This memorial to his Great-Grandfather is intended to highlight facts about his life that Roy Hoover and his brother gained through ten years of research.
Son of Peter and Alice Elen Davidson (Davison?) Hoover. Henry Hoover used a number of different dates as his birthday, but he primarily stuck with the year 1823, and with the location of his birth being Ohio. There is a possibility that he was born in Pennsylvania or some other East Coast State, and moved to Ohio at a very early age.
As a matter of record, on March 20, 1864, the forty-year-old Henry was in Belmont County, Ohio, and married the 24 year old, Nancy Jane "Jamima or Jamimah" Ault. They settled in Monroe County, Ohio, where their first child, Mary Alice Hoover, was born in 1865. In 1866, Henry and his family followed the Aults to Southern Indiana, staying for a short time in Jackson County, prior to permanently locating in Brown County, Indiana, where their other children would be born. His brother William N Hoover (FindaGrave ID # 3951138) had already settled in the Brown County area, but died in during Civil War service by the time Henry settled in the area.
There is evidence that the family remained in contact with his other brother Seth Robert Hoover (FindaGrave ID # 105763814) and his children in postcards that were in the collection of the family in Brown County, Indiana.
I can plainly say that anything written or oral about Henry Hoover that pertains to Elkinsville is in error, as is any death date beyond the year 1900. Thomas Kirk, Henry's brother-in-law and the husband of Mary Ault, stated that Henry Hoover died on November 22, 1896, and was buried in an "unknown" location. The location may have been unknown due the fact that it was too far away to attend the funeral. Still, a pre-July 1900 date of death is substantiated by Nancy Jane Ault Hoover in the 1900 census where she states that she is a "widow." Brown County Indiana was lightly populated during this time when socializing and entertaining meant having face-to-face contact, and in addition many of the residents were related; therefore, it appears implausible that my Great-Grandmother would take a chance on ruining her reputation by saying anything but the truth about Henry.
Per his son, Francis Marion Hoover, Henry abandoned his young children and walked away from his family in Van Buren Township, Brown County, Indiana, sometime between the years 1885 to 1888. Was he murdered? Did he die in prison or an asylum? Did he simply return to his roots in Ohio? Those that knew the answer took his unmentionable secret with them to their graves.
If you have any tidbit of information about this Henry Hoover, please leave me a message or send an email. Documentation and photos would be a delightful addition.
Son of Peter and Alice Elen Davidson (Davison?) Hoover. Henry Hoover used a number of different dates as his birthday, but he primarily stuck with the year 1823, and with the location of his birth being Ohio. There is a possibility that he was born in Pennsylvania or some other East Coast State, and moved to Ohio at a very early age.
As a matter of record, on March 20, 1864, the forty-year-old Henry was in Belmont County, Ohio, and married the 24 year old, Nancy Jane "Jamima or Jamimah" Ault. They settled in Monroe County, Ohio, where their first child, Mary Alice Hoover, was born in 1865. In 1866, Henry and his family followed the Aults to Southern Indiana, staying for a short time in Jackson County, prior to permanently locating in Brown County, Indiana, where their other children would be born. His brother William N Hoover (FindaGrave ID # 3951138) had already settled in the Brown County area, but died in during Civil War service by the time Henry settled in the area.
There is evidence that the family remained in contact with his other brother Seth Robert Hoover (FindaGrave ID # 105763814) and his children in postcards that were in the collection of the family in Brown County, Indiana.
I can plainly say that anything written or oral about Henry Hoover that pertains to Elkinsville is in error, as is any death date beyond the year 1900. Thomas Kirk, Henry's brother-in-law and the husband of Mary Ault, stated that Henry Hoover died on November 22, 1896, and was buried in an "unknown" location. The location may have been unknown due the fact that it was too far away to attend the funeral. Still, a pre-July 1900 date of death is substantiated by Nancy Jane Ault Hoover in the 1900 census where she states that she is a "widow." Brown County Indiana was lightly populated during this time when socializing and entertaining meant having face-to-face contact, and in addition many of the residents were related; therefore, it appears implausible that my Great-Grandmother would take a chance on ruining her reputation by saying anything but the truth about Henry.
Per his son, Francis Marion Hoover, Henry abandoned his young children and walked away from his family in Van Buren Township, Brown County, Indiana, sometime between the years 1885 to 1888. Was he murdered? Did he die in prison or an asylum? Did he simply return to his roots in Ohio? Those that knew the answer took his unmentionable secret with them to their graves.
If you have any tidbit of information about this Henry Hoover, please leave me a message or send an email. Documentation and photos would be a delightful addition.
This memorial to his Great-Grandfather is intended to highlight facts about his life that Roy Hoover and his brother gained through ten years of research.
Son of Peter and Alice Elen Davidson (Davison?) Hoover. Henry Hoover used a number of different dates as his birthday, but he primarily stuck with the year 1823, and with the location of his birth being Ohio. There is a possibility that he was born in Pennsylvania or some other East Coast State, and moved to Ohio at a very early age.
As a matter of record, on March 20, 1864, the forty-year-old Henry was in Belmont County, Ohio, and married the 24 year old, Nancy Jane "Jamima or Jamimah" Ault. They settled in Monroe County, Ohio, where their first child, Mary Alice Hoover, was born in 1865. In 1866, Henry and his family followed the Aults to Southern Indiana, staying for a short time in Jackson County, prior to permanently locating in Brown County, Indiana, where their other children would be born. His brother William N Hoover (FindaGrave ID # 3951138) had already settled in the Brown County area, but died in during Civil War service by the time Henry settled in the area.
There is evidence that the family remained in contact with his other brother Seth Robert Hoover (FindaGrave ID # 105763814) and his children in postcards that were in the collection of the family in Brown County, Indiana.
I can plainly say that anything written or oral about Henry Hoover that pertains to Elkinsville is in error, as is any death date beyond the year 1900. Thomas Kirk, Henry's brother-in-law and the husband of Mary Ault, stated that Henry Hoover died on November 22, 1896, and was buried in an "unknown" location. The location may have been unknown due the fact that it was too far away to attend the funeral. Still, a pre-July 1900 date of death is substantiated by Nancy Jane Ault Hoover in the 1900 census where she states that she is a "widow." Brown County Indiana was lightly populated during this time when socializing and entertaining meant having face-to-face contact, and in addition many of the residents were related; therefore, it appears implausible that my Great-Grandmother would take a chance on ruining her reputation by saying anything but the truth about Henry.
Per his son, Francis Marion Hoover, Henry abandoned his young children and walked away from his family in Van Buren Township, Brown County, Indiana, sometime between the years 1885 to 1888. Was he murdered? Did he die in prison or an asylum? Did he simply return to his roots in Ohio? Those that knew the answer took his unmentionable secret with them to their graves.
If you have any tidbit of information about this Henry Hoover, please leave me a message or send an email. Documentation and photos would be a delightful addition.
Son of Peter and Alice Elen Davidson (Davison?) Hoover. Henry Hoover used a number of different dates as his birthday, but he primarily stuck with the year 1823, and with the location of his birth being Ohio. There is a possibility that he was born in Pennsylvania or some other East Coast State, and moved to Ohio at a very early age.
As a matter of record, on March 20, 1864, the forty-year-old Henry was in Belmont County, Ohio, and married the 24 year old, Nancy Jane "Jamima or Jamimah" Ault. They settled in Monroe County, Ohio, where their first child, Mary Alice Hoover, was born in 1865. In 1866, Henry and his family followed the Aults to Southern Indiana, staying for a short time in Jackson County, prior to permanently locating in Brown County, Indiana, where their other children would be born. His brother William N Hoover (FindaGrave ID # 3951138) had already settled in the Brown County area, but died in during Civil War service by the time Henry settled in the area.
There is evidence that the family remained in contact with his other brother Seth Robert Hoover (FindaGrave ID # 105763814) and his children in postcards that were in the collection of the family in Brown County, Indiana.
I can plainly say that anything written or oral about Henry Hoover that pertains to Elkinsville is in error, as is any death date beyond the year 1900. Thomas Kirk, Henry's brother-in-law and the husband of Mary Ault, stated that Henry Hoover died on November 22, 1896, and was buried in an "unknown" location. The location may have been unknown due the fact that it was too far away to attend the funeral. Still, a pre-July 1900 date of death is substantiated by Nancy Jane Ault Hoover in the 1900 census where she states that she is a "widow." Brown County Indiana was lightly populated during this time when socializing and entertaining meant having face-to-face contact, and in addition many of the residents were related; therefore, it appears implausible that my Great-Grandmother would take a chance on ruining her reputation by saying anything but the truth about Henry.
Per his son, Francis Marion Hoover, Henry abandoned his young children and walked away from his family in Van Buren Township, Brown County, Indiana, sometime between the years 1885 to 1888. Was he murdered? Did he die in prison or an asylum? Did he simply return to his roots in Ohio? Those that knew the answer took his unmentionable secret with them to their graves.
If you have any tidbit of information about this Henry Hoover, please leave me a message or send an email. Documentation and photos would be a delightful addition.
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