Henry Thomas Hoover (1750 - 1833)

Born 5 Apr 1750 in York County, Colony of Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 10 Apr 1833 at age 83 in Lincoln County, North Carolina

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Biography

Thomas was born in Pennsylvania to Solomon and Sybella Hoover/Huber/Huver. He married Mariah Barbara Warlick, who had recently received 200 acres of land from her parents near Potts Creek in what is now Lincoln County, North Carolina. He also purchased additional land in 1782, received a land grant, and inherited land from his father. He furnished supplies to Patriot soldiers during the Revolutionary War.^[1]

He appears in the 1790 Census in the Morgan District of Lincoln County with 1 male over 16, 5 males under 16, and 5 females.

He wrote a record of his family in German which was later translated by J.H. Dingelhoef and then published in the Statesville newspaper, the "Landmark" as follows:

"Born in the year of Christ, 1775, the 31st day of January, afternoon between 3 and 4 o'clock, my daughter Barbara was born, in waterman (Waterman is a sign of the Zodiac). In the year of Christ 1776, 28 of October, between 3 and 4 o'clock, my son Solomon was born, in the sign of the face. In the year of Christ 1780, 31st of January, my daughter Elizabeth was born in the sign of the crabfish. In the year of Christ, 1784, the 15th day of January, my twin children were born, the name of the son, John Philip Huber, and the daughter named Eva, in the sign of the balance. In the year of Christ, 1787, on the 4th of March, my daughter Magdalene was born."

He named the following children in his will: Jacob, Daniel, and Elizabeth received specific bequests and that not "particularly bequeathed" was to be sold and equally "Divided between my children that shall be named as follows Solomon, Henry, Philip, Thomas, Jacob, Barbara, Polly, Eve & Sally & I hereby direct that the willed part of my Daughters shall be paid into their hands & not to the husband for their support but they may do with it as they Please." He bequeathed to Jacob "the plantation whereon I now live & also the one half of the / pine lands on Shucks branch including the improvement". He asked that Jacob provide a home for his sister, Elizabeth, as long as she remained single, and he left a number of other goods to Elizabeth, as well as instructions that if Jacob sold the "plantation", he was to give $100 to Elizabeth in recompense. To Daniel, he left 500 dollars.

After the death of their mother and father, the surviving heirs filed a Bill of Complaint (Lincoln County, NC Equity Court) against their brother Jacob Hoover to force him to agree to a sale of certain land rather than its division into eleven parcels. Subscribing to the complaint were Solomon Hoover, Daniel Hoover, Henry Hoover, Philip Hoover, Thomas Hoover, Daniel Seagle and wife Sarah (Hoover), Jacob Brem and wife Eve (Hoover), George Sides and wife Polley (Hoover), and Barbara Shuford.

His gravestone reads Thomas Huver.

Children:

Barbara, m Shuford

Solomon

Elizabeth, m Kistler

John Philip

Eva, m Jacob Brem (their son was Thomas)

Magdalene "Polly", m George Sides

Jacob

Daniel

Henry

Thomas

Sarah "Sally", m Daniel Seagle

Sources

1. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 4 July 2023), "Record of Thomas Hoover", Ancestor # A057876.

• Lincoln County Will Book 1, page 28
• Marlene S. Bates and F. Edward Wright, York County, Pennsylvania, Church Records of the 18th Century, Volume 1, (Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1991), p. 144]
• The Heritage of Iredell County, 1980, published by the Genealogical Society of Iredell County, PO Box 946, Statesville, North Carolina 28677, ISBN 0-89459-087-1, 642 pages with index, See also Space:The Heritage of Iredell County
• Hoover Homestead Link
• Find-a-grave #28144862

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Donna Joy Johnson for her extensive research on the Hoover Family which can be viewed online at http://huver.homestead.com.