Person:Martin Hoffman (1)

Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon for the late Martin Lewis Hoffman, 91-year-old Butler township resident who died late Friday afternoon at the farm home where he was born. Sunday's rites will be held at 2 p.m. at the Cedar Chapel Methodist church south of Garrett with the pastor, Rev. John Hand, officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Mr. Hoffman, a justice of the peace of Butler township, for 16 years and a former trustee of the township, died at 3:50 p.m. Friday. His death was attributed to pneumonia and complications of old age. He became ill three weeks ago, then apparently recovered. Thursday morning, he suffered a setback. He was born April 18, 1857 on the homestead six miles southwest of Auburn near St. Johns. His wife, the former Cora E. Grube, died in 1932. Mr. Hoffman was a member of the Methodist church at Cedar Chapel and the Knights of Phythias lodge in Auburn. For 30 years the served as secretary-treasurer of the Cedar Chapel cemetery board. He was the son of the late Daniel Z. Hoffman and Katherine Goetschius Hoffman. His father was a former Dekalb county recorder. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. C. L. Baker of 314 West Fifteenth street, Auburn and Mrs. T. A. Worman, who resides on the homestead farm; one son, Ira C. Hoffman of Wooster, O.; 11 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren. The body was taken to the George W. Iler mortuary at Garrett for burial preparations and returned to the late residence until the hour of services Sunday. Note: written on obit buried Feb. 27, 1949. (Re: Obituary Book, vol 4, page 56)

1. ↑ Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census. (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2002).

   Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2001-. Indexed by Ancestry.com from microfilmed schedules of the 1930 U.S. Federal Decennial Census. Data imaged from National Archives and Records Administration. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C. Butler, De Kalb, Indiana, ED 1, roll 585, page , image 597.0.

2. ↑ Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census. (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2002).

   Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2001-. Indexed by Ancestry.com from microfilmed schedules of the 1930 U.S. Federal Decennial Census. Data imaged from National Archives and Records Administration. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C. Butler, De Kalb, Indiana, ED 1, roll 585, page , image 597.0.