Person:Catherine Hoover (9)

Watchers
Catherine "Katy" (Hoover) Simmons
m. Abt 1772
  1. Mary HooverAbt 1772 - Abt 1816
  2. Magdalena (Hoover) EversoleAbt 1773 -
  3. Elizabeth HooverAbt 1773 -
  4. Barbara (Hoover) Shock1775 - 1852
  5. Frances (Hoover) KickAbt 1778 - Aft 1816
  6. Christina (Hoover) Metzger1778 - 1856
  7. David Hoover1778 - 1848
  8. Jonathan Hoover1783 - 1856
  9. Jonas HooverAbt 1788 - 1873
  10. Nancy HooverAbt 1789 -
  11. Moses Hoover
  12. Joshua Hoover1796 - 1836
  13. Elias Hoover1797 - 1878
  14. Catherine "Katy" (Hoover) Simmons1798 - Aft 1881
  • HDaniel SimmonsAbt 1795 - Abt 1845
  • WCatherine "Katy" (Hoover) Simmons1798 - Aft 1881
m. Abt 1816
Facts and Events
Name[1] Catherine "Katy" (Hoover) Simmons
Baptismal Name[1] Catherine Hoover
Gender Female
Birth[1] 1798 Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States
Residence? 1800 Montgomery, Ohio, United States
Marriage Abt 1816 Montgomery, Ohio, United Statesto Daniel Simmons
Residence? 1825 Prairie Creek, Delaware, Indiana, United States
Residence? 1831 Muncie, Delaware, Indiana, United States
Death[1] Aft 1881 Delaware, Indiana, United States[she is alive in Helm's 1881 book[

Research Notes

  • Some OLTs state that Catherine Hoover also married David Putterbaugh on/abt 3 Nov 1818 in possibly Montgomery county, Ohio.
    • Helm (1881)1 does not support this. "Aunt Katy (Hoover) Simmons" was alive at the time of his publication and no mention is made of any husband other than Daniel Simmons!
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Aunt Kathy Hoover Simmons, in Helm, Thomas B.. History of Delaware County, Indiana: with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. (Chicago: Kingman Brothers, 1881)
    p 230.

    Catharine Hoover (Simmons) was born in 1798, in Bedford County, Penn. Her father removed to Ohio in the year 1800. He had twenty-one children, all of whom grew to maturity and were married, save one who died in childhood. The entire family removed to the West, and settled at various places. Four were married in Pennsylvania and sixteen in the West. The names of the sons were Jonathan, Jonas, Joshua, Eli, Martin, David, Abraham and Moses; and the daughters were Christina, Mary, Phrany, Betsey, Susan, Catharine, Esther (who died young), Margaret and Esther (the second), and four others, whose names are not at hand.

    The father settled near Dayton, Ohio, in the year 1800, and died about three years later. He was twice married, and his second wife died at Smithfield, in this county, about 1840.

    Catherine Hoover married Daniel Simmons in Ohio, in 1816; moved to Prairie Creek, in Delaware County, in 1825, and to Muncie in 1831. "Aunt Katy" has lived for thirty-five years on the lot which she now occupies. Her husband was large, tall, stout and active; in a word, a true type of the pioneer. He was a miller and worked at Goldsmith's Mill. He died of erysipelas about 1845, after an illness of only four days. His wife is still hearty and sprightly, although eighty-two years old. She has done the washing for Volney Wilson's family for thirty years, and only gave up the work last fall (1880). She has never worn spectacles, and her eyesight is still clear and good. She has been a member of the German Baptist Church for more than fifty years. Although she has but a meager education, she is neverthless intelligent, and altogether, a worthy and useful member of the community. She says that Indians sometimes came to this locality after she and her husband settled on Prairie Creek. When "Aunt Sallie," the Indian squaw, died, and was buried in the old Indian graveyard near their town, her grave was watched by the old Indiana, "Uncle Jake," who kept his lone vigil for two day and nights; and when he, too, died and was buried, His son, "Indian Jim," performed the same service for him. But Jim, poor fellow, was the last of his race, and when he was laid away, there was none to mourn him or guard the place of his last repose. "Jake," the old Indian, was well known to the earlier settlers of this county, and was "quite a character." He was a fine specimen of his race, tall, straight and stout; clever and nice when sober, but vicious when drunk--in which peculiarity he was no mean imitator of his white friends! "Aunt Sally" was a very small woman, but lively and active. It was an unfortunate trait of her character, but one that must be recorded nevertheless, that she followed the example of her noble lord and got drunk too.

    "Jim" was quite a respectable fellow: He became civilized and worked for his living, like the white men.