OBITUARY: Jackson Hockersmith, Ashland, Jackson County, Oregon ********************************************************************************* USGENWEB ARCHIVES(tm) NOTICE: ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm ********************************************************************************* Transcribed and formatted for use in USGenWeb Archives by Elizabeth Corethers 27 May 2003 *************************************************************************** Medford (Oregon) Mail, Friday, 2 Apr 1897, p. 7, c. 6 DEATH OF JACKSON HOCKERSMITH. Jackson Hockersmith died at his home in Ashland Sunday March 28, 1897. He had been confined to his home for the past three or four months of a severe attack of jaundice and three weeks ago he suffered a stroke of paralysis which left him in a critical condition and this coupled with his advanced age precluded his recovery and he passed away. He was seventy-eight years, eight months and twenty-eight days old. Mr. Hockersmith was born in Kentucky and came to Oregon in 1853 and located in Jackson County in 1865 and has resided here ever since. Besides the widow who survives him Mr. Hockersmith leaves two sons living, J. N. Hockersmith, of Ashland, and J. W. Hockersmith, of Sonora County, Calif., and four married daughters, Mrs. Geo. Van Tine, of Tenino, Wash., Mrs. A. P. Weiss, of Ashland, Mrs. Henry Taylor, of Medford, and Mrs. P. L. Fountain, of Klamath county. The funeral took place at the Phoenix cemetery by the Predestcherian Baptist Church, of which he has been a member for 60 years.