Edward Story Hockersmith

Birth Date

c1828

Death Date

1889-05-22

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Hopkins County and Jefferson County, Kentucky, painter and farmer. Kentucky native. Son of Judia Hockersmith and Maria Hockersmith. Married to Harriett N. Foley Hockersmith in Hopkins County, Kentucky, on March 14, 1858. Father of Emma Hockersmith, Ellen Hockersmith, Everett Hockersmith, and Fannie Hockersmith. Painter in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer in Hopkins County in 1860. Employed William H. Foley as a farm laborer in Hopkins County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 1, p. 12B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 799.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, Bowling Green, p. 47A.
"Edward Story Hockersmith (1828-1889)," Find A Grave, Memorial #25894128, accessed June 24, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25894128.
Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll #994039, Hopkins County Marriages, 1858.

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