HOOVER, Thomas B.

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For the Democrat

OBITUARY.

Thomas B. Hoover departed this life, after a brief illness of less than three weeks, on the morning of April 16th 1890, at his home near Union Village, Johnson County, Ind.

He was born in Jessamine County, Ky., October 16th, 1843. He was mar­ried to Miss Feina A. Edmonson Nov­ember 1865. The family came to Johnson County in 1869 and have since resided here. He joined the 2nd Mt. Pleasant church during Rev. W. T. Jolly’s pastorage, and together with his wife has been a faithful and sacrificing member. He was ever ready in all ways to do his part, and even more in sup­porting the Gospel.

The doors of his home were always open to ministers of the Gospel and many of his pastors will remember with pleasure the many happy moments spent with him around his fireside. His disposition was to attend always the services of his church where he was an attentive and earnest hearer.

He was ever ready to respond to the needs of any who were in distress. He had a genial and social disposition; was a sincere Christian though burdened with the mortality and mistakes com­mon to all so long as we are on earth.

Before he died he called his wife to him and told her she had always been good to him and would have nothing to regret and he would leave her in the hands of the Lord, then calling his children, told them to please God and not themselves, to attend church and Sunday school, and left this comforting word with them: “All is well with me” and while he was sorry to leave them if he would care to live longer it would be to smooth some of the rough places in life that perhaps he had made, but he hoped that all might forgive his mis­takes as freely as he forgave them.

The wife and four children are left to mourn their loss, while one dear daughter passed on before, only a little more than one year ago.

There is a vacancy, one more tie in Heaven, one less on earth; no father’s voice is heard speaking a warning word to guide aright the footsteps of his children or a word of cheer to the wife and mother. No more will his form cross the threshold of your home; he cannot come to you but you may go to him.

May each member of this family be so guided and directed that they may form an unbroken family circle around the throne of God, there to sing His praise forever.

Burial at 2nd Mt. Pleasant church April 17th. Funeral services together with that of his brother, Knight H. Hoover, who died March 14th, were conducted by their pastor Rev. P. O. Duncan, from the text, “I know my Redeemer liveth.”              J. O.

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Link to Thomas B. Hoover’s grave

Note: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 97, referencing Book H-16, page 2, records that Thomas Hoover, a white male (no age given), died 16 Apr 1890 in Indiana.

Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry