(1) Stone dates are fading, but City of Austin records say:
Mrs. Eudocia Hancock
19 Mar 1873 Age 29
"child bed"
"new cemetery"
The child may have survived, as there is no clear record of an infant with a birth date similar to her death date
(2) Her 1870 Census was her last, counted as "Eudoxia "at age 25. She was visiting at the rural house of older Hancock in-laws, on July 23, listed directly below her assumed husband, William L. Hancock, age 30 , "farmer". He had perhaps delayed marriage in order to enlist in the recent war, though Texas saw little pain deathwise from the war, the big battlegrounds having been in states far to the east.
1870 SOURCE: To see the handwritten image at FamilySearch, registration and log-in is needed first, but there is no charge--
www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-XXH3-4MT
NOTES:
(A) The place was rural, but the post office for picking up their mail was Austin, so "next-door". Old Austin was still small, leaving multiple thousands of acres of Hancock-owned former plantation lands outside city limits, true until well into the next century. The many acres owned by John and Sue E were north, below modern Anderson Lane, overlapping Shoal Creek's tributaries. Those owned by the George and Susan they visited were the reverse, south, in the Onion Creek to Manchaca areas.
Both Alabama-born Hancock men had sons named Edwin or Edward of about the same age. Figuring out which family was visited is very confusing, given so many Hancocks married women named Susan, possibly three named Susan E. The one marrying John stuck to Sue E as her nickname and repeatedly said she was born in Tennessee. Once asked, she stated her father had been Virgina-born. The Susan with George was none of those things.
(B) A Relationships were not stated in 1870, but there were rules for inferring them. Related visitors such as William and Eudocia would follow the residing family's children, husband first, wife second. (William's name followed Edwin B. Hancock, age 13. ) The related visitors would precede the residing family's unrelated live-in employees, of which there were five (a farmer from Alabama, maybe the former plantation overseer, two Swedish servants, two young men labeled as servants, listed as B for Black, from Arkansas, so probably not of the Hancock's former slave families
(C) William's occupation as farmer and birth state of Texas were in contrast to the head of the house, George's occupation given as attorney, birth state as Alabama
(D) Ten years later, only one William L. Hancock matched her William locally in the next Census, the 1880. By then, he had aged 10 years, was farming, but in Hays County, so just below the Onion Creek-Manchaca area of Austin. He had remarried, to a widow with children named Carpenter. The youngest Carpenter child was four, so his remarriage was after 1876, which fits normal grieving.
William listed his birthplace as Texas, matching his 1870 answer.
He was now asked his father's birthplace, said Virginia. This meant his father was one of the older Hancocks born in Virginia. That was before the family moved further west, to Alabama, where others of his plantation-owning Hancocks would be born Their final move was to Texas, rather early, before 1839, judging by his age.
He had two sons named Hancock, presumably by Eudocia, a junior William, age 9, and Walter, age 7, the one probably born on or near Eudocia's death day. There were two very young Hancock daughters by his new wife, Susan A. One was a toddler age 2 and an infant not yet named, not yet through her first year.
The "blended" household with children by two mothers and two fathers was busy, eight children total.
Contributor:
JBrown, IA, MN, Calif, AustinTX
Mrs. Eudocia Hancock
19 Mar 1873 Age 29
"child bed"
"new cemetery"
The child may have survived, as there is no clear record of an infant with a birth date similar to her death date
(2) Her 1870 Census was her last, counted as "Eudoxia "at age 25. She was visiting at the rural house of older Hancock in-laws, on July 23, listed directly below her assumed husband, William L. Hancock, age 30 , "farmer". He had perhaps delayed marriage in order to enlist in the recent war, though Texas saw little pain deathwise from the war, the big battlegrounds having been in states far to the east.
1870 SOURCE: To see the handwritten image at FamilySearch, registration and log-in is needed first, but there is no charge--
www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-XXH3-4MT
NOTES:
(A) The place was rural, but the post office for picking up their mail was Austin, so "next-door". Old Austin was still small, leaving multiple thousands of acres of Hancock-owned former plantation lands outside city limits, true until well into the next century. The many acres owned by John and Sue E were north, below modern Anderson Lane, overlapping Shoal Creek's tributaries. Those owned by the George and Susan they visited were the reverse, south, in the Onion Creek to Manchaca areas.
