This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hoffman, Schwoeppe, Gilbert, Homburg, Krueger, Lillienkamp, Prusz, Rumig, Schorfheide, Seyler Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/5g.2ADI/308 Message Board Post: Thanks to Mary Klemundt for sending a copy of the obit to me. From: Nashville Journal, Nashville, Washington County, Illinois Published: 8 Aug 1935 Mrs. Hoffman, 92 Passes Away At Daughter’s Home Deceased Was One of Oldest Residents of County; Funeral Monday The funeral services for Mrs. Mary C. Hoffman, 92, were held Monday afternoon at the home at 2:00 o’clock and in the Evangelical church at 2:30 o’clock. Rev. C. H. Kluge officiated. Interment followed in the Evangelical Cemetery. Mrs. Hoffman died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Mary E. Gilbert, Friday, August 2, at 8:45 p. m., at the age of 92 years, 4 months, and 2 days. Mrs. Hoffman, nee Schwoeppe, only daughter of William and Anna Schwoeppe, was born in Elkton Prairie, near Johannisburg, on March 30, 1843. A child of Christian parents she was dedicated to God in baptism on April 6, of the same year. She was received into the membership of the church by the rite of confirmation on March 16, 1856, at the Evangelical church of Johannisburg. One other member of this confirmation class, Veteran John Meyer of Addieville, still remains among the living. She was a long and faithful member of St. Paul’s church and the Evangelical Ladies’ Aid. Deceased was united in marriage with Henry F. W. Hoffman on Feb. 5, 1865. The family has made their home on the farm southwest of this city these many years. Here they reared a family of five children, four daughters and one son. The son passed out of this life in 1915 and one daughter went to her reward early this year. The husband also departed this life in 1906. Since his passing Mrs. Hoffman continued on the home place, now in charge of Mrs. Mary E. Gilbert. Here she received the best of care during the late years when time was beginning to tell its story in the life of the aged mother. Her last illness was of but brief duration, though she had been in a precarious condition for years, and she quietly closed her eyes in the last sleep on Friday evening. Her passing is mourned by three daughter [sic], Mrs. Alvina Krueger of St. Louis, Mrs. Elizabeth Homburg and Mrs. Mary E. Gilbert, of near here, one daughter-in-law, Mrs. Anna Hoffman, of near Nashville; seven grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and other relatives and friends. The pallbearers were six great-nephews of the deceased: Fred Prusz, Henry Schorfheide, John Schorfheide, Paul Lillienkamp, W. E. Rumig and Floyd Seyler of Centralia. The flower girls were: Misses Clara Prusz, Elfrieda Blumhorst and Ruth Rumig. Those who attended the funeral from a distance were Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Krueger and daughters, Misses Marie and Helen, Mrs. Norman Henley, Mrs. Marie Kruse and son William, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ruedy and Miss Lillian Riebeling of St. Louis, Rev. and Mrs. Ed Brink of Weldon Springs, Mo., Mrs. Louis Greiman of Hookdale, Mrs. Wm. Rolf, Mrs. Frieda Grommet, Mrs. Mary Seyler, Misses Lydia and Amelia Hoffman, George Hoffman and daughter and [sic] Leona of Hoyleton, Mrs. Gus Hussman of Hoffman, Mrs. Lizzie Kaiser and daughter Miss Meta Marie and Miss Billie Peck, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Kaiser and Emil Kaiser, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Seyler and son Jimmy, Mrs. C. L. Weihe and Ernest Piontkowski of Centralia, and friends from Addieville and Okawville.