Author: Kris Hocker

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, Willard Hoover; Seated, front: assorted grandchildren and Betty Jean (Hocker) Wingeard.

Children of William and Isabella (Smith) Hocker

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.

Hocker Family BBQ, circa 1946

A Hocker family barbeque about 1946. William Hocker, Sr. is at the grill.

George Washington Hocker (1814—1877)

George Washington Hocker, born 16 Aug 1814 in Ohio, died 21 Dec 1877 in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, was the son of Christopher Hacker who, finding himself in debt, left Pennsylvania about 1808. The son returned to Pennsylvania, but nothing more is known about the father.

Photo courtesy of Virginia Goff

Rev. Caius Frederic Sophus "Guy" Waage

The Reverend Caius Frederic Sophus Waage was born 17 Aug 1797 in Schleswig, Holstein, Denmark (now Germany) and died 23 Aug 1884 in Pennsburg, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. He studied at the University of Keil in Germany and came to the United States in 1819.

Greulich family group

Descendants of Charles Philipp and Caroline K. (Wolf) Greulich at a family gathering in Pennsylvania, sometime after 1937.