Nancy Hoover Clountz Nancy
Hoover was born July 10, 1852 in Virginia, daughter of Thomas
Nicholas Hoover and Sarah Ann Mowry. She died December 26. 1923 in
Grayson Co., Texas. On February 20, 1872, Nancy Hoover married W.
Marion Clountz, son of William Clountz and Anna Blair. Marion was
born March 25, 1845 in Greene Co., Ohio, and died June 3, 1918 in
Grayson, Texas. Nancy Hoover Clountz came to Texas in 1877 where they
first lived in the Oak Grove community between Denison and Pottsboro,
and later moved NW of Pottsboro. She was a lifelong member of the
Methodist church. She died at her home near Pottsboro at 8:30 am.
Burial was a Oak Grove cemetery, George Shields, funeral director,
officiating.
Children of Nancy Hoover and W Marion Clountz are:
Nancy's mother, Sarah Sally Mowery Hoover Goodman is known as the "Stump Woman," of Georgetown Cometary. All she had for a grave marker until 2013 was a Bois d'Arc fence post as a gravestone. It was in the NE corner of the Georgetown Cemetery, next to the three young children of Alex and Doll Moser. Biography Index Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson County TXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |