General Notes

The following is a copy of a funeral card for Susannah
HOOVER, mother of Christena WARNER (wife of Aaron HOOVER)
and mother of Laura Belle HOOVER ROBISON.  I have added
parenthetically where I have obtained additional information
from other sources.

SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF THE LIFE AND CHARACTER
OF SUSANNAH HOOVER

DIED---At the residence of Henry WARNER, one mile south
of Bradford, Ohio, on the 11th day of April 1889, Susannah
HOOVER, aged 94 years and three months, being the oldest
lady in the community.  Susannah BRUMBAUGH was the
daughter of John and Christena (METZGER) BRUMBAUGH; was
born on the 12th day of January 1795, in Blair County,
Pennsylvania.  Her parents, as all parents in these days, were
not too well provided with this world's goods, and as a matter
of course her early life was spent at home in an effort of
making a living.  Her education was very meager, but the
religious training that she received from the good old mother
away back in the early part of the nineteenth century has
continued with her through all the trials and sufferings that
she met during life.
She was a member of the German Baptist Church for over
seventy years, and always led an upright and Christian life,
one that others could look up to with pride, and follow with
safety, one that led not along the highway of wickedness, but
the straight forward course to virtue, peace and happiness,
her life and indulgences were such that the organs of her
body reached the goal of her existence together, and painless
as a candle burns down in its socket, her life went out, to
cross the unknown into that beyond, where she has met those
who knew her almost a century ago.
She was the oldest of nine children, and of course a great
deal depended upon her while at home.  Two of these are
still living, Conrad BRUMBAUGH and Elizabeth HULL.
In 1812, she was married to Christopher SEAS (CEASE) (SEES)
(he was on the 1810 census in Fayette County, Pennsylvania),
by whom she had three sons and one daughter (Catharine
who married Henry WARNER in whose household Susannah
passed away, Abraham, Jacob, and a third son name
unknown).  In 1818 hearing of the opening up of Ohio to
settlement they loaded their family into a wagon and started
west, and settled in Miami County, Ohio.  He began to open
up a farm among the Indians and wolves, who at that time
were very friendly.  The former being of a shiftless nature
begging a morsel of maize, while the latter would run the
dogs into the house through the door that consisted merely
of a quilt hung up before the opening.  But such quarters
were not used by these people very long.  They were
industrious and soon had a comfortable home constructed of
hewed logs, chinked and daubed, in good style, but this
happiness in the wilds of Miami County, was not to continue
for her long, for in the summer of 1821, her husband was
taken sick, and died leaving her alone to struggle for herself
and family.
She proved herself equal to the task, keeping the family
together, for a years or so, when Andrew WARNER (who had
married about 1810 to Susannah's cousin, Catharine
BRUMBAUGH, daughter of Jacob BRUMBAUGH, and they had
three children:  Henry, Susan, and Elizabeth), a respected
citizen sought her companionship, and they were married in
1822, by whom she raised one daughter (our Christena was
born 25 Mar 1823).  This was a happy union, but alas for
human events, was soon to be cut short.  He died in 1824 (he
died intestate October of 1823), leaving her the second time
a widow, to brood over her trials and sorrows alone.
This time she remained a widow until Jacob WARNER (he had
married before to Rosanna LINGENFELTER and had 13 children),
another respected neighbor turned his attention to her
interests, and they were married in 1827.  To this union four
more children were born (David, Joseph, Daniel, and Lydia).
This union brought together four sets of children, who were
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