Adelbert HOOKINS was born in March 1881 and is the father of John Scott HOOKINS in the previous post. Adelbert was born in Oil City Pennsylvania one of 5 children of Isaac Frank HOOKINS and his wife Elizabeth Ann both of whom are said to have been born in England but that has not yet been proven. Neither is the fact that Elizabeth had been married prior to this marriage. Adelbert migrated to Kansas in the early 1900s to work for Prairie Oil & Gas Company which made the town of Independence its Headquarters from 1905. John Scott HOOKINS was born there in 1921 and Adelbert eventually died in the town in February 1950.
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