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 Philip Penn Hoy

Born - July 23, 1770

Buffalo Valley, Union County, Pennsylvania

Married - 1800

Died - October 26, 1823

Fairfield County, Ohio

Burial - Glick - Brick Church, Hoy Cemetery

Bloomfield Township, Fairfield County, Ohio

Find-A-Grave Memorial #95702971

 

 

Wife - Elizabeth (Eyer) Hoy

(Lizzie Hoy)

Born - January 14, 1777

Union, Pennsylvania

Died - February 18, 1850

Fairfield County, Ohio

Aged - 73 Years, 1 Month, 4 Days

Burial - Lithopolis Cemetery,
Lithopolis, Fairfield County, Ohio

Find-A-Grave Memorial #95907570

To This Marriage 11 Children Were Born

 

 

 

Tombstone Photograph Courtesy of Natalie Herdman

 

 

Tombstone Photograph is Courtesy of Melanie Mann

This Tombstone was found in the Glick-Brick Church Hoy Cemetery

Fairfield County, Ohio. It is believed to the the Original

Tombstone for Elizabeth (Eyer) Hoy. It is unknown why or If

she was re-interred in Lithopolis Cemetery.

This stone also Reads: Elizabeth, Wife of Philip Hoy

Died - Feb. 18, 1850, Aged - 73 Years, 1 Month, 4 Days.

 

 

The Hoy and Eyer Families

 

The upper region of the Susquehanna River was formerly known as Shamokin.

It derived its name from an Indian town which occupied the present site of Sunbury, at the confluence of the North and West Branches of the Susquehanna River.

The Name has been perpetuated in the beautiful city of Shamokin, east of Sunbury.

In 1772 the county of Northumberland was created, and it compromised all the upper region of the Susquehanna River. The West Branch Valley properly begins at the junction of the two branches and extends north to Williamsport, then west to Lock Haven, where the West Branch passes through the mountains.

The distance is over 60 miles. Westward from the river (West Branch) are many smaller valleys, extending literally from it as follows: West of Sunbury is Middle Creek Valley in Snyder County. A few miles north of Sunbury, and opening on the river is Dry Valley, in Union County, where the family of Abraham Eyer lived. A little north of this, and separated from it by the New Berlin Mountain, is the fertile and lovely Buffalo Valley, and in that valley lived Philip Hoy and his family. Farther north is White Deer Valley. 

West of Buffalo and White Deer are the Penns, Brush and Sugar Valleys. 

For the protection of the frontiers, a strong fort was built at the confluence of the North and West Branches of the Susquehanna River in 1756, in which the early settlers often found refuge during the dark days of the Revolution.

- SOURCE: A History of the Wolfe Family, by Herbert M. Turner -

 

Lizzie's Father - Reverend Abraham Eyer

Born - May 16, 1748

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Married - May 1770

Died - October 30, 1823

Dry Valley of Buffalo Valley,

Union County, Pennsylvania

Buried - Eyers Old Winfield Cemetery

Winfield, Union County, Pennsylvania

 

Lizzie's Mother - Catharina Elizabeth (Greybill) Eyer

Born - October 15, 1752

Dry Valley of Buffalo Valley,

Union County, Pennsylvania

Died - September 22, 1805

Dry Valley of Buffalo Valley,

Union County, Pennsylvania

Buried - Eyers Old Winfield Cemetery

Winfield, Union County, Pennsylvania

 

Note: Lizzie (Eyer) Hoy, is the sister of Molly (Eyer) Hoy, Wife of Daniel J. Hoy.

 

 

Daughter - Barbary "Barbara" (Hoy) Shetterly

Born - June 21, 1800

Pennsylvania

Husband - George E. Shetterly

 

Daughter - Catherine "Hattie" (Hoy) Dresback

Born - February 18, 1802

Husband - Jacob E. Dresbach

 

Son - Abraham Hoy

Born - October 6, 1803

1st Wife - Mary (Bogart) Hoy

2nd Wife - Mary Magdalena (Fellers) Hoy

3rd  Wife - Rachel (Rudolph) Sprayer-Hoy

 

Son - Phillip Penn Hoy Jr.

Born - July 30, 1805

Northumberland County, Pennsylvania

Wife - Lucy (Dague) Hoy

 

Daughter - Sarah Hoy

Born - 1805/1806

 Northumberland County, Pennsylvania

 

Son - Daniel J. Hoy

Born - September 5, 1807

Northumberland County, Pennsylvania

1st Wife - Molly (Flick) Hoy

2nd Wife - Hester (Twigg) Hoy

 

Daughter - Elizabeth "Betsy" Hoy

Born - July 30, 1809

Died - March 30, 1880

Burial - Glick, Brick Church, Hoy Memorial Cemetery,

Fairfield Township, Bloomfield County, Ohio

 

Daughter - Anna (Hoy) Dresbach

Born - December 1, 1812

Husband - Johann (John) Dresbach
 

Daughter - Sarah Sally (Hoy) Teegarden

Born - February 17, 1814

Husband - Aaron Teegarden

 

Son - Martin Hoy

Born - October 2, 1817 

Wife - Amanda (Twigg) Hoy

 

Son - Jacob Hoy

Born - October 1, 1819

Wife - Rebecca (Hoffman) Hoy 

 

Father Johann Phillip Hoy

Mother - Barbara Hoy

 

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