Belle Brock, youngest child of Noah and Emily Church Brock, was born in Johnson County Indiana and while quite young came with her parents to Montgomery County where she grew to womanhood.
On July 26, 1923, death came as a sweet release to her suffering. She told us so many times during the last months that if she could not get well, she was willing and ready to go, and was trusting in Jesus.
She was always a kind, loving and obedient daughter and so devoted to her parents and home. She was a loyal, trustworthy friend and always so ready and willing to help those about her. It can be truthfully said to know her was to love her.
It is so hard to part with her, the last one of a family of four, but we feel that our loss is her gain.
She leaves to mourn her death father, mother, one nephew, two nieces and a host of relatives and friends.
I can not say, and I will not say,
That she is dead—she is just away.
With a cheery smile and a wave of the hand
She has wandered into an unknown land,
And left us dreaming how very fair
It needs must be since she lingers there.
And you—O you, who the wildest yearn
For the old-time step and the glad return,
Think of her as faring on as dear
In the love of there as the love of here.
And loyal still as she gave the blows
Of her warrior’s strength to her country’s foes,
Mild and gentle as she was brave
When the sweetest love of her life she gave
To simple things—where the violets grew
Blue as the eyes they were likened to,
The touches of her hands have strayed
As reverently as her lips have prayed,
And the little brown thrush that harshly chirred
Was dear to her as the mockingbird
And she pitied as much as a man in pain
A writhing honey-bee wet with the rain,
Think of her still as the same, I say,
She is not dead, she is just away.
Mr. Brock is a native of Davie county and has a host of relatives and friends here who extend their sympathy in this their sad hour.
From The Mocksville Enterprise, Thursday, Aug. 9, 1923, A.C. Huneycutt, publisher
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