Both Alabama-born Hancock men had sons named Edwin or Edward of about the same age. Figuring out which family was visited is very confusing, given so many Hancocks married women named Susan, possibly three named Susan E. The one marrying John stuck to Sue E as her nickname and repeatedly said she was born in Tennessee. Once asked, she stated her father had been Virgina-born. The Susan with George was none of those things.
(B) A Relationships were not stated in 1870, but there were rules for inferring them. Related visitors such as William and Eudocia would follow the residing family's children, husband first, wife second. (William's name followed Edwin B. Hancock, age 13. ) The related visitors would precede the residing family's unrelated live-in employees, of which there were five (a farmer from Alabama, maybe the former plantation overseer, two Swedish servants, two young men labeled as servants, listed as B for Black, from Arkansas, so probably not of the Hancock's former slave families
(C) William's occupation as farmer and birth state of Texas were in contrast to the head of the house, George's occupation given as attorney, birth state as Alabama
(D) Ten years later, only one William L. Hancock matched her William locally in the next Census, the 1880. By then, he had aged 10 years, was farming, but in Hays County, so just below the Onion Creek-Manchaca area of Austin. He had remarried, to a widow with children named Carpenter. The youngest Carpenter child was four, so his remarriage was after 1876, which fits normal grieving.
William listed his birthplace as Texas, matching his 1870 answer.
He was now asked his father's birthplace, said Virginia. This meant his father was one of the older Hancocks born in Virginia. That was before the family moved further west, to Alabama, where others of his plantation-owning Hancocks would be born Their final move was to Texas, rather early, before 1839, judging by his age.
He had two sons named Hancock, presumably by Eudocia, a junior William, age 9, and Walter, age 7, the one probably born on or near Eudocia's death day. There were two very young Hancock daughters by his new wife, Susan A. One was a toddler age 2 and an infant not yet named, not yet through her first year.
The "blended" household with children by two mothers and two fathers was busy, eight children total.
Contributor:
JBrown, IA, MN, Calif, AustinTX
(1) Stone dates are fading, but City of Austin records say:
Mrs. Eudocia Hancock
19 Mar 1873 Age 29
"child bed"
"new cemetery"
The child may have survived, as there is no clear record of an infant with a birth date similar to her death date
(2) Her 1870 Census was her last, counted as "Eudoxia "at age 25. She was visiting at the rural house of older Hancock in-laws, on July 23, listed directly below her assumed husband, William L. Hancock, age 30 , "farmer". He had perhaps delayed marriage in order to enlist in the recent war, though Texas saw little pain deathwise from the war, the big battlegrounds having been in states far to the east.
1870 SOURCE: To see the handwritten image at FamilySearch, registration and log-in is needed first, but there is no charge--
www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-XXH3-4MT
NOTES:
(A) The place was rural, but the post office for picking up their mail was Austin, so "next-door". Old Austin was still small, leaving multiple thousands of acres of Hancock-owned former plantation lands outside city limits, true until well into the next century. The many acres owned by John and Sue E were north, below modern Anderson Lane, overlapping Shoal Creek's tributaries. Those owned by the George and Susan they visited were the reverse, south, in the Onion Creek to Manchaca areas.
Both Alabama-born Hancock men had sons named Edwin or Edward of about the same age. Figuring out which family was visited is very confusing, given so many Hancocks married women named Susan, possibly three named Susan E. The one marrying John stuck to Sue E as her nickname and repeatedly said she was born in Tennessee. Once asked, she stated her father had been Virgina-born. The Susan with George was none of those things.
(B) A Relationships were not stated in 1870, but there were rules for inferring them. Related visitors such as William and Eudocia would follow the residing family's children, husband first, wife second. (William's name followed Edwin B. Hancock, age 13. ) The related visitors would precede the residing family's unrelated live-in employees, of which there were five (a farmer from Alabama, maybe the former plantation overseer, two Swedish servants, two young men labeled as servants, listed as B for Black, from Arkansas, so probably not of the Hancock's former slave families
(C) William's occupation as farmer and birth state of Texas were in contrast to the head of the house, George's occupation given as attorney, birth state as Alabama
(D) Ten years later, only one William L. Hancock matched her William locally in the next Census, the 1880. By then, he had aged 10 years, was farming, but in Hays County, so just below the Onion Creek-Manchaca area of Austin. He had remarried, to a widow with children named Carpenter. The youngest Carpenter child was four, so his remarriage was after 1876, which fits normal grieving.
