Notes:

In his early years Ray worked for Illinois Light and Power Co., Nashville, Illinois, and St. Lois Furniture Co., St. Louis, Mo. He was an employee of Fischer Body for more than 40 years. He died of cancer after about a year's illness.
From "Hoffmans 1662 - 1972"

RAYMOND married Living [Group Sheet]

1. Living
2. Living
3. Living

Notes:

Farmer.

FREDERICK married SCHNITKER ANNA CAROLINE LOUISE on 6 Oct 1898 in St. Luke's Church, Covington, Illinois. ANNA was born on 11 Feb 1873; died on 22 May 1941. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Frederick came to the U.S. from the Preusz-Minden area of Germany in 1851. He is said by older members of the family to have been a stowaway on a ship. The family settled on a farm near Covington, where they liveduntil 1889, when he purchased the store in New Minden. He owned and operated this store until 190e, when he sold it and retired from business. He and his wife moved to Nashville, Illinois in 1907. He was in very poor health for 8 mos. before his death and was fora time a patient in DeaconessHospital, St. Louis, but died at his home in Nashville.
From "Hoffmans 1662 - 1072"
Compiled by Bernice Reinhardt

FREDERICK married HOFFMAN CHRISTINE CAROLINE on 25 Apr 1862. CHRISTINE (daughter of HOFFMAN FRIEDRICH WILHELM and BOCKER CAROLINE) was born on 11 May 1843; died on 11 Jul 1932. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Thirteen children - 7 died in infancy or as young children. Only the 6 who lived to grow up are listed.

Notes:

7 children - possibly 10 - 5 lived to grow up - Marie Elisabeth; Marie Caroline; Christine Caroline; George Joseph; George Wilhelm Joseph; Christina Louise Sophia: Christian Frederick.
A German Catechism which was published in 1819 and has the name Friederich Hoffmann printed on the fly leaf and is now owned by Adele Ahlers of Kirkwood, Mo., contains information pertaining to teh Hoffman family. Among the names of other children of Frederick and Caroline we find: Sun. eve. 11 P.M., Feb. 29, 1848 daughter Christina Wilhelmina died - collaramorbus - lived 15 mos.
A little farther down: Born Jan. 1, 1852 1 A.M. son Christian Friederich Wilhelm - Baptised on Sun. May 9, 1852 in St. Louis. Another notation - Fred William 10 mos. and a few day old died. Another - Born aft. Feb. 21, 1853 Christian Earl Ludwig.
Since the German writing is not too clear on some of this we cannot be sure but believe these also were the Frederick Hoffmans Children.

Frederick William Hoffman, 6th child of Johann Friederich Wilhelm Hoffman and Anne Marie Hoffman (nee Engel), was born at Rothenufeln, Germany, on Aug. 6, 1816 and died in Washington Co., Ill., about 1853. Since he is buried in an unmarked grave in a family burial ground on what was at that time, his farm and we can find no record of his death, by deduction, in relation to other events, we believe his death to have occurred in Nove. of 1853. At any rate, probate court records show his brother John was appointed administrator of his estate on Dec. 1, 1853.
We are not sure when he came to America, but the record of his marriage to Caroline Bocker on Aug. 1, 1839, in Fairfax co., Ohio (Lancaster) has been found.

The History of Washington Co. 1879 notes that the original settlers of Covington Precinct were not German, but that they and their heirs sold their farms to German immigrants from the area of Preusz Minden. This same book, on page 76, says the first German settler in the Covington Precinct was F. W. Hoffman, who came in 1840. Frederick found this record among land grants in our Washington Co. Historical Msueum. The date of purchase was Dec. 30, 1839. Frederick's farm was south of New Minden, presentlyh owned by Walter Nieman. Their first home was a log cabin, which about 1882 was replaced by a new home and the log cabin moved to become a barn.

From "Hoffmans 1662 - 1972"
Compiled by Bernice Reinhardt

FRIEDRICH married BOCKER CAROLINE on 1 Aug 1839. CAROLINE was born on 1 May 1819; died on 4 Mar 1896. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Caroline's full name as it appears on St. John's Lutheran Church Records, New Minden, Ill., is Friedericke Wilhelmine Caroline Hoffman. Her place and date of birth is listed as Krohenlo, by Preusz Minden, Germany, May 1, 1819. She was married three times. Her second husband, whom she married on Dec. 30, 1856, was Friederich Christian Hesemann, who died on October 31, 1858, at the age of 38 years and 5 months. New Minden Church records note that he was not a member of that congregation and not buried on their cemetery. Two children, a boy and a girl - twins - were born of this union. The girl's name was Martha and she married a man named Myer. The boy's name was Henry and I have not been able to learn anything about him except that he married and moved on a farm near Lockwood, Mo.
Caroline's third marriage was to Wilhelm (Bismarch) Vogt on May 15, 1860. He died Apr. 15, 1904, and is buried in the New Minden Cemetery. Caroline died March 4, 1896, at the age of 76, after an illness of 6 days. She also is burried in the New Minden Cemetery.
From "Hoffmans 1662 - 1972"
Compiled by Bernice Reinhardt