{"id":829,"date":"2015-09-20T16:08:14","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T21:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=829"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:54:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:54:03","slug":"james-hoover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/james-hoover\/","title":{"rendered":"HOOVER, James"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>JAMES HOOVER<\/strong> was born July 29, 1814, in Rutherford County, Tenn., son of <strong>Christopher and Elizabeth (Lotspeech) Hoover<\/strong>.\u00a0 The father was born about 1776, in Germany, as also was the mother of our subject.\u00a0 <strong>James Hoover<\/strong> was the eleventh of thirteen children born to his parents.\u00a0 He worked on the farm until he was twenty-three years of age after which he engaged in farming for himself.\u00a0 He has lived in this and the two adjoining counties (Rutherford and Coffee) all his life.<\/p>\n<p>December 26, 1837, he was united in marriage to <strong>Susan Moore<\/strong>, a native of Virginia, born about 1820.\u00a0 This union resulted in the birth of nine children:\u00a0 <strong>Robert W., Clementine F., Calladona J., Martha A., Mary E., Elizabeth E., Susan O., Charles M. and Hugh L<\/strong>.\u00a0 The mother died about 1859 in the full fruition of the Christian&#8217;s hope.<\/p>\n<p>In February, 1862, <strong>Mr. Hoover<\/strong> was married to <strong>M. J. Winn<\/strong>, of this county.\u00a0 This union resulted in the birth of eleven children:\u00a0 <strong>Alice D., Effie M., George C., Edward O., Harvey F., Cleopatra, James F., Benjamin, Nancy E., Albert A. and Anna M<\/strong>.\u00a0 <strong>Mr. Hoover<\/strong> was elected to the office of magistrate several years ago, but only served a short time.\u00a0 He is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and is politically a Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>Transcribed by Kathryn Hopkins<\/p>\n<p>Goodspeed Publishing Co.\u00a0<i>History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present: Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Maury, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson, Bedford &amp; Marshall Counties, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Reminescences [Sic], Observations, Etc., Etc<\/i>. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1988.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAMES HOOVER was born July 29, 1814, in Rutherford County, Tenn., son of Christopher and Elizabeth (Lotspeech) Hoover.\u00a0 The father was born about 1776, in Germany, as also was the mother of our subject.\u00a0 James Hoover was the eleventh of thirteen children born to his parents.\u00a0 He worked on the farm until he was twenty-three &#8230; <a title=\"HOOVER, James\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/james-hoover\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about HOOVER, James\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1787,14],"tags":[2598,2589,2599,2596,2581,2586,2576,2580,2594,2592,2590,2584,2591,2593,2587,2575,2595,2582,2583,2597,2579,2585,2577,2578,2588],"class_list":["post-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedford","category-coffee","category-rutherford","tag-hoover-albert-a","tag-hoover-alice-d","tag-hoover-anna-m","tag-hoover-benjamin","tag-hoover-calladona-j","tag-hoover-charles-m","tag-hoover-christopher","tag-hoover-clementine-f","tag-hoover-cleopatra","tag-hoover-edward-o","tag-hoover-effie","tag-hoover-elizabeth-e","tag-hoover-george-c","tag-hoover-harvey-f","tag-hoover-hugh-i","tag-hoover-james","tag-hoover-james-f","tag-hoover-martha-a","tag-hoover-mary-e","tag-hoover-nancy-e","tag-hoover-robert-w","tag-hoover-susan-o","tag-lotspeech-elizabeth","tag-moore-susan","tag-winn-m-j"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":830,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}