When Sophia Ann Hatcher was born on 24 May 1823, in Virginia, United States, her father, John Hatcher, was 26 and her mother, Charlotte Claytor Thurman, was 17. She married George Washington Hoover on 24 January 1844, in Pike, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Illinois, United States in 1870 and Montezuma, Pike, Illinois, United States in 1880. She died on 17 July 1887, in Pike, Illinois, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Pike, Illinois, United States.
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English (southern): topographic name for someone who lived by a gate, from Middle English haccher(e), a derivative of hacche ‘gate’. This normally denoted a gate marking the entrance to a forest or other enclosed piece of land, sometimes a floodgate or sluice-gate. Compare Hatch .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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