Wordless Wednesday: 1839 Democratic Ticket for Dauphin County
Martin Hocker of Derry Township as part of the 1839 Dauphin County Democratic Ticket
Wordless Wednesday: Henry & Saraphine (Witmer) Snyder
A photo of Henry D. and Saraphine K. (Witmer) Snyder, possibly taken in front of the Greulich home in Landsdale, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, circa 1912. The Snyders owned and lived on a farm on School House Road just outside East Greenville, Pennsylvania near the New Goshenhoppen Church.
Friday Find: Johan Adam Hacker’s signature
Johan Adam Hacker’s signature
Tombstone Tuesday: Levi Hocker family
Levi & Anna (Frantz) Hocker & children Michael, George and John
Levi Hocker, son of George and Mary Magdalena (Landis) Hocker, was born 17 January 1824 and died 31 October 1876. He was buried in Oberlin Cemetery, Dauphin County on 29 April 1877. He married Anna Frantz, daughter of Michael and Elizabeth (Walters) Frantz, on 6 February 1851. She was born 13 September 1828 and died 3 February 1918. She was buried with her husband on 7 February 1918.
Their second son Francis Michael Hocker was born 26 January 1854 and died in 1919 in the Pennsylvania State Asylum in Harrisburg. Son George Warren Hocker was born 8 December 1858 and died 12 May 1868. The youngest son John Edward Hocker was born 14 October 1869 and died in 1873. All three are buried with their parents at Oberlin Cemetery.
Wordless Wednesday: Robert Askey Children?
Possibly children of Robert Alexander Askey and Wilhelmina Force?
This photo was among the photos from the Hoover family photos from Pine Glen, Burnside Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania. When I asked my grandmother, she said she thought it was of the Askey kids. Presumably she was talking about her great aunt and uncle, Robert Alexander and Wilhelmina (Force) Askey, who lived just down the road from her grandparents, Samuel Thomas and Victoria (Walker) Hoover.
Robert Alexander Askey (1853-1950) and Wilhelmina Force (1857-1921) had 12 children, 10 of whom were living in 1910. I have the names of only 10:
- Dora Askey
- Jefferson B. Askey
- Jean Askey
- Bessie M. Askey
- James Rudolph Askey
- Iva M. Askey
- Florence Ruth Askey
- Elizabeth Sarah Askey
- Rhoda E. Askey
- Robert Sherman Askey
If you know—or can guess—at the identities of those in the photo, please leave a comment or drop me a line. Thanks!
Kirche Russheim ~ Facade
Copyright © Marcus Hebel
This is the outer facade of the church in Russheim where my Hacker/Hocker ancestors went to church. The photo is by Marcus Hebel and can be found in his photostream on Flickr.
Wordless Wednesday: A Morning Cup of Joe
Bill, Isabella (Smith), and Mims Hocker, 1946.
Isabella Aitken (Smith) Hocker with her son William “Bill” Hocker, Jr. and daughter Meriam “Mims” Hocker in the yard circa 1946.Bill and his family lived across the yard from his parents.
Tombstone Tuesday: Albert C Hocker Sr.
Albert Curtin Hocker Sr., son of Levi and Anna (Frantz) Hocker, was born 9 September 1860 in Swatara Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. He died 24 July 1940 in Cumberland County and was buried 27 July 1940 in Paxtang Cemetery in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. He was a farmer and a carpenter. He married Lillian Ainsley Leedy, daughter of Samuel Krehl and Sarah (Parsons) Leedy in 1881. The couple lived in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania then later moved to a farm in Cumberland County near Newville.
Albert C. Hocker was my great-great grandfather.
