Individual Details
John Hoffman
(1813 - 3 Sep 1863)
SOURCE: Census 1860, Eagle Creek: John C Hoffman appears on the 1860 Census at Eagle Creek. He is 53 years old and is born PA. He has real estate worth $2000, and a personal estate of $1300. SOURCE: Bureau of Land Management, Serial # MN1900_.180 Patentee: John C. Hoffman Doc #215 Misc Doc Nr375; May 20, 1870, original homestead, May 20, 1862 (12 Stat. 392)Acres:160 Land Office: St Cloud W1/2NE Blk 25, Twp.: 127-N, Range: 35-W, Meridian: 5thPM; State: MN; County:Todd W1/2SE Blk 25, Twp.: 127-N, Range: 35-W, Meridian: 5thPM; State: MN; County:Todd Note: This160 acres was granted to "The Heirs of John C Hoffman, deceased", 20 May 1862 by President U.S. Grant. SOURCE: Mrs Agnes Bohem, Chairman, Silver Creek Cemetery Society. John Hoffman was the second person to be buried in the Silver Creek cemetery. His remains were later removed from the Silver Creek Cemetery to the Greenwood Cemetery in Sauk Centre after 1919. John was buried in Block D Lot 10 Silver Creek Cem. Hoffman, John C: male age 50; occupation:farmer; Cause of death: Mr Hoffman was shot by Indians: died 9/3/1863 West Union Twp; buried: 9/5/1863 Block D Lot 10; relatives: father of Mrs G Salmond and Mrs. Herbert, husband of Mary D Hoffman. born 1813; removed to Evergreen Cemetery sauk Centre SOURCE: "Todd Co., Histories" by John Sheets, A.J. Hendrickson, O.B. DeLaurier: West Union -Thursday Oct 11, 1934. p.. 67 The Obibwa group of settlers had not been long established in West Union when another group came to settle in the sections about the confluence of the Asley River and Silver Creek. This group on coming had resided for a time at Shakopee, and Judge Kelsey in writing of West Union, speaks of them as the Shakopee Group, and gives their names as follows: William Moulton, William Vessey, Frederick Kurrell, Christopher Miller, George W. Salmond, and John C. Hoffman. All settled on claims though the land had not yet become subject to homestead entry the homestead law became effective they filed their entries at the United States Land Office. In 1861, John C. Hoffman and his son in law George W Salmond landed in West Union township, looking for claims. They settled the claims that were afterwards taken by Frederick Kurrell and Christia Miller, but went Back to their families without making entries at the land office or making any visible improvement on the land. When they returned with their families, they found their places had been taken and they wasted no time by going to them. They drove on to Section 26 where they saw a small house newly erected by William W McLeod on the W 1/2 of the E 1/2 of that section. Mr Hoffman said to his son-in law- "I am going to see if I can buy this man out, for this claim exactly suits me". Going over to Mr McLeod he said " I will give you $200.00 for your rights in this land." Mr McLEOD answered, "I'll take it!". The money was counted out to Mr McLeod and he went to the house and said to his wife, "I have sold the place to this man, and we will have to move out." They carried Mr. McLeod's goods out of the house and carried Mr Hoffman's in, and Mr Hoffman was established in his new home. Mr Mc Leod went about half a mile north in Section 24 and settled on a vacant claim and he was at home again...The following year Mr Hoffman was killed on his farm by the Indians. after his death his wife and children continued to live on the claim and the government issued a Patent for the land to his heirs. His family consisted of his wife Mary D. Hoffman; a daughter Lavina D. who married George W. Salmond; Hattie who married J. Frank Dunsmore, a resident of Kandota; and three sons, C.O., John D and Oscar D Hoffman... SOURCE: "Todd Co., Histories"( Stearns Co., Historical Soc. Sauk Centre).West Union -Thursday Oct 18, 1934, p69 ...