"John H. Hoover, son of Jacob and Lucy (Strazler) Hoover, was born December 19, 1843, in Carroll township, and in 1868 settled on the homestead, where he has since followed agricultural pursuits. He has served two terms as school director and three terms as supervisor. In politics he is a Democrat and in religion a Roman Catholic. Mr. Hoover married Anna M., daughter of Jerome and Mary (Krug) Kootzman [Kuntzman], and they are the parents of the following children: 1. Francis J., of whom later. 2. Sophia, born August 12, 1869, wife of Paul Strittmatter, of Hastings. 3. Jennie, born April 4, 1871, wife of Felix Bradley. 4. Martina, born 1873, single. 5. Lucinda, born 1875, Sister St. Mary Boniface, of the Order of St. Joseph. 6. Amelia, born 1879, wife of Talford Davis, of Ohio. 7. William, born April, 1881. 8. Regina, born 1883, single. 9. Otto, born 1885, single, living at Altoona. 10. Isadora, born 1887, teacher in Carroll Township school. 11. Clemence, born 1891, student, at home."

At the time of the 1920 census, Regina Hoover, 36, was a student nurse at St. Francis. She was about 38 when she graduated from the school of nursing. Her brother's daughter, Mae Rose Hoover, also graduated in the Class of 1921.

In 1921, the same year she graduated, Regina Ann Hoover received Professional Nurse License #3724 to practice in the State of West Virginia. She was still in West Virginia when her father died in 1927.

Regina is found in the 1930 census of Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia. She resided on Main Street and worked as a nurse at North Wheeling Hospital.

A newspaper article, dated October 31, 1939, about her sister, Sophia, as well as her sister Amelia's obituary in August 1963, states that Regina was residing in Pittsburgh. She is listed among the St. Francis Private Duty Nurses in this 1953 publication.

At the time of the 1940 Federal Census, she was residing at the St. Francis Hospital Nurses' Home and was employed as a Private Duty Nurse. The census indicates that her residence in 1935 was Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia.

Regina's birthdate in the Social Security Death Index is March 1, 1881. She died March 30, 1973 at Valencia, Butler County, Pennsylvania, and is buried at Saint Benedict's Catholic Cemetery, Carrolltown, Cambria County, Pennsylvania.