Born about in Lower Canada
Daughter of H A Hover
and Annie (Unknown) Hover
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Barent Hiram Ostrom
— married
before 1838 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Mother of
Thomas Ostrom, Hulda Ann (Ostrom) Rees, Caroline Matilda (Ostrom) Johnson, Charles A. Ostrom, Joeluski Ostrom and Richard H. Ostrom
Died about
at about age 41
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 14 Jun 2019
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Biography
Lydia was born about 1813. She passed away about 1854.
Research Notes
See comments, below, for Hover research in Canada. Relatives? Henry H Hover (1763-1842) and Casper Hover UE (1730-1786). An unsourced note on her Find a Grave profile says, "Dtr of H.A. and Annie Hover.
Sources
- 1851 Canada Census, Province: Canada West (Ontario), District Name: Kent (county), District Number: 17, Sub-District Name: Howard, Sub-District Number: 156, Page Number: 3, Microfilm: C-11729, Reference: RG 31, Item Number: 1088795, https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/1851/Pages/item.aspx?itemid=1088795 .
- Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47340105/lydia-ostrom: accessed 01 January 2024), memorial page for Lydia Hover Ostrom (1813–19 Apr 1854), Find a Grave Memorial ID 47340105, citing Morpeth Cemetery, Morpeth, Chatham-Kent Municipality, Ontario, Canada; Maintained by Tulips (contributor 47204949).
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Jersey, travelling on foot most of the way, and crossing the Niagara river at Queenston. They brought only a cow and a horse with them, and therefore they were particularly careful to spare the poor animals as much as possible on the long journey from New Jersey.
Jubilee history of Thorold township and town : from the town of the red man to the present. -- by Thompson, John Henry, 1919-, Publication date 1897-8, pg. 24, https://archive.org/details/historythorold00thomuoft/page/n45/mode/1up or https://archive.org/stream/historythorold00thomuoft/historythorold00thomuoft_djvu.txt
1851 Census http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=census&id=23089330&lang=eng
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District (.mil) https://www.lrp.usace.army.mil › docs › FOIA PDF, H. A. Hoover. 23. 3. Nancy J. Hover. 23a. 4. John N. Reznor. 23b. 5. J. S. Reznor. 24 ... Annie Lorretta Bunnell. Annie Laurie Bunnell. "Infant" Bunnell. 150.H.A. Hoover, Nancy Hover? https://www.lrp.usace.army.mil/Portals/72/docs/regulatory/FOIA/KinzuaCemRelocations/Glenwood%20Cemetary%20Listing.pdf
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Concession 1, Lot 15, Henry Hover, All, 200 acres, Dec 31, 1802
Concession 1, Lot 19, Jacob Hover, All, 200 acres, May 17, 1802
And in: CAPTAIN WALTER BUTLER TO BRIGADIER GENERAL JAMES CLINTON, List of Prisoners in the Hands of Congress belonging to the Corps of Rangers, Royalists and their Families:-March 1779, (Prisoners proposed for exchange.)
Transcribed in: Smy, William A., The Butler papers - Pt. II. 1778-1779, Sheet 7 of 243, and 122 of 243, Documents and papers relating to Colonel John Butler and his corps of rangers, https://dr.library.brocku.ca/bitstream/handle/10464/9244/Volume2Edited.pdf?sequence=4&isAllowed=y
"Henry Hover taken 3 Jan 1778. Wife and family sent to Canada" and "John Hover taken 3 Jan 1778" in CAPTAIN WALTER BUTLER TO CAPTAIN ROBERT MATHEWS, Niagara, 24 December 1780, Extracts from a State of Subsistence for Several Rangers Who Were Prisoners: Transcribed in: Smy, William A., The Butler papers - Pt. III. 1780-1782, Documents and papers relating to Colonel John Butler and his corps of rangers., https://dr.library.brocku.ca/bitstream/handle/10464/9245/Volume3Edited.pdf?sequence=5&isAllowed=y
Return of Persons under the Descripton of Loyalists, Specifying the Number, Ages and Sexes of each family in Captain William Caldwell's Company in the Corps of Rangers, 30 November 1783, Henry Hover In: Smy, William A., The Butler papers - Pt. IV. 1783-1977, Documents and papers relating to Colonel John Butler and his corps of rangers., Sheet 53 of 258, https://dr.library.brocku.ca/bitstream/handle/10464/9246/Volume4Edited.pdf?sequence=4&isAllowed=y
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Father H.A. Hover, Mother Annie UK.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:39WK-9Z3
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Note land transactions of Hiram B. Ostrom, particularly with Simon and Emmanuel Hoover in Humberstone Township, Niagara. https://sites.google.com/site/niagarasettlers2/humberstone-township-abstracts/humberstone-settlers-o .
Hoover/Hover in Butler's Rangers: https://sites.google.com/site/niagarasettlers/soldiers-and/soldiers-h
Hover, Caspar, https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=3986 https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hover-89
Hover, Henry, (and Family), https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=3987 , Biography: https://uelac.ca/Loyalist-Info/extras/Hover-Henry/Henry-Hover-biography.pdf
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