Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Hockett, Warner M. abt 1840 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Webster Township
p. 815 & 816

Warner M. Hockett.---Very little is known of the Hockett family prior to their 
leaving England. Philip Hoggatt (as the name was then spelled) came to the 
United States with, or about the time of, William Penn's colony, and settled 
in Chester County, Pa., where he died. His son William went to Guilford 
County, N. C., when a young man, and bought from the Indians the right to a 
mile square of land twelve miles south of Greensboro. He built a cabin in the 
woods, having no neighbors nearer than eighteen miles, going on foot through 
the forest to New Garden to do his courting. He married Hannah, daughter of 
John and Lydia Bales. They had three sons---William, Joseph and Stephen. The 
two latter emigrated to Miami County, Ohio. William inherited the old 
homestead, and married Hannah, daughter of Jeremiah and Susannah Reynolds, of 
Randolph County, N. C. They had three daughters and two sons---Lydia, William, 
Susannah, Rachel and John, who was burned by falling in the fire when small, 
and died. Lydia married Joshua Chamness. Rachel married Benjamin Benbow; both 
removed to Randolph County, Ind. Susannah never married. William married 
Hannah Davis, daughter of Jesse and Elizabeth Davis. They had twelve children--
-an infant, not named, Banajah H., Himelius M., Jesse D., William B., Milton, 
Warner M., David D., Caroline D., Seth B., Sarah E., Susanna M. Banajah, David 
and Susanna died in childhood. Himelius married Rachel Branson. Jesse married 
Rebecca Cox. William married Eliza. J. Branson. Caroline D. and Sarah E. came 
to Indiana in the time of the war. Caroline married Wilson Charles, and Sarah 
married William Harvey. Seth B. married Elizabeth Cox Warner M., our subject, 
came to Indiana in 1860, and in 1861 married Matilda C., daughter of Elisha 
and Ruth Dennis. They had three children---Addison Fulton, Martha Ellen and 
Mary Elms. His wife died of rheumatism of the heart, and he subsequently 
married Sarah G., daughter of Nathan and Mary Charles, of Richmond. They have 
one son---William N. Mr. Hockett first settled in Ogden, Henry County, where 
he worked in a cabinet-shop and at the carpenter's trade. He remained there 
three years, when, on account of his health, he removed to a farm near 
Economy, Wayne County. In 1873 he bought his present farm of 104 acres, a mile 
west of Webster, of John Connor, paying $6,000 for it, but having greatly 
improved it now values it at $7,000. Mr. Hockett's brothers all own farms in 
North Carolina, near or adjoining the old homestead. Milton is entirely deaf, 
and has never married. Three brothers were conscripted into the rebel army, 
but on account of their conscientious scruples against wars and fighting 
refused to bear arms. William was taken to Virginia, and was within a quarter 
of a mile of the battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He was tied behind a 
forage car, with a rope around his neck, and was obliged to run or be dragged 
by the neck, and in various other ways punished. Himelius and Jesse were taken 
to Kingston and subjected to the most inhuman torture, Jesse being hung up by 
his thumbs to a pin in the wall for three hours. After this barbarous 
treatment they all reached home alive.



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