Ancestry of
Matt Bomer

TV and Movie Actor

Bessie Lou Hocker

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• • 2nd Great-grandmother of Matt Bomer — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 29 
  • Father:
  • Christian W. Hocker 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Hofer   
  • Birth Date:
  • 1876 
  • Birth Location:
  • Vera Cruz, Wells, Indiana 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 27 Oct 1950 
  • Death Location:
  • West Palm Beach, Palm Beach, Florida 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Woodlawn Cemetery, West Palm Beach, Palm Beach, Florida 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Edward Burton Macy
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Feb 1898 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Decatur, Adams, Indiana 
  • Children:
  
  

  Ishmael Wilford Macy (Ahnentafel No:14 )

  Mary Long Macy

• Sources for Bessie Lou Hocker

  • ¹ Federal Census, IN, Adams County, 1880, Monroe, E.D. 135, p. 8, Image 8 of 31.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 07/31/2020).
  • ³ Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019, FHL No 2321357, Image 88, Marriage of Edward B Macy and Bessie L Hocker.
  • ⁴ Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019, FHL No 2321631, Image 53, Marriage of son Ishmael W Macy and Fanny E Heller.
  • ⁵ Indiana, U.S., Birth Certificates, 1907-1944, Birth certificate for daughter Mary Long Macy.
  • ⁶ Indiana, U.S., Death Certificates, 1899-2017, Death certificate for son Ishmael W Macy.
  • ⁷ Indiana, U.S., Marriages, 1810-2001, Marriage record for Edward B Macy and Bessie L Hocker.
  • ⁸ The Palm Beach Post (West Palm Beach, Florida), 10 MAY 1946, p. 2, Obituary for spouse Edward Burton Macy.
  • ⁹ The Palm Beach Post (West Palm Beach, Florida), 27 OCT 1950, p. 10, Obituary for Bessie L Macy.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 339, gives Bessie's maiden name incorrectly as Holker.

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