Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Hoover, John 1842 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Harrison Township
p. 508

John Hoover, son of Henry and Asenath (Wisehart) Hoover, was born in Wayne 
County, Ind., in 1842. He obtained a good education at the country schools, 
and has followed farming through life. He now owns 155 acres on Green's Fork, 
all well improved, being a part of the old homestead. He was married in April, 
1869, to Sarah, daughter of Isaac Clifford (deceased). They were the parents 
of four daughters---Letta, Jessie, Mary and Saddie. Mary and Jessie are 
deceased. Our subject's father was a son of Henry Hoover, a native of North 
Carolina; was born and reared in Wayne County. He owned one of the finest 
farms on Green's Fork, containing 400 acres, and two other farms in the 
county. He died in Wayne County, aged sixty-six years. His widow is living at 
the age of sixty-five years. They had five children born to them---Matilda, 
Larkin, Elizabeth, John and Sarah, all of Wayne County.


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