Richard and Ann were not married. Middle name possibly Mary.
Personal Information
| Name | Ann Mary Boyer |
|---|---|
| Birth | 06/20/1861 in Kimmel Twp., Bedford, PA |
| Death | Deceased |
| Husband | Richard Mock Shoop |
| Comment Count | 4 |
Children
| Name | Birth | Death |
|---|---|---|
| Bertha Shoopasdasds | 10/31/1884 in Bedford, PA | 10/07/1965 |
Children-in-Law
| Name | Birth | Death |
|---|---|---|
| Henry Nofskerasdasds | 01/07/1887 in Greenfield twp, Blair County, PA | Deceased |
| Henry Smithasdasds | 07/31/1870 | ON 03/14/1928 |
Step-Children
| Name | Birth | Death |
|---|---|---|
| George Shoopasdasds | 07/12/1891 in New Enterprise, PA | ON 04/06/1973 |
| Charles Shoopasdasds | 07/05/1889 in Bedford, PA | ON 08/20/1962 |
Grand-Children
| Name | Birth | Death |
|---|---|---|
| Mary Nofskerasdasds | 10/13/1903 in Freedom Twp., Blair, PA | 05/05/2003 |
| C Smithasdasds | 04/12/1902 in Freedom Twp., Blair, PA | Deceased |
| Alice Nofskerasdasds | Deceased |
Hello ~ As a great-grandson of Ann Boyer/Earnest I have looked over your pages with interest. I do have some corrections and additions if you want them. For one, I am curious as to where you got the name ‘Ann Mary’. Nobody in the family ever heard of that as Ann’s name. Perhaps you have mixed Ann and her eight-year-older sister Mary to get ‘Ann Mary.’ Ann Boyer bore Bertha Mae to Peter M(ock) Shoop, but they never married. Ann’s parents were John Boyer Jr and Barbara Mock. They had four children: David Mock Boyer (1841-1921); Catherine Boyer (1844-1923); Daniel Boyer (1848-1869); Mary Boyer (1854-1933); Elizabeth Boyer (1857-1946); and Ann (1862-1943). After Barbara Mock/Boyer’s death in 1869 (and William H. Shoop’s death in 1895) John Boyer Jr then married Elizabeth Mock/Shoop. The Shoops and Boyers were neighbors in the vicinity of Queen, PA. Ann Boyer was a bit promiscous and she bore a child out of wedlock to —— Weyant. The child, Albert S. Weyant, was born in 1881. He died in 1885. Ann and Richard M. Shoop bore Bertha Mae (my maternal grandmother) in 1884. In 1888 Richard married Roxanna Davis. In 1886, Ann Boyer married Daniel H. Earnest (1864-1932). Daniel Earnest never formally adopted Bertha Mae. In the 1900 Census, Daniel Earnest gave her name as Bertha Shoup and noted that she was his step-daughter. Bertha grew up in the Earnest household much like the Cinderella story. There were two Earnest daughters who were fussy, conceited children while Bertha had to help with the farm work. As a result, Bertha was raped by the family’s black farmhand, Robert Mosley, and she gave birth out of wedlock to Dewey Calvert Mosley. Bertha Mae Shoop would eventually married Henry Martin Cleveland Nofsker. But prior to that married she bore a son, C. W. Smith (1902-?) to Henry B. Smith. Then in 1903 Henry and Bertha gave birth to a second child out of wedlock, Mary Ellen (variously Ella Mae). Ellen went to her death thinking that none of her siblings knew that she was actually a half-sister. I can share more info on Bertha’s Nofsker family if you want it. Her youngest child, a daughter, Dollie Edith, was born in 1924. She married Bernard Robert Smith, born in 1919, and they had a family of two sons and one daughter: Carol Jane, born in 1946; Leon Robert, born 11953 and myself, Larry Dennis Smith, born in 1954.
Larry, thank you so much for this information! Yes, I know it’s been 5 years since you posted this but it’s been 6 since I looked at this website. I am slowly going through comments and trying to update info. It’s always great to meet a new cousin, by the way! I may reach out as I enter the above info.
Our family NEVER knew Annie Boyer’s name to be Ann ‘Mary’. She was my great-grandmother and my mother, Dollie Edith Nofsker, Bertha May Shoop’s youngest daughter knew Annie and never stated that she was Ann Mary.
Larry, it’s been awhile since I worked on this (probably 20 years since I made this entry) and I don’t know what the source was. Most likely, it was a census or death record. It’s very possible that the record was incorrect (that happens). I’ll poke around and see if I can find it.