{"id":5835,"date":"2014-04-14T17:15:47","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T21:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/?p=5835"},"modified":"2014-04-13T13:48:53","modified_gmt":"2014-04-13T17:48:53","slug":"hockmanearhart-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/hockmanearhart-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Hockman\/Earhart Research"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I think this is Mary Boothby<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The evidence is amassing that Elizabeth M. Hockman\/Earhart was not born to John Earhart and Margaret Shotwell.\u00a0 Here is what I have found so far.<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 Elizabeth Hockman, age 4, was enumerated with the John Arehart household in the 1860 census (taken 6\/28\/1860, which according to her daughter on the death cert would have been 11 days after her 5th birthday but if the census taker was sticking to 1 June as the date of record then 4 is accurate).\u00a0 Also in the household were Margaret Arehart, Tillford Arehart, William Arehart (later AKA Samuel), and Ruth Shotwell, Domestic.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 Elizabeth M. Earhart was also enumerated with the John Earhart household on the 1870 census (15 years old, listed as helps mother) along with William S. Earhart (age 18, works out, Farm), and John C. (age 6, attends school).\u00a0 It seems likely that Elizabeth\/Mary lived with the Earharts until she married at 18 in 1873.\u00a0 This was a very rural area, and the Earharts lived on a farm described as a mile or so off the main road, so I haven\u2019t figured out what other records might show her presence at the Earharts between the two census points.\u00a0 It seems unlikely that there is a city directory that would include the household.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 Tilford Earhart lived at home in 1860 and up to the time he enlisted in the Army in the Civil War in August 1862.\u00a0 He died at home in 1866.\u00a0 In 1888, Margaret made an application for a mother\u2019s pension based on the death of her son due to his military service.\u00a0 In 1892 there was a special hearing on this application and statements were again taken.<\/p>\n

4. In her application for the pension, Margaret Shotwell Earhart did not ever mention a daughter.\u00a0 She said in her sworn statements that she had borne two sons, one of them Tilford E. Earhart who had served in the Civil War and the other John Charles who was born during that War.\u00a0 She clearly described the family as consisting of her husband, herself and the 2 sons.<\/p>\n

5. John Earhart’s statement in the pension application\u00a0 process also did not mention Elizabeth (or any daughter) but did also mention his sons.<\/p>\n

6. The affidavits of 2 other individuals mentioned a nephew (and one named him as Samuel) who lived with John and Margaret and helped on the farm.\u00a0 Margaret herself described her nephew Samuel as having stayed on and helped them around the farm until he was a young man although he had no legal obligation to do so.<\/p>\n

7. At least one of the affidavits mentioned that Margaret had required “girl help” over the years (perhaps due to ill-health) but at times not had it (couldn\u2019t afford it).\u00a0 I\u2019m guessing that \u201cgirl help\u201d meant help with the work on the farm usually done by Margaret or any woman.<\/p>\n

8.\u00a0 In no description in the pension application of either Tilford\u2019s death or the circumstances the family was in at that time was Elizabeth mentioned.\u00a0 She would have been 9-10 years old at the time of his death in 1866.<\/p>\n

In the early 1850s Ohio law directed that township trustees were responsible for the care of impoverished and destitute children and orphans.\u00a0 Such children were placed in either institutions for the poor or with individual families to whom they were indentured.\u00a0 Based on abstracts of the indentures of Green Creek Township, Sandusky County (found on the R.B. Hayes site<\/a>)<\/a> , children as young as 4 weeks old were legally indentured often to the age of 18.\u00a0 Thus it is possible that Elizabeth might have been placed with the Earharts if she were orphaned or her parents were unable financially to take care of her.<\/p>\n

9.\u00a0 In registering the birth of their son M. K. Boothby in 1879, the parents were listed as Alexander Boothby and E.M. Hockman.\u00a0 Their other children that I have found registrations for are all listed with her name as Earhart, although I have not found all of the children and the ones found were the later-born ones.\u00a0 She was also married giving her name as Earhart.<\/p>\n

10.\u00a0 Confusingly there is a Hockman family in the same close area with a daughter named Elizabeth who was born about the same time as my ancestor.\u00a0 Luckily, the 1870 federal census sheet shows both the John Earhart and the Delitha Hockman households within a few families of each other.\u00a0 Thus I am pretty sure that there were in fact 2 different Elizabeth Hockmans.<\/p>\n

11.\u00a0 The only Hockman household to show up on the 1850 censuses in either Brown County or neighboring Clermont County Ohio besides the David Hockman family later the Delitha Hockman family, was a William\u00a0 (age 21) and Cynthia A. Hockman (age 18).\u00a0 I have not yet found them in the 1860 census nor subsequent ones.<\/p>\n

12.\u00a0 I have not found any record of the birth of a female\u00a0 born to a Hockman\u00a0 in Ohio in 1855, although there was not state-wide mandated reporting of births until the early 1900s.\u00a0 Brown County did not register births until 1867, and although Clermont County registered some births from 1856 on, there is no Hockman birth found by search on familysearch.org.\u00a0 No luck finding a Boothby family Bible which might have included Mary’s birth information.<\/p>\n

I conclude at this point that Mary Elizabeth (or Elizabeth Mary) was born to a Hockman, taken in at an early age by John and Margaret Earhart and that she took their name whether there was any formal or legal relationship with them.\u00a0 Still to be searched: court records, will\/probate records, school records if they exist, church records if they exist.\u00a0 My quest is not over, but some progress has been made.<\/p>\n

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The evidence is amassing that Elizabeth M. Hockman\/Earhart was not born to John Earhart and Margaret Shotwell.\u00a0 Here is what I have found so far. 1.\u00a0 Elizabeth Hockman, age 4, was enumerated with the John Arehart household in the 1860 …<\/p>\n

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