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Surname: HOKE
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The Evening Times [Union City, IN], Wednesday, July 18, 1934
CALLED HOME
WILLIAM HOKE PASSES AWAY
AT HIS HOME IN REDKEY,
INDIANA
FORMERLY LIVED IN UNION
CITY WHERE HE SPENT HIS
BOYHOOD DAYS
Word has come to our city of the death of William (Seth) Hoke at his home
in Redkey, Ind. yesterday afternoon after an illness of about a month.
He was the son of Seth and Elizabeth Hoke, deceased and was born in this
city August 20, 1863, where he spent his childhood days and attended the
Union City schools and later moved to Redkey, Ind. where he indulged in
the jewelry
business.
Surviving are the widow, Eliza three sons, Lonnie and Bert Hoke of Muncie,
and Clyde Hoke of Winchester; one step-son, Luther Chapman, of Ft. Wayne,
one sister, Mrs. Emma Clear, of this City and four grandchildren. Two sisters
and five brothers are deceased.
Funeral service will be conducted at the residence at Redkey, Ind. Thursday
afternoon at 2:30 oclock. Interment in the Lisbon cemetery north of this
city.
His father, Seth Hoke, was a master jeweler and he conducted a business
45 years ago in the old frame building which stood at the corner of Oak
and Columbia streets, now occupied by the Sebode building.
Seth Junior, as a young man, developed into a great baseball pitcher in
the days when a curve ball was still comparatively new. He played with
the old [all] star team composed of Ev Jackson, Mort and Web Lambert,
Jim Wallace, George and Charles Patchell, Will Yergin and others-a bunch
of players that was seldom defeated and which played its last game on the
diamond in fields west off North Walnut street and bounded on the north
by Division.
The body was returned from the Fraze funeral home to the Hoke home in Redkey
at ten oclock this morning.