HOOVER, Knight Hubbard

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Knight Hoover, a well-known farmer living three miles east of this city, died at his home on last Friday evening after an illness of several months of con­sumption, aged thirty-nine years. Sev­eral years ago he was married to Mrs. Margaret Beard, who survives him at the age of seventy-three. The funeral took place on Sunday at Second Mt. Pleasant church of which deceased was a member.

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The Franklin Democrat, Friday, March 21, 1890,
Volume XXX Number 39, page 6 column 4

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For the Democrat.

Obituary.

Knight Hubbard Hoover died at his home about three miles east of Franklin, on the evening of March 14th, 1890, and was buried at Second Mt. Pleasant on Sunday. During the month of August last he was taken with typhoid fever from which he never fully recovered. Soon consumption, that dread disease, developed and day by day he wasted away until death set its victim free. He was born in Jessamine County, Ky., August 13, 1847, and came to Johnson County in February 1872, bringing a sister with him. They, for a time, made their home with their brother, Thomas B. Hoover, who so kindly left his home and family and spent six weeks at the bedside of his dying brother. The sister passed over the river of Death several years ago and now another has passed to that bourne from whence none return, they being the first two of a family of eight brothers and three sisters to enter the great unknown beyond.

He was married December 3, 1882, to Mrs. Margaret Beard, who survives him. Early in life he gave his heart to the Lord and for several years past has been a member of the Second Mt. Pleasant church, living a Christian life and dying in full faith and bright hopes of a Christian’s reward. “Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord.”

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Link to Knight Hubbard Hoover’s grave

Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry