Ahnentafel #446 - George Hocker

George Hocker

Born: November 26, 1788, Montgomery Co., Maryland
Died: November 1, 1859, Lincoln Co., Kentucky

Buried: Hocker / Goode Cemetery, Turnersville, Lincoln County, Kentucky, no tombstone

Married: Nancy Hocker, May 6, 1806 in Lincoln Co., KY

Know all men by these presents that we George Hocker and  Richard Weaver Hocker are held and firmly bound unto Christopher Greenup, Esqr. Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and his successor in the sum of £50 which payment will & truly to be made we bind ourselves, our heirs & jointly & severally firmly by these presents sealed with our seals & dated this 6th day of May 1806. The condition of the above obligation is such that whereas there is a license about to issue for a marriage shortly intended between George Hocker & Nancy Hocker.  Now it there is no lawful cause to obstruct said marriage then the above obligation to be void else to remain in full force & virtue.

George Hocker {seal}, Richard Weaver Hocker {seal}, witness Will Montgomery

Records:

1790 - Census - Montgomery Co., MD - Nicholas Hocker family.  George would have been 2 years old:

• 1 male 16+ Nicholas
• 3 males -16 - Nicholas, Philip, George
• 5 females - Dorcas, Mary, Elizabeth, Margaret, Sarah
• 7 slaves

1810 - Census - Lincoln Co., KY - George Hocker family:

• 1 male -10 unnamed son
• 1 male 16-26 George
• 2 females -10 Artemisa, Emily
• 1 female 16-26 Nancy
• 3 slaves

1820 - Census - Crab Orchard, Lincoln Co., KY - George Hocker family:

• 4 males under 10 - George, Newton, Owen, unnamed
• 1 male 10-14 - unnamed
• 1 male 26-44 - George
• 2 females -10 - Julia, Elizabeth
• 1 female 10-15 Emily or Artemesia?
• 1 female 26-44 Nancy
• 1 male slave -14
• 3 female slaves -14
• 1 female slave 14-25
• 1 female slave 26-44
• 4 people engaged in agriculture

1830 - Census - Lincoln Co., KY near Stanford - George Hocker family

• 3 males 5-10 - Richard, Joseph, ?
• 1 male 10-15 George
• 1 male 15-20 Newton or Owen
• 1 male 40-50 George
• 1 females -5 Sarah
• 1 females 5-10 Mary
• 1 female 10-15 Julia
• 1 female 40-50 Nancy
• 1 male slave -10
• 1 female slave -10
• 1 female slave 36-55

1840 - Census - Lincoln Co., KY - George Hocker family

• 1 male 15-19 Richard
• 3 males 20-29 George, Newton, Owen
• 1 male 50-59 George
• 1 female 10-14 Sarah
• 1 female 15-19 Mary
• 1 female 50-59 Nancy
• 1 female slave 10-23
• 2 people engaged in agriculture 

1850 - Census - Lincoln Co., KY - George Hocker family

• George Hocker, 62, farmer, real estate $2500, born Maryland
• Nancy Hocker, 60 born Maryland
• Jno. Kirkland, 26 farmer born Kentucky - son-in-law
• Sarah Kirkland 22, born Kentucky - daughter

1854 - March 1 - George Hocker wrote his will:

In the name of God amen, I George Hocker of the county of Lincoln & state of Kentucky being of sound and disposing mind and memory and knowing that in the course of nature I must die before the expiration of many years do make & ordain this my last will and testament in manner & form following to wit: 

Item 1st I will & direct my executors hereinafter named pay all my just debts out of my property I may die possessed of real, personal and mixed.

Item 3 [sic] – all the residue of my property of every description whatever I will and devise to my beloved wife Nancy Hocker for and during her natural life to use and manage as she thinks proper, and to sell any of the personal property that may be necessary for her comfortable support and at her death it is my will that all property belonging to my estate that may be remaining in the possession of my said wife and all my land shall be sold at public sale to the highest bidder on such credit as my surviving Executor may think proper and the proceeds equally divided among my children now living to wit: Owen Hocker, Newton Hocker, George Hocker, Joseph Hocker, Richard Weaver Hocker and Julia Ann Waters the wife of Joseph Waters and Mary E. Hocker and Sarah Ann Kirtland the ___ wife of John Kirtland to them and their heirs forever.

