| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Sixth Generation306. Catherine S. DETURCK5,29,32,59 was born on 19 Apr 1817 in Oley Township, Berks Co., PA. She died on 14 May 1892 in Oley Township, Berks Co., PA. She was buried in Friedens Union Cemetery, Oley, PA. Daughter of George DeTurck. Catherine S. DETURCK and Jacob Yoder HOCH were married in 1834.
Jacob Yoder HOCH5,29,32
(son of Daniel Bertolet HOCH and Susanna YODER) was born on 26 Mar 1798 in Oley
Township, Berks Co., PA. He died on 26 May 1878 in Oley Township,
Berks Co., PA. He was buried in Friedens Union Cemetery, Oley, PA.
Jacob was the next owner of the Hoch Homestead. He started a brick making business
and made the bricks for a barn on one part of the farm known as the "sacred
oak" farm. He also made the brick for both houses on the farm after the
acreage was devided for another Hoch family. The sacred oak farm house was built
with Hoch bricks in 1880, and was then 129 acres large. Jacob continued in the
brick business and by 1883 was producing 100,000 bricks per year. Many of the
houses in Oley were built with Hoch bricks. He was also a farmer and served for
some years as a school director of Oley. Jacob and Catherine also had a son
DeTurk Hoch, an undated infant death. Catherine S. DETURCK and Jacob Yoder HOCH
had the following children:
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