CLEARFIELD – The Clearfield County Historical Society recently placed a new roadside historical marker in Penfield, Huston Township, commemorating the life of Catherine R. Hoyt, a patriot of the American Revolution. She came to live with her children in Huston Township and died in this county.
According to her obituary, which appeared in the Democratic Banner newspaper, a publication in Clearfield, “She was a mother of the Revolution. She has spread the cloth before the chieftains and champions of our country’s rights and liberty – and day after day, and week after week prepared the table for the soldiers of our republic while recruiting under Col. Barns.
“Her compensation, she informed me, for six weeks service, brought her just one paper of pins. She heard the roar of the cannon on the plans of Bennington, and watched, with eager eye, the approaching messenger flying from the battle ground; and listened, with an anxious ear, to the tidings he bore from the field of danger.”
The marker is located on Bill and Deannie Levenduski’s property along Wilson Run across from the Penfield Elementary School on Route 153. Pictured are Levenduski and Abby Houston, the summer intern at the county historical society.