Notes:
The following research was done by Pamela Mumma July 2002. Please contact her @ mumma6@yahoo.com if you desire to transfer it to your files or gedcom, please. Still valid email March 2004
"L.J. HOCKENSMITH, s/o: Samauel & Elizabeth HOCKENSMITH."
Source: "Fulton County PA Marriages 1885-1927" pg.50, by Wm O. TURNER, 1997.
1900 Federal Census indicates she had 9 children 8 were alive at that time.
HOCKENSMITH, Elizabeth, GREEN HILL PRESBY, b-1845; d-1907
"She died at age 61 years, 06 months, and 03 days."
Fulton County Cemetery Disk, 1997
Her obituary reads:
HOCKENSMITH
Mrs. Samual H. Hockensmith died at her home near Laidig, on Wednesday, March 20, 1907, aged 61 years, 6 months, and 1 day. Interment in the cemetery at the Greenhill Presbyterian church, on Friday, the services being held in the church, of which she had been a consistent member for forty years, and were conducted by her pastor, Rev. D. West, of McConnellsburg.
Mrs. Hockensmith is survived by her husband and the following children, namely, Leonard J., Saluvia; David B. Abington, Ill.; George P., Philadelphia; Mabel, wife of Herman Synder, Williamsport, Pa.; and John and Otis at home. Also three brothers, George, James, and David Mumma, and two sisters, Mrs John B. Sipes and Mrs Anna Hann.
Mrs. Hockensmith had been in ill health for a long time, but bore her affliction with that fortitude and patience that comes only with a firm hope in the saving power of a merciful Saviour. The Fulton County News, March 28, 1907