[Discussing the Indian Wars and death of John Hoffman -LH] Sauk Centre was crowded with refugees...Fort Abercrombie...was besieged by a large force of savages. To meet the emergency, a military company was organized with S. Ramsdell as captain, and John C. Hoffman as first lieutenant. A. Check of the roster...John C. Hoffman, first lieutenant, H. McLaughlin, 1st Sergeant, J. F. Dunsmore, Sergeant...Among the Privates were the following...GW Salmond...W. Vessey...In the summer of 1863 some of the bolder and more venturesome of the settlers could not restrain their impatience to get back to their claims, and among such were John C Hoffman, his son in law George W Salmond and a neighbour named Richard Neal. The three claims were in section 25 of West Union. With their families they were all on their claims the 3 September 1863, though they knew that roving bands of Sioux were still in the country. That evening a detachment of General Sibley's Army was encamped about a mile northeast of the Hoffman cabin. John D. Hoffman, a son of JC Hoffman, was one of the soldiers of that detachment. He had obtained permission to stay a day or two with his parents, and was with them that evening. Mr Hoffman's family at this time consisted of himself and wife and two sons, CO Hoffman, 14 years of age, and John D. The family of Mr Salmon consisted of himself and wife and three small children, and a boy staying with him named Mr. Fielding. We have no information as to who were the members of Mr. Neals family; but there is some evidence that for protection, J F Dunsmore and Henry Longfellow were staying at the Hoffman's home. Everyone had gone to bed except Mrs Hoffman who was sitting up mending the clothes of her son John D who had arrived home that evening dog began barking...Mr Hoffman..got up and dressed and went down the road...he saw one of Mr Salmond's horses running in the pasture...and found that it had an Indian lariat around its neck. Taking off the leather rope, he went to the Salmond cabin...everyone in the house dressed and proceeded to the Hoffman house...Mr Hoffman said that he would go over to Dick Neals and get him to help find the missing horse. John D said " If you are going there then I am going with you"...They were preceding along the banks of the Ashley, Mr Hoffman walking in the middle with his son at his left and Neal at his right when three shots blazed out of the darkness. An ounce ball and seven buckshot struck Mr Hoffman, killing him instantly. Neal ran to his own house. Two of the shots went wild but they were fired at such close range that John D's face was burned by the powder...he returned to the house where Neal let him in. They remained there until morning. The men left at the Salmond barn heard the shooting and knew that something was wrong....Mrs Hoffman was terrified, and wanted to go to the soldiers camp for help. The others would not let her do this...Over at the soldiers camp the guide heard the shooting... The officers did not wish to be annoyed with the matter...at first light [the guide] went out to where he had heard the shooting in the night and there he found Mr. Hoffman's body....The Hoffman family believe that the Indians came back each night for three successive nights; but were prevented from molesting anything by the dogs furious barking. The soldiers moved away without making any investigation, and John D. Hoffman's leave of absence expired and he left with the detachment. However Buchnau, the guide was a skillful man at his calling and aided the family as much as possible... SOURCE: Sauk Centre Historical Society: from Minnesota in the Civil and Indian Wars: Roster of Citizen Soldiers; Roster of Captain S Ramsdell's company of the Sauk Centre (Steatns Co) Volenteer State Militia. organized at Sauk Centre Aug 25 1862 and served until October 25 1862: John C Hoffman: 1st Lieutenant. SOURCE: Minnesota Adjutant General's Report of 1866, Parke Genealogical Books; Roseville MN p192: Hoffmann, J, C. 1Lt regt: Citizen's soldiers, sauk Center Militia Mustered in 25 Aug 1862; Mustered out: 25 Oct 1862.
