Ahnentafel #894 - Samuel Hocker

Samuel Pruitt Hocker

Born: September 7, 1749, Frederick Co., MD, possibly ca. 1747 in Prince George's Co., MD

Died: March 1815 Lincoln Co., KY

Buried: Hocker / Goode Cemetery, Turnersville, KY

Married: 1) Mary Ann Price ca. 1773 in Frederick Co., Maryland

2) Nancy Barnes, 1783 Montgomery Co., Maryland

Records: 

1777 - Montgomery Co., MD - served as a private in the Montgomery County militia Middle Battalion, 2nd Company

1778 - March, Montgomery Co., MD - took oath of fidelity to the state of Maryland

1790 - Montgomery Co., MD - a Samuel Hocker household in the census

• 4 males under 16 - Richard Weaver, Joseph, Philip, John, 
• 2 males 16+ - Samuel Pruitt, Jacob 
• 4 females - Nancy (wife), Nancy (daughter), Elizabeth, Mary

1800 - August 23 - Lincoln Co., KY - paid taxes 

1810 - Lincoln, KY - a Samuel Hocker household on census:

• 1 male under 10 - possible grandchild
• 2 males 10-15 - John, unknown
• 1 male 26-44 unidentified son 
• 1 male over 45 Samuel 
• 1 female under 10 - possible grandchild
• 1 female 26-44 - possible daughter-in-law
• 5 slaves

1813 - December 6 - Lincoln Co., KY - Samuel wrote his will:

I, Samuel Hocker of Lincoln County and State of Kentucky being perfectly in possession of my senses and recollection do make, ordain and declare this my last will & testament in manner and form as follows (that is to say) 

1st It is my will that my executors pay all my just debts.

2nd I lend my beloved wife Nancy Hocker during her life that part of my tract of land lying north east of McKinney's Creek to include my dwelling house and all the land lying on the same side of the creek whereon my dwelling house stands.  I also lend her during her life the following negroes (viz) Abram, Rachel & Beck together with two of my first shouse horse beasts, that may be among my stock at my decease, also two good feather beds & furniture, one half of my crop of every description, one third of all kinds of my stock except my horses.  The one third part of my household & kitchen furniture, the whole of y farming utensils and my wagon and gears all of which I lend my wife during her life and at her death to be disposed of a shall be directed in this my last will.  I give and bequeath my wife Nancy Hocker fifty dollars in cash.

3rd I give and bequeath to my son Joseph Hocker all that part of my tract of land lying north east of McKinney's creek to include my dwelling house and all my land lying on the same side of said Creek whereon my dwelling house stands which said land he shall go into the possession of at his mother's decease and not before.  I also give to my son Joseph Hocker a part of my land lying on the south west side of McKinney's Creek bounded & described as following:

Beginning on a white oak marked H standing on the branch of said Craig; thence measuring a strait course south my corn field fence and also with the road leading to Peyton Well to a large white walnut standing near said road and marked thus (H) thence running through said field nearly at right angles until it strikes the first hollow or draft about thirty feet above a small forked cherry tree standing in said draft near a fence & marked with three chops one each side thence with said fence to my meadow fence at a stake, thence with the meadow fence bearing up the creek to a stake standing about twenty feet above a beech tree marked thus (5) thence east running round said fence to a beech tree marked thus (6) thence continuing the same course to McKinney's creek and north with the creek to the beginning.  I also lend to my son Joseph Hocker the residue of my tract of land lying south west of McKinney's Creek until the death of my wife and then to be disposed of as shall be hereafter directed.  I likewise give to my son Joseph Hocker two negroes namely Celia & Cloe, as also one fifth part of my crop of every description.

4th I give and bequeath to my son John Hocker all that part of my tract of land I possess on the side of the creek where my son John Hocker now resides except the part above described and given to my son Joseph Hocker never the less he shall not into the possession of the same until the death of his mother.  I also give to my son John Hocker one negro boy named Squire.

5th I give to my daughter Polly Hocker three negroes namely Jenny, Richmond and Abba.

6th I give to my daughter Nancy Hocker four negroes named Rose, Melissa, Cerilda & Caroline.

7th. I give to my daughter Betsy Helm one negro girl named Hunney.

