WILLIAM HOCKINGS - Biography

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This biography appears on page 643 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

WILLIAM HOCKINGS, farmer, Sec. 27; P. O. Burlington; born in Birmingham,
England, in 1841 came to Racine Co. with his parents in 1844; his
father, John Hockings, bought 112 acres of land in Secs. 22 and 27,
Burlington, and built residence and barns, and improved it - his father
died, Dec. 29, 1865; after his death, the farm was divided; his daughter
Sarah, now Mrs. T. H. Marsland, taking fifty acres, in Sec. 22, and
William taking the sixty-two acres in Sec. 27. His first wife died in
England, and in 1840 he married again in Birmingham, Eliza Clark, and
brought her to Burlington with him, where she died, in 1855 - he had two
children by first wife- Jobn W. and Sarah; and four children by his
second wife- William, Mary Ann, Eliza and Phoebe. William married in
Burlington, in 1863, Helena L. Mulholland- and has three children--
Nellie M., Clarenee W. and Alfred J., all living at home with parents;
William built the residence he now occupies, in Sec. 27, in 1875, with
the barns, etc.; he enlisted, Jan. 4, 1863,- in 3d Cavalary and went
with his regiment to Kansas and Missouri, and was in several skirmishes;
he was among the last of the army discharged at the close of the war.