BIO:  Henry Hoke, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Jackson Township, Pg 118

HENRY HOKE was born in this township in 1822, to Michael and Barbara (Fishel) 
Hoke, natives of York County.  His grandfather, Casper Hoke, who married a Miss 
Emig, was a blacksmith by trade, but was following farming at the time of his 
death.  Subject’s mother was descended from one of the oldest families of the 
county and died about 1828, the mother of eight children:  Elizabeth, Magdalena, 
Margaretta, Joseph, Michael, George, Henry and Susanna.  By a subsequent 
marriage, Michael Hoke had born to him three children, Eliza, Abraham and Nancy.  
The father of these died about 1868, and his widow about 1880.  Our subject was 
reared a farmer, and in 1845 began on his own account, following agriculture 
until 1882, when he left his farm of 115 acres in charge of his son, Jacob, moved 
to Nashville and engaged in a general mercantile trade, in which he is quite 
prosperous.  In 1844 he married Anna, daughter of Christian Hershey, of Jackson 
Township.  This lady died December 1, 1883, the mother of twelve children, of 
whom Joseph is deceased.  The living are Elizabeth Sprenkle, William, Emanuel, 
Henry, Sarah N. Bott, Eliza, Jacob, Amanda, Martin, George and Michael.  Mr. Hoke 
is a school director and a member of the Reformed Church, in which he has been a 
leader of the choir for over thirty years.