8th I give to my son Richard Weaver Hocker one negroe girl named Maria.

9th I give to my son Philip Hocker one negroe girl named Mahala.

10th I give to my granddaughter Nancy Hocker daughter of my son Jacob Hocker deceased ten dollars.  It is my desire that all that part of my estate lent my wife as also all that is not expressly willed away be equally divided among all my children except my son John Hocker, who I think sufficiently provided for in this my last will.  And lastly I constitute and appoint my sons Philip Hocker & Joseph Hocker Executors to this my last will.  Given under my hand & seal this 6th day of December 1813.

Samuel Hocker

Signed, sealed & Delivered in presents of William Moore, George Duncan, Jesse Walker

1815 - March - Lincoln Co., KY - Samuel's estate inventory & appraisal submitted to the court:

agreeable to an order of the Lincoln County Court at the March term 1815 being first Sworn we ordered to apprais[e] the Estate of Samuel Hocker Deceased as follows (to wit)

• Abram valued to $500.00
• Alexander to 500.00
• Rachel & her child Charles 400.00
• Gin 300.00
• Vina 250.00
• Beck 300.00 
• Lorinda 280.00
• 23 shoats 12.00
• 29 Hogs 45.00
• 2 Shovel Ploughs 2.00
• 8 Hoes 2.45
• Sundry tools 1.50
• Frow & drawing knife & Lock chain 3.00
• 2 Iron wedges & four pole axes 7.00
• 2 Barshears plows & Double trees 12.00
• 1 Cythe 2.00
• 4 wheels 6.00
• Big Wheel Reel & spools 3.00
• 1 Bay Horse colt 10.00
• 1 Sorrel Horse Colt 3.00
• 1 Bay mare 30.00
• 1 yellow Bay mare 35.00
• 1 yong sorrel horse 30.00
• 1 parcel wheat 3.00
• 4 Hogsheads 2.00
• Fodder .75
• oats 1.00

• 

  Riddle sieve

  To amount Brought over $2744.00
• 2 Rawhides 5.00
• Kittle pots ovens & hooks 11.00
• Churn tub & pails 3.00
• one loom gears & slays 10.00
• Hackle 4.50
• Riddle & sive 1.00 
  
• Pewter 12.00
• Knives forks Crocks pans & water 5.00
• 2 flat Irons & scissors 2.00
• Geese 1.75
• nine sheep & 3 lambs 18.00
• one stear and 2 Heifers 17.00
• 2 Heiffers 6.00
• a Bell .50
• 2 Haystacks 12.50
• white cow and calf 11.00
• Red cow & calf 11.00
• Black cow & calf 10.00
• Waggons & gears 55.00
• one Crib of Corn 100.00
• Bacon 80.00
• 3 tubs of soap & lat 7.00
• 3 old tubs & 2 caggs [kegs] 2.00
• tub and salt 2.00
• 5 barrels 4.00
• vinegar & barril 4.00
• side saddle 7.00
• Feathers 1.50
• 2 barrels & 3 meal tubs 2.50
• a parcel of flax 9.00
• a parcel of hemp 20.00
• No 3) amounts brought over $3177.25
• Half bushel and old Irons 1.50
• 2 caggs & leather 3.00
• Worping bar & spooling frame 1.00
• 3 wove(?) Baggs & old waggon sheet 1.00
• 12 Chickens 1.00
• 1 Pair stillards 2.50
• Cards Book & shears 2.25
• 2 tables 2.00
• Cubboard furniture 4.50
• Gun & Looking glass 4.70
• one trunk 1.00
• one chest 4.00
• nine chears [chairs] 3.00
• money scales Lancet & file 1.00
• one bedstead, bed & Furniture 20.00
• one Bedstead, Bed & Furniture 15.00
• one Bedstead Bed & Furniture 20.00
• Two Beadsteads Beads & Furniture 33.00
• Seven sheets 15.00
• Four sheets & one countapin [counterpane] 12.50
• Four Coverlids 20.00
• one bundle Bed Clothes 5.00
• fifteen pillow casses 2.50
• Five table cloths & towels 6.50
• two parcels of Linnen 9.00
• Bundle cotton 1.00
• Bason funnel & two bushels hempseed 3.00
• Amount of Bonds in hand 1605.00
• one break & Gridiron 1.00
• No 4 the amount Brought over 4983.25
• a barrel of oats 1.00
• jointers chizle & frows 1.00
• a barrel of corn 2.00
• 16 lbs Tallow 1.33
• [Total] $4938.38

14 March 1815 Jesse Carter, Gabriel Lacky, Robt Givens, William Moore. 

Kentucky, Lincoln County Sct - At a County Court holden for Lincoln Count yon monday the day of april in the year 1815 the within Inventory & appraisement of the Estate of Samuel Hocker deceased was returned & ordered to be recorded. Witness Thomas Helm, Clerk.

