Peter Shock

  General Notes:

www.ancestry.com - fam tree gives his father's name as Johan Peter Shock and his DOD as 1843 [no documentation]

1840 Fairfield, Tuscarawas County, Ohio
Peter Shook/Shock HOH
2 males 1835-1839 John S. and ____
2 males 1831-1835 Frederick and Henry
1 male 1791-1800 (Peter)
1 female 1835-1839 (dau Amelia ?)
1 female 1801-1810 [wife Catherine]

1850 - can't locate him [died 1843?] and probable family living in Boliva, Lawrence twp, Tuscarawas County, OH. [see notes on Catherine]
also....
www.ancestry.com - Fam Tree of Dillon Leedy Brown McNamara claim Peter's date of death was 1843 but no documentation

See Research notes.

In the 1880 census Amelia says her parents were born in Germany...the Peter Shock who married Mary Ann Boyd was born in PA. as was his wife.
also

Could this be another son?
1850 Wm Shock born c1845 age 5 in Fairfield, Tuscarawas, OH living with a Branin family.
In 1860 Fairfield, OH he is age 16 [born c1844] and with Nancy Brannon born 1820 in PA.
Died in rebel prison 12 Oct 1864 [The History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio: Containing a History of the County ..Warner, Beers, 1884 -Google books]

  Research Notes:

From: Philip Ritter <philr@leland.stanford.edu <mailto:philr@leland.stanford.edu>>
Subject: Re: [BRE] Shock/ Tuscarawas, Ohio
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2002 00:28:51 -0700
There is also a small Shock Cemetery in Tippecanoe Twp in Kosciusko
County. In addition to the Shocks buried there, there are Mocks, Kuhns,
Hammans and Jarretts and Rothenbergers (including "Elder George P.") among
others. Most of these families were Brethren and many came from
Tuscarawas County, Ohio. The description of the cemetery in the
transcription book by Lester Binnie notes, "According to local people, a
German Baptist Church occupied a site at the crossroads a half mile west of
this cemetery."
In a family history account of the Kosciusko Kuhns, it is noted that it "is
very likely that they attended religious services at the Dunker church by
the present-day Zutavern Cemetery." [near or on lot 28 in NW Lawrence
Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio] "The building was a log structure, and
in about 1981, several Tuscarawas County historians located the church
headstone with German inscriptions, and the stone steps of the long-gone
building." My ancestor George Ritter lived on lot 25 just a bit north of
that site and as he was a "Dunkard" preacher (according to both family
tradition and the 1850 census), he likely ministered in that church. Most
of the Brethren from that area moved to Kosciusko County, IN in the 1840's
and 1850's. I have had no success in trying to find out anymore about the
congregation that once existed in Lawrence Twp. Does anyone else know of a
Brethren history or other source that mentions it?

Peter married Catherine Soffel. (Catherine Soffel was born circa 1805 in Bavaria, Germany, died in 1890 and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Laud, Whitley County, Indiana.)