Barbara Sharrer

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On November 12, 1796, Abraham married Barbara Sharrer, daughter of Elizabeth Crizer. Barbara was described as a spinster in the marriage bond dated November 9, 1796. Barbara was the daughter of Elizabeth (Longnecker) Criser, widow of Christopher Criser, and formerly widow of a man named Scharrer. Barbara is known to have already been the mother of a child, Jacob Funk, probably born out of wedlock around 1790.

With Barbara, Abraham fathered six more children beginning with Catherine in 1797 and ending with Anna in 1810. In late 1809 or early 1810, Abraham and his wife Barbara, and their children migrated to Washington County, in north central Kentucky. They migrated with Abraham's daughter Mary and her husband, John Bullock, whom Mary had married in 1807. These families appear there in the 1810 census along with the family of John Perkhizer.

Abraham left behind in Shenandoah County most of the children by his first wife, notably, Henry Hockman, Abraham Hockman, Jr., and Jacob Hockman. They did not remain in Kentucky long and by the fall of 1811 they were living in Harrison County Indiana, where he entered a claim for 160 acres of land, 26 October 1811[Janet Cowan, Jeffersonville Land Entries 1808 -1818, p. 24]. This land is described as the northeast corner of section 10 in Township 4, placing it somewhere near New Amsterdam in Harrison County.

The Abraham Hockman, John Bullock, and John Perkhizer families moved to Harrison County, Indiana together. It is not certain if Abraham ever received a deed to the land. By 1814 Abraham had died. Barbara was listed as the head of the family in the 1820 census of Harrison County, Indiana. She is listed as over age 45 and head of a family of two females age 16-26, two females 10-16 and two under age 10 . Considerable information regarding the family of Abraham Hockman can be found in depositions made in March, 1848 on behalf of Mary Hockman Bullock when she attempted to establish a claim to any unpaid salary or pension due her brother, Isaac, who died in the War of 1812.
~The Rhine to the Shenandoah; Vol III, Daniel W. Bly, Gateway Press; Baltimore, Maryland, 2002, p. 113-114.

Barbara married Abraham Hockman, son of Jacob Hockman and Mary Denlinger, on 12 Nov 1796 in Shenandoah, Virginia.³³⁶ (Abraham Hockman was born in 1756 in Strasburg, Virginia and died before 1813 in Harrison, Indiana.)