SOURCE: Vinton County Newspaper Republican Tribune May 3, 1922 MARY ELIZABETH HOFFHINE Mrs Mary Elizabeth Hoffhine died Monday morning at her home four miles south east of McArthur , aged 73 years. Mrs Hoffhine had been ill for sometime with a complication of diseases. She was the wife of Abram Hoffhine and is survived by her husband, three sons Warren of California, Mont of Iowa, Harvey of Vinton Station and four daughters Cora, Edna and Ruth of Columbus and Ada at home. Funeral was Wednesday at 1 pm, at the home, conducted by Dr. C.B. Taylor. Interment in Hixon Cemetery. P. Gaskill undertaker in charge. SOURCE: Vinton County Newspaper Republican Tribune May 10, 1922 IN MEMORIAM Mary Elizabeth Stuck was born at Morgantown, West Virginia, September 14, 1850. She came with her parents and family from West Virginia to Ohio at the age of eleven years where they located on the Baird Farm now owned by the McArthur Brick Company. She was united in marriage to Abram Hoffhine February 18th AD by 1869 by Rev Chauncy Taylor VDM of the Presbyterian Church at McArthur Ohio. Mrs Hoffhine died May 1, 1922, aged 71 years 7 months and 17 days. Therefore being married 53 years. To this union were born 10 children, Mrs Clarence Worley, Ruth and Edna Hoffhine, Columbus, Ohio, Warren of Knoxville, Iowa; Mont of Tacey, California, Harry near home and Ada at home. Three having preceded her. One dying in infancy. Ona died April 26, 1896; Clarence died April 15, 1912, She leaves a husband, two sisters Miss Sarah J. Stuck, Mrs Emma Goodrich, and one brother Mr Eugene Stuck of McArthur, Ohio to survive her. "Sad was the hour and fatal the day When they took our dear mother away We saw her suffer and heard her sighs With aching hearts and weeping eyes We saw her sinking hour by hour Yet could not stay deaths awful power But now she calmly sleeps at last All pain, all aches, all suffering past, Tis sweet to be remembered And a pleasant thing we find That though she may be absent, She is still kept in our mind." Funeral at the home Wednesday pm conducted by Rev C. B. Taylor. Interment in Hixon Cemetery. CARD OF THANKS