Individual Details

Ivy Hoffpauir was a fun-loving man who loved practical jokes. He was a carpenter and owned and operated a general store in or near Bell City, LA for a time. The store and his home were burned. He lost everything and had to start completely over. This occurred sometime about 1908, as recounted by his daughter Susie and his son, Frank, from stories they remembered hearing as children. (Frank is listed as Luther Francis Hoffpauir. He liked to be called Frank. )
Ivy Hoffpauir was a staunch Republican, and named his first-born son after two people he admired very much, Theodore Roosevelt and Ulysses Grant. Theodore Ulysses was my Father's oldest brother, who we called Uncle Ted.
According to my Father, he was also named after another person Ivy respected very much, Martin Luther. Ivy had no middle name, but used the initial L. Many references to Ivy show his middle name to be Lee, and several of his descendants carry the name Lee. This makes me wonder if he actually had the middle name Lee, but deigned it because he was such a fan of Grant.
Luther recalls his dad describing his brand to him. It was a capital "H", with a short horizontal line from the top right side of the "H" connecting it to a curved line resembling the letter "C", or more likely, one-half of a circle.
There were several different Hoffpauirs with the given name of Ivy. To distinguish one from another, they were often given nicknames. My grandfather Ivy L. Hoffpauir was generally called One-Eyed Ivy. One-Eyed Ivy lost the sight in one eye at the age of two years, according to the remembrances of his children, when he accidentally struck himself in the eye with a knife. The lost of the sight of one eye apparently didn't bother him much, and he often said that it gave him an advantage over people with sight in both eyes because "he didn't have to shut one eye to shoot".
Luther Francis Hoffpauir Jr., one of the many grandchildren of Ivy Hoffpauir, remembered the funerals of Ivy and Lulu Hoffpauir well enough to find the graves recently (8/25/96) in the churchyard of the Ebenezer Church, near Rayne La. He reported that there are three graves, all very much the same, located near a stump of a tree that is painted white. It stands about 5' high. The graves are to the left of the stump, towards the church, with the headstones facing west and the graves laid out toward the east. The headstones are for Ivy, Lulu, and Nettie (Ivy and Lulu's first child).

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Birth	20 Oct 1869	Acadia Parish, LA
Marriage License	20 Mar 1893	Acadia Parish, LA - Lulu Hoffpauir
Marriage	23 Mar 1893	Acadia Parish, LA - Lulu Hoffpauir
Death	18 Nov 1940	Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish, LA
Burial		Ebenezer Methodist Church Cemetery, Ebenezer, Acadia Parish, LA

Spouse	Lulu Hoffpauir (1876 - 1944)
Child	Nettie Hoffpauir (1894 - 1925)
Child	Susan Hoffpauir (1896 - 1993)
Child	Theodore Ulysses Hoffpauir (1898 - 1975)
Child	Tressie Eula Hoffpauir (1900 - 1982)
Child	Travis Benson Hoffpauir (1902 - 1980)
Child	Luther Francis Hoffpauir (1905 - 1995)
Child	Lucy Emma Hoffpauir (1907 - 1988)
Child	Clyde Ivy Hoffpauir (1909 - 1981)
Child	Glynn Phillip Hoffpauir (1911 - 1987)
Child	Lula Lease "Lulu" Hoffpauir (1915 - 1997)
Child	Jewel Ruth Hoffpauir (1917 - 2000)

Father	Manoah Hoffpauir (1828 - 1898)
Mother	Magdelaine Stutes (1833 - 1875)
Sibling	Susan Hoffpauir (1853 - 1940)
Sibling	Francis "Frank" Hoffpauir (1855 - 1943)
Sibling	Amilda Cordelia Hoffpauir (1858 - 1950)
Sibling	Racheal Hoffpauir (1861 - 1861)
Sibling	Manoah Admar Hoffpauir (1862 - 1943)
Sibling	Emma Emmy Hoffpauir (1864 - 1877)
Sibling	Leaze Hoffpauir (1867 - 1940)
Sibling	Laura Hoffpauir (1873 - 1946)
Sibling	Eneas Hoffpauir (1875 - 1929)

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