Petition of Betsy Rohrer (for a Guardian)

3 Feb 1812 the Court appoints Doctor Simeon Hovey to be Guardian

 

TEXT:

 

To the Honorable the Justices of the Orphans Court of Armstrong County

                   The Petition of Betsy Rohrer Daughter of Frederick

Rohrer late of Westmoreland County Deceased

                             Humbly Sheweth

                   That your Petitioner is a minor under the age of twenty one years

                   and above fourteen and has no Guardian to take care of her

                   person & Estate.

                             She therefore prays that Doctr. Simeon Hovey of the

                   County of Armstrong may be appointed her Guardian until

                   She arrives at the age of twenty one years—

                                                 And she will ever pray

 

                                                            [signature]   Elizabeth Rohrer

 

 

SOURCE:  Estate # 101A (Kittanning, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania)

 

NOTE:  Elizabeth “Betsy” Rohrer was 19 years old when Hovey was appointed her guardian.  Four years later she married Elisha Robinson, Hovey’s nephew.  Guardians were appointed in 1795 in Westmoreland County, upon the death of her father.  I’ve not located a record of an earlier guardian appointment than this 1812 document.  Her mother died in 1806, and the Hoveys apparently had made a home for her from that time. 

DEATH NOTICE FOR

ELIZABETH “BETSY” ROHRER ROBINSON, 1881

 

Elizabeth Rohrer Robinson was the matriarch of the Robinson Family of Hovey Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.  Born 5 August 1792 in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, she was the daughter of Frederick Rohrer, Junior (1767-1794), and Catharina Truby Rohrer Marshall (1764-1806).  After her mother’s death, she was reared by Dr. Simeon Hovey and his wife (her mother’s sister), Mary Ann "Polly" Truby Hovey.  Dr. Hovey became her legal guardian in 1812.  In 1816, she married Hovey’s nephew, Elisha Robinson (1791-1874) of Connecticut.  They inherited the Hovey lands upon his death in 1837.  She, her husband, some of her children, her half-brother Samuel Marshall (1801-1835) and the Hoveys are buried together in the Hovey-Robinson Plot of the Parker Presbyterian Cemetery.

  

From The Weekly Phoenix

Parkers Landing, Pennsylvania

Friday, 23 September 1881

  

DIED.  ROBINSON—Mrs. Elizabeth (Rohrer) Robinson died at her residence in Hovey township on Wednesday night, between the hours of 10 and 11 o'clock, in the 89th year of her age—a shock of corn fully ripe for the Master’s use.  [We hope to be enabled to give a more extended notice shortly.]

      

Note: The next issue of The Weekly Phoenix is missing in the collection of the Pennsylvania State Archives.  Neither can I locate a copy of a Kittanning or Butler newspaper which includes this Robinson obituary.