When Perry William Stocker was born on 18 February 1869, in Kosciusko, Indiana, United States, his father, William Sylvester Stocker, was 26 and his mother, Sarah Catherine Knepper, was 22. He married Rose B. Dorsey on 18 March 1893, in Kosciusko, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Tippecanoe Township, Kosciusko, Indiana, United States in 1880 and Turkey Creek Township, Kosciusko, Indiana, United States in 1900. He died on 26 December 1902, in Kosciusko, Indiana, United States, at the age of 33, and was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Tippecanoe Township, Kosciusko, Indiana, United States.
German and Swiss German (also Stöcker): topographic name for someone living by a tree stump (see Stock 3) or an occupational name for a tree cutter, from Middle High German stocken ‘to clear land’.
German and Swiss German (also Stöcker); Dutch: occupational name from Middle High German, Middle Dutch stocker ‘jailer’.
English: occupational name from Middle English stokker ‘one who sells stockfish’ (fish dried in the air without salt). This was the usual source of the name in medieval London, where a bylaw of 1419 stated that no stokker should board a ship to buy fish (presumably in order to forestall the market).
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