RACHEL E. STALCUP HOOVER

RACHEL E. STALCUP WAS BORN IN KENTUCKY, OCTOBER 26, 1818 AND MOVED WITH HER PARENTS WHEN SHE WAS QUITE YOUNG TO INDIANA. SHE WAS MARRIED JANUARY 1, 1841, TO THEODORE HOOVER, WHO DIED IN 1862. THIS UNION WAS BLESSED WITH SEVEN CHILDREN OF WHOM THREE ARE LIVING.  THEY ARE MRS. D.W. THOMPSON OF THIS CITY, MRS. WM. THOMPSON OF WATTERSON, AND MRS. FANNY STEWART OF GEORGIA.  SHE HAS BEEN A RESIDENT OF IOWA SINCE 1860.  FOR SOME TIME PAST MRS. HOOVER HAD MADE HER HOME WITH HER DAUGHTER, MRS. D.W. THOMPSON OF THIS CITY WHERE SHE DIED ON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28.  SHE HAS BEEN A CONSISTENT CHRISTIAN ALL HER LIFE AND A MEMBER OF THE METHODIST CHURCH SINCE SHE WAS TWENTY YEARS OF AGE.  THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD FRIDAY AFTERNOON FROM THE METHODIST CHURCH, CONDUCTED BY REV. P.V.D. VEDDER. THE INTERMENT WAS MADE IN THE ROSE HILL CEMETERY.