Phillip Penn Hoy

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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

Wife - Elizabeth (Eyer) Hoy

(Lizzie Hoy)

Born - January 14, 1777

Union, Pennsylvania

Died - February 18, 1850

Fairfield County, Ohio

Burial - Lithopolis Cemetery
Lithopolis, Fairfield County, Ohio

To This Marriage 11 Children Were Born

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

Died - October 30, 1823

Dry Valley of Buffalo Valley,

Union County, Pennsylvania

Lizzie's Mother - Catherine Elizabeth (Greybill) Eyer

Born - October 17, 1752

Dry Valley of Buffalo Valley,

Union County, Pennsylvania

Died - September 22, 1805