William listed his birthplace as Texas, matching his 1870 answer.
He was now asked his father's birthplace, said Virginia. This meant his father was one of the older Hancocks born in Virginia. That was before the family moved further west, to Alabama, where others of his plantation-owning Hancocks would be born Their final move was to Texas, rather early, before 1839, judging by his age.
He had two sons named Hancock, presumably by Eudocia, a junior William, age 9, and Walter, age 7, the one probably born on or near Eudocia's death day. There were two very young Hancock daughters by his new wife, Susan A. One was a toddler age 2 and an infant not yet named, not yet through her first year.
The "blended" household with children by two mothers and two fathers was busy, eight children total.
Contributor:
JBrown, IA, MN, Calif, AustinTX
Mrs. Eudocia Hancock
19 Mar 1873 Age 29
"child bed"
"new cemetery"
The child may have survived, as there is no clear record of an infant with a birth date similar to her death date
(2) Her 1870 Census was her last, counted as "Eudoxia "at age 25. She was visiting at the rural house of older Hancock in-laws, on July 23, listed directly below her assumed husband, William L. Hancock, age 30 , "farmer". He had perhaps delayed marriage in order to enlist in the recent war, though Texas saw little pain deathwise from the war, the big battlegrounds having been in states far to the east.
1870 SOURCE: To see the handwritten image at FamilySearch, registration and log-in is needed first, but there is no charge--
www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-XXH3-4MT
NOTES:
(A) The place was rural, but the post office for picking up their mail was Austin, so "next-door". Old Austin was still small, leaving multiple thousands of acres of Hancock-owned former plantation lands outside city limits, true until well into the next century. The many acres owned by John and Sue E were north, below modern Anderson Lane, overlapping Shoal Creek's tributaries. Those owned by the George and Susan they visited were the reverse, south, in the Onion Creek to Manchaca areas.
Both Alabama-born Hancock men had sons named Edwin or Edward of about the same age. Figuring out which family was visited is very confusing, given so many Hancocks married women named Susan, possibly three named Susan E. The one marrying John stuck to Sue E as her nickname and repeatedly said she was born in Tennessee. Once asked, she stated her father had been Virgina-born. The Susan with George was none of those things.
(B) A Relationships were not stated in 1870, but there were rules for inferring them. Related visitors such as William and Eudocia would follow the residing family's children, husband first, wife second. (William's name followed Edwin B. Hancock, age 13. ) The related visitors would precede the residing family's unrelated live-in employees, of which there were five (a farmer from Alabama, maybe the former plantation overseer, two Swedish servants, two young men labeled as servants, listed as B for Black, from Arkansas, so probably not of the Hancock's former slave families
(C) William's occupation as farmer and birth state of Texas were in contrast to the head of the house, George's occupation given as attorney, birth state as Alabama
(D) Ten years later, only one William L. Hancock matched her William locally in the next Census, the 1880. By then, he had aged 10 years, was farming, but in Hays County, so just below the Onion Creek-Manchaca area of Austin. He had remarried, to a widow with children named Carpenter. The youngest Carpenter child was four, so his remarriage was after 1876, which fits normal grieving.
William listed his birthplace as Texas, matching his 1870 answer.
He was now asked his father's birthplace, said Virginia. This meant his father was one of the older Hancocks born in Virginia. That was before the family moved further west, to Alabama, where others of his plantation-owning Hancocks would be born Their final move was to Texas, rather early, before 1839, judging by his age.
He had two sons named Hancock, presumably by Eudocia, a junior William, age 9, and Walter, age 7, the one probably born on or near Eudocia's death day. There were two very young Hancock daughters by his new wife, Susan A. One was a toddler age 2 and an infant not yet named, not yet through her first year.
The "blended" household with children by two mothers and two fathers was busy, eight children total.
Contributor:
JBrown, IA, MN, Calif, AustinTX
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