Eli Mock
One of the pioneer farmers of Jefferson township, Fayette county, Ohio, is Eli Mock, who is now living in honorable retirement after a strenuous life of activity in connection with his agricultural pursuits. His fidelity to duty has won for him the respect and confidence of those with whom he has been thrown in contact, and by patient continuance in well doing he has gradually risen from an humble station to his present standing as one of the largest and most substantial farmers of the county. He is one of the thirty-nine farmers listed by the 1910 census in Fayette county as having from five hundred to one thousand acres of land, and the possession of such extensive land holdings indicate that he has been a man of great energy and excellent business qualities.
Eli Mock, the son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Robbins) Mock, was born April 30, 1838, in Jeftferson township, this county. His father was born in Greene county, Ohio, near Xenia, and was a life-long farmer. Daniel Mock and wife were the parents of five children, Mrs. Diana Bargdill. Eli. David, Mrs. Margaret Asbery Moon and A. S.
Eli Mock received the limited education which was afforded by the country schools of his boyhood days, and has supplemented this with wide reading and close observation during all of his active life. He married at the age of twenty-six and began farming in Jefferson township on a small tract of land and has continued in agricultural pursuits for more than half a century. As he prospered from year to year he added to his and his wife's land holdings until at the present time he is the owner of six hundred and forty acres of fine land in Jefferson township, all of which is kept in a highly improved manner. He has fine buildings, excellent orchards and every convenience which is demanded by the modern farmer. He is one of the largest raisers of grain and live stock in the county, and, although he retired from active work several years ago, he still maintains close supervision over his large estate.
Mr. Mock was married December 14, 1865, to Elizabeth Shockley, the daughter of Clement and Elizabeth Shockley, and to this union have been born three children: Geneva, the wife of McClellan Zimmerman, who has four children, Carrie, Emmett, Ruth and Clement; Herbert, who married Daisy Allison, of Springfield, Ohio, and they have one child, Glena; and Adelia, deceased. The family are members of the Methodist Protestant church and are active in all church and Sunday school work.
From History of Fayette County Ohio - Her People, Industries and Institutions by Frank M. Allen (1914, R. F. Bowen & Company, Inc.)
Eli Mock, farmer, is a son of Daniel Mock, and was born in this county, April 30, 1838. He was married, December 14, 1865, to Miss Elizabeth Shockley, daughter of Clemence Shockley. They have three children: Geneva, Herbert, and Adeline E., all living, Mrs. Mock is a member of the Christian Church. He has a farm of two hundred and three acres, well improved, where he lives, about three and a half miles north of Jeffersonville, seventy-two acres diagonally across the road from it, and sixty acres about two miles north of Jeffersonville. He is a good citizen, a respected neighbor, and a member of a reputable pioneer family.
From R. S. Dills' History of Fayette County