1815 - April - Lincoln Co., KY - Samuel's estate sale bill submitted to the court:

• Joseph Hocker one negro man $700.00
• Weaver Hocker one negro man Alex'r 600.00
• Phillip Hocker one negrow woman & child 452.00
• William Hocker one negro woman 237.00
• Joseph Hocker one negro woman 155.00
• George Hlem one negro girl 305.00
• John Hocker one negro girl 306.00
• James Gooch one shovel plough 1.30
• Charles Alford one ditto .50
• Willis Kertly one hoe .50
• Nathan Warters one Do .51
• Wm Simpson one Do .37 1/2 
• Patrick McElhany to hoe .25
• Phillip Hocker one hoe .61 1/2
• James Givens one mattox .50
• John Craig one log Chain 1.12 1/2
• Phillip Hocker one wedge .50
• John Cundiff one Do .25
• Phillip Hocker ax .51
• John Duncan one ax 2.50
• James Skidmore one ax 1.67
• Wm Moore one ax 2.12 1/2
• Archibald Huston one plough 9.50
• Archibald McKinny one Do 6.25
• Capt. Lacky one hay stack 8.50
• Thomas Comer (?) one Do 6.50
• Sam'l Hocker to sheep 22.00
• Wm Montgomery one steer 7.06 1/4
• Perry Runnels one heiffer 3.50
• William Montgomery heiffer 3.50
• subtotal 2836.30
• Perry Runnels one steer 3.00
• Perry Runnels one black heiffer 6.25
• Perry Runnels one brown Do 5.50
• Mordeca Moore one cow and calf 12.00
• Wm Sublet one cow & calf 12.50
• James Warren one cow 9.08 1/2
• John Baily to nine hogs 30.01 / 30.07 (?)
• John Baily to ten Do 28.12 1/2
• John Baily to ten Do 20.01
• George McKenny to 23 shoats 23.14 1/2
• Wm Hocker one pot & two ovens 1.25
• John Carter one churn .50
• Thomas Comer one tub .50
• James Phillips one pale & piggen .51
• Stephen Terry one pot 4.00
• Stephen Terry one Iron hoop .55
• James Hall one pale .37 1/2
• George Duncan on[e] kittle 4.41
• James Hall to two crocks .37 1/2
• Samuel Potter to two crocks .38
• John Craig to crocks .30
• George Chadwell to two basons 2.00
• Richard Lee to 6 plates & one dish 5.00
• James Phillips one tin pan 1.00
• James Skidmore one dish & 3 plates 3.01
• George Chadwell 1 dish & 1 bason 2.80
• Benj Good 1 dish 1.50
• Samuel Potter to knives & forks 4.00
• Richard Lee to scissors at .50
• Nathon Waters to cards .50
• John Hocker to sheep shears .62 1/2
• Joseph Hocker to flat Irons 2.00
• Thomas Comer one wheele 2.00
• subtotal 185.51
• James Skidmore one wheel 1.01
• George Hocker one wheele .50
• William Wade one check real .55
• James Phillips one large wheele 1.00
• James Patterson to ten barrels corn 12.33 1/2
• James Warren to Do Do 12.1
• Archibald Black to Do Do 12.25
• Andrew Black to Do Do 11.87 1/2
• Stephen Terry to D D 12.53
• Wm. Runnels to D D 12.38 1/2
• Claibourn Gooch to D D 12.29
• Edward Leach to D D 12.50
• Ambrose Tombs to ten barrels of corn 12.50
• John Singleton to D Do 12.50
• Johnston Fares to D D 13.00
• Silas Inyard to D D 13.15
• John Givens to 29 lb of flax 3.00
• Stephen Terry to 31 lb flax 3.41
• Wm Simpson 31 lb flax 3.56
• Wm Hill to 10 lb of flax 2.77
• Wm Hill to 800 weight hemp at 551.00
• James S Santer one bed & furniture 15.00
• Nicholas Martain one bed & furniture 14.25
• Lewis C. Jackson one & furniture 15.00
• James Phillips one bed and furniture 19.50
• George Hocker one bed & furniture 20.25
• Benjamin Monroe to 2(?) pairs sheets 12.75
• George Helm one pari sheets 5.00
• Isaac Kelly to 1 pair sheets 5.25
