OBIT: George W. HOOVER, 1899, Duncansville, Blair County, PA

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GEORGE W. HOOVER.

  At half-past 9 o'clock Tuesday morning Mr. George W. Hoover died at 
the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Harlin Harris, at Duncansville.  He 
had been ill for two weeks past and death was caused by pleuro-
pneumonia.  The deceased was born on July 21, 1822, in Taylor township, 
Blair county.  Until he was 19 years of age he remained on his father's 
farm, at which age he was married to Miss Catharine Ake.  Their married 
life was a most happy one and on the 8th of July, 1891, they celebrated 
their golden wedding anniversary. This happy relation was broken on 
December 27, 1894, when his wife died. Soon after his marriage he began 
teaching school and for twenty-one terms in succession followed this 
honorable occupation.  Then the war breaking out he enlisted in the 
Fourteenth regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers.  In 1862 he re-enlisted 
in the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth regiment and in 1864 in the 
Seventy-sixth Pennsylvania.  He was mustered out at Raleigh, N.C., July 
18, 1865, having thus practically served during the entire war.  He 
participated in the battles of Antietam, Chancellorsville, Cold Harbor 
and Fort Fisher and many minor engagements.  He was wounded at Drury's 
Bluff and Fort Fisher. After the war he served in a number of public 
offices including five terms as a justice of the peace.
  He is survived by these children: Mrs. Jennie Harris, of 
Duncansville; Mrs. Kate Williams, of Muncie, Ind.; E. G. Hoover, of 
Altoona, with home he had practically made his home since his wife's 
death, and Harry D. Hoover, agent of the Pennsylvania railroad company 
at Portage, Cambria county.
  Funeral services will be held at the resident of his son-in-law, Mr. 
Harlin Harris, at noon on Thursday.  The cortege will leave 
Duncansville on the 2 o'clock train and the remains will be conveyed to 
Roaring Spring, where the interment will take place.  An opportunity 
will be given at the latter place for friends to view the remains.

Altoona Tribune, Thursday, February 9, 1899