HOFFMEISTER, Johann Jacob

1861 - 1927  (66 years)

• Name	HOFFMEISTER, Johann Jacob
  Birth	26 Jul 1861	Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY
  Gender	Male
  Death	14 Nov 1927	Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY
  Person ID	I55653	Laur from Germany
  Last Modified	10 Jul 2017

  
  

  Father	HOFFMEISTER, Christian Friedrich,   b. Oct 1813, Meichow, Brandenburg, Germany d. 21 Mar 1900, Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY (Age ~ 86 years)
  Mother	KORF, Maria Dorothea,   b. 15 Jul 1823, Luetzlow, Brandenburg, Prussia d. 14 Dec 1874, Niagara County, NY (Age 51 years)
  Marriage	26 Apr 1846	Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY
  Family ID	F19970	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	MOLL, Wilhelmine Maria,   b. 31 Dec 1863, Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY d. 31 Aug 1904, Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY (Age 40 years)
  Marriage	20 Jan 1887	Bergholtz, Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY
  Children	1. HOFFMEISTER, Benjamin Christian,   b. 7 Oct 1888, Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY d. Yes, date unknown   2. HOFFMEISTER, Arthur Friedrich,   b. 29 Jun 1890, Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY d. Yes, date unknown   3. HOFFMEISTER, Harvey Eduard Johann,   b. 8 May 1895, Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY d. 16 Oct 1959, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA (Age 64 years)   4. HOFFMEISTER, Emily Sarah Helene,   b. 1897, Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY d. Yes, date unknown   5. HOFFMEISTER, Lillian Elisabeth,   b. 12 Mar 1898, Niagara County, NY d. Yes, date unknown   6. HOFFMEISTER, Alvin Leonard,   b. 8 Feb 1900, Town of Niagara, Niagara County, NY d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F20138	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Nov 2024

  
  

• Notes

  15 November 1927 Tonawanda News Farmer in Bergholz Kills Self John J. Hoffmeister, 66, Takes Life By Shooting Himself in Abdomen With Shot Gun-Found By Son John J. Hoffmeister, 66 years old, committed suicide yesterday afternoon at his home on the Niagara Falls boulevard near Bergholz by shooting himself in the abdomen, with a shot gun. Hoffmeister's act was attributed to a long siege of illness. He had been a sufferer from rheumatism. Hoffmeister and his son, Arthur Hoffmeister, lived alone on their farm. The son returned to the house late in the afternoon from working in a field on the farm and found his father dead in the summer kitchen at the rear of the house. He had placed the butt of the gun against the wall and the muzzle against his abdomen and then pulled the trigger with his toe. The son last saw his father alive at noon. Life Long Resident Hoffmeister was a life-long resident of Bergholz. He is survived by four sons, Arthur and Benjamin and Alvin Hoffmeister of Lewiston and Harvey Hoffmeister, a World war veteran, who is being treated at the United States Navy hospital, Brooklyn, for a broken back, sustained in a fall from an apple tree over a year ago at Cambria, and one daughter, Mrs. William Bendt of Bergholz. The funeral will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the residence. Interment will be in the Holy Ghost cemetery.