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Marriage and Death Notices in Harrisburg Area Newspapers, 1835-1845
This book includes extractions of marriage and death notices from multiple Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area newspapers published between 1835 and 1845. It is published by Closson Press.
In 1830, there were eleven newspapers in print in Harrisburg. This book contains marriage and death notices, including some obituaries, as reported in four of those Harrisburg area newspapers from 1835 through 1845. Issues used as source material in compiling this volume include: the Democratic State Journal, the Keystone, the State Capital Gazette, and the Democratic Union. Other newspapers from within Pennsylvania and other states were often quoted, as newspapers passed information from one area to another. More than marriage and death notices. Everyname index.
ISBN#1558564020
2003, 8.5″ X 11″, Softbound
322 pages
$35.00
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Marriage and Death Notices in Harrisburg Area Newspapers, 1820-1834
This book includes extractions of marriage and death notices from multiple Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area newspapers published between 1820 and 1834. (This work is in progress.)
A German American HACKER/HOCKER Genealogy (2nd Edition)
This book was first published in 1991. Written by William O. Wingeard, it includes more than 700 pages of information on the descendants of Stephen and Anna Maria (-?-) HACKER of Russheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. I am updating the family information to include additional research, and editing the book to confirm to standard genealogical formats. (This work is in progress.)
Hi. I am a direct descendant of Eve Hoover Phillips Violet. I don’t have a lot on her but do know about her children and where and when she died. I would like to hear from you to see how we might help each other.
Thanks, Paula Denson
Ponca City, OK
I was contacted some months ago by a Lorna de Leigh who is connected to the Bonningtons via William & Robina (nee Wait) but has not connacted me since with details nor a e-mail address.
Can you please help me?
Regards.
Barry Smith
Barry,
I’ve never been in contact with Lorna, so I can’t put you in touch. But I do have some information on William James Bonnington and Robina Wait and the rest of the Bonnington family. How can I help you?
Kris
oops. Adam Hacker.
You have on your tree a Jacob Hacker who married a Catherine Sterern. Yesterday in researching my genealogy at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania I went through the Bricklerville Luthern Church books and found a Jacob Hacker married a Cattrinia Steiner on August 23, 1818.
The question is my Jacob Hocker/Hacker was born 1775 and his son Jacob Jr., was born in 1819. Is it at all possible that this Jacob is mine and not yours? I realize that mine would have been 43 when he married but, that could be a second marriage. I know that Adam hack went to this church so I was wondering what your thoughts were.
Thanks
Doug, thanks for the comments. You gave me a date and place that I didn’t have. :^) Excellent!
I believe that marriage you found is for Jacob3 HACKER (Frederick2, Johan Adam1). He was born 23 May 1791 in Cocalico twp and died 1 Feb 1847. He’s buried in the Emanuel Lutheran Church Cemetery in Brickerville.
He married Catharina STEINER, daughter of Frederick and Catherine (___) Steiner. She was born 27 Mar 1799 and died 8 May 1823. She’s also buried in the Emanuel Lutheran Church Cemetery. They had three children and lived Cocalico and Elizabeth township – staying in the same general area that the family originally settled.
I believe your Jacob is Jacob2 (Johan Adam1), the youngest child of Johan Adam and Maria Elisabetha (WEIDMAN) HACKER. He married about 1810(?) Elizabeth (___) and died 8 Apr 1836 in Ohio. I don’t have any additional information on him; he’s one of my brick walls.
His son Jacob Jr. was born 25 Mar 1819 near Harrisburg and died 28 Mar 1892 in Highspire. He was married 13 Dec 1842 to Jane KEPLINGER, daughter of George and Catharine (___) Keplinger.
The Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, said of Jacob Hocker, Jr., “While still a boy, he accompanied his father to Ohio, returning as a youth where he worked as a driver on a canal boat, later owned a boat, had a general store at Manadaville, Pennsylvania, near Union Deposit, moved it in 1855 to Highspire, and after some years, engaged in mercantile pursuits for one year in Reading, Pennsylvania, returning to repurchase the store in Highspire, which he sold to his son in 1884. He joined the Hummelstown Lutheran Church, in 1835 and later attended services at Churchville, now Oberlin, and resided in Highspire at the time of his death.”
So, I hope that helps clarify a bit. There are a lot of the same given names repeated in the different family branches. Please keep in touch.
Kris