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3. Mary Elizabeth Hoffman - b. May 17,1840; d. July 17,1942 - age 102. M. Oct. 11, 1858, Christopher Heinrich Wulfmann {of Plum Hill, IL. He was born at Wimmer, Pfarrbezirk Lintorf September 22, 1835- d. 1919. The son of Johann Friedrich Wulf(mann) and Marie Eleanor Ankesheil. The family changed the name to Wulfmann after arriving at Plum Hill (1848) but before the 1850 Census. The Hoffmans and Wulfs came from the Wiehengebirge and had lived about 40 miles apart. Wimmer and Lintorf lie in Lower Saxony whereas Rothenuffeln is i n North-Rhine Westfalia. The area was known as Osnabrukerland for many years. {It lies between Minden and Osnabruck . dsw} 14 children - Anna; Meta; Martha; Selma; Laura Lawhead , Samuel; Daniel & Jacob (twins); Armin; 5 more who died at an early age and whose names are unavailable.
Little is known about this family, however, an obituary provided by a member of the family does reveal some things.
Rev. Wulfmann was an Evangelical Minister, who had charges in Ohio, Carlyle and Breese, Il-linois., Huntingburg and Newburgh, Indiana. Elizabeth, according to her obituary, led an unusually active life, sharing in the "work, joys and sorrows as a faithful pastor's wife" until her husband's retirement in 1902. After her husband's death in 1919, her declining years were spent in Cincinnati, Ohio, with her daughter, Selma, until three months before her death, when Mother and daughter moved to Newburg, Indiana.
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