The Several Casper Hockenberrys

Peter Hockenberry had two grandsons named Casper. Peter's two oldest sons, Henry and John, both named sons Casper. (This makes one expect to find an ancestor of Peter with this name also.) John's son Casper married Margaret Shaffer. Both John and his son Casper have biographies in the 1895 History of Butler County, Brown & Co. p. 1246. Casper and Margaret Shaffer Hockenberry had a son named Joseph Hockenberry who married and also named his son Casper.(That makes three). Joseph and his son Casper Hockenberry also have biographies on p. 1246 of the 1895 History of Butler Co.
The confusion seems to be regarding a Casper Hockenberry who resided in Clearfield County. There is material published regarding a Casper Hockenberry of Clearfield Co. PA, who married one of the daughters of a Mr. Greenwood, who was from England.
The names of the Greenwood daughters are known, but it is not known which of these married Casper Hockenberry; possibly Ann Greenwood, as their granddaughter was named Ann. The Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, including the counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion, Chicago 1898, in a biography of Judge John Hockenberry (p. 606) states that Judge John's grandfather, Casper Hockenberry, was a native of England. Apparently Casper's ancestry was confused with that of his wife and father-in-law. This miss-understanding is repeated elsewhere; see 200 Years in Clearfiled County by Betty Ricketts Welker 1983, Vision Press, Coalport PA.
Per our correspondence with Carol Hockenberry, Liverpool, NY 1991, there was a Mr. Robert Allison (now deceased) from the Clearfield County Historical Society who did extensive research on the Hockenberry family of Clearfield County. He had quite an old map that indicated the land holdings of Caper and his descendants. Mr. Allison wrote:
"I have been to the area where Casper lived more than once trying to locate those graves. All of the signs that would indicte that there was a homestead there have been wiped away. The area is not large and is only about five or six feet above the river at normal times, but a very large flood in 1889, and a biggger one in 1936 would have swept over the area, perhaps water five feet deep where the home and graves were located. (I)Have also been to the farm where Casper's son John had lived for many years. The graves in the orchard were marked with field stones, so no identification as to (who) were buried there, but they were Hockenberrys. The graves were in the orchard and because it had not been legally deeded as a cemetery, the coal stripper was not violating any law,.... Casper probably had not been married very long when the Revolution started. He was the son of Henry and the grandson of Peter. In other words, nephew of John in the book."
Mr. Allison apparently refers to the manuscript Descendants of Peter Hockenberry and His son John by Horace & Edith Renick, forwarded to him by Carol Hockenberry.

Carol Hockenberry recommends two books which outline the descendants of this Clearfield County Casper Hockenberry: History of Clearfield County Pennsylvania (Aldrich), 1887; and Some Genealogies and Family Records (known as the Straw Genealogies, by A.Y. Straw), 1931.