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Author: renne50
Surnames: Hancock & Hooker
Classification: queries
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Jen Breshears has a wonderful site that includes the typed transcription of the
gravestones at Hancock Chapel Cemetery.
From my files:
John Hancock sold his plantation on the
Cumberland River in 1819, freed his slaves, and moved his family north to Harrison County,
Indiana
Matthew and Elizabeth were part of the migration to Harrison County.
Source: Arvil Hancock
Benjamin Hooker, Jr. and Ann Frizelle had a daughter Elizabeth, born 18 April 1794 in
North Carolina. Elizabeth married John Mills 30 November 1815 in Wilson County,
Tennessee. John died young and Elizabeth was second married to Matthew Hancock, son of
John Hancock and Jane Skeen. Matthew and Elizabeth moved to Harrison County, Indiana.
Matthew died 25 March 1848. Elizabeth died 09 November 1873. They are buried at Hancock
Chapel Cemetery in Hancock Chapel, Harrison County, Indiana.
Source: Arvil Hancock
HISTORY OF THE HOOKER FAMILY
Published for Donna Walker Eddins, 05 Jan 1999, by Nancy P. Goodman.
(Here begins the words of Nancy Ridley Hooker Evans, 1889, copied and added to by Ruth
Eddins Shelton, 1924.)
"3. ELIZABETH, who married MATTHEW HANCOCK. They went to Indiana, where they spent
their lives in plenty of comforts, so I have been told..."
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