Blogging Woeful Wednesday

I've been horrible at posting lately....my apologies! Tis Renaissance Faire season, and I've been very busy vending at Faire.

Then, I injured my back and have been preoccupied by PAIN...

I will post on all my blogs SOON!!

Tombstone Tuesday

   

My great-grandmother, Jennie A. (Boltz) Hoover.

Wife of Thomas Benton Hoover.

Jennie died of breast cancer.

Wordless Wednesday

  

This is actually in Hoover, Alabama (no kin that I know of there)...but Hoover nonetheless!

Wordless Wednesday

Virginia John Lincoln, great-grandfather of President Abraham Lincoln

"My father's name was Thomas, my grandfather's Abraham, the same as my own. My grandfather went from Rockingham county in Virginia, to Kentucky about the year 1782. And two years afterward was killed by the Indians. We have a vague tradition that my great-grandfather went from Pennsylvania to Virginia, and that he was a Quaker. Further than this I have never heard anything." The first Lincoln to emigrate to Virginia is called in the Lincoln genealogy "Virginia John." He was the great grandfather of the president, and the father of the Ohio John.


The Lincoln homestead was on Linville Creek, Virginia, just down the road from the Hoover family.

Tombstone Tuesday - Hand Holding Heart meaning

This symbol was selected for Valentine's Day, coming up. However, the Hand holding a Heart depicts Charity, not Love, as I first thought! A very beautiful symbol, don't you think?

Wordless Wednesday

John Denver's 'almost Heaven' comes to mind...
home of part of the Hoover Clan...West Virginia

Tombstone Tuesday (NOT)

I know it's Tombstone Tuesday, but I am anxious to post a link to a wonderful website with tons of information about Coote's Store, Virginia.

Carolyn, owner of the site, has graciously given me permission to post this on this blog and provide a link to her wonderful website! Thank you, Carolyn!

This area, where Coote's Store is, is where some of my Hoover family were born and raised. Carolyn has posted photos, stories written by schoolchildren, history, and much more!

To give you a little taste of what you will find here, the following was written by 13 year old Mabel E. Turner:

"The little village of Cootes Store is located at the junction of the roads leading from Broadway to Ft. Seybert W. Va. and from Dayton to the Orkney Spring Grade.

Old documents show that the village is built either on the Trumbo or Brock grant of land, which was issued by the English from Williamsburg about the year 1760.

There are several old buildings still standing but we are not able to find out when they were built. The Cootes house was built in 1834 by Samuel L. Cootes, who came to this section from Pennsylvania.

A post office was established about a year after Mr. Cootes settled here. He was appointed postmaster. From this point mail was distributed for miles including Brocks Gap country. It was the home of Mr. Gailey, the first mail carrier to Ft. Seybert. The mail was carried on horse back."

Please take a few moments and visit. You can find it here:

http://www.cootes.com/