Luvina Hocking Attebery

Luvina Starts a Family of Her Own

Living in Bone Gap, Illinois, 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.

It was there that the Hocking and Attebery families, both recently arriving from southeastern Illinois, met. Within the span of about two years the two Attebery sons had married the two Hocking daughters (Oscar and Luvina in 1911, and Arthur and Mary in 1913) and the youngest Attebery daughter, Maggie, married the youngest Hocking son, Loren, in 1912.

There in Clay County, Arkansas, Luvina's husband, William Oscar Attebery, started farming ... and Luvina Hocking Attebery gave birth to their first four children including their first daughter, Marie Attebery, on September 5, 1917.

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