Category: Loose Ends

I’m seeking information on the family of Jacob and Sarah (___) Hacker of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. They are another of my loose ends. I’d like to figure out where they fit in the Hacker/Hocker family. Any help would be appreciated.

Jacob K./R.Hacker was born 26 Aug 1838 and died 16 Feb 1906. He was buried in Bowman’s Cemetery, Ephrata, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. Circa 1870, Jacob married Sarah M./A. (___), probably in Lancaster county. Sarah was born 6 Feb 1849 and died 26 Jul 1921. She, too, was buried in Bowman’s cemetery.

Jacob and Sarah Hacker, I believe, had the following children:

1. Franklin K. Hacker (ca 1870—1952) married Maggie M. Rishel.
2. Amanda K. Hacker (ca 1872—?) married John S. Turner
3. Jacob Hacker (ca Feb 1789—aft 1910)
4. Emma Hacker (Dec 1883—?) married Frank A. Crall?
5. Annie K. Hacker (May 1886—?) married William I. Mull?
6. Elizabeth Hacker (Nov 1888—?)
7. Lottie Hacker (27 Aug 1892—11 Nov 1895)

The family of Joseph and Susanna (___) Hacker is another of my loose ends/brick walls. I don’t know much about them, but I’m wondering if this Joseph is the one baptized on 21 Jul 1816 in St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, Shaefferstown, Lebanon county, Pennsylvania. If so, that would make him the child of George and Christina (Miller) Hacker. I’d appreciate any information on this family.

Joseph HACKER was born ca 1812/17 and died  sometime after 1880. He appears in the 1850 US census for Elizabeth township, Lancaster county; the 1860 US census for Ephrata; the 1870 US census for Stouchsburg, Berks county; and the 1880 US census for Lebanon (Ward 1), Berks county.

Circa 1845, Joseph married Susanna (___). She was born about 1825/27 and died after 1880, possibly on 9 Feb 1898 in Lebanon county. She may have been buried in Stouchburg, Lebanon county, Pennsylvania.

According to census records, Joseph and Susanna had the following children:

1. Henry Hacker (1846—?) married Amanda (___)
2. Emma Hacker (ca 1848—?)
3. Susan Hacker (ca 1851—?)
4. Albert Hacker (ca 1853—?)
5. John B. Hacker (1854—aft 1930) married Mary Fessler
6. Elizabeth Hacker (ca 1856—?)
7. Ida Hacker (ca 1859—?)
8. Alice Hacker (ca 1862/3—?)
9. Beckie Hacker (ca 1871—?)

The Jacob and Maria (Krieg) Hacker family is another family group that turned up during my Lancaster county, Pennsylvania research. They show up in Penn township census records in 1850 and 1870. The children show up in Penn township, Warwick township, Manheim township, and Lititz Borough through 1930. I’m interested in finding Jacob’s parents; I’m wondering if he’s possibly the son of George and Christina (Miller) Hacker.

Jacob Hacker was born 28 Sep 1803, probably in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. He died 26 Jul 1873, probably in Lancaster county, and was buried in Emanuel Lutheran Church cemetery in Brickerville, Warwick township, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. This is the church that my ancestor Johan Adam Hacker attended.

About 1841 Jacob Hacker married Maria Krieg, daughter of John Elias Krieg and Anna Maria Gibbens. Mary was born 5 Aug 1819 and died 22 Mar 1898, both in Pennsylvania, probably in Lancaster county. She, too, is buried in the Emanuel Lutheran Church cemetery.

As far as I know, Jacob and Mary had the following children:

1. William Hacker (ca 1841—bef 1873)
2. Elias K. Hacker (1845—aft 1920)
3. Allen K. Hacker (1847—1928)
4. Martin K. Hacker (1850—1906)
5. Henry K. Hacker (1852—1925)
6. Benjamin K. Hacker (1856—1938)

I’ve posted a transcription of Jacob’s last will & testament in a separate post.

The family of John and Sarah (Beinhower) Hocker is another on that was inappropriately attributed as belonging to John and Christianne Catherine (Steirling) Hocker. Like Adam Hocker, John and family lived in the correct place to belong to John’s family line, but subsequent research proved that they did not.

I am searching for any information that might help to identify John’s parentage.

John HOCKER was born 6 Jul 1815, possibly in Hummelstown, Derry township, Dauphin county, Pennsylvania. He died 21 Jan 1882 in Churchville, Swatara township, Dauphin county, Pennsylvania. He was buried in Churchville Cemetery in Oberlin, Pennsylvania. John was at various times a brickmaker, shoemaker and a farmer. He appears in Derry township tax records in 1838 and in Swatara township tax records in 1840.

John married Sarah BEINHOWER, daughter of John Peter BEINHOWER and Mary Ann SMITH, on 3 Dec 1835, according to the marriage announcement in The Democratic State Journal on Tuesday, December 15, 1835. Both John and Sarah were of Derry township at the time of the marriage. [2] Sarah was born 12 Jan 1814 in Churchville and died 12 Nov 1901 in Middletown.[3] She was buried in Churchville Cemetery with her husband.

John and Sarah (Beinhower) Hocker had, to the best of my knowledge, one child:

1. Maria Anna/Anna Maria (1840—1873/83) married Christian Gingerich

Footnotes:

1. John Hocker gravestone, Churchville Cemetery, Oberlin, Swatara township, Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, Photographed by Kris Hocker, 7 April 2002.
2. John Hacker and Sarah Beinhouer marriage announcement, The Democratic State Journal, Volume 1, Number 40, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 15 December 1835.
3. Sarah Hocker gravestone, Churchville Cemetery, Oberlin, Swatara township, Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, Photographed by Kris Hocker, 7 April 2002.

Sometimes during your research you come across families with the same surname you’re researching, but you don’t know how or if they fit into your family. The family of Adam and Eve (Hamaker) Hocker is one such family.

Originally, William Wingeard attributed Adam as a son of John and Christianne Catharine (Steirling) Hocker—primarily, I believe because of his age and proximity to where John and Catharine were living in Pennsylvania. However, subsequent research proved that John and his brother Jacob moved their families—including John’s son Adam—to Ohio about 1839. Since Adam and Eve (Hamaker) Hocker remained in Pennsylvania, Adam can not be John’s son.

I am seeking any additional information on this family, especially any data that may lead to an identification of Adam’s parentage.

Adam Hocker was born 19 Oct 1812, possibly in Hummelstown, Derry township, Dauphin county, Pennsylvania and died 26 Sep 1870 in Swatara township, Dauphin county, Pennsylvania.¹ He was buried in Churchville Cemetery in Oberlin, Pennsylvania. Adam was a farmer, and he first showed up in Dauphin county tax records in 1834 (age about 22).

Adam married Eve Hamaker, daughter of Adam Hamaker (25 Dec 1778—15 Nov 1828) and Magdalena Snavely (17 Oct 1776—5 Apr 1845), on 22 Feb 1838.² Eve was born 24 Jun 1817 and died 14 Nov 1892. She, too, was buried in Churchville Cemetery on 18 Nov 1892.³

Adam and Eve (Hamaker) Hocker had the following children:

1. Jacob H. Hocker (1839—1911)
2. John Hocker (1841—1905)
3. Adam H. Hocker (1843—1902)
4. Mary Elizabeth Hocker (1946—1930)
5. Sarah Hocker (1848—1930)
6. David R. Hocker (1850—1887)
7. Malinda Hocker (1853—1926)
8. Martin M. Hocker (1855—1928)
9. Anna C. Hocker (1860—1947)