DAVID OCKERMAN

OCKERMAN, BARR, HAMPTON, COLLIER

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Date: 1/3/2002 at 17:37:21

Leon Reporter
March l4, l895

MR. DAVID OCKERMAN, whose hopeless illness
was mentioned in these
columns, died at his home on West Third
Street in Lineville on last
Monday afternoon aged 75 years, ll months and
4 days. The deceased was
born in Kentucky, March l9, l8l9, his father,
DANIEL OCKERMAN having
been a native of Pennsylvania and one of the
early settlers of
Kentucky. The family moved to Highland
County, Ohio in l82l, where the
subject of this sketch was reared and
educated.

In l839 the family emigrated to Decatur
County, Indiana. MR. OCKERMAN
was married in Indiana Oct. l5, l840, to MARY
S. BARR, and in l854 with
his wife and children, moved to Decatur
County, Iowa, near Pleasanton,
where they resided until l878 when they
removed to Lineville. Eight
children were born to them, four only now
living, MRS. P.C. HAMPTON and
MRS. LUTHER COLLIER, of Mercer County, Mo.,
MISS MARY OCKERMAN of this
place, and MRS. JOSHUA HAMPTON, of Nebraska.

FATHER OCKERMAN was an active member of the
M.E. Church, and in his life
was an example of Christian character. He
was a member of the Masonic
Fraternity and by the hands of his brethren
his remains were taken to
the Pleasanton Cemetery on Wednesday and laid
to rest beside the wife of
his youth, who passed away Jan. l6th, l863.

--LINEVILLE
TRIBUNE.

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