Individual Details
Albert Donald "Don" George
(28 Sep 1913 - 3 Nov 2011)
Hello family,
I have received a reply to my letter to Dr. Donald George, s/o Susan Ruth Hoffpauir George and Albert George. I would like to share parts of it with you all. I know that there has been some interest expressed in getting him to join this list, but he says that he's "not into computers yet, and I am just getting comfortable with my Word Processor."
Some excerpts:
"As Margie (Marjorie Mae Griffin King Young) has probably told you, she was just a baby when your grandmother, whom I knew as Aunt Minnie, died and my father and mother took her. I have always thought of Margie as my sister, though. My father and your grandfather, my Uncle Dan Griffin, were in Centenary College together, and both became ministers in the Louisiana Conference of the Methodist church. My father performed the wedding
ceremony for your grandparents, and your grandfather (Daniel Griffin) performed the ceremony for my father and mother."
"I've been told the Hoffpauir clan originally came to the US from the Alsace-Loraine area, that disputed territory between France and Germany, but I am not sure when. The name originally was Hofbauer, which in my German dictionary means "Peasant proprietor" or a land owning farmer."
"The first Hoffpauir in our line appears to be a Thomas Hoffpauir who married an obviously French woman, Marie Charlotte Perrillard. This next is speculation. They may have been among those immigrating to Nova Scotia in mid to late 1700s and were among the acadians forceably evacuated to south Louisiana. A son Manoah Francois Hoffpauir was born in 1781, married Marie Charlotte Foreman. Their son, Manoah Hoffpauir married Magdalean Stutes from whom my Grandfather and your great Grandfather descended."
Regarding the Francis Hoffpauir family speaking French in the home and the children not learning English until they went to school, he says this, "I never knew my Grandfather to have spoken French, however, but I am sure he knew some French from association."
"I remember when Grandma Hoffpauir died, and I remember being told it was cancer of the liver. But from what we know about cancer today, it could have been widespread in the viscera. As to her birthday, I don't know if it was 1858 or 1859."
For further information on the various lines of descendants, he gives Bradford Mayo, grandson of Claudius Herman Mayo, for the Mayo line. "The Mayos were more interested in genealogy than I am." He has given me Bradford's address. He gives Lamar Boulet as another source.
About the descendants of Frank and Melisse: "Here is a list of your grandmother's siblings, though I don't know their birthdates, and some of them I know almost nothing about. Starting with the oldest.
Nelson (never knew him)
Emma (married ? Burkes, lived in Belcher, LA; one child that I know of, Mary Gray)
Manoah (I met him one time)
Marvin (I never knew him)
Minola (Your grandmother)
Irene (married Arthur McKinney, lived in Hosston, LA; he owned a drug store. Son Lamar, two daughters, Elsie and I forget the other)
Ethel (I never knew her, but I vaguely recall meeting her once)
Samuel and Susan Ruth (twins, born October 29, 1892)
Lucinda Beulah (Dolly, who married Claudius Herman Mayo and lived in Lake Charles, LA)."
He added a PS to tell me about a tape made by Helen Mayo about the Frank Hoffpauir family back in 1975. It is a kind of autobiography or recollections and he says he will send me a copy.
Sharon Dulcich (granddaughter of Mineola Hoffpauir Griffin) [from excerpts of posted message to the Hoffpauir-L mail list on 2 March 2000]
I have received a reply to my letter to Dr. Donald George, s/o Susan Ruth Hoffpauir George and Albert George. I would like to share parts of it with you all. I know that there has been some interest expressed in getting him to join this list, but he says that he's "not into computers yet, and I am just getting comfortable with my Word Processor."
Some excerpts:
"As Margie (Marjorie Mae Griffin King Young) has probably told you, she was just a baby when your grandmother, whom I knew as Aunt Minnie, died and my father and mother took her. I have always thought of Margie as my sister, though. My father and your grandfather, my Uncle Dan Griffin, were in Centenary College together, and both became ministers in the Louisiana Conference of the Methodist church. My father performed the wedding
ceremony for your grandparents, and your grandfather (Daniel Griffin) performed the ceremony for my father and mother."
"I've been told the Hoffpauir clan originally came to the US from the Alsace-Loraine area, that disputed territory between France and Germany, but I am not sure when. The name originally was Hofbauer, which in my German dictionary means "Peasant proprietor" or a land owning farmer."
"The first Hoffpauir in our line appears to be a Thomas Hoffpauir who married an obviously French woman, Marie Charlotte Perrillard. This next is speculation. They may have been among those immigrating to Nova Scotia in mid to late 1700s and were among the acadians forceably evacuated to south Louisiana. A son Manoah Francois Hoffpauir was born in 1781, married Marie Charlotte Foreman. Their son, Manoah Hoffpauir married Magdalean Stutes from whom my Grandfather and your great Grandfather descended."
Regarding the Francis Hoffpauir family speaking French in the home and the children not learning English until they went to school, he says this, "I never knew my Grandfather to have spoken French, however, but I am sure he knew some French from association."
"I remember when Grandma Hoffpauir died, and I remember being told it was cancer of the liver. But from what we know about cancer today, it could have been widespread in the viscera. As to her birthday, I don't know if it was 1858 or 1859."
For further information on the various lines of descendants, he gives Bradford Mayo, grandson of Claudius Herman Mayo, for the Mayo line. "The Mayos were more interested in genealogy than I am." He has given me Bradford's address. He gives Lamar Boulet as another source.
About the descendants of Frank and Melisse: "Here is a list of your grandmother's siblings, though I don't know their birthdates, and some of them I know almost nothing about. Starting with the oldest.
Nelson (never knew him)
Emma (married ? Burkes, lived in Belcher, LA; one child that I know of, Mary Gray)
Manoah (I met him one time)
Marvin (I never knew him)
Minola (Your grandmother)
Irene (married Arthur McKinney, lived in Hosston, LA; he owned a drug store. Son Lamar, two daughters, Elsie and I forget the other)
Ethel (I never knew her, but I vaguely recall meeting her once)
Samuel and Susan Ruth (twins, born October 29, 1892)
Lucinda Beulah (Dolly, who married Claudius Herman Mayo and lived in Lake Charles, LA)."
He added a PS to tell me about a tape made by Helen Mayo about the Frank Hoffpauir family back in 1975. It is a kind of autobiography or recollections and he says he will send me a copy.
Sharon Dulcich (granddaughter of Mineola Hoffpauir Griffin) [from excerpts of posted message to the Hoffpauir-L mail list on 2 March 2000]
Events
| Birth | 28 Sep 1913 |  | |||
| Death | 3 Nov 2011 | Hattiesburg, Forrest County, MS | | ||
| Marriage | Mary Nell Pignott |
Families
| Spouse | Mary Nell Pignott (1921 - 2010) |
| Child | Virginia Ruth George ( - ) |
| Child | Joanna George ( - ) |
| Child | Mary Alfreda George (1919 - ) |
| Father | Rev Albert Dean George (1887 - ) |
| Mother | Susan Ruth Hoffpauir (1891 - 1985) |
| Sibling | Margaret George ( - ) |
| Sibling | Virginia Ruth "Susie" George (1917 - 2005) |
Endnotes
1. Barbara L. Hill.
2. Sharon Kay Griffin Dulcich.
3. Obituary.