the time of his death I do not know. Marvin Brock's first wife, Buelah Flanders, had a number of brothers and sisters. Floyd, Robert, Clyde, Mattie, Buelah, and Alma where the children of Wallace Flanders, maybe not all of them. The Flanders family lived in the Page Pond community of Calhoun County. Robert Flanders was the most prominent of the Flanders boys. He was a deputy sheriff when the elected sheriff, Charlie Clark, was gunned down by a disgruntled husband by the name of Blackman. As the sheriff came out of a local drug store in Blountstown, Florida, Blackman emptied a revolver into the him and waited to be taken in. He was sentenced to die in the electric chair at the Florida State Penitentiary at Raiford, Florida. When Acting Sheriff Robert Flanders went to Blackman's cell to take him away to Raiford to await his fate, Blackman produced a straight razor and cut his own throat from ear to ear. The sheriff returned to those waiting to accompany Blackman to Raiford, among whom was Bart Knight, State’s Attorny, with the front of his clothes covered with blood that sprayed onto him from the throat of the prisoner as he died. This story was repeated to me in May, 1973 by Mr. Bart Knight, the States Attorney at that time. Robert Flanders served the remainder of the term left vacant by the death of the sheriff and ran for election to become the sheriff. He won that election and was said to be a good sheriff. On December 13, 1932, Calhoun County Sheriff Robert Flanders and Marvin Brock stopped the car in which they were traveling along the fence of a Flanders farm in southwest Calhoun County near the Carr community. Three months following the death of his sister, Buelah, the Sheriff and Marvin were on a trip to one of Robert's farms in southwest Calhoun County to check on a brood of hogs. The two men climbed the fence and started to walk across the field toward the location where they knew the hogs could be found. As they crossed the field, the sharecropper for that farm, one Jim Chance, walked along a course that would intercept the two men. With no thought of danger, although they had noted that Jim Chance carried a shotgun over his shoulder, Robert and Marvin stopped to wait for the farmer to come to where they stood. Jim Chance walked to about 12 feet of the two men and stopped. He put the doubled barrel shotgun to his shoulder and shot Robert Flanders with one round of double O buckshot. Flanders did not fall, instead he made an effort to pull his pistol from the holster at his belt. Chance shot once again and Flanders fell to the ground. Marvin Brock being unarmed made his way rapidly to the car that was parked at the edge of the field. Upon reaching the car he found it to be locked, which denied him access to a rifle and a shotgun within the car. He then hastened toward Baggot’s Grist Mill where he met John Abbott. Having told John what had just happened he continued on to the mill where he gained arms and assistance. He and others then returned to the site where the sheriff would be lying mortally wounded or dead. Flanders was found lying dead in the field with not only the two wounds from the buckshot loads, but his head had been bashed in until unrecognizable with a blunt instrument. It was later learned that Chance had turned around, after Marvin had seen him going toward the farm house in which he lived, to beat the sheriff's head into a bloody pulp with the barrel of the shotgun. Jim Chance said at his capture that he would have killed Marvin Brock also, if he had killed the sheriff with the first of his two shells of buckshot. Jim Chance said that he killed Robert Flanders because he was playing with his daughter's affection. As a sharecropper with nothing much of his own, Jim Chance was able to afford the best lawyer money could buy for his defense. Also his wife and daughters were well equipped to spend the years ahead in Marianna with a comfortable home and all their needs met. Jim Chance was sentenced to life in prison, but went insane and was paroled to the custody of his wife in the 1940's. After being paroled, he spent the rest of his life walking around the house saying, "Robert is after me". Marvin Brock always said that Jim Chance was paid to kill Robert Flanders by the Bootleggers that were undergoing a lot of strife at the hands of the Calhoun County Sheriff's department. Robert Flanders had been one of them and knew their operations inside and out. He was very successful in finding and destroying the stills that dotted the pine flats and branch heads of the Chipola River valley. Robert Flanders was the third Calhoun County Sheriff to die in office. The first was Sheriff Charlie Fields, who was shot from a buggy while driving in the county alone toward his home. The horse and buggy showed up at his home without him. A search soon found the Sheriff lying dead along the road where he had been bushwhacked and left to die. This crime was never solved to my knowledge. Charlie Clark was the second and Robert Flanders the third. Robert Flanders had a son who was about two months old when he was killed. His name is Robert, Jr. I went to school with Junior Flanders and played football on the team with him at Altha High School in 1948-49. He was an outstanding football player. He played left halfback on an excellent team in 1949. Junior dropped out of school when he finished the 11th grade and joined the Marine Corps. It has been a real pleasure to know him and stay in touch with him over the years. Since he is my sister Neita Belle’s first cousin, it has been very easy to keep in touch by bring these two together on numerous occasions. Marvin lived by the Foxworth farm, which was near Carr, Florida in western Calhoun County, near the Chipola River. Following his brush with death Marvin Brock married Mattie Lou Foxworth on February 1, 1933. Mattie Lou is the daughter of Clayton Jackson Foxworth and Buelah Lanier.