Marriage Monday – William Hocker & Isabella Smith
My great grandparents, William Hocker and Isabella Aitken Smith were married on 13 October 1914 in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. This is a transcription of their application for marriage license.
Wordless Wednesday: Telephone Girls
Prior to her 1914 marriage, my great grandmother, Isabella Smith, worked for the telephone company in Harrisburg. This photo was labelled the “telephone girls.”
Wordless Wednesday: 1950 Hocker Family Photo
A Hocker family photo taken of the Will and Isabella (Smith) Hocker family at their home on 17 Aug 1950. It includes all their children and grandchildren.
Fearless Females: How Did They Meet?
Today’s Fearless Females entry is about how my parents, and grandparents met and married.
Fearless Females: Marriages
Today’s Fearless Females entry is about the marriages of my great grandparents: Elmer and Lillian (Snyder) Greulich, Edwin and Mary (Waage) Wieder, Will and Isabella (Smith) Hocker, and Clyde and Nora (Houdeshell) Hoover.
Not So Wordless Wednesday: Class Photo, 1936
A class photo taken circa 1936 in front of the William Penn High School in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Photo: William and Ruth Hocker
William and Ruth Hocker on their wedding day, 24 Sep 1941 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Photo: William Hocker Family
The family of William H. Hocker, including brother-in-law Robert Thomas Alexander Smith (standing left), wife Isabella (seated center left) and mother-in-law Eliza Craig (Bonnington) Smith Cochrane (seated center right). Standing: Robert Smith, William H. Hocker Sr. Seated, back: Meriam (Hocker) Ziegler, Isabella (Hocker) Ruder, Anna Louise (Hocker) Hoover, Isabella (wife), Eliza Smith Cochrane, Ruth Hocker, [...]
Photo: William Hocker’s Children
Four of the children of William H. Hocker Sr. (In back: Isabella; Middle: William, Jr. and Anna Louise; Front: Betty Jean) probably taken circa 1927—1929.


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