Patrick Crawford Hoy (1787 - 1860)

Born 17 Feb 1787 in County Antrim, Ireland

Husband of Mary Elizabeth (Coan) Hoy — married 1 Feb 1810 in Ireland

Descendants

Died 6 Jul 1860 at age 73 in Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States

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Biography

Patrick was born in 1787. He passed away in 1860.

• Capt. Patrick Hoy, died at his residence in this District, on the 6th July after an illness of only a few days, in the seventy-fourth year of his age. His attack, which perhaps, was hypoplaxy, was sudden and severe, and baffling, all remedies, bore him from earth to his long home.

He was a native of Antrim county, Ireland, .. emigated to this State in 1804,being then about 17 yeaars old. A few years after emigrating hither he married and settled where he died, having lived there a little more than 50 years. For many years he was employed as a gunsmith and to his fidelty and faithful work numbers of persons can well attest. He was a member of the Baptist Church twenty-five years and during the greater part of that time served in the office of deaacon with judgement and christian faithfulness.

Sources

• Find a Grave memorial page for Patrick Hoy (1787–6 Jul 1860), Find A Grave: Memorial #34940283, citing Nazareth Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Moore, Spartanburg County, South Carolina, USA ; Maintained by Leigh Compton Smith (contributor 47069426) .