Salem Weekly NewsFeb. 18, 1904
An Interesting Letter.
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Joseph Hockett some months ago received the following letter living at Hockett, N.C. concerning the Hockett family:
Some days ago, my brother W. B. H., offered me the reading of thy letter addressed to him, which I was glad to see as I had been for some time thinking and inquiring after our Hockett relations in the west. When I take a view of the past down to the present, (though so much of the history of our family is lost,) and date back to the oldest date of our ancestry I am led somewhat to think of the promise made to Abraham that his seed should be as the stars of heaven for multitude.
Our knowledge however beyond a few generations back is only traditional. My aunt Lydia Chamless, (my father's oldest sister) was wonderful for memory and traditional history. She told me when at her house in Randolph Co., Indiana, in the year 1849, that the oldest traces of our history was to Philip Hockett who was the oldest son of Mary Clendenning, daughter of George Clankings life guard in Scotland before it became subject to the throne of England, perhaps not much different from 300 years ago.
This view is strongly corroborated both in the physical and mental make-up, especially of the William Hockett line of the family. My aunt Lydia Chamless (alluded to) and my aunt Susanna, and my father, William Hockett, had a wonderful taste for poetry, which was a strong Scotch characteristic. Among their old papers were numbers of pages of poetry transcribed from different favorite poems. The missing links from Philip Hockett to my great grandfather, William Hockett, would be of the greatest interest, but most likely never will be supplied.
This matters not so much if our calling and election is made sure and we meet in and great Hereafter where we may know each other as we are known. it hardly seems necessary to say much about religion since I see we accept it as a reality, and gleaming from thy letter, in the "household of faith" we are one. My great grandfather, W. H., was the first settler in this neighborhood. He entered 640 acres of land on which he settled among the Indians, who judging him from his old appearance, and his inner peaceful life, regarded and received him as a "son of Penn" he remained among them on the best of friendly terms for one year receiving kindness at their hand in the way of provisions, etc., until John Beals arrived and entered 640 acres of land in about __ miles of the entry first mentioned, and William Hockett, (the first as I will designate him) married his daughter Hannah Beals and constituted Wm. and Hannah, the first on the old homestead, his son Wm. H., married Hannah Reynolds and constituted Wm. and Hannah the 2nd, and my father, Wm. H., married Hannah Davis, (sister of uncle Warner Davis) made Wm. and Hannah, the 3rd, all who lived and died on the old first homestead in this part of the country. One of my nephews, John E. H., owned grandfather's part of the old survey including the building sight and the spring where our great grandfather pitched his first tent and built his domicile.
Wm. H. Alfred owns thy grandfather's, Stephen Hockett, part of the old survey, on which our postoffice, Hockett, N. C., is now kept. I won the Joseph Hockett part of the real estate divide and John Fields the Hezekiah part. My eldest son, Cyrus Elwood H., owns the old Beals homestead of something like 200 acres, various other extractions having been taken from it. All the descendants of my great grandfather's family have emigrated west except my father's family, and my only two sisters, Caroline Charles and Sarah E. Harvey are living, the first in Indiana, and the second in Kansas, with their families. My brother, Warner M. H., lived in Indiana ever since the civil war broke out. Having an abhorrence of all war he left the south and went to Indiana where he enjoyed peaceful christian life till about two years ago he died a peaceful death.
I was glad to hear of thy knowledge and acquaintance with uncle Warner Davis. I was a small boy when he left this country the last time. Only one incident (though simple) makes me remember him, that was, that he was the first man I detected smoking a pipe, it was not unusual for men at that day to chew tobacco and for quite old women to smoke, but for a man to smoke seemed quite out of order of things, so I went to my mother informing her there was a man smoking. She said it was uncle Warner. I barely escaped seeing him in 1849 as he left Parheko Co., Indiana, that spring, only a few months before I arrived at his old home. His wife was of a good family belonging to the same meeting of which I have been a life member. Prof. George Hartley (originally from Iowa) Superintendent of the Friends boarding school at New Garden, which he depricated as one of the worst acts of horror that ever disgraced civilizations. And said he lived in hopes the whole secret would yet come to light. I am always glad to hear from my relation on either side and would like to know of cousin Joel Davis who went to Iowa with his family several years ago. We heard somehow, he is not living, do not know whether he settled in your vicinity or not, but it rather strikes us he settled in Marshall Co., Iowa.
