Frederick B. Hancock was one of the first veterans from Renton, Washington to die in the First World War. Fred Hancock was born on July 6, 1892, in Thurber, Texas, to Mary Jane Richardson Hancock and George W. Hancock, a thirty-one-year old naturalized citizen from England. Fred had four brothers— Isaac, Harry, John, and George Jr.—and three sisters—Pauline Hancock Roberts, Carrie Hancock Davis, and Jessie Hancock Merritt. As a young boy in about 1898, Fred..