HOOVER, Margaret (Brown) Beard

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Mrs. Knight Hoover died at her home four miles east of this city on Sunday night, aged seventy-five years [sic]. Her husband died about three months ago at the age of thirty-five years. Mrs. Hoover’s funeral took place from second Mt. Pleasant church on Monday afternoon.

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The Franklin Democrat, Friday, July 25, 1890,
Volume XXXI Number 5, page 4 column 4

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Executor’s Sale

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NOTICE is hereby given that on

SATURDAY, JULY 26TH, 1890,

I will sell at public venue all the personal property belonging to the est­ate of Margaret Hoover, deceased, at her late residence in Needham town­ship, Johnson county, Indiana consisting of household and kitchen furniture, top buggy and harness, one two-horse wag­on, one cow, one yearling heifer and other articles not herein enumerated.

TERMS OF SALE;—$5 and under, cash; above that, note with security, due December 25th, 1890.

JOHN McALPIN,  
Executor.

Link to Margaret (Brown) Beard Hoover’s grave

Notes: Indiana State Library Genealogy Database; Marriages through 1850 records that Andrew Beard married Margaret Brown on 18 Apr 1844 in Gibson County.
The 1850 US Federal Census for Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana records thirty-year-old, Illinois-born widow Margaret Beard and her six-year-old, Indiana-born daughter Hannah Beard.
The 1880 US Federal Census for Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana records sixty-one-year-old, Illinois-born widow Margaret Beard.
The Johnson County Indiana WPA Marriage Index, 1882–1920, referencing Book 6, page 6, records that Knight Hoover married Margaret Beard on 3 Dec 1882.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson