Person:Andrew Hoover (4)

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... It is customary, in personal sketches of this kind, to say something of one’s parents and education. I can only say, that my parents were always considered very exemplary in all their walk through life. ...
... As to my ancestors, I know but little. If my information is correct, my grandfather, Andrew Hoover, left Germany when a boy; married Margaret Fouts, in Pennsylvania; and settled on Pipe creek in Maryland. There my father [Andrew Hoover] was born; and from thence, now about one hundred years ago, he [my grandfather] removed to North Carolina, then a new country. ...
... My father had a family of ten children, four sons and six daughters. [3] In order to better our circumstances, he came to the conclusion of moving to a new country, and sold his possessions accordingly. He was then worth rising of two thousand dollars; which at that time, and in that country, was considered very considerably over an average in point of wealth. On the 19th of September, 1802, we loaded our wagon, and wended our way toward that portion of what was then called the Northwestern Territory which constitutes the present state of Ohio. ...
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[3] Andrew Hoover, Judge [David] Hoover’s father, died about the close of the year 1834, aged about eighty-three years. It was stated in his obituary notice, that he had then over one hundred descendents.
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... After about five weeks’ journeying, we crossed the Ohio river at Cincinnati, then a mere village, composed mostly of log houses. I think it was the day after an election had been held at that place for delegates to the convention to form a Constitution; at any rate a Constitution was formed the following winter, which was amended only within the last few years. After crossing the river, we pushed on to Stillwater, about twelve miles north of Dayton, in what is now the county of Montgomery. A number of our acquaintances had located themselves there the previous spring. There we encamped in the woods the first winter. The place had proved so unhealthy that we felt discouraged and much dissatisfied, and concluded not to locate there. My father then purchased tow hundred acres of land, not far from Lebanon, in Warren county, as a home, until we could make further examinations. ...
... Thus time passed on until the spring of 1806, when myself and four others, rather accidentally, took a section line some eight or ten miles north of Dayton, and traced it a distance of more than thirty miles, through an unbroken forest, to where I am now writing. It was the last of February, or the first of March, when I first saw Whitewater. On my return to my father’s, I informed him that I thought I had found the country we had been in search of. Spring water, timber, and building rock appeared to be abundant, and the face of the country looked delightful. In about three weeks after this, my father, with several others, accompanied me to this “land of promise.” ...
... It was not until the last of May or the first of June [1805] that the first entries were made. John Smith then entered south of Main street, where Richmond now stands, and several other tracts. My father entered the land upon which I now live, I having selected it on my first trip, and several other quarter sections. ...

ANDREW HOOVER was born in Maryland about the year 1751. His father, Andrew Hoover, and his wife's father, Rudolph Waymire, both emigrated from Germany to this country. Andrew Hoover, Sen., married Margaret Fouts in Pennsylvania, and settled in Maryland, where his son Andrew, the subject of this notice, was born. The latter married Elizabeth Waymire, and removed to North Carolina, where he resided until the autumn of 1802, when, with a large family, he removed to the Miami country in Ohio. In 1806, the family settled on Middle Fork of Whitewater, a mile and a half north-east of where Richmond now stands. The circumstances attending his settlement have been related. He had 10 children, all of whom were married, as follows:
1. Mary, born March 3, 1777, married Thomas Newman, father of John S. Newman, now of Indianapolis, and died about 1803.
2. Elizabeth, born Dec. 25, 1778, married Wm. Bulla, and died about the year 1857.
3. David; [see Sketch below.]
4. Frederick, born Sept. 24, 1783, married Catharine Yount, cousin of Catharine, David's wife, and had 11 children. He removed to the Wabash, where he died April 30, 1868.
5. Susanna, born in 1785, married Elijah Wright; had 10 children, and died in the spring of 1870.
6. Henry; [see Sketch.]
7. Rebecca; [see Sketch of Isaac Julian.]
8. Andrew, born June 26, 1793, married Gulielma Ratliff, and died in 1866.
9. Catharine, born Jan. 4, 1796, married John McLane; removed to Illinois, and died in 1865.
10. Sarah, born July 15, 1798, married Jacob Sanders, and had two daughters: Mary, who married Wm. Burgess, and is not living, and Elizabeth, who married Samson Boon, with whom Sarah Sanders now resides, in Richmond. Jacob Sanders died in 1862.

Andrew Hoover, father of the family sketched above, died near the close of the year 1834, aged about 83 years. He is said to have had, at the time of his death, upward of one hundred descendants. In a note by the editor of Judge Hoover's Memoir, he says: "Except the eldest, who died young, [Mary, at the age of about 26,] his children were all living until March, 1857; the oldest survivor being seventy-eight, and the youngest fifty-eight years of age. In December, 1854, an interesting reunion of these brothers and sisters was had, at the house of one of their number, in Richmond."