When Philip Able Hoover was born on 16 October 1848, in Duck River, Hickman, Tennessee, United States, his father, Samuel S Hoover, was 27 and his mother, Christine Elizabeth Parthena Church, was 20. He married Sarah Jane Bryan on 22 November 1870, in Maury, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Tennessee, United States in 1870. He died on 11 March 1873, in Duck River, Hickman, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 24, and was buried in Duck River, Hickman, Tennessee, United States.