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Submitted by: Judy Lock
Email address: JCLock0514@aol.com
 

Husband: John Francis LOCK
Birthdate: May 26, 1849
Birthplace: Binden Abbey, Dorset, England
Death date: March 29, 1941
Place of death: Central City, Merrick County, Nebraska
Father: Thomas Lock
Mother: Sarah Hartnell

Marriage date: April 30, 1874
Marriage place: Christ Church, Burlington, Iowa

Wife: Ellen Ann CHISSELL
Birthdate: November 9, 1846
Birthplace: Wimborne, Dorset, Egland
Death date: February 4, 1930
Place of death: Central City, Merrick County, Nebraska
Father: Thomas Chissell
Mother: Ann

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Leslie Homer Lock
Sex: M
Birthdate: October 22, 1882
Birthplace: Central City, Merrick County, Nebraska
Death date: October 4, 1977
Place of death: Central City, Merrick County, Nebraska
Marriage date:
Marriage place: Hamilton County, Nebraska
Spouse's name: Christina Emma Tunall

Child No. 2: Harold Lee Lock
Sex: M
Birthdate: November 27, 1884
Birthplace: Nebraska
Death date: July 1, 1963
Place of death: Nebraska
Marriage date: July 24, 1902
Marriage place: Aurora, Nebraska
Spouse's name: Alta Perrell

Child No. 3: Elmer Fred Lock
Sex: M
Birthdate: March 26, 1886
Birthplace: Central City, Merrick County, Nebraska
Death date: January 28, 1958
Place of death:
Marriage date: April 24, 1907
Marriage place: Central City, Merrick County, Nebraska
Spouse's name: Etta Perrell

Child No. 4: Roy Irving Lock
Sex: M
Birthdate: December 15, 1887
Birthplace: Cedar Valley, Hamilton County, Nebraska
Death date: December 11, 1956
Place of death: Boothroy Memorial Hospital, Goodland, Sherman County, Kansas
Marriage date: October 20, 1907
Marriage place: Goodland, Sherman County, Kansas
Spouse's name: Rachel Rozella Gardner

Child No. 5: Harry Gilfred Lock
Sex:
Birthdate: September 7, 1889
Birthplace: Marquette, Hamilton County, Nebraska
Death date: December 15, 1965
Place of death: Central City, Merrick County, Nebraska
Marriage date: August 17, 1910
Marriage place: Central City, Merrick County, Nebraska
Spouse's name: Marguerite Jorgenson
 

