Neil Haven Klock

Neil Haven Klock, Sr. (November 9, 1896 – August 10, 1978), was a sugar planter from Cheneyville, Louisiana, who represented Rapides Parish from 1940 to 1944 in the Louisiana House of Representatives during the administration of Governor Sam Houston Jones. He served alongside T. C. Brister of Pineville and W. H. Smith.[1]

Neil Haven Klock, Sr.
Louisiana State Representative for Rapides Parish
In office 1940–1944
Preceded by	Three at-large members: W. T. Bradford Richmond C. Hathorn Jesse F. Lucas
Succeeded by	Three at-large members: Carl B. Close C. H. "Sammy" Downs John R. Hunter, Jr.
Personal details
Born	(1896-11-09)November 9, 1896 Place of birth missing
Died	August 10, 1978(1978-08-10) (aged 81)
Resting place	Trinity Episcopal Church Cemetery in Cheneyville Louisiana
Spouse(s)	(1) Olive Ruth Cloud Klock (married 1922–1926, her death) (2) Flora B. Klock (married 1927; length of marriage unavailable)
Children	From first marriage: Doris Ruth Klock Katherine Sedonia Klock Surviving child: Neil Haven Klock, Jr.
Parents	John Charles and Camila Watson Klock
Residence	Cheneyville Rapides Parish Louisiana
Occupation	Farmer; businessman
Military service
Branch/service	United States Army
Battles/wars	World War I

Klock was a son of John Charles Klock (1843–1921). One of Klock's older brothers, Ernest Lorne Klock (1879–1967), a native Canadian and an engineer, had worked in the sugar industry in Cuba and the Dominican Republic, where he built a railroad, golf course, a large estate, a school, and housing for workers and became friends with President and Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo and the aviator Charles Lindbergh. By 1940, the brothers were operating the Edgefield Plantation in Cheneyville, a 300-acre sugar and cotton and 200-acre cattle operation. The Klocks owned the local bank and the Meeker Sugar Refinery in Meeker in Rapides Parish.[2] In 1987, the Meeker refinery was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

Klock's first wife, the former Olive Ruth Cloud (1899–1926), a native of Kurten in Brazos County, Texas, died in Rapides Parish of typhoid fever at the age of twenty-seven. She was the daughter of William Elisha and Sedonia Griffith Cloud. Klock had two daughters from this five-year marriage, Doris Ruth (born 1922) and Katherine Sedonia Klock (born 1926).[3] Olive is interred at the Bryan City Cemetery in Bryan, Texas.[4]

In 1927, Klock married a young woman named "Flora B.", whereabouts unavailable, presumed deceased.[5] Klock has a surviving son, Neil, Jr. (born February 1937), a 1960 engineering graduate of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge,[6] who resides in Alexandria, the seat of government of Rapides Parish, with his wife, the former Sarah Pottinger (born June 1941).[7]

Along with several other family members, Klock, who died at the age of eighty-one, is interred at the Trinity Episcopal Church Cemetery in Cheneyville.[8]

References

1. "Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812–2016: Rapides Parish" (PDF). house.Louisiana.gov. Retrieved October 23, 2014.
2. "Ernest Lorne Klock" (PDF). klockconnections.com. Retrieved October 23, 2014.
3. "Mrs. Olive Cloud Klock". Bryan-College Station Eagle. October 14, 1926. p. 3. Retrieved October 23, 2014.
4. "Olive Ruth Cloud Klock". findagrave.com. Retrieved October 23, 2014.
5. "Neil Haven Klock". mykindred.com. Retrieved October 23, 2014.
6. "Neil Haven Klock, Jr". e-yearbook.com. Retrieved October 23, 2014.
7. "Neil Klock, February 1937; Sarah Klock, June 1941". Louisiana Secretary of State. Retrieved October 23, 2014.
8. "Neil Haven Klock". findagrave.com. Retrieved October 23, 2014.

Preceded by Three at-large members: W. T. Bradford Richmond C. Hathorn Jesse F. Lucas	Louisiana State Representative for Rapides Parish Neil Haven Klock, Sr. (alongside T. C. Brister and W. H. Smith) 1940–1944	Succeeded by Three at-large members: Carl B. Close C. H. "Sammy" Downs John R. Hunter, Jr.