Eliza Ernestina Lucresta Nading Hocking

Families Move and Grow

The year before her grandfather Fishel died in 1878, in the little town of Bone Gap, Illinois, just about five miles south of the Moravian settlement of West Salem, Eliza Ernestina Nading, then 21 years old, married Charles Marcellus Hocking. He had been born just a few miles to the south in Edwards County, Illinois, three months after Eliza was born in North Carolina.

Living there in Bone Gap, Eliza and Charles Marcellus Hocking had nine children in the 18 years between 1877 and 1895. The two youngest were their daughters Mary and Luvina Hocking.

Luvina attended the local school through the sixth grade. She was still a teenager when, around the end of 1910, her parents moved taking her and the other younger members of her family farther west to the area of Clay County, Arkansas, just north of Corning.

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