Documentation:
Certificate No. 114.
Source: Des Moines County, Iowa/Book of Marriages 1872-1875, #9, page 36
Burlington Daily Gazette, 5/10/1874, page 4.
John F. Lock
Marriage Index: Iowa, 1851-1900
Lock, John Spouse : Chissell, Ellen Ann
Marriage Date : Apr 30, 1874
County : Des Moines
Gender : Male
Source : microfilm reference numbers
Reference Number : 0956350 through 096352
900 Nebraska Census
Lock, John
Relationship: Head
Color: White
Sex: Male
Birthdate: May, 1848
Age: 52
Married: 27 years
Birthdate: England
Father Birthdate: England
Mother Birthdate: England
Lock, Ellen
Relationship: Wife
Color: White
Sex: Female
Birthdate: November, 1847
Age: 52
Married: 27 years
Birthdate: England
Father Birthdate: England
Mother Birthdate: England
Lock, Leslie
Relationship: Son
Color: White
Sex: Male
Birthdate: October, 1882
Age: 17
Single
Birthdate: Nebraska
Father Birthdate: England
MotherBirthdate: England
Lock, Harold
Relationship: Son
Color: White
Sex: Male
Birthdate: November, 1884
Birthdate: Nebraska
Father Birthdate: England
Mother Birthdate: England
Lock, Elmer
Relationship: Son
Color: White
Sex: Male
Birthdate: March, 1887
Birthdate: Nebraska
Father Birthdate: England
Mother Birthdate: England
Lock, Roy
Relationship: Son
Color: White
Sex: Male
Birthdate: December, 1888
Birthdate: Nebraska
Father Birthdate: England
Mother Birthdate: EnglandObituary:
MRS. JNO. LOCK SUMMONED FEB. 4
The community was grieved on Tuesday to learn of the death of Mrs. John
Lock, who passed away at her home south of Central City, early that
morning. She was a lady of marked ability, with a keen mind and was an
interesting conversationalist. She was devoted to her home and family,
and lived an exemplary life, doing much good and rearing a family who
are
devoted to her memory and credit her life to her teachings
Ellen A. Chissell was born at Wimborne, County of Dorset, England on the
9th day of November, 1846 and passed away at Central City on February 4,
1930, aged 83 years, 2 months and 25 days. She was the daughter of
Thomas
and Ann Chissell, residents of Wimborne, England. She came to the United
States a short time prior to her marriage to John Lock, which occured on
April 30, 1874 at Burlington, Iowa. Charles and John Lock had come over
from England a short time before and she made the trip across the
Atlantic on the same ship with T. J. Lock, now deceased.
She was the mother of five sons; Leslie, Harold, Elmer, Harry of Central
City and Wallace (Should have been Roy of Wallace County, Kansas.) of
the
state of Kansas. These together with the husband and father and fifteen
grandchildren, survive.
Mr. and Mrs. Lock lived for one year at Burlington, Iowa and came to
Central City in the year 1875, settling at Cedar Valley, Hamilton
County,
where they purchased railroad land. Here they made their home until the
year 1907, at which time they journeyrd back to England for a six months
visit with relatives and friends. This was their second trip to their
home land following their marriage. Upon their return to America they
settled south of Central City, where they purchased property and for the
past twenty-two years this has remained their home.
She was a devout member of the First Church of Christ Scientist of this
city and derived much comfort from the teachings and the practices of
this splendid faith.
Funeral services were conducted from the home at 2:30 p.m. Thursday and
were in charge of Mrs. J. W. Hutchison. Burial was at Mt. Zion Cemetery.
A Brief Account Of The Life Of Ellen Chissell.
Ellen A. Chissell was born November 9,1846 in Wimborne, County Dorset,
England.  She was one of several children of Thomas and Ann Chissell of
Wimborne.   The Chissell family owned and operated a butcher shop and
other businesses in Wimborne, in addition to their farming interests.
In
1874, at the age of 28, Ellen Chissell traveled to the United States to
join her fiancée, John Lock, then living at Burlington in the State of
Iowa. John was a recent immigrant to the United States from the town of
Wool, also in Dorset.
According to family memory John and Ellen became engaged prior to John
making his way to Iowa and finding work as a butcher. Ellen made this
same voyage one year later on board the White Star Line ship Oceanic,
accompanied by John Locks brother James Lock.  She kept a diary
throughout her journey, documenting her experiences on board ship,
stopping in New York City, and traveling by train to Burlington Iowa.
On April 30, 1874, she was joined in marriage to John Lock.  After a
year
in Burlington they traveled to Nebraska, where they purchased farmland
from the Union Pacific railroad in 1875.  They built a home and farm
buildings there one mile south of the Platte River. This home and other
farm buildings are still lived and used by Lloyd Lock, a great grandson
of John and Ellen Lock.
John and Ellen had five sons, Leslie, Harold, Elmer, Harry and Roy.  All
five sons became farmers, with Roy moving to Wallace Kansas, and the
other four sons owning land and farming in Hamilton County Nebraska near
the original farm home of John and Ellen.  After over 25 years on the
farm, John and Ellen purchased property and built a house in nearby
Central City, Nebraska. They lived there for the remainder of their
lives. In 1907, Ellen and John made a return trip to their ancestral
homes in southern England to visit relatives, returning to Nebraska
several months later.
Both Ellen and John were charter members and active in the Christian
Science Church.   Ellen died in Central City at age 83 on February 4th,
1930, mourned by family and many friends, and remembered in her obituary
as a faithful believer and worker in her church.
By keeping a diary of her trip to America, Ellen apparently intended to
give English relatives a report of the long journey, the differences
between her home country and the newly emerging United States, and her
adventures as she traveled to join her fiancee. At the time of her
marriage to John, at the end of her journey, Ellen noted in her diary
that she gave the diary to her new groom to mail home to her Aunt and
Uncle in England.  As she notes in her diary, the lovestruck John forgot
to mail it.  She forgave him after she later found the diary in his
topcoat.  She then mailed it relatives in Dorset who kept the diary
there
for over one hundred years.
In April of 1978, Kathryn McHargue of Central City Nebraska was
contacted
by a Mr. William Topp of Dorset, as a result of a letter Mr. Topp had
written to the editor of the Central City Nebraska newspaper.  Mr. Topp
had been given the diary of Ellen Chissell by his mother, who was a
niece
of Ellen Chissell.  In a series of letters which have been kept by the
family, Mr. Topp suggested that he would send the original diary to Mrs.
McHargue. He indicated his desire that someone in the Lock family living
in the United States should have the diary of Ellen Chissell Lock.
Kathryn McHargue was the granddaughter of Ellen Chissell Lock, and the
daughter of Leslie Lock, one of her sons.  Mr. Topp mailed the diary to
Mrs. McHargue, who in turn later entrusted it to William Lock, the great
grandson of Ellen Chissell Lock. The original diary remains in the
possession of Mr. Lock, of Lincoln, Nebraska. Many copies have been made
and distributed to Lock relatives throughout the United States.  Through
the efforts of Judy Lock, of Kansas, a transcript of the diary have been
made available to The Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild.
Interested family and historical researchers are invited to use the
diary, with permission of the Lock family, and are invited to correspond
with Judy Lock, or Mr. William Lock, if material in the diary is
published or used for research. It may be useful to those examining the
history of immigrants, and most particularly women migrating to the
American West. No other writings of Ellen Chissell are known to exist,
although family members in the United States now prize several drawings
by her hand.
Ellen Chissells diary contains frank and negative views of the Irish
people, and other views that may have been held by persons of her social
class and background at that time. Ellen Chissell would probably be
surprised today at the diverse views and beliefs of her great
grandchildren, and their children., including some marriages made to
people of Irish descent who also emigrated to the United States.  She
would no doubt be pleased that they continue to lead happy and
productive
lives in the area to which she emigrated, and in the States of Kansas,
Colorado, and in other locations on both coasts of the United States.
Several descendants of Ellen Chissell and John Lock have made
pilgrimages
to the County of Dorset to visit the birthplace of Ellen and John, and
others such as Judy Lock have made extensive efforts to document the
lives and genealogy of the Lock families.
Lock or Chissell family members are invited to correspond with Judy Lock
or William D. Lock at the following addresses:
Judy Lock
6356 SW Church Road, Augusta, Kansas 67010
JCLock0514@aol.com <mailto:JCLock0514@aol.com>
William Lock
1415 South 7th Street, Lincoln, Nebraska 68502
wardlock@neb.rr.com <mailto:wardlock@neb.rr.com>
Written by William D. Lock