• Isaac Kelly to 1 counterpain & sheet 3.58
• James Mason one coverlid 4.50
• subtotal 840.17 1/2
• James Mason one Do 4.40
• Martan Peyton one Do 4.50
• James Mason one Do 4.75
• Isaac Kelly to pillow cases 2.25
• James Mason to 6 pillow cases 2.00
• James Mason to table cloth 1.37 1/2
• Benjamin Goode to 2 table cloth 1.75
• Wm Sublet to 9 yards of linnen at 2/3(?) 4.12 1/2
• James Warren to 31 yes tow(?) linnen at 1/6 7.75
• Martain Peyton to 3 towels .81
• Benjamin Good to three towels .75
• George Helm to 2 table cloths 1.50
• Benjamin Good to 2 quilts 4.50
• James Mason o 2 counterpanes 2.13 1/2
• Benjamin Good 1 blanket & quilt 3.51
• Hugh Mason to cotten 1.27
• Benaet (?) C. Wright 1 chest 5.50
• John Welsh one cupbord 12.65
• Geoge Helm one tea pot .75
• Samuel Dodd to sugar dish &c 1.00
• Alfred Hocker to 1/2 dozen plates 1.75
• Wm. Moore to cups & saucers 1.12 1/2
• Wm. Moore to boulds &c [bowls] 1.40
• Wm. Hocker one bible 1.00
• John Hocker 1 hemp hackle .75
• James Harden 1 flax hackle 1.64
• Syrus Logan 1 pair of Stiliard 3.00
• George Helm ridle (?) and sifter 3(?).75
• John Givens 1 sythe 2.57
• Wm. McCommack one gun 2.12 1/2
• Sam'l Hocker to sunders [sundries?] .83
• Syrus Logan to 1 chizle .62 1/2
• subtotal 84.84
• James Harden one pale .25
• Joseph Hocker drawing knife 1.25
• Phillip Hocker 1 grid Iron .25
• Wm Hocker to money scales .84
• Syrus Logan one frow 1.37 1/2
• Allen Logan to sunders .50
• Martin Peyton one looking glass .75
• Benjamin Good 4 chairs 1.62
• James Skidmore 5 chairs 2.16
• Weaver Hocker to one bell &c 1.25
• Joseph Hocker to sundries .75
• Joseph Hocker to half bushel .31
• Lewis Jackson 1 table 1.76
• Roland Burks 1 woman saddle 5.00
• George Helm [nothing listed] 2.54 1/2
• Wm Patton to 2 cow hides 6.12 1/2
• Gabriel Lacky to hemp seed 3.25
• James Skidmore 1 trunk .76
• Gabriel Lackey to 2 caggs [kegs] 1.06 1/4
• Willis Kirtly to 16 lbs tallow 1.76
• John Craig one bay mare 33.75
• Wm. Moore to 4 lbs feathers 1.15
• Joseph Hocker to 6 geese .64 1/2
• James Ely to 1 bay mare 40.25
• John Duncan 1 sorrel horse 24.00
• Nathan Shannon 1 bay coalt 11.50
• Lewis Jackson to wheat 6.62 1/2
• Joseph Hocker to oats 1.31
• Lewis Jackson to hogshead 2.12 1/2
• Bennet C. Shackleford fodder 2.00
• subtotal 126.84 1/4
• John Hocker one waggon & [nothing listed] 38.37 1/2
• Edward Eastham to salt 1.62 1/2
• Gabriel Lacky to barrels 1.00
• Allen Logan to 1 barrel .81 1/4
• Wm Moore to one barrel of vinegar 2.00
• Lewis Jackson to one barrel of vinegar 1.00
• Phillip Hocker to lancet & file .75
• Jabriel Lacky to barrels 1.00
• Joseph Hocker to 3 tubs .27
• James Harden to 2 bags 9.75(?)
• Saml Hocker to Leather 2.00
• Frank Jackson to waggon cloth 1.00
• Phillip Hocker to warping bars .50
• Syrus Logan to 1 hammer &c .88 1/2
• Benj. Briggs 1 plain [plane] .25
• John Hocker to [nothing listed] .26 1/2
• James Warren to bacon 7.76
• Bennet C. Shacelford to bacon 8.52
• Gabriel Lacky to 1000 weight bacon 85.24
• Benj. Briggs to lard 6.25
• Martin Peyton to 2 tubs .50
• John Hocker 1 tar bucket .25
• Bennt C Shackleford one loom 10.25
• John Davis 1 bottle .25
• Joseph Hocker 1 bason .12 1/2
• Joseph Hocker 1 barrel of corn .50
• Wm Hocker 1 grind stone .20 
• subtotal 172.02 3/4
• Total 4298.79