When in Indiana fifty-two years ago I found one, Zadoc Hockett, and I think a brother of his but not sure of the name, in the superbs of a village named Bloomingsin Randolph Co., Indiana. But not being so much interested in their history as now, have forgotten much of which I derived from them. In Ohio I met and stayed over night with John Hockett, a cousin of my father, who told me he was a son of my great uncle, Joseph Hockett, before mentioned. One of my great uncles had a daughter named Lebitha who married a Jay. And in my early life I held frequent correspondence with my aunt Susanna Hockett and their postoffice at that time,. was Palmyra. I am inclined to think she was Stephen Hockett's daughter. I think of two others of my great uncle's daughters married Thomas and Gideon Frazier and I think Thomas Frazier's daughter Lydia married Elwood Osborn and visited our country several years ago in company with her husband in his gospel service in this land.
I would be glad to hear from thee, and to receive any addition to my knowledge or correction of mistakes I have made. Would like to have any accounts of the descendants of Adam, Warner, or Miller Davis who went west many years ago.
My wife was Bradie Branson, daughter of John and Jane Branson. We have lived an amended life of fifty years, if spared till the sixth of next month, and our union has been blessed. Praise His Name who doeth all things well, we have three sons and two daughters, all married. My wife is about seventy-two and I am seventy-seven years of age.
Excuse this hasty scribble I have written in some confusion under the influence of lagrippe epidemic, in love to thee and then farewell,
D. M. HOCKETT.
Information provided by Kent Myrick.
An Interesting Letter.
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Joseph Hockett some months ago received the following letter living at Hockett, N.C. concerning the Hockett family:
Some days ago, my brother W. B. H., offered me the reading of thy letter addressed to him, which I was glad to see as I had been for some time thinking and inquiring after our Hockett relations in the west. When I take a view of the past down to the present, (though so much of the history of our family is lost,) and date back to the oldest date of our ancestry I am led somewhat to think of the promise made to Abraham that his seed should be as the stars of heaven for multitude.
Our knowledge however beyond a few generations back is only traditional. My aunt Lydia Chamless, (my father's oldest sister) was wonderful for memory and traditional history. She told me when at her house in Randolph Co., Indiana, in the year 1849, that the oldest traces of our history was to Philip Hockett who was the oldest son of Mary Clendenning, daughter of George Clankings life guard in Scotland before it became subject to the throne of England, perhaps not much different from 300 years ago.
This view is strongly corroborated both in the physical and mental make-up, especially of the William Hockett line of the family. My aunt Lydia Chamless (alluded to) and my aunt Susanna, and my father, William Hockett, had a wonderful taste for poetry, which was a strong Scotch characteristic. Among their old papers were numbers of pages of poetry transcribed from different favorite poems. The missing links from Philip Hockett to my great grandfather, William Hockett, would be of the greatest interest, but most likely never will be supplied.
This matters not so much if our calling and election is made sure and we meet in and great Hereafter where we may know each other as we are known. it hardly seems necessary to say much about religion since I see we accept it as a reality, and gleaming from thy letter, in the "household of faith" we are one. My great grandfather, W. H., was the first settler in this neighborhood. He entered 640 acres of land on which he settled among the Indians, who judging him from his old appearance, and his inner peaceful life, regarded and received him as a "son of Penn" he remained among them on the best of friendly terms for one year receiving kindness at their hand in the way of provisions, etc., until John Beals arrived and entered 640 acres of land in about __ miles of the entry first mentioned, and William Hockett, (the first as I will designate him) married his daughter Hannah Beals and constituted Wm. and Hannah, the first on the old homestead, his son Wm. H., married Hannah Reynolds and constituted Wm. and Hannah the 2nd, and my father, Wm. H., married Hannah Davis, (sister of uncle Warner Davis) made Wm. and Hannah, the 3rd, all who lived and died on the old first homestead in this part of the country. One of my nephews, John E. H., owned grandfather's part of the old survey including the building sight and the spring where our great grandfather pitched his first tent and built his domicile.