SOURCE: Mark R Gideon, Columbus Ohio Hoffman, John C. (Father of Thomas Hoffman) Interviewed: Merle O'Brien: John C. Hoffman was born in the state of Pennsylvania in 1813. He was captain on a river boat upon the Ohio River for many years. His wife, Mary D. Hoffman, was also born in Pennsylvania in the year of 1821. They came to Minnesota and settled upon a farm near Shakopee where they lived until 1862 when they moved to West Union, Todd County, Minnesota, and settled upon the West one-half of East one-half of Section twenty-five and made his filing there on August 10, 1863. Final proof was made by his heirs March 16, 1869. The children of John C. and Mary D. Hoffman were: Lavina D., who married George Salmond: John D.; C. O.; O. D.; and Hattie who married Frank Densmore at West Union, December 25, 1863. C. O. Hoffman was married June 21, 1870 to Harriet C. Frederick and farmed the South West one-fourth of Section twenty-five for a year. He learned the carpenters' trade and worked with Charles R. Sylvester for a time when he moved to Sauk Centre and carried on his trade. O. D. Hoffman lives in Minneapolis. Mary D. Hoffman died at Sauk Centre in 1902...(follows a copy of the above account of John's death). The following account proves the steamboat part - not on the Ohio in this case but on the Minnesota. SOURCE: "history of Steamboating on the Minnesota River". by Thomas Hughes. Collections of the Minnesota Historical society Volume X part 1 Published by the society Feb. 1905 (as found in Library of Congress Americam Memory Collection of digital images) p 144 The season of 1857 opened auspiciously with a good stage of water in the Minnesota, The Equator ...was the first boat. She left St Paul for Mankato on the morning of April 12th with a full load of passengers and freight. She was followed the next day by the Clarion, which had beenbought the year before by Captain OD Keep and brought back to the Minesota where she had done such good service in 1853 under Captain Humbertson. Captain Keep and his clerk, John C Hoffman resided in the vicinity of Shakopee (Lil's Note:correct- I have them enumerated next to each other in 1860 at Eagle Bend, Shakopee, Scott county), and they kept the Clarion in the Minnesota trade until she sank near the St. Paul levee two or three years later...The names of the boats which left the St Paul Wharf this year, 1875, for the Minnesota, and the number of trips made by each were as follows:...Clarion 12...in 1858...Clarion 11. (Lil: there are no figures for the Clarion in 1859 and 1860 so I assume she sank sometime during 1859. There is a note on p 149 for 1862 that states "Messrs. Stagg and Handy of St Paul put a small boat called the "New Ulm Belle" which they built with the machinery of the Clarion, also into the Minnesota trade". We know by 1862 John C had moved on to West Union.) SOURCE: History of Stearns County, Chicago : H.C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., c1915, William Bell Mitchel p. 616, Vol. 1. "On the night of September 7, 1863, a man named Hoffman, living about four miles above Sauk Centre, was shot and killed by Indians who were engaged in horse stealing. One rifle ball and two charges of buckshot took effect in his body. When Captain Pettit learned of this murder he at once dispatched Captain Ruble with a detachment of men in pursuit, but the Indians had too great a start and were not found." SOURCE:From: Donna Kuhlman : Wednesday, April 28, 2004 9:35 PM email : John C. Hoffman John C. "Huffman" bought land (40 acres) in Bartholomew Co. 2 Aug. 1847. He acquired another 80 acres on 14 Apr. 1848...he disposed of the first 40, and somewhere he got a different 40. Then sold the second 40 and the 80 on 13 Dec. 1853. John "Huffman" was on the 1850 tax records (the 80 acres was worth $180, and he had $50 worth of personal property.) There is NO evidence he went anywhere else between 1847 and 1853, so apparently just missed on census, fairly common for that year here. On Oct. 18, 1852, Thomas and Eliza Lawton deeded land for the cemetery to Alexander Records, John C. Hoffman and Thomas Lawton, Trustees of Harmony Burying Ground Assn. SOURCE: Bartholomew County IN Cemeteries Vol 11: Harrison, Jackson, and Oho Twps. Donna Kuhlman Editor. John W Hamblen Associate Ed. BCGS, Inc. 1993 p 12: Harmony Burial Ground: Also Lawton Cemetery: SW 1/4 of NE 1/4 of Sec 31 T9N R5E On Oct 18 1852 land was deeded from Thomas and Eliza Lawton to Alexander Records, John C Hoffman and Thomas Lawton, Trustees of Harmony Burying Ground ass'n, for $1.00 Unfortunately an error was made in the land description. Township 8 was named instead of Township 9. Apparently this has never been corrected, though it has not interferred with use of the emetery. There is no evidence of any chuch ever being here. Many of the German families here were associated with the Luthern church at the Roth cemetery, and were later members of St Peters luthern church in Columbus. St Peter's did have a parochial school near here once. The cemetery is now maintained by the Harrison Township Trustee... SOURCE: Bartholomew County IN Tract Book p 14 (photocopy received) Township 9 North of Range 4 East. Aug 2 1847 John C Huffman SWNE Section 36, Twp 9 range 4 40 acres: (Donna's Note: This property is 1 mile west of Harmony Cemetery and corresponds with the BLM Glo recordsfor Bart. IN. Harrison twp. 10 May 1848 SWNE sec 36 9N 4E No2nd - although the above application date is earlier- this record is probably the completed transfer.) SOURCE: Early Landowners of Bartholomew County Indiana, Maurice Holmes, Shelbyville IN; October 1975 XV : part one introduction: This list of original Bartholomew County landowners was copied rom the Tract book at the Bartholomew County Court House at Columbus Ind. The Tract book was made up from records at the Indiana State Auditors Office at Indianapolis and certified by that office March 27 1880. The page number opposite a name on the following pages is where the earliest land purchase for that person is found in the Tract book, and the date that purchase was made: Huffman, John C page 14, Aug 2 1847. SOURCE: Bartholomew County IN Deed Book M p. 170-171: (photocopy received) Know all Men that James M Morris and Ellen his wife of the town of Cincinnati, County of Hamilton Ohio in consideration of four hundred dollars to them paid by John Huffman the receipt whereof is hereby acknowleged doth hereby bargain, sell and convey to the said john Huffman, his heirs and assigns forever the following real estate: viz: all that certain tract or parcel of land as per certificate of the register number 15676, of the office at Jeffersonville Indianna and being the East half of the southeast quarter of section thirty-six (36) in the township nine (9) North of Range four (4) east in the district of lands subject to sale at jeffersonville Indiana, containing eighty acres being the same tract of land patented and sold by the General Government on the Ninth of January 1841 to Thomas Clift and by said Thomas Clift conveyed to the said James Morris by deed bearing date on the tenth of May eighteen hundred and fourty four together with all the privileges and appurtences the same belonging. To have and to hold the same to the said john Huffman his heirs and assigns forever. Hereby covenanting with the grantee his heirs and assigns that the title so conveyed is clear free and unincumbered and that they will warrant and defend the same against all claims whatsoever. In witness whereof the ssid James M Morris and Ellen his wife who hereby relinquishes all her right and claim of dower in the same premesis hereunto set their hands and seals this fourteenth day of April in the year Eighteen hundred and fourty eight. Signed sealed and delivered in the presence of Allen thompson witness Mark P Layton James miller. Signed with the marks of James M Morris and Ellen Morris. State of Ohio: Hamilton county Be it remembered that on this twenty fourth day of April in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and fourty eight before me the subscriber, a justice of the peace in and for said county personally came James M Morris and ellen his wife the grantors in the above conveyance and acknowleged the signing and sealing the same to be their voluntary act and deed for the uses and purposes therin mentioned. And the said ellen, wife of the said James M Morris being examined by me separate and apart from her said husband and the contents of the said deed being by me made known and explained to her as the statute directs declare that she did voluntarily sign and seal and acknowlege the same and that she is satidfied therewith as her act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned. In testimony whereof I leave hereunto subscribed mt name and affix my