Clearfield County PA Archives Obituaries.....Hoyt, Catharine (Ruble) October 2, 1845
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Raftsman Journal Oct 20, 1845
DIED - In Huston township, on the 2nd day of October, Catharine Hoyt, age 87 
years.  She was the widow of S.(Seth)M.Hoyt, dec'd, late of New Haven, Vt., a 
revolutionary soldier.  

She was a mother of the Revolution.  She spread the cloth before the 
chieftains and champions of our country's rights and liberty--and day after 
day, and week after week prepared the table for the soldiers of our republic 
while recruiting under Col. Barns, of Lanesborough, Mass., for the purpose of 
watching the motions and arresting the progress of Gen. Burgoyne, who was 
advancing from the north with an army which darkened the air, and spread 
terror and consternation thro the country.  Her compensation, she informed me, 
for six weeks service, brought her just one paper of pins.  She heard the roar 
of the cannon on the plains of Bennington, and watched, with eager eve, the 
approaching messenger flying from the battleground; and listened, with an 
anxious ear, to the tidings he bore from the field of danger.  She saw the 
prisoners after the battle as they were marched through the country refreshed 
by the hospitality of 'Lanesborough folks,' and heard them exclaim 'Cot pless 
Gen. Washington and his people for their kindness to poor Hessians.'  She 
married soon after the close of the war, and some years after moved to the 
State of Vermont, where she lived in the town of New Haven, till about ten 
years since, for the sake of her children, she came to live and die in this 
county.  

I might here commence a eulogy on her moral, religious, social and domestic 
virtues, but my readers would be likely to discover in it more of pride than 
gratitude--more of weakness than wisdom; let it suffice to say, that in all 
these relations, she has "acted well her part."  She was long a member of the 
Presbyterian church in New Haven, but at last she renounced the dogmas of John 
Calvin and put her foot upon that mountain of error and superstition which has 
for ages cast a shadow over the Christian world more gloomy than Atheistic 
darkness.  From above its murky atmosphere she discovered the utmost limits of 
Satan's kingdom, and aided by the clear light of Heaven, she saw and 
proclaimed a world's salvation.  She died as she had lived for many years, a 
firm believer in the doctrine of "the final restitution of all things which 
has been spoken of by all the holy prophets since the world began."

She's gone!
Weep not for her, if any Heaven there be, 
She must be there, and happier far than we--
Her fix'd abode, and our eternal home--
I see her now--she smiles and bids us come.
Did all her goodness move the eternal mind--
Did all her love a Saviour's bosom warm!
That if profane--we heed not what we say--
Compare a mountain to a grain of sand.
Old neptune's waters to a drop of rain--
Then snatch old Satan from the Almighty's hand--
Proclaim his power--and fix his dread domain. 
G.R.Hoyt
Oct. 20, 1945


Additional Comments:
Seth Hoyt Sr., 1753 or 1759 to 6 June 1831 buried in Vermont and Catharine 
Ruble Hoyt about 1760 to 2 Oct 1845 buried in Centre Church Cemetery, Lawrence 
Twp. Clearfield County, PA.  They were the parents of nine known children; 
Sarah Betsy, Patty, Seth Jr, Gould R., William H. (a doctor), Aurelia, Orris, 
Sophia, Patty (the 2nd).  In those days if a child died the name was sometimes 
used again for a later child, hence the two Patty names.  The son Gould wrote 
the obituary.  

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