OBIT: John T. HOCKING, 1913, Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA

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Hocking, John T.

JOHN T. HOCKING PASSES AWAY - A Man Prominent in Business Social and Church Life 
of Meyersdale

  On Friday morning at 5:00 o'clock, John T. Hocking, of Meyers Avenue, passed 
away. Hr. Hocking had been failing rapidly for the last few months but his 
condition took a very serious turn in the last week of his life when he 
sustained a paralytic stroke which made his condition hopeless from the 
beginning. For several days before his death came he was in an unconscious 
condition. Mr. Hocking, while not a native of Meyersdale, yet was one of the old 
settlers and was closely related with the growth and activities of his adopted 
town. He is given credit for being one of the first to start industrial 
enterprises here, being identified with the early mining operations and the 
manufacture of bricks in this community. He was born in Cornwall County in the 
town of Saint Just, England, on September 6, 1842, and was at the time of his 
death, aged 71 years, 2 months and 8 days. He came to America at the age of 
seven years and had lived at Clarksburg, W. Va., Frostburg, Md., and came to 
Meyersdale about forty-one years ago. Since then he had been closely identified 
with the business activities and deeply interested in the moral, social, 
numerical and business development of Meyersdale. His former business activities 
are related to the mining enterprise of Meyersdale, from which he retired five 
years ago. Not alone to his business associations is he well known by the 
community but he is especially remembered on account of his zeal and devotion to 
his church, the Methodist Episcopal which will gratefully hold his name in the 
kindest remembrance for his interest and labors in behalf of the church of his 
choice. For more than fifty years he had been a member of the Methodist Church. 
The local church can trace its beginning to the time when Mr. Hocking, together 
with others established the Methodist Church in Meyersdale. He was one of the 
charter members to organize the Methodist Episcopal Church here and has been 
affiliated with that church to the day of his death, being zealous in her 
interests, loyal in her support and unassuming in his devotions. Mr. Hocking had 
never been married. He is survived by the following brothers and sisters, all of 
town: George H. Hocking, Henry T. Hocking, Mrs. Sarah Hoffman, Lillie Belle 
Hocking, and Mary Hocking. The funeral services were conducted at the family 
mansion on Monday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock. Rev. G. A. Neeld, his pastor 
officiated. Interment was made in the Union Cemetery.

Meyersdale Commercial, Nov. 20, 1913