Isaac Hostetter

Isaac Hostetter

• Father: Francis Hostetter
• Mother: Franzinia Schutz

• Isaac Hostetter was born on 2 August 1770 in Baltimore County, Maryland.
• He married Mary M. Keithley, daughter of Jacob Keithley and Barbara Ro(w)land, on 16 August 1796 in Bourbon County, Kentucky.
• From a newspaper account, supplied by her daughter, Mrs. Anna Waters, we have substantially the following, interesting account of old time pioneer ingenuity, hardihood and courage. Isaac Hostetter and two of his neighbors found on the bank of the Licking River in Ky., a large sycamore which they cut down and made from it a bateau, or canoe, sixty feet long and launched it on the Licking River. They put their three families and their effects into the canoe and floated down to the Ohio River and on down the Ohio to the Mississippi River, then paddled up the Mississippi until they reached the Missouri River and on to the city of St. Charles, Mo. All landed safely in the fall of 1798. Their children, from the Hostetter family Bible.
• He and Mary M. Keithley relocated to Pike County, Missouri, in circa 1817.
• Isaac Hostetter died on 24 December 1844 at age 74 in Pike County, Missouri.
• His wife Mary M. Keithley became a widow at his death.
• He was interred at Hostetter family cemetery, Pike County, Missouri, on the his farm, 3-1/2 miles northeast of Frankford.

• Last Edited: 28 Nov 2008