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Obituary - PRESTON HOFFPAUIR, DUSON. Preston Hoffpauir, a farmer living twelve miles west of Lafayette, was born in Vermilion parish, May 4, 1839. He is the son of James and Mary B. (Faulk) Hoffpauir, both natives of Louisiana. The former was born in St. Landry parish, the latter in Vermilion. They were married in Vermilion parish, and became the parents of eleven children, six sons and five daughters: Erasco, Thomas J., George, Preston, the subject; Naaman, Adalaska, deceased; Sarah Ann, wife of John Morgan; Theresa, wife of William Sarver; Salania, wife of Levi Sarver, Melienen, wife of Benjamin Avant, and Ecephony, wife of Alvin Morgan. James Hoffpauir was a farmer by occupation. He died in Vermilion parish, in 1882, at the age of seventy-four. His wife died in the same parish, in 1885, at the age of seventy-two. Both were members of the M. E. Church. Our subject began life for himself at the age of twenty as farmer, at the place where he now resides. In 1862 he enlisted in the Confederate army, becoming first lieutenant in the Lafayette Guards, State militia. He afterward was sergeant of the Louisiana Heavy Artillery. For some time he was with General Logan's mounted infantry in Mississippi. Returning to Louisiana, he volunteered in the Twenty-sixth Louisiana Infantry, under General Thomas, at Alexandria, and was orderly sergeant of Company D. He continued in service until the army was disbanded near Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, in the spring of 1865. After this event he returned home, and engaged in farming. He owns a place of about two hundred acres of land, one hundred and seventy-eight being under cultivation, principally in corn, cotton and rice. Mr. Hoffpauir has lived on this farm ever since 1858, and has been very successful in its management. He was married in 1857, to Amelia Stuts, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Foreman) Stuts. To them have been born eleven children, five sons and six daughters. Four of these died in infancy, those living being: Mary L., wife of Francies Foreman; Martha F., wife of Columbus Spell; Paul F., who was accidentally killed January 1, 1886, while attending school at Rayne, by a pistol in the hands of a friend; Robert F., Cunningham, John P., Eula J. and Ida Blanche. Mr. Hoffpauir was a justice of the peace of this parish from 1877 to 1888, and has been a member of the school board for four years. In politics he is a democrat. Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp. 231-232. Edited by William Henry Perrin. Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing Company.