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Notes for Marion Lorenzo Hoffstot
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Our ancestors were not very good at times in keeping the Family Record. It is hoped this effort of mine will make it easier for the generations to come.
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I have not shown the location nof graves of the deceased. William and eunice Hoffstot are buried in a cemetery 4 mi NE of Van Meter, Ia. Owen and Alice Hoffstot with son, Leo, are buried at Savage, Montana. Most of the Hollenbecks that have passed are buried at Lakeview, Michigan, or at Belding, Michigan. Information for the others is not at hand.
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In these footnotes I will record a few unusual incidents that have occurred in the family, and have not been mentioned in this record heretofore.
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In aboaut 1900, Alice Hoffstot discovered that her father, whom she had never remembered, had lived iat Chadron, Nebraska, 20 miles from her, for years. But he had passed away before the discovery was made.
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When I was 3 and Horace was a baby, we moved from Hyannis, Nebraska to New Castle, Wyoming in early winter. We travelled in a light wagon without any cover and slept on the ground inside a tarpaulin, roundup style. On the edge of the Black Hills we were caught in a terrible blizzard which lasted 3 days. Father cut wood, heated rocks in the campfire, wrapped them in burlap and placed them in the bed to keep us from, freezing. When the storm set up we double-decked the two horses and rode out of there, leaving the half buried wagon in the snow bank. According to a news dispatch in the Omaha Bee of that time, the Hoffstot family perished in that storm. But to quote Mark Twain, that was a bit of exaggeration.
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My parents have told me that buffalo Bill Cody dangled me on his knee many a time when I was a baby. They lived but a few miles from the famous showman's first ranch near North Platte, and he sometimes was a visitor at their home.
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For the Hollenbeck family, it may be noted that 3 sisters (1 a half-sister) all married Hollenbeck brothers. this must at least tie a record.
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Certain evidence shows that the Thomas Cahill family had made some attempt to locate, without success, a purported estate of considerable wealth in jamaica; a fortune that might legally belong to the Cahill heirs.
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At present, male children among the younger st are rather limited in both the Hoffstot and the Hollenbeck names. For the Hollenbeck's there is Jack and his nephews, Keith and don. The Hoffstot family has Rodney and Michael. There are other Hollenbeck's in the country but, outside of this family, I have never known of but one Hoffstot, and he was a German Prisoner of War I ran into, in 1918.
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The several branches of THE TREE seem to be made up of decent, God-fearing folks. Primarily, this record has been compiled for the benefit of my children & grandchildren, but it is hoped that other branches of the family will get some good out of it, also.
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For you of the Hoffstot-Hollenbeck clan, it is hoped that this blood mixture of many nationalities will be beneficial. May you get your tenacity from the German; your honesty from the Dutch, and may your down East Yankee strain make you frugal. May you be as gentle as the Birginian; keen-eyed as the North Carolinia Squirrel hunter; disciplined as the soldier, and pious as the Quaker. May you love Freedom like the cowboy; have the perseverance of the pioneer and, from the Irish, may you inherit the urge to sing and laugh and be cheerful.
M.L. Hoffstot
Eugene, Ore
Jan 18, 1959
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