Wm. H. Alfred owns thy grandfather's, Stephen Hockett, part of the old survey, on which our postoffice, Hockett, N. C., is now kept. I won the Joseph Hockett part of the real estate divide and John Fields the Hezekiah part. My eldest son, Cyrus Elwood H., owns the old Beals homestead of something like 200 acres, various other extractions having been taken from it. All the descendants of my great grandfather's family have emigrated west except my father's family, and my only two sisters, Caroline Charles and Sarah E. Harvey are living, the first in Indiana, and the second in Kansas, with their families. My brother, Warner M. H., lived in Indiana ever since the civil war broke out. Having an abhorrence of all war he left the south and went to Indiana where he enjoyed peaceful christian life till about two years ago he died a peaceful death.
I was glad to hear of thy knowledge and acquaintance with uncle Warner Davis. I was a small boy when he left this country the last time. Only one incident (though simple) makes me remember him, that was, that he was the first man I detected smoking a pipe, it was not unusual for men at that day to chew tobacco and for quite old women to smoke, but for a man to smoke seemed quite out of order of things, so I went to my mother informing her there was a man smoking. She said it was uncle Warner. I barely escaped seeing him in 1849 as he left Parheko Co., Indiana, that spring, only a few months before I arrived at his old home. His wife was of a good family belonging to the same meeting of which I have been a life member. Prof. George Hartley (originally from Iowa) Superintendent of the Friends boarding school at New Garden, which he depricated as one of the worst acts of horror that ever disgraced civilizations. And said he lived in hopes the whole secret would yet come to light. I am always glad to hear from my relation on either side and would like to know of cousin Joel Davis who went to Iowa with his family several years ago. We heard somehow, he is not living, do not know whether he settled in your vicinity or not, but it rather strikes us he settled in Marshall Co., Iowa.
When in Indiana fifty-two years ago I found one, Zadoc Hockett, and I think a brother of his but not sure of the name, in the superbs of a village named Bloomingsin Randolph Co., Indiana. But not being so much interested in their history as now, have forgotten much of which I derived from them. In Ohio I met and stayed over night with John Hockett, a cousin of my father, who told me he was a son of my great uncle, Joseph Hockett, before mentioned. One of my great uncles had a daughter named Lebitha who married a Jay. And in my early life I held frequent correspondence with my aunt Susanna Hockett and their postoffice at that time,. was Palmyra. I am inclined to think she was Stephen Hockett's daughter. I think of two others of my great uncle's daughters married Thomas and Gideon Frazier and I think Thomas Frazier's daughter Lydia married Elwood Osborn and visited our country several years ago in company with her husband in his gospel service in this land.
I would be glad to hear from thee, and to receive any addition to my knowledge or correction of mistakes I have made. Would like to have any accounts of the descendants of Adam, Warner, or Miller Davis who went west many years ago.
My wife was Bradie Branson, daughter of John and Jane Branson. We have lived an amended life of fifty years, if spared till the sixth of next month, and our union has been blessed. Praise His Name who doeth all things well, we have three sons and two daughters, all married. My wife is about seventy-two and I am seventy-seven years of age.
Excuse this hasty scribble I have written in some confusion under the influence of lagrippe epidemic, in love to thee and then farewell,
D. M. HOCKETT.
Information provided by Kent Myrick.
Salem Weekly NewsFeb. 18, 1904
An Interesting Letter.
