Reverend Horace Nelson Hovey

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Rev Horace Nelson Hovey BIRTH 28 Jan 1815 Brookfield, Orange County, Vermont, USA DEATH May 1882 Lowell, Orleans County, Vermont, USA BURIAL Body lost or destroyed MEMORIAL ID 114631846 MEMORIAL PHOTOS 0 FLOWERS 0 He lived in Albany and Lowell, VT, and was a Baptist clergyman of force and talent. He was a farmer in Albany until 1843, when he removed from his farm to the village of Albany, where he had begun to preach the preceding year, and fully entered upon his ministerial work. He had the charge of the church until the autumn of 1866. During that time he also had the pastoral charge of the church in Newport for eight years, and of the church in Irasburgh for three years, preaching at those places one-half of the time and at Albany the other half. In July 1876, he removed to Lowell, VT, and had charge of the small Baptist church there.

Mr. Hovey married, first, Fanny Caroline, daughter of John and Deborah (Haines) Kellum May 26, 1836, in Irasburgh, VT, where she was born Oct. 29, 1814. She died in Lowell Feb. 12, 1873, at the age of fifty-eight, and her remains lie in the cemetery at West Albany, Vt. He married, second. Myrtilla Eglantine, daughter of Newton and Submit (Perkins) Hitchcock Dec. 23, 1873, in Bethel, Vt. She was born in Westfield, VT, Sept. 29 1837. Mr. Hovey died in Lowell May —, 1882, at the age of sixty-seven.

Children: Charles Kellum, born July 14, 1837 Arthur Judson, born April 3, 1842 Laura Elizabeth, born March 12, 1847. Annie Catherine (twin), born Aug. 6, 1852 Fannie Caroline (twin), born Aug. 6, 1852 Albert Silas, born Sept. 28. 1856.

Family Members

Parents Rufus Cleveland Hovey 1770–1817

Grace Billings Hovey 1777–1819

Spouse Photo Mytilla Eglantine Hitchcock Hovey* 1837–1928

Siblings Orange Hovey* 1797–1880

Photo Silas Hovey* 1801–1868

Photo Rhoda Hovey Ordway* 1803–1878

Asahel King Hovey* 1811–1887

Photo Simeon S. Hovey* 1812–1843

Photo Laura Hovey Phelps* 1813–1868

Children Photo Fanny Caroline Hovey Golden* 1852–1930