Edwin Hocking
1870 - 1938 (67 years)-
Name Edwin Hocking [1, 2, 3] Birth 16 Apr 1870 Michigan 
[1, 2, 3] Gender Male Death 16 Feb 1938 Person ID I34888 Stewartsny Last Modified 2 Dec 2025
Father John Hocking, b. 1834, Cornwall, England d. 5 Jan 1895, Mount Vernon, New York (Age 61 years) Relationship natural Mother Elizabeth Williams, b. Feb 1832, Cornwall, England d. 8 Jan 1920, Mount Vernon, New York (Age 87 years) Relationship natural Marriage Jun 1852 Family ID F10860 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Annie Frazer, b. 21 Oct 1870, Blantyer, Scotland d. 15 Oct 1952 (Age 81 years) Children 1. Alvin Hocking [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 2. Edna Hocking [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 3. Arthur Hocking [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 4. Pearl Hocking [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 5. Margaret Peggy Hocking [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 6. Elizabeth Hocking, b. 26 Aug 1893, Mount Vernon, New York d. 31 Jan 1980 (Age 86 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]7. Ralph E. Hocking, b. 22 Jul 1899 d. Oct 1928 (Age 29 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 8. Harold Hocking, b. 1901 d. 1976 (Age 75 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 9. Clarence Hocking, b. 3 Oct 1903, Mount Vernon, New York d. 29 Apr 1986 (Age 82 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]10. Victor Robert Hocking, b. 1911 d. Jun 1932 (Age 21 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] Family ID F11155 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 2 Dec 2025
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Notes - Newspaper Obituary - Wednesday, February 16, 1938 Daily Argus - Mount Vernon, New York - Edwin Hocking, sixty seven of 242 South Third Avenue, died of a heart attack early today at his home. He had been in poor health for some time. Mr. Hocking was born at Marqette, Mich., but had been a resident of Mount Vernon since he was ten years old. He attended the public schools here and later became an upholsterer, organizing his own business. He reitred two years ago. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church. Surviving are his wife, Annie Hocking, four sons, Harold, of North Pelham, Clarence, Arthur and Alvin, all of Mount Vernon, and three daughters, Mrs. Vernon Van Aken, Yonkers, Mrs. W. W. Smith, Fort Riley, Kas., and Miss Edna May Hocking, also of Fort Riley, by three brothers, Frank and William of Yonkers and James, of Mount Vernon, and by 19 grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted Saturday at 2 P. M. at the Burr Davis Mortuary, by the Rev. Ernest John Houghton, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. Burial will be in Mount Hope Cemetery.
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- Newspaper Obituary - Wednesday, February 16, 1938 Daily Argus - Mount Vernon, New York - Edwin Hocking, sixty seven of 242 South Third Avenue, died of a heart attack early today at his home. He had been in poor health for some time. Mr. Hocking was born at Marqette, Mich., but had been a resident of Mount Vernon since he was ten years old. He attended the public schools here and later became an upholsterer, organizing his own business. He reitred two years ago. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church. Surviving are his wife, Annie Hocking, four sons, Harold, of North Pelham, Clarence, Arthur and Alvin, all of Mount Vernon, and three daughters, Mrs. Vernon Van Aken, Yonkers, Mrs. W. W. Smith, Fort Riley, Kas., and Miss Edna May Hocking, also of Fort Riley, by three brothers, Frank and William of Yonkers and James, of Mount Vernon, and by 19 grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted Saturday at 2 P. M. at the Burr Davis Mortuary, by the Rev. Ernest John Houghton, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. Burial will be in Mount Hope Cemetery.
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Sources - [S29] Ancestry.com, 1900 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;), Year: 1900; Census Place: Mount Vernon Ward 1, Westchester, New York; Roll: 1175; Page: 10A; Enumeration District: 0081; FHL microfilm: 1241175.
- [S31] Ancestry.com, 1920 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Year: 1920; Census Place: Mount Vernon Ward 4, Westchester, New York; Roll: T625_1277; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 96; Image: 505.
- [S30] Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1880 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Year: 1880; Census Place: Marquette, Marquette, Michigan; Roll: 593; Family History Film: 1254593; Page: 164B; Enumeration District: 029; Image: 0591.
- [S29] Ancestry.com, 1900 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;), Year: 1900; Census Place: Mount Vernon Ward 1, Westchester, New York; Roll: 1175; Page: 10A; Enumeration District: 0081; FHL microfilm: 1241175.