____
Joseph Hockett some months ago received the following letter living at Hockett, N.C. concerning the Hockett family:
Some days ago, my brother W. B. H., offered me the reading of thy letter addressed to him, which I was glad to see as I had been for some time thinking and inquiring after our Hockett relations in the west. When I take a view of the past down to the present, (though so much of the history of our family is lost,) and date back to the oldest date of our ancestry I am led somewhat to think of the promise made to Abraham that his seed should be as the stars of heaven for multitude.
Our knowledge however beyond a few generations back is only traditional. My aunt Lydia Chamless, (my father's oldest sister) was wonderful for memory and traditional history. She told me when at her house in Randolph Co., Indiana, in the year 1849, that the oldest traces of our history was to Philip Hockett who was the oldest son of Mary Clendenning, daughter of George Clankings life guard in Scotland before it became subject to the throne of England, perhaps not much different from 300 years ago.
This view is strongly corroborated both in the physical and mental make-up, especially of the William Hockett line of the family. My aunt Lydia Chamless (alluded to) and my aunt Susanna, and my father, William Hockett, had a wonderful taste for poetry, which was a strong Scotch characteristic. Among their old papers were numbers of pages of poetry transcribed from different favorite poems. The missing links from Philip Hockett to my great grandfather, William Hockett, would be of the greatest interest, but most likely never will be supplied.
This matters not so much if our calling and election is made sure and we meet in and great Hereafter where we may know each other as we are known. it hardly seems necessary to say much about religion since I see we accept it as a reality, and gleaming from thy letter, in the "household of faith" we are one. My great grandfather, W. H., was the first settler in this neighborhood. He entered 640 acres of land on which he settled among the Indians, who judging him from his old appearance, and his inner peaceful life, regarded and received him as a "son of Penn" he remained among them on the best of friendly terms for one year receiving kindness at their hand in the way of provisions, etc., until John Beals arrived and entered 640 acres of land in about __ miles of the entry first mentioned, and William Hockett, (the first as I will designate him) married his daughter Hannah Beals and constituted Wm. and Hannah, the first on the old homestead, his son Wm. H., married Hannah Reynolds and constituted Wm. and Hannah the 2nd, and my father, Wm. H., married Hannah Davis, (sister of uncle Warner Davis) made Wm. and Hannah, the 3rd, all who lived and died on the old first homestead in this part of the country. One of my nephews, John E. H., owned grandfather's part of the old survey including the building sight and the spring where our great grandfather pitched his first tent and built his domicile.
Wm. H. Alfred owns thy grandfather's, Stephen Hockett, part of the old survey, on which our postoffice, Hockett, N. C., is now kept. I won the Joseph Hockett part of the real estate divide and John Fields the Hezekiah part. My eldest son, Cyrus Elwood H., owns the old Beals homestead of something like 200 acres, various other extractions having been taken from it. All the descendants of my great grandfather's family have emigrated west except my father's family, and my only two sisters, Caroline Charles and Sarah E. Harvey are living, the first in Indiana, and the second in Kansas, with their families. My brother, Warner M. H., lived in Indiana ever since the civil war broke out. Having an abhorrence of all war he left the south and went to Indiana where he enjoyed peaceful christian life till about two years ago he died a peaceful death.
I was glad to hear of thy knowledge and acquaintance with uncle Warner Davis. I was a small boy when he left this country the last time. Only one incident (though simple) makes me remember him, that was, that he was the first man I detected smoking a pipe, it was not unusual for men at that day to chew tobacco and for quite old women to smoke, but for a man to smoke seemed quite out of order of things, so I went to my mother informing her there was a man smoking. She said it was uncle Warner. I barely escaped seeing him in 1849 as he left Parheko Co., Indiana, that spring, only a few months before I arrived at his old home. His wife was of a good family belonging to the same meeting of which I have been a life member. Prof. George Hartley (originally from Iowa) Superintendent of the Friends boarding school at New Garden, which he depricated as one of the worst acts of horror that ever disgraced civilizations. And said he lived in hopes the whole secret would yet come to light. I am always glad to hear from my relation on either side and would like to know of cousin Joel Davis who went to Iowa with his family several years ago. We heard somehow, he is not living, do not know whether he settled in your vicinity or not, but it rather strikes us he settled in Marshall Co., Iowa.