seal on the day and year aforesaid. Mark P Taylor. Justice of the Peace. State of Ohio: Hamilton County (a statement by Edward C Roll, clerk of the Court of common Pleas for Hamilton county confirming that Mark P taylor was a licenced JP) (Donna's Note: this land (80 acres) is across the road (catty-corner) from his original 40 acres. The 1850 tax records show just this 80 acrea so apparently the other 40 was sold.) SOURCE: Bartholomew County IN Deed Book T page 314-315 (Note: this is for the sale of the above 80 acres plus adjacent property in section 31-9-5. (no records found on the purchase of that later land to date) Donna Kuhlman): John C Hoffman and Mary Hoffman his wife of Bartholomew County in the state of Indiana convey and warrant to William Dodd for the sum of one thousand dollars the following real estate in Bartholomew county in the state of Indiana. to wit: The East half of the Southeast quarter of section Thirty-six (36) and Township Nine (9) and North of Range Four (4) East containing 80 acres be the same more or less. Also a part of the south West quarter of section Thirty-one (31) Township Nine (9) and North of range Five (5) East bounded as following: Beginning at the Southwest corner of said Section Thirty One (31) thence running North one hundred and sixty three and a half (163 1/2) rods thence east on the line dividing said land from thomas Lawton's Land thirty-nine (39) rods and three and threefourths (3 3/4) links to the place of beginning containing fourty (40) acres more or less. In witness whereof the said John C Hoffman and mary Hoffman have hereto set their hands and seals this 13th day of December 1853. John C Hoffman and Mary (X) Hoffman. State of Indiana, Bartholomew county: Before me Valentine Ault a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, this 13th day of december 1853, john C Hoffman and Mary Hoffman acknowleged the examination of the annexed deed. Witness my hand and seal Valentine ault, Justice of the Peace. Recorded Dec 14 1853 WM H H Terrell. RBC
SOURCE: Mark R Gideon, Columbus Ohio Hoffman, John C. (Father of Thomas Hoffman) Interviewed: Merle O'Brien: John C. Hoffman was born in the state of Pennsylvania in 1813. He was captain on a river boat upon the Ohio River for many years. His wife, Mary D. Hoffman, was also born in Pennsylvania in the year of 1821. They came to Minnesota and settled upon a farm near Shakopee where they lived until 1862 when they moved to West Union, Todd County, Minnesota, and settled upon the West one-half of East one-half of Section twenty-five and made his filing there on August 10, 1863. Final proof was made by his heirs March 16, 1869. The children of John C. and Mary D. Hoffman were: Lavina D., who married George Salmond: John D.; C. O.; O. D.; and Hattie who married Frank Densmore at West Union, December 25, 1863. C. O. Hoffman was married June 21, 1870 to Harriet C. Frederick and farmed the South West one-fourth of Section twenty-five for a year. He learned the carpenters' trade and worked with Charles R. Sylvester for a time when he moved to Sauk Centre and carried on his trade. O. D. Hoffman lives in Minneapolis. Mary D. Hoffman died at Sauk Centre in 1902...(follows a copy of the above account of John's death). The following account proves the steamboat part - not on the Ohio in this case but on the Minnesota. SOURCE: "history of Steamboating on the Minnesota River". by Thomas Hughes. Collections of the Minnesota Historical society Volume X part 1 Published by the society Feb. 1905 (as found in Library of Congress Americam Memory Collection of digital images) p 144 The season of 1857 opened auspiciously with a good stage of water in the Minnesota, The Equator ...was the first boat. She left St Paul for Mankato on the morning of April 12th with a full load of passengers and freight. She was followed the next day by the Clarion, which had beenbought the year before by Captain OD Keep and brought back to the Minesota where she had done such good service in 1853 under Captain Humbertson. Captain Keep and his clerk, John C Hoffman resided in the vicinity of Shakopee (Lil's Note:correct- I have them enumerated next to each other in 1860 at Eagle Bend, Shakopee, Scott county), and they kept the Clarion in the Minnesota trade until she sank near the St. Paul levee two or three years later...The names of the boats which left the St Paul Wharf this year, 