the sale bill of samuel Hocker deceased this 10th April 1815 Executors: Philip Hocker, Joseph Hocker

Kentucky Lincoln County Sct - At a County Court holden for Lincoln Counth on monday the day of April in the year 1815 the within sale Bill of Estate of Samuel Hocker dec'd was returned unto Court & ordered to be recorded. Test. Thomas Helm, Clerk.

Children by Mary Ann Price: 

Jacob b. ca. 1774, d. before 1815

• Nancy b. ca. 1802 md. Philip Hocker (1776-1856 below) 1828 as his second wife [I have this connection as the Philip below, but even as closely as these people married, I don't think he would have married his own niece.  This needs some clarification.]

Philip b. 1776, d. 1856 md. 1) 1801 Dorcas Hocker, 2) 1828 Nancy Hocker [see above], 3) 1837 Amanda Tucker 

• Henry
• John
• Elizabeth md. (--?--) White 
• Levisa b. 1808, d. 1866 md. Fielding White 1827
• Elizabeth b. 1837, d. 1922 md. Fleming Crews
• Nelson b. 1812 md. Nancy Webster 1837
• Amanda J. b. 1839, d. 1914 md. (--?--) Tabb
• Frances b. 1843
• Rousa B. b. 1846
• Mary F. b. 1849
• Nancy Ellen b. 1853
• Matilda b. 1816, d. 1867 md. James Sandidge 1836
• Larkin b. 1837
• Darcus J. b. 1839
• Fountain C. b. 1844, d. 1914 - race track foreman in Louisville, KY 
• James M. b. 1846
• Philip Y. b. 1850
• Mary Elizabeth / Bettie b. 1853
• Jefferson b. 1822, d. 1877 md. Mary / Nancy Webster
• John C. b. 1845, d. 1865
• Samuel B. b. 1848
• Phillip T. b. 1853, d. 1861
• Charlotte A. b. 1855, d. 1881 md. Stephen Bayne 1874
• Robert Walter b. 1875, d. 1875
• Infant daughter b. 1875, d. 1878
• George D.P. 1859 
• Cleland b. 1862
• Henry White b. 1837, d. 1904 md. Sophronia (--?--)
• Tillman b. 1860
• Mary S. b. 1862
• Amanda L. b. 1864
• Sophronia b. 1866
• Cora b. 1870
• Irene b. 1873
• Jesse b. 1874, d. 1945
• Phillip b. 1883, d. 1884
• William b. 1839
• Charles Duncan (?) b. 1841, d. 1926
• Tilman b. 1843, d. 1859, never married
• Joseph Lee b. 1845
• Susan Ellen b. 1847

Mary b. 1780 - may be the Polly Hocker living with Danile Skidmore family in 1850 census.  No known connection between the families. 

