I thought this name was spelled Hoyt in a number of the records I saw in Meigs County.

Alexander Caldwell, Born 1828, is the child of Elizabeth Caldwell and John Hoyt.
1830 Census: HOYT, JOHN 2nd, OH, Meigs Co., Orange Twp, page 246
Hoyt dissappears from Census.

1860 Census: 25 Value of Real Estate, 6,500, Value of Personal Estate, 1,200.
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