Mary Ann "Polly" Truby (1775-1868) was the youngest daughter of Colonel Christopher Truby and his wife Sybilla Bauman. She was married first to Jacob Britzious/Bridges, who died in 1794; and second, to Dr. Simeon Hovey. Although she had no children of her own, she was mother and grandmother to a tribe of Robinsons, Marshalls and Baileys--children and further descendants of the six orphaned children of her older sister Catharina Truby Rohrer Marshall. In 1806, after the deaths of John and Catharina Marshall in New Lancaster, Ohio, "Aunt Hovey" retrieved some of these children and brought them back to the environs of present-day Hovey Township. There she and her Truby siblings provided them home, family and roots in the extreme northwestern tip of Armstrong County, on the western bluff above the Allegheny River. Some of the orphaned Marshall boys were reared by their Marshall family in/near St. Clairsville, Belmont County, Ohio; but all seem to have known the Hoveys, Trubys and Rohrers well throughout their lifetimes. Marshall sons John (1803-1889) and Samuel (1801-1835) ended up making their homes near the Hoveys in Lawrenceburg (later, Parker).
Mary Ann died at age 93 years, having lived through both the Revolution and the Civil War. She survived being captured by the Seneca Indians as a child, the death of two husbands, and the early years of life in the wilderness along the Allegheny River. She truly is "mother" to descendants of Catharina Truby Rohrer Marshall.
Mary Ann died at age 93 years, having lived through both the Revolution and the Civil War. She survived being captured by the Seneca Indians as a child, the death of two husbands, and the early years of life in the wilderness along the Allegheny River. She truly is "mother" to descendants of Catharina Truby Rohrer Marshall.
Mary Ann "Polly" Truby (1775-1868) was the youngest daughter of Colonel Christopher Truby and his wife Sybilla Bauman. She was married first to Jacob Britzious/Bridges, who died in 1794; and second, to Dr. Simeon Hovey. Although she had no children of her own, she was mother and grandmother to a tribe of Robinsons, Marshalls and Baileys--children and further descendants of the six orphaned children of her older sister Catharina Truby Rohrer Marshall. In 1806, after the deaths of John and Catharina Marshall in New Lancaster, Ohio, "Aunt Hovey" retrieved some of these children and brought them back to the environs of present-day Hovey Township. There she and her Truby siblings provided them home, family and roots in the extreme northwestern tip of Armstrong County, on the western bluff above the Allegheny River. Some of the orphaned Marshall boys were reared by their Marshall family in/near St. Clairsville, Belmont County, Ohio; but all seem to have known the Hoveys, Trubys and Rohrers well throughout their lifetimes. Marshall sons John (1803-1889) and Samuel (1801-1835) ended up making their homes near the Hoveys in Lawrenceburg (later, Parker).
Mary Ann died at age 93 years, having lived through both the Revolution and the Civil War. She survived being captured by the Seneca Indians as a child, the death of two husbands, and the early years of life in the wilderness along the Allegheny River. She truly is "mother" to descendants of Catharina Truby Rohrer Marshall.
Mary Ann died at age 93 years, having lived through both the Revolution and the Civil War. She survived being captured by the Seneca Indians as a child, the death of two husbands, and the early years of life in the wilderness along the Allegheny River. She truly is "mother" to descendants of Catharina Truby Rohrer Marshall.
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"Wife of Dr. Simeon Hovey / Died April 30 1868 in the 93rd year of her age"
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