of
Wilson County Kansas; Major County Okla.;
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. . . . and Haskell County Okla.
Manson McManus Hoover and wife, Nettie Pearl McMackin, lived in this cabin near Lequire, Haskell County, Oklahoma in 1914. Nettie McMackin Hoover died there on 19 June 1914. At that time, their eldest daughter, Gladys Hoover Boyd, was married and living elsewhere. Children at home were Phillip Herbert Hoover, Donald Asa Hoover, Keith Paul Hoover, Bernard Myron Hoover, Bernice Madge Hoover, Theodore Hoover, Ross Hoover, Ellen Wilma Hoover, and Gregory Wilbur Hoover. Gregory was 13 months of age at the time of his mother's death.
Manson Hoover was born September 1, 1867 in Fayette County, Iowa, to George W. and Viola Alvesta (http://linnie.rootsweb.com/crosbypg.htm) Hoover. He was named for his maternal grandfather, Manson Hume Crosby. His paternal grandfather, Jacob Hoover, was one of the pioneers of Fayette County.
Nettie Pearl McMackin was born January 21, 1876, in Wilson County, Kansas, to William Thomas and Loucinda Jane (Hainey) McMackin.
Manson Hoover and Nettie McMackin were married March 1, 1893, at Fredonia, Wilson County, Kansas. Manson Hoover homesteaded in the Cherokee Strip and filed homestead application at the land office in Alva, Oklahoma on October 7, 1893 for the NW quarter of Section 12, Township 20 North, Range 9 West, Major County, Oklahoma. The final homestead certificate was issued to him on August 2, 1900.
Manson Hoover had taught school in Kansas, and soon after the opening of the Strip, he and Isaac Patton, a Baptist preacher, made a proposal to a church gathering that the homesteaders pitch in together to put up a building that would be used as both a school and a church house. The Williams School opened on December 1, 1893, just over two months after the great land run.
At the time of the 1910 census, Manson and Nettie Hoover were operating a boarding house in Frederick, Tillman County, Oklahoma. They went to McAlester, Pittsburg County, OK, about 1912 and stayed for approximately one year before purchasing the property in Haskell County.
Manson Hoover was clerk of the Lequire
School Board for about ten years and was instrumental in helping
to organize a Haskell County School Board and was vice president
at the time of his death. He was killed by lightning on October
19, 1926, while standing in the door of the Lequire School. It
seems an approaching storm had caused him to take shelter in the
building and that he was standing with one hand on a recently
installed electric switch. The lightning came down the side of
the house, jumped through the electric switch and killed him
instantly. Manson Hoover was survived by six sons, three
daughters, his mother, three sisters and five grandchildren.
Manson and Nettie Hoover are buried at
Sans Bois
Cemetery, Haskell County.