Church Record Sunday - Francis Hockett obituary

     I generally don't think of obituaries as being church records, but while looking in the Quaker collection on Ancestry.com I did find a Quaker periodical which included an obituary for my second great grandfather, Francis Hockett.  It confirmed his death date as 12 Mar 1886. That is the date I show on my website, but my sources were from a family history book published in 1982 and an entry on Find a Grave, not the best sources. The obituary had been published in Vol XVI, No. 14, Fourth Month, 8th day, 1886 of The Christian Worker.  So it was less than a month after his death. This is the beginning of his obituary:

Read more about him on my website:

http://www.joanneskelton.com/p6.htm#i148