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Show B. HOCKMAN DIES AT SNAKE VALLEY HOME Friday, March 13th, marked the passing of one who's whole life, from beginning to end, was as firmly interlocked inter-locked with the viccissitudes of Snake Valley as its mountains and streams, and Sunday, Mar. 15, the last rites were held for Brick P. Hockman, the first white child born in this valley, the services being held at the home in Baker, Nevada, ably conducted by his neighbor, Geo. T. Smith and the interment inter-ment in the family plot on the oil Hockman ranch at Burbank, which was reserved by his mother when she sold her interests a few years ago: and within a stone's throw of where he first saw the light of day. Brick Hockman was a direct descendant de-scendant of those noble pioneers, the "Pennsylvania Dutch," whose indomitable indom-itable courage brought them across the waters and marked such an important im-portant epoch in the earliest years of our country's history, and his forbears are almost as much a part of the history his-tory of that great state as he was of this valley. His father, Samuel Hockman, however, how-ever, proved that the pioneer strain was still alive in the stock, and left the fine old home in Pennsylvania early in life, coming first to Iowa, where he married Miss Jane Jardine, and later coming to this country, where he was one of the very first . settlers, and where he developed the largest cattle - ranch in the valley, which is replete with events and happenings hap-penings that mtark early history of I this region. This ranch at that time, was supposed to be a part of Nye i County, Nev., and was assessed in that count and state for several years before a survey definitely established the line, and placed it in Millard . County, Utah. Here, Brick was born on Nov. 22nd, 1870. He married Louise Christopherson, daughter of Lafayette Christopherson, formerly of ' Fillmore, and continued to live at Burbank until 1918, when he sold his i interests there and moved to Baker, his home at the time of his death. His value to the community in which he lived, and the esteem in which he was hhl by his many friends and neighbors, was attested by the fact that almost without exception, excep-tion, from one en dof the valley to the other, those who were able, with also a representation from Spring Valley on the west, and Ely as well, attended the services at the home, and there were over forty cars joined the funeral cortege on the twenty mile trip to the cemetery where he was finally laid away. He is survived by his daughter, Mrs. i Belle Smith, of Baker, his mother, i Mrs. J. E. Ketcham, of Pasadena, : three sisters, Mrs. Clara Richardson, of Corn Creek, Xev., Mrs. Minnie Fill-i Fill-i more, of Pasadena, and Mrs. Kitty ! C h r i s t opherson, of Baker, three ' grandchildren and two great-grand-1 children. i We, their neighbors and friends, ex- tend our deepest sympathy to the bereaved. be-reaved. i |