Cornelius Hover

Autobiography and biographical notes, 1905, from pages 145-147 of "Our Family History"

"Cornelius the 10th and youngest child of Henry and Leah Hover and now nearly thirty years the only surviving member of the family was made an orphan by the death of his mother when but four years old. The early years of his life were marked by the severely financial shattered circumstances of his father and the almost absolute absence of Christian restraints in neighborhood of his home. It was not until he was in his teens that he came under the influence and by her incited to a better life and inspired to try to be of use in the world. Whence came his first religious impressions he does not know most probably the answered prayers of his sainted mother, but he has a distinct remembrance of a conversation with his next older brother when both were very small boys in which they both expressed the desire to be preachers, a wish afterward realized."

"From A.D. 1856 to 1860 with some interruption he was a student of the Ohio Wesleyan University. Dependant entirely upon his own earnings to meet the expense of his education he accepted a call to pastorate at LaGrange Ind in the summer of 1861 and the next April entered the same Conference in which his brother Silvanus was working. On June 28 1868 he was married to Miss Ellen Morton Tuttle by Rev. Thomas Stuble at Mishawaka Ind. In the spring of 1869 he was transferred from the North Indiana Conference to the Minnesota and stationed at Owatonna. For climactic purposes he transfered in 1871 to the de Moines Annual Conference of which he is at this writing (Nov 1905) still a member. Failing health has compeled his retirement from the active pastorate but not from a living ministry."

He departed this life March 13 1911 surrounded with his loved ones and is laid to rest in Oak Hills Cemetery Siloam Springs Ark.

Ellen Martin Tuttle Hover Departed this life Jan 7 1923 and laid to rest by the side of her husband Cornelius in Oak Hill Cemetery January 1923.