When in Indiana fifty-two years ago I found one, Zadoc Hockett, and I think a brother of his but not sure of the name, in the superbs of a village named Bloomingsin Randolph Co., Indiana. But not being so much interested in their history as now, have forgotten much of which I derived from them. In Ohio I met and stayed over night with John Hockett, a cousin of my father, who told me he was a son of my great uncle, Joseph Hockett, before mentioned. One of my great uncles had a daughter named Lebitha who married a Jay. And in my early life I held frequent correspondence with my aunt Susanna Hockett and their postoffice at that time,. was Palmyra. I am inclined to think she was Stephen Hockett's daughter. I think of two others of my great uncle's daughters married Thomas and Gideon Frazier and I think Thomas Frazier's daughter Lydia married Elwood Osborn and visited our country several years ago in company with her husband in his gospel service in this land.
I would be glad to hear from thee, and to receive any addition to my knowledge or correction of mistakes I have made. Would like to have any accounts of the descendants of Adam, Warner, or Miller Davis who went west many years ago.
My wife was Bradie Branson, daughter of John and Jane Branson. We have lived an amended life of fifty years, if spared till the sixth of next month, and our union has been blessed. Praise His Name who doeth all things well, we have three sons and two daughters, all married. My wife is about seventy-two and I am seventy-seven years of age.
Excuse this hasty scribble I have written in some confusion under the influence of lagrippe epidemic, in love to thee and then farewell,
D. M. HOCKETT.
Information provided by Kent Myrick.
An Interesting Letter.
____
Joseph Hockett some months ago received the following letter living at Hockett, N.C. concerning the Hockett family:
Some days ago, my brother W. B. H., offered me the reading of thy letter addressed to him, which I was glad to see as I had been for some time thinking and inquiring after our Hockett relations in the west. When I take a view of the past down to the present, (though so much of the history of our family is lost,) and date back to the oldest date of our ancestry I am led somewhat to think of the promise made to Abraham that his seed should be as the stars of heaven for multitude.
Our knowledge however beyond a few generations back is only traditional. My aunt Lydia Chamless, (my father's oldest sister) was wonderful for memory and traditional history. She told me when at her house in Randolph Co., Indiana, in the year 1849, that the oldest traces of our history was to Philip Hockett who was the oldest son of Mary Clendenning, daughter of George Clankings life guard in Scotland before it became subject to the throne of England, perhaps not much different from 300 years ago.
This view is strongly corroborated both in the physical and mental make-up, especially of the William Hockett line of the family. My aunt Lydia Chamless (alluded to) and my aunt Susanna, and my father, William Hockett, had a wonderful taste for poetry, which was a strong Scotch characteristic. Among their old papers were numbers of pages of poetry transcribed from different favorite poems. The missing links from Philip Hockett to my great grandfather, William Hockett, would be of the greatest interest, but most likely never will be supplied.
This matters not so much if our calling and election is made sure and we meet in and great Hereafter where we may know each other as we are known. it hardly seems necessary to say much about religion since I see we accept it as a reality, and gleaming from thy letter, in the "household of faith" we are one. My great grandfather, W. H., was the first settler in this neighborhood. He entered 640 acres of land on which he settled among the Indians, who judging him from his old appearance, and his inner peaceful life, regarded and received him as a "son of Penn" he remained among them on the best of friendly terms for one year receiving kindness at their hand in the way of provisions, etc., until John Beals arrived and entered 640 acres of land in about __ miles of the entry first mentioned, and William Hockett, (the first as I will designate him) married his daughter Hannah Beals and constituted Wm. and Hannah, the first on the old homestead, his son Wm. H., married Hannah Reynolds and constituted Wm. and Hannah the 2nd, and my father, Wm. H., married Hannah Davis, (sister of uncle Warner Davis) made Wm. and Hannah, the 3rd, all who lived and died on the old first homestead in this part of the country. One of my nephews, John E. H., owned grandfather's part of the old survey including the building sight and the spring where our great grandfather pitched his first tent and built his domicile.
