Our Pioneer Heritage
Volume 1
They Came in 1857
The Jacob Hoffeins Company
Jacob Hoffeins was born December 4, 1812 at Clarksburg, Baden Baden, Germany. He emigrated to America when he was eighteen years of age living in Pennsylvania for the first three years. He then went to Nauvoo, Illinois where he joined the Latter-day Saint Church and helped work on the Temple. In 1835 he married Elizabeth Stevenson. Jacob and his wife started west with the other Saints and when they reached Council Bluffs he enlisted in Company B of the Mormon Battalion.
* Mormon Battalion members
Our Pioneer Heritage
Volume 1
They Came in 1857
The Jacob Hoffeins Company
Jacob Hoffeins was born December 4, 1812 at Clarksburg, Baden Baden, Germany. He emigrated to America when he was eighteen years of age living in Pennsylvania for the first three years. He then went to Nauvoo, Illinois where he joined the Latter-day Saint Church and helped work on the Temple. In 1835 he married Elizabeth Stevenson. Jacob and his wife started west with the other Saints and when they reached Council Bluffs he enlisted in Company B of the Mormon Battalion.
* Mormon Battalion members
Family Members
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George Fredrick Hofheins
1855–1925
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Jacob "Jake" Hofheins
1857–1915
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Richard Henry Hofheins
1858–1918
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Silas William Hofheins
1860–1926
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Julia Ann LaNora Dodge King
1861–1939
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Joseph Hyrum Hofhines
1862–1938
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Peter Alma Hofheins
1865–1944
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John Michael Hofheins
1868–1944
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Eliza Ann Hofheins Morgan
1870–1961
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Matilda Jane Hofheins Jackson
1874–1947
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Mary Mataline Hofheins Morgan
1874–1962
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