It is further my will that my granddaughter Eleanor Ann Mudd have no part of my estate I having advanced her mother & my daughter Artemesa Mudd on her marriage by giving her a negro girl named Caroline.

To my daughter Emily Young’s children to wit Louisa Runyon the wife of [James] Runyon, William Young and Julia Ann who has married a man whose name I do not know I give no part of my estate I having advanced their mother in her lifetime by the gift of a negro girl named Lorenda.

Item 3rd It is my will that my daughter Mary E. Hocker shall have a home with her mother on my farm as long as she shall remain single and also that my son Owen shall live on said farm with his mother as long as they can agree to live together.  

I do hereby nominate constitute& appoint my beloved son in law John Cash & my son Owen Hocker Executor & Executor of this my last will & testament giving my sd. Executor who may be living at the death of my wife or the administrator with the will ______ full power to convey my land by deed or otherwise to the purchaser thereof.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal this 1st day of March 1854.

George Hocker {seal}

Signed, sealed and acknowledged in presence of 

John L. Ballinger, W.H.H. Hocker, Hugh L. Lewis

1859 - Nov. 1 - Lincoln Co., KY death record:

George Hocker, white, 73, male, farmer, married, d. November 1st, 1859 of cancer, son of Nicholas & Sally Hocker, born Maryland, lived Lincoln County, died Lincoln County.

1859 - Nov. 9 - George's will was brought to probate court in the November 1859 term:

State of Kentucky, Lincoln County

November Term 1859 Monday the 7th

A paper purporting to be the last will & testament of George Hocker dec’d. was this day produced into court & proven by the oath of W.H.H. Hocker one of the subscribing witnesses thereto & the hand writing of J.L. Ballinger the other subscribing witness thereto was proven by said W.H.H. Hocker, also the Erasure of the name of Nancy Hocker his Executrix & the interlineation of the name of John Cash as one of the Executors was proven by said Hocker also the handwriting of Hugh L. Lewis another subscribing witness thereto was also proven by the oath of W.H.H. Hocker & it was adjudged by the Court to be the true last will & testament of George Hocker dec’d. & ordered to be recorded.  There upon I admitted said will together with this certificate to record in my office in Will book T on page 322, John Cash and Owen Hocker the Executors named in the last will & testament of said decedant came into court & agreed to take upon themselves the burthen of the Execution of said will & took the oath required by law & together with Robert Graves, W.H.H. Hocker their securities entered into & acknowledged covenant to the Commonwealth of Ky. condition according to laws which the Court approved whereupon it is ordered that letters testamentary be granted unto said John Cash & Owen Hocker Executor of the estate of said decedant in due form of law and it is further ordered that a certificate be granted unto them for obtaining a probate of said will.  Given under my hand this 9th day of November 1859

Attest: R. Canon Clerk, Lincoln County Court

1859 - December 12 - The estate was appraised November 25th and the bill of appraisal was entered into court on December 12th. 

Appraisment Bill of the Estate of George Hocker deceased November the 25th 1859

• 16 head of hogs $24.00
• 1 sorral mare & sorrall colt 100.00
• 2 milch cows  30.00
• On half of one two horse wagon 11.25
• One – alfafa harrow 2.00
• 2 iron wedges 1 ax & 1 log chain 4.00
• One half of a two horse plough, ½ shoe plow 2.00\one pare of brichen & geer 2.00
• One reep hook & 1 large kittle & 1 pot 1.75
• One loom & appertences 5.00
• One pot, 1 oven & 1 kittle & lid 2.00
• Two smoothing irons 2 pot rack & 4 pan – hooks 2.00
• One big wheel, 2 little wheel & ----- 1.00
• One scalding tub 1.00
• One folding leaf table & 1 square table 2.00
• Eight chairs & coffey mill 3.00
• 1 clock & candle stance 4.00
• 1 wash bole & pitcher 1.00
• 1 looking glass & 1 folding leaf table 11.23
• 2 tea board & 2 candle sticks .50
• One bureau & bedsted bed furniture 14.00
• One cubboard & cubboard ware 12.00
• Two shovels & tonge & 1 pair stillards 2.00
• One bed, bedstead & furniture 12.00
• Three bed bedstead & furniture 15.00
• One bed bedstead & furniture 8.00
• One harrow & drawing knife 1.25
• One lot of bed clothes 5.00
• One account on Newton Hocker for 85.00

Total - $356.00

We Richard Cook & Higgins Kelly after being sworn as appraiser have this day appraised all the within named property it being all the property shown us by the Executor of George Hocker deceased Given under our hands this 25 day of Nov. 1849

Richard Cobb, Higgins Kelly

Lincoln County, Sct.