John b. 1782, d. 1848

Children by Nancy Barnes:

Richard Weaver b. 1783, d. before 1840 md. Eleanor Sandridge 1807

Samuel Jr. b. 1784, probably died before 1790 certainly before 1813

Joseph b. 1786, d. 1851 md. Elizabeth Dunn 1810

• Benjamin b. 1812
• Samuel b. 1814 
• Richard Weaver b. 1816, d. 1855 md. Margaret Shanks 
• Jesse Shy (male)
• Margareta b. 1818
• Tilman b. 1820, d. 1888 md. Sarah Morrison 1843
• James Ezra b. 1845, d. 1920 md. Katherine Steele Railey 
• Leonidas Oates b. 1873, d. 1948 md. Mary Berry
• William Arthur b. 1848, d. 1919 md. Alice Reynolds 1872
• Belle b. 1851 md. James Helm
• Samuel b. 1853, d. 1936 md. Mary Jane Masterson 1904
• Laura b. 1855, d. 1924 md. Isaac Arnold
• Leslie b. 1857 md. Tillie Ruff
• Sophia b. 1860, d. 1939 md. James Huston
• Julia W. b. 1863, d. 1930 md. Joseph Edwin Hocker
• James Monroe b. 1822, d. 1912 md. Harriet Morrison
• T. Logan b. 1847
• S.E. (f) b. 1849
• A.W. (f) b. 1851
• R.W. (m) b. 1853, d. 1888
• James M. b. 1857
• Nannie b. 1859
• Dorcas b. 1824, d. 1898 md. Fieldin Helm
• Margarette b. 1845
• Willis b. 1847
• Gabriella T. b. 1850
• Isaak J. b. 1854
• Mary b. 1855, d. 1929 md. (--?--) Ford
• William Edward b. 1859
• Mary Elizabeth b. 1826, d. 1852 md. Joseph Good 1850, no children
• Sarah Myers b. 1828 d. 1910 md. Benjamin Franklin Good 1852
• Gabriella b. 1860
• Wilbur Beauregard b. 1861, d. 1914 md. Mary Lee Jones 1885
• Mary Margaret b. 1863, d. 1955 md. (--?--) Bradshaw
• Isaiah Dunn b. 1830, d. 1907, never married
• William Dunn b. 1832, d. 1902 md. Hattie Warden
• Nancy / Nannie Barnes b. 1835, d. 1910 md. Joseph Goode 1853
• Mary Elizabeth b. 1855, d. 1892 md. James Green 1871
• Hattie Hocker b. 1873, d. 1946
• Samuel Logan b. 1880, d. 1960
• John Liberty b. 1884, d. 1963
• Emma Lackey b. 1885, d. 1965
• Edward A. b. 1890, d. 1962
• William Richard b. 1856, d. 1943 md. 1) Julia Doolin, 2) Sena Carson
• William Emmett b. 1884, d. 1933
• Minnie Lee b. 1886, d. 1948
• Isaiah Dunn b. 1858, d. 1931 md. Mary Lackey
• Irene b. 1905, d. 1992
• Allen b. 1909, d. 1986
• Andrew b. 1860, d. 1868 never married
• Margaret b. 1862, d. 1925 md. Thomas Goode 1880
• Nannie b. 1882, d. 1907
• Dunn b. 1887, d. 1908
• Emma T. b. 1864, d. 1923 md. (--?--) Green
• Gabriella T. b. 1836, d. 1859 md. William Carpenter 1854, no children

Nancy

Elizabeth b. 1790, d. 1840 md. George Helms, Jr. 1807

• Samuel Hocker b. 1815, d. 1906 md. Burnetta Helm
• Bettie b. 1839, d. 1921
• infant daughter b. 1842, d. 1842
• Mary Francis b. 1845, d. 1921
• Emily E. b. 1852, d. 1853
• Sallie Pinkerton b. 1855, d. 1936
• William Trimble b. 1869, d. 1889
• Artimacy b. 1817, d. 1859 md. Orville Tucker
• Pleasant b. 1857, d. 1932
• Fielding C. b. 1819, d. 1890 md. Dorcus Gilbert Hocker
• Margaret E. b. 1844
• Willis Sparks b. 1847, d. 1905
• Gabrella Thompson b. 1849, d. 1883
• George Benjamin b. 1851, d. 1933
• Isaiah Joseph b. 1853, d. 1916
• Mary Elizabeth b. 1855, d. 1929
• William Edward b. 1859, d. 1943
• George Washington b. 1830, d. 1876 md. Jennette Anderson

John b. 1796, d. 1848 md. Elizabeth Tankersley 1825