Kalkaska County MI Archives Biographies.....Bockes, William H February 18, 1842 - 
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Author: H.R. Page & Co., Chicago, 1884

"The Traverse Region, Historical and Descriptive, with Illustrations of 
Scenery and Portraits and Biographical Sketches of some of its Prominent Men 
and Pioneers"
Chicago: H.R. Page & Co., 1884

Page 314
William H. Bockes, farmer, Clearwater, was born in Medina County, Ohio, Feb. 
18, 1842.  He was reared and educated in his native state.  In May, 1861, he 
elisted in Company K, Eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, served his country 
seventeen months in that regiment, and then re-enlisted in the Sixth United 
States Cavalry and served nineteen months.  At the close of his term of three 
years, he enlisted in the Second Ohio Cavalry and served until honorably 
discharged in September 1865.  He then returned to Medina County, and in June, 
1866, he made a tour into Traverse Region and purchased lands in what is now 
Clearwater, Kalkaska County, Mich., before the organization of either the 
county or township.  The only settler then in the county was Mr. William 
Copeland.  Mr. Bockes then returned to Ohio, and on Oct. 11, 1866, was married 
to Miss Mararet Cook, also of Medina County.  She was born there May 4, 1844.  
Their children are W. Everetts, Margia E., Z. Cook and Lena O.  After marriage 
Mr. and Mrs. Bockes went immediately to their chosen pioneer home, where they 
still reside.  They then had to obtain their supplies from Elk Rapids.  Mr. 
Bockes has in all 300 acres of land, about 100 of which is now under 
cultivation.  He has a flourishing orchard of apples, pears, cherries, plums, 
quinces and small fruits, and an elegant dwelling and other good farm 
buildings.  He has served about eight years as township treasurer, and is now, 
in 1884, serving in his sixth year as supervisor of Clearwater.  He has also 
been for some six years postmaster of Barker Creek postoffice.  Fraternally he 
belongs to the I.O.O.F. and the G.A.R.

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