This day Richard Cobb & Higgins Kelly was duly sworn by me C.J. H. Carter a Justice of the Peace before proceeding to appraise the within named property.  Given under my hand this 25 day of Nov. 1859

C.J. H. Cart JPLC

State of Kentucky

Lincoln County Sct.

December Term 1859

The foregoing appraisment was returned into Court at the above term examined and approved by the Court and ordered to be recorded which is truly done in my office in Will Book T on page 371.  Given under my hand this 12th day of December 1859.

W.B. Cassion (?) Clerk

1860 - Mortality census schedule includes entry for George Hocker, age 74, died November born Maryland, farmer, cancer

1860 - Nov. 4 - sale of property entered in Lincoln County Probate Court:

The following is the amount of the sale of property sold at the sale of P.S. Hocker deceased on the 16th day of June 1859.

• Thornton Porter to sundaries $12.00
• Samuel Logan to sundaries 8.00
• Total $20.00

The above is a correct sale bill as sold the property was sold on six months credited this June 16th 1860.

Thornton Porter

State of Kentucky, Lincoln County Sct.

November Term 1860 Monday the 4th.

The foregoing sale bill of the estate of P.S. Hocker filed in court at the above examined and approved by the court and ordered to be recorded.  Whereupon I admitted the same together with this certificate to record in my office given under my hand this 6th day of November 1860.

Att:  R. Carson Clerk, LCC

Sale Bill Property of Widow of George Hocker Oct. 6th 1860

• Bosley, J.:  Reed & wheel 50 cts.
• Jenkins, A.  Dinner Pot .55
• Peach, J.: Kittle 1.00
• Jenkins, A.; Skillet & lid .25
• Same: Oven & Pot & Lid .60
• Cash, J.: two wedges .60
• Carter, J.M.: pot rack .50
• Gentry, O: d[itt]o .25
• Hays, W.: Shovel & Forge .55
• Same: do .25
• Chenault, J.P.: half bushel etc. .25
• Hays, Wm.: drawing knife & saw 1.05
• Jenkins A.: log chain 2.35
• Hocker, Owen Plough .75
• Same:  do shovel .17
• Carter, J.M. : Harrow 2.15
• Hocker, O: two pitcher .25
• Cash, J.: Dishes -------- stands .25
• Same:  3 dishes .25
• Hocker O: lot cupboard ware 1.25
• Jenkins, A: do .35
• Cash, J. do .25
• Same: Salt-glass .25
• Hocker O: cups & sawsers .30
• Same: Candle sticks .25
• Cash, J: Table & leaves 2:50
• Hocker O: Breakfast Table .75
• Same: Two Jugs .25
• Hughs, Z(?): 1 f---- blanket 3.35
• Jenkins A.: do do 3.75
• Crow, J: 1 blanket 1.85
• Same: 1 quilt .50
• Same 1 do .50
• Cash, J: 1 do .95
• Green, L: 1 do .40
• Hocker Owen: 1 comfort .70
• Same 1 do 1.05
• Cash, J. Beding 11.00
• Good J. Bed & Bedding 15.25
• Hughes B. do do 13.25
• Good J. do do 9.00
• Same: do do 10.00
• Hocker O.: lot boxes .25
• Daugherty S: Chest .25
• Same: stillyards 1.60
• Hocker, O. : jarres of ---- .50
• Carter, J.: -------ware 3.00
• Same: Set spools .25
• Logan, S.: candle stand .25
• Cash, J.: clock .25
• Hocker, O.: Smoking glass .25
• Hocker, Owen: Bureau .75
• Cross, D.: lot books .10
• Dodds, T. : carpet 3.35
• Carns, J.: loom & fixtures 1.00
• Same: 2 scalding tub .50
• Cash, J.: 1 ax .75
• Hocker, O.: Coffee mill .25
• Settle, M. ¼ wheat – Fan (?) $10.00 2.50
• Sandifer, ?: speckle cow 12.00
• Barnett, Green: 3 fit (?) do 10.25
• Lyttle, M.: white calf 3.00
• Same:  red do 2.75
• Wright, S. sorrel mare 60.25
• Thurman, R.: colt 35.00
• Baugh, Jos.: yearlend filly 61.25
• Hawkins, B.: 5 c---- hogs 11.05  55.25
• Same: 5 m--- do @ $7.05  35.25
• Same: 5 do do @ $5.00  25.00
• Hocker, O.: 1 wagon 6.00
• Carter, E. 21 pigs @ 83 cents one half 8.98
• Daughery, S. 1 bed sted 5.00
• Same:  do do 6.00
• [Subtotal] 428.95
• Cobb, R. 107 acres, 3 rods 29 poles land @ $40.25 --- 5 taken off for graveyard 4339.20
• Amount of sale $4768.15

