It’s more of a singular finding, actually, than a findings. I may have misunderstood, but I thought Estelle Hoover (grandma’s grandmother) was paralyzed later in life (polio?). Not so! Whatever happened to her occurred at a young age, because she was listed in the 1880 census as being paralyzed. She would have been about seven years old in 1880.
Other than that, I’ve been cleaning up census info and trying to fill in some of the gaps as I come across them, which is why I saw the reference to Estelle being paralyzed.
Something else I turned up, which might be something and might be nothing. The 1870 census lists a Henry Hoover married to a Tallula, with a son named Adolphus. I’ve been assuming that this is Estelle’s family. The names are uncommon and the ages and locations match. I wouldn’t have thought twice about it, if it hadn’t been for the fact that Henry’s occupation is listed as a physician. I don’t think that can be correct. If it’s not, then the enumerator made a mistake, Henry or Tallula lied, or it’s not the same family after all.
1870 US Census, lines 86-88
I just think it’s unlikely that Henry, who is listed as a dairyman in the 1880 census, a peddler the 1889-1890 Atlanta directory, and a repairman in the 1900 census, could have been a physician in 1870. I mean, I realize that doctors weren’t quite the same thing back then as they are now, but that’s a pretty big stretch even so. On he other hand, that would have been right after the Civil War. If he’d fought in the war, who knows what sort of position he held? He might have actually been trained as a doctor or medic, then not stayed with it after the war.
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