Wordless Wednesday: Verna and Alma Greulich
Verna and Alma Greulich, circa 1929
Not So Wordless Wednesday: Class Photo
Junior High School Class Photo
Update: I’ve learned that this is not a high school class photo, but a junior high class photo, probably taken circa 1921/22.
My grandfather, Bill Hocker, is in the third row, third from the right. Do you recognize anyone?
Wordless Wednesday: Hocker Family Portrait
Albert Hocker family, ca 1900
Seated, left to right: Albert Curtin Hocker (1860-1940), Anna Hocker (1892-1961), Lillian Ainsley (Leedy) Hocker (1861-1942)
Standing, left to right: Levi Ainsley Hocker (1886-1965), Krehl Samuel Hocker (1885-1935), Ethel Pearl Hocker (1882-1948), Albert Curtin Hocker Jr. (1888-1935), William Hocker (1890-1967)
Not So Wordless Wednesday: Hocker Children at Camp
This is one of my favorite photos of my grandfather, William Hocker. His expression seems to speak volumes about the type of man he was. I miss him dearly.
Bill, Anna & Betty Jean Hocker
The photo was taken, I believe, at the Hocker hunting camp in Perry County, Pennsylvania. His sisters Anna and Betty Jean can be seen in the background.
Photo: Unknown Women
Unknown Women (Witmers?)
A family portrait of three unidentified women and a girl. They may belong to the Witmer, Greulich or Snyder families of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. This photo was likely taken in the 1890s.
If you can identify these ladies, please contact me!
Tombstone Tuesday: E.J. & Alavesta Wieder
Emanuel J. Wieder (1855-1929) & Alavesta (Dillinger) Wieder (1857-1923)
Emanuel J. Wieder was born 11 Nov 1855 in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, youngest son of Saulus and Anna (Mechling) Wieder. He died 26 Jul 1929 and was buried 30 Jul 1929 in St. Mark’s Union Cemetery in Pennsburg, Pennsylvania. He married Alavesta Esther Dillinger on 10 Jun 1878 in Upper Saucon Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. She was born 19 Oct 1857 in Lehigh County, daughter of William and Helena (Person) Dillinger. She died 11 Jan 1923 and was buried 16 Jul 1923 in Pennsburg.
The couple had three children who are also buried in the plot with their spouses: Edwin Joshua Wieder (1880-1960) and his wife Mary Catharine Waage (1877-1970), Cora Anna Wieder (1886-1964) and her husband Vallandingham S. Trumbore (1883-1968), and John William Wieder (1887-1972) and his wife Katharine Jane Greulich (1887-1960).
Family Photo Galleries
I’ve started uploading additional images to a new set of pages in the Galleries section of this site. The first new page is a family photos page for the Greulich family. It includes family portraits from 1887, 1901, 1929, and 1941/2, starting with a family portrait of the Karl Philipp and Caroline K. (Wolf) Greulich family.
Charles Greulich family (c 1887)
Karl was the first Greulich in our family to settle in America. He emigrated from Haag, Germany in 1855 after the death of his parents Georg Philipp and Anna Margaretha (Wurzel) Greulich. He was 17 years old. Sometime after his arrival, he anglicized his first name to Charles. He married Caroline K. Wolf, daughter of Joel and Elizabeth (Krauss) Wolf of Upper Hanover Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania in August 1864. He had previously been married to Caroline’s sister Susanna K. Wolf, who died in 1863. Charles and Caroline had children: Clarence Jefferson (1865-1865), Morris Linton (1866-1931), Irwin Franklin (1867-1934), Charles Ambrose (1869-1942), Chester Daniel (1871-1939), Lily Elenora (1873-1936), Hannah Louisa (1875-1929), Nevin Wilson (1876-1949), Anna E. (1878-1945), Elmer Calvin (1880-1947), Flora (1883-1950), Carrie A. (1885-1963), Katharine Jane (1887-1960). Charles and Susanna had one child Emilie Matilda (1863-1863).
I hope to also be including a family documents gallery which will hold scanned deeds, wills, estate records, etc.—basically any documentation of interest. This will also allow me to link from the footnotes on my family pages directly to the relevant document.
Photo: William Edward HOCKER’s House
William Edward Hocker's house in Colorado
The home of William Edward HOCKER in Colorado—most likely in Rio Grande county.
Photo courtesy of : John Garrett Hocker
Road to Hockersville
Road to Hockersville
Two Hockers and a Hocker spouse at the Hockersville village road sign—I believe—in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania. William Hocker Jr. (1918—2008) and John Garrett Hocker Jr. are standing in the road while William Wingeard (1915—1998), husband of Betty Jean (Hocker) Wingeard is holding the signpost.
How can I not be sure where Hockersville is, you ask. Well, there are two—yes, two!—Hockersvilles in Pennsylvania. One is located in Derry township, Dauphin county, Pennsylvania. It was named in honor of Martin Hocker (1768—1862). The other (pictured above) is located in Penn township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. It was the home of Johannes “John” W. Hocker (1804—1884), son of Martin Hocker, and also John’s sister Catharine (Hocker) Greiner (1802—1871) and her husband Anthony Greiner (1802—1871) for a time.
Bill Wingeard wrote:
“Hockersville, in Cumberland County, is a really small village on the Walnut Bottom road. This road, at the time John had his tavern, was a main road from Shippensburg, Chambersburg, and the Shenandoah, Virginia valley to Carlisle, York, Lancaster and Philadelphia. Hockersville was half way between Shippensburg and Carlisle, which made it an ideal site for travelers, draymen, drovers, etc. to stop and refresh themselves.”