Individual Details

The Ancestral File gives Aurora the middle name of "DeGosma" - not proved by any other source, except the 1850 census does give her name as Aurora D. Hoy.

Married William Hoy 2 Jan 1822. [This place of marriage seen as Madison Co MS is incorrect - Madison Co wasn't formed in 1822 and the births of children show none were born in Mississippi until after 1830.] He was born 25 Sep 1794 in Bourbon County KY; died 30 June 1846 Madison County MS. Their children were Mary Amanda, M. F., Sarah A., Thomas Proctor, Elizabeth, William, Phillip Bush, and Aurora

p.397 2 Aug 1837 Thomas Proctor to Thomas Blakey. $335. Convey to sd Thos Blakey. Wm Hoy & Wm L. Palmer shares in an undivided tract of land containing in the whole 100 acres being the tract whereon John Wise now lives & was conveyed to Wm Hoy & wife, Wm L Palmer & wife & Clarke Porter by Samuel Wilson, Comm. Appointed by the Circuit Court of Logan Co to execute deeds of conveyance to the different heirs of Wm Haden dec'd lying & situated in the co of Logan on the Black Lick Fork of Gaspers River. Said two shares of the aforesaid hundred acres. Signed 18 Dec 1837. Thos. Proctor. Wit: Wm Barnett, Robert E. Collins
Proved by oaths of witnesses. Rec. 25 Dec 1837

Aurora Hoy, daughter, had already received her share of her father's estate per his will probated in 1841.

1850, Madison Co MS, p.169
Household 586
Aurora D. Hoy age 40, born KY. Value of property - $6000
Sarah R. age 24, born TN
Elizabeth A. 21, born KY
Bushrod P. age 16, student, born MS
Aurora D. age 4, born MS
Stephen Crim, 37, overseer, born KY
From this census, it appears the family might have lived in Tenneessee a short while, gone back to Kentucky, then moved to Mississippi.

1860, Madison Co MS, p.825
Household 314: A. D. Hoy, age 56 [she has aged 16 years, but this age is correct], Planter. Value of real estate $23,000; Personal property $35,000. Born Kentucky. S. R. age 36, also born KY. A. D. Jr age 13, born MS, attended school. Next in household 315 is listed S. A. Crim, age 47, Overseer, born KY. Household 313 is the family of W. E. Hoy, son of Aurora.

Birth	11 Sep 1804
Marriage	2 Jan 1822	William Hoy
Death	Aft 1860	Madison County, Mississippi

Spouse	William Hoy (1794 - 1846)
Child	Thomas Proctor Hoy (1824 - )
Child	Sarah R. Hoy (1826 - )
Child	Elizabeth A. Hoy (1828 - )
Child	William E. Hoy (1829 - 1876)
Child	Phillip Bushrod Hoy (1834 - 1870)
Child	M. F. Hoy (1836 - 1850)
Child	Mary Amanda Hoy ( - 1848)
Child	Aurora D. Hoy (1846 - 1883)

Father	Maj. Thomas Proctor (1766 - 1841)
Mother	Sally Haden (1774 - 1808)
Sibling	Mary "Polly" Proctor (1802 - 1823)
Sibling	Sally J. Proctor (1806 - 1849)