Perry William Stocker

Male18 February 1869–26 December 1902

Brief Life History of Perry William

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.

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Family Time Line

Perry William Stocker
1869–1902
Rose B. Dorsey
1874–1932
Marriage: 18 March 1893
Blanche Esther Stocker
1895–1972
Florence K. Stocker
1898–1978

Sources (9)

  • Perry Stocker, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Perry W Stocker, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019"
  • Perry William Stocker, "Find A Grave Index"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    18 March 1893Kosciusko, Indiana, United States

    • Children (2)

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    World Events (8)

    1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

    Age 1

    Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

    1870 · Giving all the right to vote

    Age 1

    The Act was an extension of the Fifteenth Amendment, that prohibited discrimination by state offices in voter registration. It also helped empower the President with the authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. Being the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the Congress, it helped combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans.

    1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

    Age 12

    Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

    Name Meaning

    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).

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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