Lady Principal, Teacher of English and History, 1912-1915
B. S. Irving College, 1897; A. M. 1912; student in English at Columbia University, 1902.

Birth: Dec. 17, 1879, North Carolina, USA
Death: Aug. 6, 1942, Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina, USA

Parents:
Daniel Rufus Hoover (1844 – 1912)
Louisa Tabitha Ramseur Hoover (1849 – 1926)

Siblings:
Herbert Oscar Hoover (1875 – 1876)
Annie Aubrey Hoover (1877 – 1962)
Aubrey Ramseur Hoover (1882 – 1936)
Olin Clyde Hoover (1884 – 1951)
George Summey Hoover (1889 – 1889)
Ray Campbell Hoover (1890 – 1956)

Burial:
Oakwood Cemetery
Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, USA

Source: www.findagrave.com, # 79925362.

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Poems published in the Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC), September 12, 1909, p. 4.

AUTUMN LEAVES

She gathered the leaves that fluttered past,
Crimson and gold and brown.
Lightsome shadows each one cast,
As they fell so softly down.

Gayly some were red and bright,
A gorgeous carpet ‘neath the feet.
Girlhood, like these, full of light,
Had been her portion, just mete.

Gleaming yellow others yet told,
Of womanly toil, devotedly spent.
Glorious years hers that had rolled,
Fraught with success, generously lent.

Sere and brown, a few slowly dropped,
Of life and love reminders faded.
Tears fell as she quickly stopped –
With these her hands were laded.

THE CHANGE

Oft gathers a cloud at close of day,
Suddenly large, dark and fast.
And then the silver lining may
Prove the storm o’er at last.

Oft burdened, the heart’s full of woes,
That utter a ceaseless call.
And then God’s love into it goes –
Vanished away’s the gloomy pall.

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The following is a letter written to Mrs. J. P. Caldwell, writer of the column “One Minute Interview”.

Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC), January 17, 1925, p. 6.

The Note of Pathos

Dear Mrs. Caldwell:

Those who scan your O. M. Page pleasurably may have read Charles Adams McGee’s “Twenty Years of Blindness” in which the writer makes a plea not for sympathy but for understanding. The reviewers pronounce this effort well done both philosophically and professionally. Perhaps these casual critics may also pause to consider a few lines by one who was suddenly deprived temporarily of visualization after 20 years of work as a teacher in the public high and preparatory schools.

Very cordially yours,
MISS ORA CAROLINE HOOVER,
S. C. School for Deaf and Blind,
Cedar Springs, S. C.

Visualization

With eager eyes the happy child
Bent low beside a picture book;
Alluring pages time beguiled,
Both toys and games he then forsook.

Years o’er the lad most quickly sped,
Life’s volume thick before him spread:
Some clear, others dim, leaflets turned
Other pleasures now he spurned.

Battered, shell-shocked, worn and thin,
By barrage and shrapnel and unhallowed din;
Unspent, the man gazed on paths untrod;
Read wistfully scenes from the Book of God.

– “O. C. H.”

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The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC), 8 Aug 1942, 5.

MISS HOOVER DIES
Well-Known Cabarrus Woman Passes After Long Illness

CONCORD, Aug. 7. – Miss Ora Carolina Hoover, 62, sister of Sheriff Ray Hoover and a teacher in public schools and colleges in North Carolina and South Carolina for many years, died at 7:45 p.m. yesterday in a hospital a Morganton. Miss Hoover had been in declining health for several years. Following a serious illness she was compelled to give up her work and never fully regained her health. Funeral services will be conducted at Sheriff Hoover’s home tomorrow morning at 11 o’clock and will be in charge of Dr. S. W. Hahn, pastor of the Saint James Lutheran church. Burial will be in Oakwood cemetery here.

Miss Hoover was the daughter of the late Daniel R. Hoover and Louise Ramsaur Hoover who came soon after their marriage to live in Concord. Miss Hoover was born in Concord and taught in the public schools her e for several years. She also taught in Mont Amoena seminary at Mount Pleasant and in Chicora college of South Carolina before its merger with Queens college of Charlotte.

Surviving Miss Hoover are two brothers. Sheriff Hoover of Concord and Olin (Jack) Hoover of the Mount Pleasant road and a sister, Miss Annie A. Hoover of Concord.