We John Cash & Owen Hocker Executors of the Estate of George Hocker dec’d. certify that the foregoing contains a true statement of the property sold by us as Executors aforesaid on a credit of twelve months.

John Cash, Owen Hocker, Executors

State of Kentucky, Lincoln County Sct., November term 1860

The foregoing sale Bill of the estate of Geo. Hocker dec’d. was this day returned into Court examined and approved by the Court & ordered to be recorded.  Whereupon I admit the same together with this certificate to record in my office in Will Book T on page 489.  Given under my hand this 30th day of November 1860.

Att:  R. Carson Clerk, LCC

Children: 

Artemesia b. 1807, d. 1827 md. William Mudd 1825

• Eleanor b. ca. 1826 md. Kendrick Jameson, children: William, John, Mary, Thaddeus, Louisa

Emily 

unnamed son b. ca. 1809, living 1820 and 1830, died before 1840 or out of the house

Owen b. 1813, d. 1884 md. 1) Mary Sandifer 1841, 2) Lucinda Shewmaker 1855

• Nancy Ann b. 1845, d. 1915 md. Newton Waters, daughter Mary
• William Weaver b. 1848, d. 1919 md. Margaret, at least four children: Bertha, Retta
• George Harrison b. 1856, 1943 md. Mollie Cozatt, children: Carl Kendrick, Ruth and (--?--)
• Mary Susan b. 1858
• Sara / Sallie E. b. 1861, d. 1940 md. George A. Kirkland 1888 as second wife, child: Newton

Elizabeth b. 1814, d. 1855 md. John Cash 1828

• William b. 1829, md. Jane Greer 1865
• Mary A. b. 1834
• Sarah b. 1836 d. b/t 1860 & 1870 md. Isaac Evans 1854, child: John
• Elizabeth b. 1838 md. Benjamin Sweeney
• James Walker b. 1840, d. 1916 md. Alsey Jane Long 1870
• Cynthia b. 1842 md. H.S. McGinnis 1864
• John F. b. 1842, d. 1908 md. Lucy Lewis (cousin) 1870, children: James, Mary, Roberta, Lita 
• George Walker b. 1845, d. 1910
• Barsheba b. 1846, d. before 1860
• Milton Green b. 1848
• Sarah b. 1849 before 1860
• Henry Hocker b. 1852 md. Mattie Padget 1890

Newton b. 1814, d. 1904 md. Nancy Houseworth 1834

• Mary Virginia b. 1836, d. 1891
• James T. b. 1837, md. Kathe (--?--) 1876, child Virgo 
• Manderville Elston b. 1839, d. 1907 md. 1) Lucy Huff 1868, 2) Catherine Martin 1876 & 3) Margaret Winkler 1900
• George Newton b. 1841, d. 1920 md. Mary Scearce 1868
• Sarah Eliza b. 1843, d. 1904 md. 1) R.A. Wellman, 2) Jesse Riddle, 1875

