I
believe this listing in the 1856 Iowa state census really is my 3rd
great-grandfather, Isaac Hockett, who was born in 1791 in Randolph
County, North Carolina. If you are the least bit proficient in math
you can see that the listed age of 6 does not match that birthdate.
It looks like here is another place where the census taker wrote down
the wrong number, or probably forgot to finish the entry. I have been
known to start writing something, then get distracted and not
complete it. The census taker did write that Isaac had lived in Iowa
for 18 years, and was a married man, neither of which fits someone
age 6.
What
else do I believe about Isaac?
He
was the son of Stephen Hockett/Hoggatt and Margaret Thornburg, who
were Quakers. When Isaac was 15, in 1806, the family moved to Ohio.
It was just 6 years later that Isaac married Sarah Frazier on the
10th day of the 7th month (July 10) 1812 at the Fairfield Monthly
Meeting in Highland County, Ohio. This was two years after his sister
Ann had married Sarah's brother Gideon. Then it was just a month
after Isaac's marriage that another sister, Hannah, married another
one of Sarah's brothers, Thomas. So there are possibilities for a
number of double cousins out there.
It
was in 1816 that Isaac and Sarah and their two oldest children moved
to Indiana, where they stayed for over 20 years. It was in Randolph
County Indiana in 1836 that Sarah died. It was a little over a year
later when Isaac married another Sarah. She was the daughter of John
and Elizabeth Wheeler, born in 1793, the widow of John Davis. So
they combined their families, Isaac with 10 children and Sarah with
7. Then along with a number of other Quakers they moved to Henry
County, Iowa about 1838. By the 1850 census most of the children have
left the household as it shows Isaac, Sarah, Charles (listed as
Hockett but really Davis), Susanna (age 23 listed as an idiot), Mary
and Ezra. Also in the household was Ellen Pearson, who was said to be
an orphan.
Eventually
the family moved to Hardin County, Iowa, and it was there in 1872
that Isaac died and was buried at Chester Friends Cemetery.
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