Hoover Genealogy Page

The Music on this page is a composition for Piano & Flute that I composed in honor of my father.

You can jump immediately to my personal page and learn something about me, or you can read on to trace my family tree...or that part of it that I have already discovered.

A warrior line- The lords of Baux were renowned in the Middle Ages, described by Mistral as: warriors all -- vassals never; they were proud to trace their genealogy back to the Magi king, Balthazar, and, so that no one should ignore the fact, boldly placed the star of Bethlehem on their coat of arms!

Jump to my mother's side of the family by clicking below to learn about her PRAEUNER

Ancestors and Ancestral Home in Germany...Or continue far down to explore the HOOVERs

You can also now find out all about the Ancestry of My Great Grandmother Luella Lowry Hoover, from its beginnings in this country, in the state of Virginia!

You can now jump to Nelle Olson Hoover's (my Dad's Mom) page. Learn something of my Norwegian heritage!

One of their children, George Washington Hoover, lists his father's birthplace in the 1880 Census as Germany and that of his mother as PA. Not much is known about John & Betsy before about 1820. All of their children appear to have been born in Baltimore, Maryland. The family then moves to Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. One history of the area ("Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania," vol.1, pp.832-833) in a biographical sketch on the DILLEN family (who intermarried with the HOOVERs) relates in a rather dramatic way that John HOOVER died while out hunting in the snow. He either became ill or sleepy, or both, and laid down to rest. When a search party was sent out to find him, his body was found, with his faithful dog sitting atop his master's chest. No date is given for this death. Maria "Betsy" Debo HOOVER is said, in the same sketch to have died while crossing Clearfield Creek in a boat, perhaps of a heart attack. Again, the sketch gives no date for her death. So far, the only records I have found in Clearfield County pertain to the children of John & Betsy. I sure would like some help out there from anyone on this!

The Children of John & Betsy Hoover are

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