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...over the remains of C. A. Hocker was held from the Mennonite church at Berne Saturday afternoon. Mr. Hocker was one of the best known young men of the county and news of his death from quick consumption was heard by his many friends here with much regard. The Berne Witness contained the following concerning him: Albert Hocker died at the home of his sister, Mrs. Mary Baumgartner, in Berne, last Thursday morning, at the age of 33 years and 22 days. He was born in French Township on the 14th day of August, 1867. He leaves his aged mother, five brothers and one sister, who mourn the loss of a member from their family that endeared himself to them in his kindness, but who have the blessed assurance that only christian faith can impart, of a happy meeting in the land of the blessed. Mr. Hocker received his education for his useful profession in Valparaiso and Depaw and has worked as an untiring leader of the rising generations in the schools of this county for a number of years. His last four years in this work were spent in Wabash township, two years in No. 2, one in Ceylon, and the last year in No. 1. He was especially successful in working up the Young People's Reading circle in the schools he taught. He accomplished this by the novel scheme of making the firewood for the terms he taught with the boys of the school (??), and with the proceeds he was thus able to build up considerable ??. His last illness took its ?? before he had finished (cut off)

(Buried MRE Cemetery. born Aug 14, 1867; died Sept. 6, 1900)