"Portrait and biographical album of Coles County, Illinois"
  
EORGE R. HALLOCK, a native of this county, still honors it by remaining in it, and is a resident of section 19, Ashmore Township. He has a valuable farm of eighty acres, finely cultivated, and in addition to ordinary farm duties, is engaged in breeding high-grade cattle and horses, and makes a specialty of Poland-China hogs. He also operates a steam threshing-machine of ten-horse power, being engineer himself, and from which he has realized a handsome little sum annually for the last eight years. He is genial and companionable in disposition and besides being a favorite among his fellow-citizens, is considered a first-class agriculturist.
Mr. Hallock was born in Charleston Township Sept. 12, 1847, and is the son of Thomas W. and Elizabeth M. (Clarke) Hallock, the former a native of New York, and the latter of Kentucky. Thomas Hallock and his wife are still living on the homestead in Ashmore Township, which they have occupied for many years, and where Mr. H. has been extensively engaged in farming and stock-growing. They are highly respected members of the community, and belong to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Mr. Hallock was born in New York, in 1817, and his wife Elizabeth was born in Kentucky, in 1820. Their eight children were George, Charles, Elizabeth, James, Thomas, Eldora, William and Alice.
The subject of this biography remained on the home farm until his marriage, Sept. 30, 1809. His chosen bride was Miss Virginia B. Gover, a native of Leesburg, Va., born June 22, 1850, and the daughter of Edward R. and Ellen R. (Hammerley) Gover. also natives of the Old Dominion. Mr. G. was born in 1818, and died Sept. 17, 1881. He was a saddler by trade and also engaged in the lumber and grocery business. He was one of the leading members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a man of fine education, and a singer of marked talents. During the late war he enlisted as a Union ’soldier with the Loudoun County Independent Rangers, and served four years, in the meantime being taken prisoner by the rebels. He was promoted First Lieutenant. He yielded up his life in Ashmore Township in 1881, after having suffered many weeks with typhoid fever. The mother of Mrs. Hallock was born in 1820, and became the wife of Edwin Gover on the 18th of April, 1849. Of this union there were born five children, namely, Virginia B., Hannah H., Fannie and Carrie, deceased, and Rachel. Mrs. G. was a member of the same church as her husband. The latter also belonged to the I. 0. O. F., and was a Mason of many years’ standing.
Mr. and Mrs. Hallock became the parents of seven children, namely, Elizabeth, Welling, Edwin, now deceased, Emory, deceased, Charlie, Louis and Platt. The parents are members in good standing of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and politically Mr. H. uniformly votes with the Republican party.
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