This man, Edward Henry HOCKER was both a man misused and a man who misused.
Yet, he was likely not all THAT bad. In fact... who knows?
He was born in Indiana. The date is not quite certain, but somewhere in the
1897-1899 range. One record says he was born at Fort Wayne, Indiana,
another says at Hammond, Indiana.
He married Maria (pronounced Mariah) J. Carrigan. She was quite the
character, apparently.
Her husband wound up in the Indiana State Prison, somewhere between 1930
and 1940. He can be seen there in 1940.
But his wife went to live with a family of Loughlins. One of the family
apparently was James Patrick Loughlin, apparently the AFL-CIO guy. She
seems quite likely to have seduced the considerably younger man (she was
born in 1895, he in 1910) and she bore at least one child by him.
Now Edward Hocker seems to have gotten out of prison. He died, also
seemingly, 5 Feb 1948. I have records of all of this.
My Question: Where was he buried? I list Fort Wayne, Indiana, yet I do not
see him in any cemetery listing. He was apparently a sergeant in the
military at one point, so it is possible he is in a military cemetery. Can
you find him in one? In newspapers? Etc.
Thanks,
Vince Summers