Nicholas' parents came to New York from Germany around 1840, settling near Geddes, Onondago County, New York.
Nicholas was a Union soldier in the Civil War, and was injured in the "Battle of Lewis's Farm" (also known as Quaker Road, Military Road, or Gravelly Run) on March 29, 1865, in Dinwiddie County, Virginia near the end of the Civil War. More can be read about this battle at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lewis%27s_Farm.
He married Emaline Augusta Maxon on 01 Jan 1867 in Syracuse, Onondaga, New York.
By 1870 Emma's parents were living near Independence, Missouri, and Nicholas and Emma decided to move their family there as well. By 1892 both of Emma's parents had passed away and Nicholas and Emma decided to move to Arkansas. They purchased the land around the Spanish Treasure Cave and they and their four children, Augusta, Freddie, George, and Harry, arrived in a covered wagon in the winter of 1898.
The story handed down to the family is that the family who sold the land to them were still living in the cabin and there was a going-away party going on when the Hooks arrived, so the Hook family stayed another night in the covered wagon before moving into the cabin. In later years Nicholas built a home on the other side of the hill from the cave on what is now 2nd Avenue N.W. in Gravette. When his son Harry married his wife Maggie they built a home nearby, on the corner of what is now 2nd Avenue N.W. and Detroit.
Nicholas was a Union soldier in the Civil War, and was injured in the "Battle of Lewis's Farm" (also known as Quaker Road, Military Road, or Gravelly Run) on March 29, 1865, in Dinwiddie County, Virginia near the end of the Civil War. More can be read about this battle at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lewis%27s_Farm.
He married Emaline Augusta Maxon on 01 Jan 1867 in Syracuse, Onondaga, New York.
By 1870 Emma's parents were living near Independence, Missouri, and Nicholas and Emma decided to move their family there as well. By 1892 both of Emma's parents had passed away and Nicholas and Emma decided to move to Arkansas. They purchased the land around the Spanish Treasure Cave and they and their four children, Augusta, Freddie, George, and Harry, arrived in a covered wagon in the winter of 1898.
The story handed down to the family is that the family who sold the land to them were still living in the cabin and there was a going-away party going on when the Hooks arrived, so the Hook family stayed another night in the covered wagon before moving into the cabin. In later years Nicholas built a home on the other side of the hill from the cave on what is now 2nd Avenue N.W. in Gravette. When his son Harry married his wife Maggie they built a home nearby, on the corner of what is now 2nd Avenue N.W. and Detroit.
Nicholas' parents came to New York from Germany around 1840, settling near Geddes, Onondago County, New York.
Nicholas was a Union soldier in the Civil War, and was injured in the "Battle of Lewis's Farm" (also known as Quaker Road, Military Road, or Gravelly Run) on March 29, 1865, in Dinwiddie County, Virginia near the end of the Civil War. More can be read about this battle at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lewis%27s_Farm.
He married Emaline Augusta Maxon on 01 Jan 1867 in Syracuse, Onondaga, New York.
By 1870 Emma's parents were living near Independence, Missouri, and Nicholas and Emma decided to move their family there as well. By 1892 both of Emma's parents had passed away and Nicholas and Emma decided to move to Arkansas. They purchased the land around the Spanish Treasure Cave and they and their four children, Augusta, Freddie, George, and Harry, arrived in a covered wagon in the winter of 1898.
The story handed down to the family is that the family who sold the land to them were still living in the cabin and there was a going-away party going on when the Hooks arrived, so the Hook family stayed another night in the covered wagon before moving into the cabin. In later years Nicholas built a home on the other side of the hill from the cave on what is now 2nd Avenue N.W. in Gravette. When his son Harry married his wife Maggie they built a home nearby, on the corner of what is now 2nd Avenue N.W. and Detroit.
Nicholas was a Union soldier in the Civil War, and was injured in the "Battle of Lewis's Farm" (also known as Quaker Road, Military Road, or Gravelly Run) on March 29, 1865, in Dinwiddie County, Virginia near the end of the Civil War. More can be read about this battle at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lewis%27s_Farm.
He married Emaline Augusta Maxon on 01 Jan 1867 in Syracuse, Onondaga, New York.
By 1870 Emma's parents were living near Independence, Missouri, and Nicholas and Emma decided to move their family there as well. By 1892 both of Emma's parents had passed away and Nicholas and Emma decided to move to Arkansas. They purchased the land around the Spanish Treasure Cave and they and their four children, Augusta, Freddie, George, and Harry, arrived in a covered wagon in the winter of 1898.
The story handed down to the family is that the family who sold the land to them were still living in the cabin and there was a going-away party going on when the Hooks arrived, so the Hook family stayed another night in the covered wagon before moving into the cabin. In later years Nicholas built a home on the other side of the hill from the cave on what is now 2nd Avenue N.W. in Gravette. When his son Harry married his wife Maggie they built a home nearby, on the corner of what is now 2nd Avenue N.W. and Detroit.
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