Wm. H. Alfred owns thy grandfather's, Stephen Hockett, part of the old survey, on which our postoffice, Hockett, N. C., is now kept. I won the Joseph Hockett part of the real estate divide and John Fields the Hezekiah part. My eldest son, Cyrus Elwood H., owns the old Beals homestead of something like 200 acres, various other extractions having been taken from it. All the descendants of my great grandfather's family have emigrated west except my father's family, and my only two sisters, Caroline Charles and Sarah E. Harvey are living, the first in Indiana, and the second in Kansas, with their families. My brother, Warner M. H., lived in Indiana ever since the civil war broke out. Having an abhorrence of all war he left the south and went to Indiana where he enjoyed peaceful christian life till about two years ago he died a peaceful death.
I was glad to hear of thy knowledge and acquaintance with uncle Warner Davis. I was a small boy when he left this country the last time. Only one incident (though simple) makes me remember him, that was, that he was the first man I detected smoking a pipe, it was not unusual for men at that day to chew tobacco and for quite old women to smoke, but for a man to smoke seemed quite out of order of things, so I went to my mother informing her there was a man smoking. She said it was uncle Warner. I barely escaped seeing him in 1849 as he left Parheko Co., Indiana, that spring, only a few months before I arrived at his old home. His wife was of a good family belonging to the same meeting of which I have been a life member. Prof. George Hartley (originally from Iowa) Superintendent of the Friends boarding school at New Garden, which he depricated as one of the worst acts of horror that ever disgraced civilizations. And said he lived in hopes the whole secret would yet come to light. I am always glad to hear from my relation on either side and would like to know of cousin Joel Davis who went to Iowa with his family several years ago. We heard somehow, he is not living, do not know whether he settled in your vicinity or not, but it rather strikes us he settled in Marshall Co., Iowa.
When in Indiana fifty-two years ago I found one, Zadoc Hockett, and I think a brother of his but not sure of the name, in the superbs of a village named Bloomingsin Randolph Co., Indiana. But not being so much interested in their history as now, have forgotten much of which I derived from them. In Ohio I met and stayed over night with John Hockett, a cousin of my father, who told me he was a son of my great uncle, Joseph Hockett, before mentioned. One of my great uncles had a daughter named Lebitha who married a Jay. And in my early life I held frequent correspondence with my aunt Susanna Hockett and their postoffice at that time,. was Palmyra. I am inclined to think she was Stephen Hockett's daughter. I think of two others of my great uncle's daughters married Thomas and Gideon Frazier and I think Thomas Frazier's daughter Lydia married Elwood Osborn and visited our country several years ago in company with her husband in his gospel service in this land.
I would be glad to hear from thee, and to receive any addition to my knowledge or correction of mistakes I have made. Would like to have any accounts of the descendants of Adam, Warner, or Miller Davis who went west many years ago.
My wife was Bradie Branson, daughter of John and Jane Branson. We have lived an amended life of fifty years, if spared till the sixth of next month, and our union has been blessed. Praise His Name who doeth all things well, we have three sons and two daughters, all married. My wife is about seventy-two and I am seventy-seven years of age.
Excuse this hasty scribble I have written in some confusion under the influence of lagrippe epidemic, in love to thee and then farewell,
D. M. HOCKETT.
Information provided by Kent Myrick.
Family Members
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Anne Hockett Ozbun
1817–1886
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Elizabeth Hockett Hodson
1819–1888
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William S. Hockett
1820–1898
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Milton Hockett
1821–1844
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Jonathan S. Hockett
1823–1894
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Martha Hockett Cook
1825–1864
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Lydia Hockett Peirson
1827–1916
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Nathan H. Hockett
1830–1911
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Edward Hockett
1832–1833
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Rev Samuel Hockett
1835–1916
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Levi Hockett
1838–1916
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