Franklin Carlock, the youngest of eleven siblings, was educated at common county schools and raised on a farm. At twenty-three, he married Susan Wheeler, daughter of James and Barbara Wheeler, Tennessee natives who settled in Dade County, Missouri, around 1837. Susan died in April 1887, leaving Franklin with seven sons and one daughter. Later that year, he married Sarah Starr, daughter of Charles O’Kelly. Franklin farmed in Polk Township until 1881, then moved to Everton, where he built the first dwelling and operated the Everton House. He later owned the Ozark House and ran a furniture and undertaking business. A Republican, he was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
Franklin Carlock, the youngest of four sons and seven daughters, was educated at the common county schools, reared on a farm, and at the age of twenty-three married Susan, daughter of James and Barbara Wheeler, of Tennessee, who came to Dade Count about 1837 or 1838, where they died. Mrs. Carlock died in Dade County in April 1887, leaving seven sons and one daughter. In October 1887, Mr. Carlock married Mrs. Sarah Starr, daughter of Charles O’Kelly, an early settler of Southwest Missouri, where Mrs. Carlock was born, and where her father is still living with his third wife at the age of seventy-nine. Our subject lived in Polk township and farmed till 1881, when he came to Everton and built the first dwelling, the Everton House, of which he was proprietor till 1884, when he purchased his present residence, the Ozark House, the finest in town. In 1884 he erected a business house and has since been engaged in the furniture and undertaking business. In politics he is a Republican, formerly a Whig. He is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, his wife being a Methodist. Mrs. Carlock has one son living, by her first husband.