Re: Hoover/Huber, Balyeat
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Hoover/Huber, Balyeat
Joseph Hoover 7/05/00
Joseph, I can't help you much with the Hoover/Huber side, but the Balyeat family were apparently prominent citizens.In fact, there is still a Balyeat's restaurant across the street from the courthouse in Van Wert.Anyway, in the Biographical History of Van Wert County, pages 29-30, it reads as follows:
THE BALYEAT FAMILY is of French origin, and the earliest authentic mention of the name is traceable as far back as the year 481, at which time it appears that one Balliet, as originally pronounced, was an officer on the army of King Ludwig of France.The offspring of this Balliet lived in the southern part of France, and many years later the name appears to have been closely interwoven with the history of the Huguenots.Among those who escaped the massacre of St. Bartholomew was one Jacob Balliet, who, with his family and others as unfortunately, but equally as fortunate, was obliged to travel in a single season over 800 miles until they reached a Protestant village by the name of Schaltbaugh, province of Salm, where he found refuge from his relentless persecutors.Here the family lived until the aforesaid province again came under the control of France, when the former massacre was repeated, a number of the Balliets falling victims, while othres escaped, making their way to difference countries of Europe and to America.As early as the year 1738 Paul and Joseph Ballier, grandsons of the aforesaid Jacob, came to America from the province of Alsace and settled in Pennsylvania, the descendants of the former locating in what was then Whitehall county, and those of the later in what has since been known as the county of Northumberland.
From the most reliable information obtainable, it appears that the above Joseph Balyeat, as the name was afterward spelled, became the progenitor of that branch of the family of the United States to which the families of Van Wert county belongs.One of the direct descendants of Joseph, if not his son, was Leonard Balyeat, who was born in Pennsylvania February 27, 1758, and who reared a family consisting of the following-named children:John, Stephen, Leonard, Daniel, Eve, Joseph, George, Henry, Jonas, Jacob and David.From what can be learned of the Balyeats during the early history of the family in the United States, they all appare to have been men of unusual physical vigor, with strong, well-knit bodies, while their morality and integrity, inherited from a deeply religious and highly honored ancestry, have been reproduced in their descendants down to the present time.
Jonas Balyeat, ninth in order of birth of the above-mentioned children of Leonard Balyeat, was born February 27, 1798 in Pennsylvania, and came west to Ohio as early as the year 1820, settling in Richland county, but seven and a half miles east of Mansfield,where he became a large land owner.He married Catherine Hum, and raised a large famliy, eihteen children in all, whose names are as follows:David, died in 1892; Jacob, a resident of Van Wert county; Abraham, ex-county treasurer, died shortly after elected to that office; Jonathan, a farmer near Middlebury, Ind.; Sarah, the deceased wife of Philip Troup; Aaron, a retired citizen of Van Wert; Eliza, wife of Aaron Hoover; John, deceased, aged five years; Moses, a resident of La Grange, Ind.; Joseph, deceased; Phoebe, the wife of Philip Troup; Benjamin, who enlisted in the ninety-day service in the late war and died at Point Lookout; Joshua and Caleb, twins, both deceased; Emanuel, farmer in Harrison township; Reuben; Mary, the wife of John Patterson, and Marquis De Lafayette, deceased.
The parents of this large family were well known and highly respected people of Richland county, and for moral worth and the upbuilding of the community, none stood higher.They were both active members of the Baptist church from early life and reared their large family under the influence of the church of their choice, and they all followed in later years their early teaching.Mr. and Mrs. Balyeat lived to an extended longevity, and died respectively at the ages of eighty-nine years and eighty years.Mr. Balyeat was a whig in politics and took an active part in the same, although not an office seeker; he was one of the liberal contributors to all public enterprises, and none took a deeper interest in matters educational than he and his most worthy companion.
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