History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 629.
[Scott County]   [Stamping Ground Precinct]

ALBERT HOCKENSMITH, farmer, P. O. Stamping Ground.  John S., the father
of this gentleman, was born in Franklin County, Ky., Dec. 14, 1799; he
was a farmer, and died Sept. 1, 1880; his father, Henry Hockensmith, was
a native of Maryland, and emigrated to Kentucky in about the year 1790.
The mother of our subject, Julia Gaines, was born in Franklin County, Ky.,
in 1824, and died in 1850; she was the daughter of James Gaines, a native
of Kentucky.  Albert Hockensmith was born in Franklin County, Jan. 12,
1847; he attended the common schools of his native county, and began
life as a farmer; at the age of twenty-one he removed to Scott County,
where he has since remained, engaged in tilling the soil.  In 1879, Jan.
14, he married Miss Bettie Holton, a native of Franklin County, who was
born March 18, 1853; her father, Mr. L. Holton, was born in Franklin
County, Nov. 30, 1822; the mother, Fannie (Holton), was also born in
Franklin County.  Mr. Hockensmith is the owner of 204 acres of well
improved land, upon which he makes the raising of stock a specialty; he
is a Democrat and with his wife are members of the Baptist Church. They
have one child, Daisy, born Dec. 15, 1880.

Hockensmith Gaines Holton
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Franklin-KY MD

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