Julia Ann b. 1816, d. 1885 md. Joseph Waters 1835

George b. 1817, d. 1885 md. Margaret Moore 1849

• Mary Jane b. 1850, d. 1888 md. Thomas Burnett 1880, children: Rosa Lee, Thomas Elbert, Mary Jane
• Charles N. b. ? d. 1894
• Ellen Ann b. 1854, d. 1915
• William T. b. 1856, d. 1876, age 19
• Sarah Frances b. 1862, d. 1940 md. John Piper 1879, children: William Arthur, Byrd Thomas & Edna 
• Martha Emily b. 1864, d. 1947, md. Thomas Burnett, 1888 (sister's husband), children: Clarence, infant son, Ova 
• Infant Daughter b. 1866, d. 1867, 8 months
• Artamecia Macy b. 1868, d. 1906 md. Robert Ketchum 1888, children: William Leslie, Clinton Orville, Perly

unnamed son b. ca. 1818, living 1820, died before 1830 or out of the house

James Joseph b. 1822, d. 1867 md. Eliza Moore

• Mary Margaret b. 1844, d. 1872 md. James Byrn, children: Arminta, Joseph Ransom, Larkin Miranda & George 
• Nancy J.
• George Thompson b. 1850, d. 1908 md. Mary Byrn 1873, children: Temple Coleman, Lafayette, William Henry, Mary Elizabeth, Emma Iona, Hattie Marinda, George Edward, Dortha, Grace, Virgil & Floyd
• Lucinda Frances b. 1852, d. 1923 md. James Couch, children Cora Bell, Ida Jane, Elva Agnes, Lura Alice & Henrietta
• Artermac b. 1854, d. 1858
• Alice Elizabeth b. 1856, d. 1929 md.  James Reason Byrn, children: Della Jane, Lydia Francis, Dennis Alfred, Chapen Weaver, Mary Margaret, Arzula, James Ernest & Loyd Nelson
• Lafayette Baxter b. 1858, d. 1941 md. Leona Williams, children: Elnora, Joseph Oscar, George Irshal, Sarah Jane, Eva Minta, Luel & Flossie Jewel
• Infant son
• Almyra, d. age 7 yrs., 21 days
• Ginervea b. 1862, d. 1863
• Armina b. ?, d. 1865

Richard Weaver b. 1816, d. 1855 md. Margaret Shanks 1843 children:

• William S. b. 1845 md. Mary Cobb, 1873, children: Richard Cobb & William S. 
• Rebecca Jane b. 1847, d. 1920 md. Pleasant Woods Logan, children: Annie, Willie, Mary Rebecca, Pleasant Woods
• Joseph Henry b. 1849, d. 1932 md. Katherine Massick
• Jesse Shy b. 1852 md. 1) Sally Denny & 2) Pearle (--?--), children: Pauline, Margaret, Jesse, Mary
• Richard Weaver b. 1853, d. 1918 md. Mary Ketcham 1888, children: unnamed child, Lucy, Sara & Margaret
• unnamed child
• unnamed child
• unnamed child

Mary E. b. 1824, d. 1878 md. John Cash 1855, sister's husband as his second wife

• Nancy Alice b. 1857, d. 1933 md. Michael Cloyd 1882, child. Etta Belle b. 1882
• Loretta Bell b. 1860, d. 1912 md. Napoleon Tevis in Montana 1896, no children
• Preston b. 1866, d. 1882, age 17, never married - Died, on the morning of the 16th, at the house of his sister, Mrs. Mike Cloyd, Preston Cash, aged 17 years.  A kind, loving brother; a true, zealous, devoted Christian has gone to his reward. It is with sincere grief we give him up; and our deepest sympathy is with his devoted sisters, who in less than one year have had three of their nunmbers removed by the icy hand of death. It seems hard, yet God knows best. Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, Kentucky, Dec. 19, 1882. 

Sarah Ann b. 1828, d. 1871 md. John Kirkland 1847

• Thomas b. 1851, d. 1923 md. Martha Belle Greene 1873, children: Edward, William, Thomas, Margaret
• Nancy Ellen b. 1854, d. 1933 md. James Curtis, children: Anna, Johnnie, Rozella, Millie & William
• Charles Hamilton b. 1856, d. 1938 md. Martha Ellen Green, children: Minnie, Clarence, Millard & Franklin
• Margaret M. b. 1857, d. 1936 md. John Green, children: Leona, James, Myrtle, Cordie Dell, Grace, Beulah, Anna, Nellie Ray & Velma
• Susan Ann b. 1861, d. 1940 md. William Clarkson, children: Albert, Clara, Mary, Bertha & Lula