Williams son Richard (obviously named after his grandfather) was born in Indiana and his occupation was a Blacksmith.  He first married Sarah Perry and they had a daughter Wildah.  Later her name shows up in census records as Wilda.  I have not found any information yet about a death for Sarah.  He remarried Emma E. (no maidan name yet) and had three other children along with a step daughter from Emma's first marriage, Josie M. St.Clair.  Ruth and Lois I have been unable to trace as of yet. Richard M Fulkerson moved to Kansas for a short time then back to Indiana sometime between 1880 and 1900.  Even though his 1880 and 1900 Census shows him living in Indiana the three children with Emma were born in Kansas between those times.  Wildah probably stayed in Kansas with her new husband as she's not listed on the two census mentioned above.  She lived with him in Montgomery county.  the 1910 census shows William back in Kansas (Lois also lived there in 1910 with her husband).  Aparently to be near his daughters.  The 1930 census shows Emma as a widow so Richard died sometime between 1920 and 1930.

First wife Sarah E. Perry b: 1857  d: ?? m: 27 Oct 1875

Second wife Emma E. b: 1862  d: ?? m: 1888

Richard M. Fulkerson b: Aug 1852 d: ??

Richard Elmer Fulkerson b: 18 Jan 1890 in Kansas d: Jan 1963?? Gertrude ??? b: 1892

Lois L. Fulkerson b: 1884 in Kansas d: ?? Earl Trout b: 1880  d: ?? They were married in 1904

Wildah E. Fulkerson b: 15 Aug 1879 in Indiana d: 20 sep 1963 in San Juaquin, California Ernest F. Hockett b: 1876  d: ?? They were married in 1899

Ruth M. Fulkerson b: 1895 in Kansas d: ??

Dora V. Fulkerson b: 1913  d: ??

Hugh Ellis Hockett b: 29 Feb 1904 in Kansas d: 25 Sep 1978 in Orange County, California 1st Miriam Anna Douglas 2nd Doris R. Alfs b: 1904   d: Married 13 Nov 1970 In California

Richard Elmer Fulkerson was a machinist as well as a Sergent in the Kansas National Guard accourding to his WWI Draft Registration in 1917.  In 1920 He is shown as being a manager of a manufacturing plant in Coffeyville Kansas with one 7 year old child, Dora and a wife Gertrude.  Richard Moved his family to Fort Worth Texas maintaining his profession as a machinist for an oil and well supply company.  There is also a listing of a Richard Fulkerson in the Social Security Death Index born the same year as Richard Elmer.  If it's the same Richard he moved back to Kansas prior to his death.  He died 1963.  To show how family research can be tricky I ran across Gretchen Fulkerson in Oregon with two daughters, Dora and Viola.  she was head of household.  Dora was the exact age of Richards Dora and both Gretchens were from New York.  I therefore jumped to the conclusion this was the same Gretchen, and Viola was  somehow missed  in the 1920 census. I then sumised that they moved west after Richard Elmers death or divorce.  Upon further review I found a Gretchen, Dora and Viola Fulkerson living with her brother in New York in 1920 and the Girls father was from Minnisota.  I then went back to the Oregon records and found the same thing there in 1930.  That's when I found Richard, Gretchen, and Dora in Texas also in 1930.  Richard's name was spelled Richardson.  There were two Fulkerson families with two women named Gretchen with a slight age difference. Both had daughters with the exact same name born in the same year.  It's easy to jump to the wrong conclusion sometimes.

Wildah married Ernest Hockett in 1899.  Ernest was an insurance agent and eventually moved his family out to Oakland California by 1920.  Hugh lived with them in 1930 at age 25 and was a mechincal engineer.  Hugh Married Miriam Douglas and later became a widower.  Later in 1970 at the age of 66 he married Doris Alfs

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