1875, for the Minnesota, and the number of trips made by each were as follows:...Clarion 12...in 1858...Clarion 11. (Lil: there are no figures for the Clarion in 1859 and 1860 so I assume she sank sometime during 1859. There is a note on p 149 for 1862 that states "Messrs. Stagg and Handy of St Paul put a small boat called the "New Ulm Belle" which they built with the machinery of the Clarion, also into the Minnesota trade". We know by 1862 John C had moved on to West Union.) SOURCE: History of Stearns County, Chicago : H.C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., c1915, William Bell Mitchel p. 616, Vol. 1. "On the night of September 7, 1863, a man named Hoffman, living about four miles above Sauk Centre, was shot and killed by Indians who were engaged in horse stealing. One rifle ball and two charges of buckshot took effect in his body. When Captain Pettit learned of this murder he at once dispatched Captain Ruble with a detachment of men in pursuit, but the Indians had too great a start and were not found." SOURCE:From: Donna Kuhlman : Wednesday, April 28, 2004 9:35 PM email : John C. Hoffman John C. "Huffman" bought land (40 acres) in Bartholomew Co. 2 Aug. 1847. He acquired another 80 acres on 14 Apr. 1848...he disposed of the first 40, and somewhere he got a different 40. Then sold the second 40 and the 80 on 13 Dec. 1853. John "Huffman" was on the 1850 tax records (the 80 acres was worth $180, and he had $50 worth of personal property.) There is NO evidence he went anywhere else between 1847 and 1853, so apparently just missed on census, fairly common for that year here. On Oct. 18, 1852, Thomas and Eliza Lawton deeded land for the cemetery to Alexander Records, John C. Hoffman and Thomas Lawton, Trustees of Harmony Burying Ground Assn. SOURCE: Bartholomew County IN Cemeteries Vol 11: Harrison, Jackson, and Oho Twps. Donna Kuhlman Editor. John W Hamblen Associate Ed. BCGS, Inc. 1993 p 12: Harmony Burial Ground: Also Lawton Cemetery: SW 1/4 of NE 1/4 of Sec 31 T9N R5E On Oct 18 1852 land was deeded from Thomas and Eliza Lawton to Alexander Records, John C Hoffman and Thomas Lawton, Trustees of Harmony Burying Ground ass'n, for $1.00 Unfortunately an error was made in the land description. Township 8 was named instead of Township 9. Apparently this has never been corrected, though it has not interferred with use of the emetery. There is no evidence of any chuch ever being here. Many of the German families here were associated with the Luthern church at the Roth cemetery, and were later members of St Peters luthern church in Columbus. St Peter's did have a parochial school near here once. The cemetery is now maintained by the Harrison Township Trustee... SOURCE: Bartholomew County IN Tract Book p 14 (photocopy received) Township 9 North of Range 4 East. Aug 2 1847 John C Huffman SWNE Section 36, Twp 9 range 4 40 acres: (Donna's Note: This property is 1 mile west of Harmony Cemetery and corresponds with the BLM Glo recordsfor Bart. IN. Harrison twp. 10 May 1848 SWNE sec 36 9N 4E No2nd - although the above application date is earlier- this record is probably the completed transfer.) SOURCE: Early Landowners of Bartholomew County Indiana, Maurice Holmes, Shelbyville IN; October 1975 XV : part one introduction: This list of original Bartholomew County landowners was copied rom the Tract book at the Bartholomew County Court House at Columbus Ind. The Tract book was made up from records at the Indiana State Auditors Office at Indianapolis and certified by that office March 27 1880. The page number opposite a name on the following pages is where the earliest land purchase for that person is found in the Tract book, and the date that purchase was made: Huffman, John C page 14, Aug 2 1847. SOURCE: Bartholomew County IN Deed Book M p. 170-171: (photocopy received) Know all Men that James M Morris and Ellen his wife of the town of Cincinnati, County of Hamilton Ohio in consideration of four hundred dollars to them paid by John Huffman the receipt whereof is hereby acknowleged doth hereby bargain, sell and convey to the said john Huffman, his heirs and assigns forever the following real estate: viz: all that certain tract or parcel of land as per certificate of the register number 15676, of the office at Jeffersonville Indianna and being the East half of the southeast quarter of section thirty-six (36) in the township nine (9) North of Range four (4) east in the district of lands subject to sale at jeffersonville Indiana, containing eighty acres being the same tract of land patented and sold by the General Government on the Ninth of January 1841 to Thomas Clift and by said Thomas Clift conveyed to the said James Morris by deed bearing date on the tenth of May eighteen hundred and fourty four together with all the privileges and appurtences the same belonging. To have and to hold the same to the said john Huffman his heirs and assigns forever. Hereby covenanting with the grantee his heirs and assigns that the title so conveyed is clear free and unincumbered and that they will warrant and defend the same against all claims whatsoever. In witness whereof the ssid James M Morris and Ellen his wife who hereby relinquishes all her right and claim of dower in the same premesis hereunto set their hands and seals this fourteenth day of April in the year Eighteen hundred and fourty eight. Signed sealed and delivered in the presence of Allen thompson witness Mark P Layton James miller. Signed with the marks of James M Morris and Ellen Morris. State of Ohio: Hamilton county Be it remembered that on this twenty fourth day of April in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and fourty eight before me the subscriber, a justice of the peace in and for said county personally came James M Morris and ellen his wife the grantors in the above conveyance and acknowleged the signing and sealing the same to be their voluntary act and deed for the uses and purposes therin mentioned. And the said ellen, wife of the said James M Morris being examined by me separate and apart from her said husband and the contents of the said deed being by me made known and explained to her as the statute directs declare that she did voluntarily sign and seal and acknowlege the same and that she is satidfied therewith as her act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned. In testimony whereof I leave hereunto subscribed mt name and affix my seal on the day and year aforesaid. Mark P Taylor. Justice of the Peace. State of Ohio: Hamilton County (a statement by Edward C Roll, clerk of the Court of common Pleas for Hamilton county confirming that Mark P taylor was a licenced JP) (Donna's Note: this land (80 acres) is across the road (catty-corner) from his original 40 acres. The 1850 tax records show just this 80 acrea so apparently the other 40 was sold.) SOURCE: Bartholomew County IN Deed Book T page 314-315 (Note: this is for the sale of the above 80 acres plus adjacent property in section 31-9-5. (no records found on the purchase of that later land to date) Donna Kuhlman): John C Hoffman and Mary Hoffman his wife of Bartholomew County in the state of Indiana convey and warrant to William Dodd for the sum of one thousand dollars the following real estate in Bartholomew county in the state of Indiana. to wit: The East half of the Southeast quarter of section Thirty-six (36) and Township Nine (9) and North of Range Four (4) East containing 80 acres be the same more or less. Also a part of the south West quarter of section Thirty-one (31) Township Nine (9) and North of range Five (5) East bounded as following: Beginning at the Southwest corner of said Section Thirty One (31) thence running North one hundred and sixty three and a half (163 1/2) rods thence east on the line dividing said land from thomas Lawton's Land thirty-nine (39) rods and three and threefourths (3 3/4) links to the place of beginning containing fourty (40) acres more or less. In witness whereof the said John C Hoffman and mary Hoffman have hereto set their hands and seals this 13th day of December 1853. John C Hoffman and Mary (X) Hoffman. State of Indiana, Bartholomew county: Before me Valentine Ault a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, this 13th day of december 1853, john C Hoffman and Mary Hoffman acknowleged the examination of the annexed deed. Witness my hand and seal Valentine ault, Justice of the Peace. Recorded Dec 14 1853 WM H H Terrell. RBC
Events
| Birth | 1813 | Pittsburg, Pa | |||
| Death | 3 Sep 1863 | Fairy Lake, Todd Co, Minn | |||
| Burial | 5 Sep 1863 | Silver Creek Cem, West Union Twp, Mn | |||
| Marriage | Mary Depew |
Families
| Spouse | Mary Depew (1821 - ) |
| Child | Thomas W. Hoffman (1853 - 1902) |
| Father | Hoffman ( - ) |
| Sibling | George Hoffman (1829 - ) |