Ellettsville (Monroe County, Indiana) Citizen, March 19, 1892, p. 7.
Alexander Hockaway of Blue River Township, Harrison County, celebrated the
112th anniversary of his birth last Thursday. He was born in 1780 in what
is now Kentucky. He is the father of twelve children, and his wife is still
living and is thirty years his junior. He is a blacksmith and has never
taken medicine but once and that was after he was 100 years old. He is in
excellent health.