The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-11-15

Although it is not customary for
write a book or memoirs of past indi-
dents, and especially so when no stir
ing incidents by fire or flood has
marked my progress through life thus
far, yet when it is known that | am
90 years old and that 48 of these years
have been spent in Ohio and Indiana,
the liberty of leaving hebind me a
brief notice of some incidents Of my
history will not be considered vain or
egOtistical.
AS the accuracy of my dates may in
some instances be disputed, | will say
! that ! will write altogether from pres
ent recollection without the aid of
single book or newspaper to set me
right. | shall positively confine myself
! to facts so far as the narrative is con-
! Cerned, whether the dates may be cor
rect or not.
I never made an effort at biographi-
| cal history and entertain fears lest my
! effort should be tame and void of point
or interest. All men were once born
and / among that number, was born
in Randolph county on the 22nd day
of September, 1888. My grandfather,
| Andrew Hoover, or Huber, which lat
! born in Germany and came to Ameri-
ca when boy with two older broth
ers. They settled in Maryland on Pipe
creek. There he was married to Mary
| Fauts and about the year 1865 he
moved to North Carolina, together
with a number of families from Mary
land and Pennsylvania. I never knew
my grandfather but recollect my
grandmother who departed this life
about the year 1897.
Buried Wife in Ocean.
| My father Andrew Hoover, the sec
Ond Of the eight sons. was born in the
/ year 1852. and was some Is years old
/ when he left Maryland and was mar
| ried to Elizabeth Waymere 1775. My
grandfather, Rudolph Waymere bur
led his wife in the Atlantic Ocean on
their passage to America, consequent
ly | never say her. but Grandfather
Waymere I frequently saw and was
at his funeral, the first ] ever saw. Flu
nerals of that time were unlike those
of this date
A circumference of perhaps ten
miles in diameter assembled on such
occasions and seriousness not com
monty witnessed in our day marked
| the ceremony.
Grandfather Hoover had eight sons
and five daughters and Grandfather
! Waymere by his first wife had seven
daughters and one son and by a sec
ond wife seven sons. They all seem
ed inclined to obey one of the com
mandments "Multiply and replenish
the earth" hence my relations are very
numerous and scattered over several
states.
With the exception of two or three
never heard of the charge of intern
perance being brought against them
nor fine or Imprisonment, nor theft
or robbery. nor have any of them avail
ed themselves of the benefit of any
bankrupt law and with a few excep-
tons they have always acted with
what in this day is called the Whig
party in politics. The Hoover section
of the family is rather sturnpy, inclin-
ed to corpulency, with a constitution
| unimpaired and vigorous.
| My father had four sons and six
| daughters Of which number | am the
sixth. All are now living except the
| oldest of the family, Mary Newman
who departed this life in March. 1905,
! leaving two daughters and three sons
of whom |. S. Newman, of Centerville
is the Youngest She was buried near
log caDlh quaker meeting mouse ten
miles north of Dayton Five years ago
| alone visited the resting place of
! the ashes of my sister having never
| before seen it and kneeling by it's side
! dropped a few tears to the memory of
| one / had loved.
Joined Society Of Friends.
| During my fathers residence In
| North Carolina, he and my mother af-
ter serious inquiry and reflection unit
! ed themselves to the society of
/ Friends or Quakers and continued con-
slant members until death loosed the
| ties Of church membership here be-
! low, BY the discipline of the society