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Source for: Mary Elizabeth Hocking, 22 Aug 1855 - 5 May 1934 Index

General Source: S360

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Source for: Mahala Bond, 10 Nov 1837 - 14 Nov 1876 Index

General Source:   S884
Page:   ERL Drawer A, File 21

Note:   Has family group sheets for James and Mahala Bond Hocking's children and descendants.

General Source:   S360

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Source for: Harriet Amelia Hocking, CAL 1850 - 28 Oct 1902 Index

General Source:   S14

Note:   This file gives birth and death dates from Tombstones.

General Source:   S360

Note:   Gives Ordinance dates.

General Source:   S885

Text:   Almena, Norton Co, Kansas
December 9, 1894
Dear Sister, I seat myself all lonsome and broken harties and with tearful eyes to drop you a few lines. I am in very por health. The children is as with comen except bad colds. Hope this will find you well.
Oh, Eliza, I wish you folks lived close, I wish I could see you and have a good talk with you. I would like to tell you all about my dear companion that has gone before which I hope and trust has gone where pain and death is no more.
Oh, if we all can meet on that buteful shore where parting is no more. Well, I had been having such poor health for so long and Richard was so good to me and wated on me so good. I was sick in bed when he was struck with the parelettic stroke. He got up that morning and him and the children got breckfast and he asked me if I couldn’t get up and eat a little breckfast I told him no I was to sick. They set down to eat and got redy to go to work on the rode for he had worked the hands out the day before and when he started out he says to the children stay rite here and take good care of ma and I will be back at noon and he went away to work. Jest to one of our neighbors he said he felt weller that morning than common and when they brot him home they drove the wagon rite around by the door …. And I here him say oh, don’t be careful. I node it war him but but still he couldn’t hardly talk … and they was a taking him out of the wagon and his leg and arm and head jist dingled around … and he sed don’t get seart now I am just struck with a paraletik stroke …. But his tongue was so stiff he could hardly talk … but he lived 12 days. He had two more strokes and the third one he died … while he was sick I asked him if would be willen and redy to go with the lord and he sed why shouldn’t he…. Well Eliza I saw Emer yesterday down to town. She was a well as comen. I haven’t herd from lately…. I got a letter from francis a while back and he sed … it is going to be so hard for me to get a long this winter. (hog) ? is so deat I had it send the most of this stalk a way to be wintered and it is affel hard for me to get money to pay the dets and doctor bills…. Well I got a letter from one of Richard’s cousins…. They sertainly don’t live very far from john Douthets …. Your Sister Harriet A. Douthit to Eliza Wyatt
Rash has gone to church and Emer and Little Hester Eliza is a bred and ____? and me are setting here alone. I get offful lonsom little hester is so much company for me….. she always that so much for her paw.
Date:   8 Dec 1894

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Source for: Henry Hocking, Jan 1856 - 2 May 1856 Index

General Source:   S14

Note:   This file gives dates from Tombstones.

General Source:   S360

Note:   Henry's death date, 2 May 1856, came from an archive record by Parlie L. Hocking. Also gives ordinance dates.

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Source for: Nancy Ellen Hocking, 16 Sep 1858 - Index

General Source: S360

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Source for: Hester Margaret Sims, 11 Jul 1842 - 11 Dec 1889 Index

General Source:   S360

General Source:   S290

Text:   503/503 Ward, Thomas, 25, M, Farmer, born in Indiana, cannot read and write
        Ward, Hester, 18, F, born in Virginia
        Robert Thread, 32, M, Farmer, $3000/$500, born in Illinois
        Sarah Thread, age 1, F, born in Illinois
Date:   14 Jul 1860

General Source:   S871