Individual Details

Burial: Grace Lawn Cemetery

Occupations: Businessman, sawmill and lumber; mercantile business from 1880 on, Hendricks and Hocker. Had store and mill in Brownstown, Indiana.

Offices: Trustee of Monroe Twp., Adams County, Indiana (1884, 1886), Postmaster of Monroe, Adams, Indiana 4 Sep 1893 to 13 Dec 1897 (Joseph Hocker took over as postmaster after Christian). Christian was a Democrat.

Church: Albright then First Evangelical Church, Elkhart, Indiana

Fraternal: Member of Brownstown, Indiana lodge of the Knights of Pythias

Residences: Came with father to Adams County when age 12. 6 January 1882, bought N. half of SW quarter of section 22, Adams County, Indiana. Monroe, Indiana, had farm of 160 acres in Monroe Twp., Adams County, Indiana; Built house in Monroe in 1886. 1900: Walnut St., Brownstown, Jackson, Indiana. 1907 moved to Elkhart, Elkhart, Indiana; 1910: 1529 S. Main St., Elkhart, Elkhart, Indiana; 1920: 1220 Princeton St., Elkhart, Elkhart, Indiana

Documentation: Biographical and Historical Record of Adams and Wells Counties, Indiana

Died: 1220 Princeton St., Elkhart, Indiana

Census: 1880 was in Monroe, Adams, Indiana with Mary, Viola, and Bessie. 1920 census in Elkhart, Elkhart, Indiana

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Birth	5 Jan 1851	Decatur County, Indiana
Census	1860
Census	1870	French Twp., Adams, Indiana
Marriage	4 Feb 1872	Adams County, Indiana - Lucinda A. Bell
Marriage	10 Jan 1876	Wells County, Indiana - Mary Isabell Hofer
Census	1880	Monroe, Adams, Indiana
Census	1900	Brownstown, Jackson, Indiana
Residence	1900	Brownstown, Jackson, Indiana
Occupation	1900	Manager of Hoop Mill
Residence	10 Feb 1907	Brownstown, Jackson, Indiana
Census	1910	Elkhart, Elkhart, Indiana
Residence	1910	Elkhart, Elkhart, Indiana
Occupation	1910	Real estate dealer
Census	1920	Elkhart, Elkhart, Indiana
Residence	1920	Elkhart, Elkhart, Indiana
Occupation	1920	Real estate agent
Death	4 Jul 1924	Elkhart, Elkhart, Indiana
Burial	7 Jul 1924	Elkhart, Elkhart, Indiana

Spouse	Lucinda A. Bell (1854 - 1873)
Child	Viola Bell Hocker (1872 - 1950)

Spouse	Mary Isabell Hofer (1856 - 1929)
Child	Bess Lucille Hocker (1876 - 1950)
Child	Gertrude Evangeline Hocker (1881 - 1943)
Child	Ruby Frances Hocker (1889 - 1964)
Child	Augustus Stephen "Steve" Hocker (1893 - 1973)

Father	Stephen Hocker (1811 - 1873)
Mother	Susannah Elizabeth Wefler (1824 - 1902)
Sibling	John W. Hocker (1844 - 1883)
Sibling	Joseph Hocker (1848 - 1908)
Sibling	Samuel H. Hocker (1853 - 1932)
Sibling	Abraham E. Hocker (1856 - 1925)
Sibling	Franklin Pierce Hocker (1859 - 1931)
Sibling	Mary L. Hocker (1862 - 1921)
Sibling	Charles Albert "Albert" Hocker (1867 - 1900)