Individual Details

Clara Jane KNODE

(1837 - 4 Mar 1906)

Clara Knode crossed the river into Virginia one day before the outbreak of the Civil War battle at Antietam. The day after the battle she recrossed the river to rejoin her husband who had stayed to protect their home. She was arrested as a spy and taken to General McClellan, but she was able to rejoin her husband that night.

Events

Birth1837
Marriage20 Nov 1856Hagerstown, Washington, MD - John Calvin Hoffman
Death4 Mar 1906Hagerstown, Washington, MD
BurialZion Reformed Church Cemetery, Hagerstown, Washington, MD

Families

SpouseJohn Calvin Hoffman (1832 - 1895)
ChildSusie Knode Hoffman (1858 - 1859)
ChildWilliam K. Hoffman (1860 - 1933)
ChildAnnie Hoffman (1862 - 1864)
ChildGeorge K. Hoffman Senior (1864 - 1946)
ChildLiving
ChildDavid K. Hoffman (1869 - 1871)
ChildCalvin Knode Hoffman (1871 - 1943)
ChildJoseph K. Hoffman (1873 - 1940)
ChildJohn K. Hoffman (1875 - 1877)
ChildMartha K. Hoffman (1877 - 1879)
ChildMary K. Hoffman (1877 - 1927)
ChildFrank K. Hoffman (1880 - 1942)
FatherWilliam H. Knode (1812 - 1887)
MotherSusan Landis (1813 - 1887)
SiblingMary E. Knode (1835 - )
SiblingAmelia M. Knode (1840 - 1910)
SiblingWilliam Knode ( - )
SiblingHarriet Knode (1846 - 1922)
SiblingJohn Landis Knode (1851 - 1919)
SiblingEllen Susan Knode (1854 - 1919)

Notes

Marriage

Clara Knode and John Hoffman were second cousins. They were married in the Zion Reform Church by Reverend Geisy. Agnes Long gave their wedding day as the 18th.

Endnotes

1. Long, Agnes Young:, Genealogy of Wolfgang Newcomer and his Descendants, Volume 2, Chapter IX: Descendants of Sallie Newcomer, daughter of Henry and Barbara (Garver) Newcomer. (Probably completed in the early 1950s) (Washington County Historical Society, 135 West Washington Street, Hagerstown, Maryland 21740. histsoc@earthlink.net (301-797-8782) http://www.rootsweb.com/~mdwchs/) .

2. Manley Mallet, All Those Newcomer Families of Maryland (October 1972).