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William M. “Willie” Lock

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Birth	:	20 Aug 1845
Death	:	14 Jun 1905
Burial	:	Locke Family Cemetery, Mount Calvary, Dillon County, USA
Coordinate	:	34.4323997, -79.3276978
Description	:	Obituary of W. M. Lock, CSA Veteran The Dillon Herald, Dillon, South Carolina June 15, 1905, Vol. 10, No. 24 Sudden Death of an Aged Man. W. M. Lock was found dead in his bed Tuesday morning. Mr. Lock's home is just over Pee Dee river a short distance from Stafford's Bridge. Monday he did a full day's work and when he retired at his usually hour that night he appeared to be in excellent health. Tuesday morning when some member of the family went to his room to call him... Read More	Obituary of W. M. Lock, CSA Veteran The Dillon Herald, Dillon, South Carolina June 15, 1905, Vol. 10, No. 24 Sudden Death of an Aged Man. W. M. Lock was found dead in his bed Tuesday morning. Mr. Lock's home is just over Pee Dee river a short distance from Stafford's Bridge. Monday he did a full day's work and when he retired at his usually hour that night he appeared to be in excellent health. Tuesday morning when some member of the family went to his room to call him for breakfast he was dead. Mr. Lock was 68 years old and a veteran of the Confederate army. He had resided at his home place over Little Pee Dee for many years and was quite well-known in Dillon. He is survived by several sons and daughters. Christopher H. Daniels sent the following information on William. Thank you Chris. Biography: William Lock (also spelled Locke; aka William M. Locke) was the son of Benjamin and Viney Butler Lock. His father, Benjamin, was known as one of the greatest rail-splitter in Marion County. According to W. W. Sellers he split enough rails to fenced half around the old Marion County. After work each night, no matter the distance or weather, Benjamin would return home to his family. He was taught in a Free School by B.G. Rogers (Petition in 1858 to the State). Pvt. William Lock enlisted in Company E, 3rd NC Art’y (40 State Troops) on August 11, 1863, at Fort Caswell. Fort Caswell is located north of Oak Island in Brunswick County, NC. He was enlisted for three years by Capt. McMryde. After arriving he was placed in his quarters due to sickness. On October 29, 1863, he was on furlough for fourteen days. He received a certificate of disability for forty days on October 16, 1864. During the first battle of Fort Fisher across the Cape Fear River he was stationed at Fort Caswell. He was transferred to Fort Fisher for the second battle and wounded slightly and captured on January 15, 1865. If his wound was severe enough he was taken to Hammond General Hospital and placed later in Company E, 3rd Division of Prisoners at Point Lookout, Maryland. His wife, Nellie Herring Locke, was listed on “A List of Widows on Dillon County Pension Roll, 1921” for her husband. He joined the local Militia in 1869 while residing in the Carmichael Township In 1871 he married Nellie Herring (daughter of Harmon and Elizabeth Wallace Herring) and built a house across the Old Lock-McDuffie Cemetery on the present day Pearlie Road which was previously the old McDuffie’s homestead. He owned around 700 acres of land along Little Pee Dee River near Hayes Swamp (known as a four-horse farm). He was known to be a strike man when it came to raising his children. William Lock sons were: Rev. William Daniel, Joseph Allen, Franklin, and David Lock; and daughter, Mary Margaret Lock (Gilbert Will) Rowell. On the morning of June 14, 1905, after breakfast was prepared, he was found dead. He was buried in the Lock Cemetery on Mount Calvary Road near his son, Franklin. Family Legend: According to the family story, William Lock was known to bury his money on his farm which he did in 1902 in the family cemetery when his money was dug up by an unknown person(s). But he still had enough money to finish out farming that year. Around 1905 he overheard a conversation and believed that some of his family was going to try to kill him for his money. He dugged up and buried his money in a different unknown location on the farm around that time. It is said that the night before his death two male family members (which the names I will leave out) stopped by the house and were left in the kitchen alone (the family believes this is when they put poisoned in William Lock's food). That night the family ate and went to bed. His wife Nellie cooked breakfast the next morning and sent an African American worker to go get her husband William out the bed but when he entered the room he found William Lock deceased. Neither the two guys were ever convicted of the crime due to the lack of evidence. (Source: Interview conducted by Chris Daniels to Allen Ray Daniels - On his memories of his grandmother Bessie Locke Daniels and father Fred A. Daniels Stories around 2010, and “History of Marion County” by W.W. Sellers.)

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William M. “Willie” Lock's memorial is located at: Locke Family Cemetery, Mount Calvary, Dillon County, USA.
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Latitude: 34.4323997
Longitude: -79.3276978

Family Members:

Spouse

Nellie Herring Lock

(1853 - 1933)

Children

David Lock

(1871 - 1892)

Franklin Lock

(1872 - 1902)

Rev William Daniel Lock

(1874 - 1963)

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Coordinate: 34.4323997, -79.3276978

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23. Pleasant Hill Baptist Church Cemetery
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Coordinate: 34.4367065, -79.2623367

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