Elizabeth Hoge (1817 - 1870)

Born 30 Mar 1817 in Montgomery County, Virginia, USA

Ancestors

Wife of Moses Hunter — married 29 Dec 1832 in Montgomery County, Virginia, USA

Descendants

Died 10 Nov 1870 at age 53 in Mount Vernon, Missouri, USA

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Biography

Elizabeth was born on March 30, 1817 in Virginia to William Edward Hoge and Margaret Anderson. She married Moses Hunter on December 29, 1832 in Montgomery County, Virginia.^[1] The couple spent a number of years in Virginia, where they raised their eleven children.

The family moved to Missouri in 1857, where they lived on a farm in the White Oak community in northwestern Lawrence County or northeastern Jasper County, Missouri.^[2] Their move to Missouri--a border state--coincided with the eve of the Civil War, and their neighborhood soon became rife with troubles due to guerrilla bands (known as "bushwackers") and clashes of Union and anti-Union residents. A series of letters written by Elizabeth Hunter and her daughters, Priscilla A. Hunter and Charlotte Elizabeth (Hunter) Hagler, and addressed to another daughter, Margaret (Hunter) Newberry tell of the increasing instability and violence in Jasper and Lawrence counties. [see Space:Hunter-Hagler_Letters] After the murders of several of their neighbors, and after having been robbed themselves, the Hunters sold their farm in 1865 and left Missouri for Buckhart in Christian County, Illinois. After the war, the Hunters returned to Missouri. By 1870, Moses and Elizabeth were living near Mount Vernon, Missouri.^[2] It was here that Elizabeth passed away on November 10, 1870.

Sources

• 1860 Census: "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MHZQ-NJP : 30 December 2015), Elizabeth Hunter in entry for Moses Hunter, 1860.
• 1870 Census: "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M46X-RMB : 17 October 2014), Elizabeth Hunter in household of Hosea Hunter, Missouri, United States; citing p. 15, family 91, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,286.

1. ↑ "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XR8J-995 : accessed 4 April 2016), Moses Hunter and Elizabeth Hoge, 29 Dec 1832; citing Montgomery County, Virginia, reference P 235; FHL microfilm 32,633.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Hunter-Hagler Letters finding aid from The State Historical Society of Missouri