Thank you Stacie for adding our family memorial page and then transferring them over to us to maintain! Thank you BJ for taking the headstone photographs!

He was living in Barnesfield at the time of his death.

Parents:

Andrew Haffardt Hoffart, 1811 – 1889

What is his cemetery?

Otilia Roberts, 1812 – 1851

What are her dates? Where is she buried? Who were her parents, dates & their cemetery?

Spouse & 13 Children:

Veronica "Fannie" Diemert # 77129810, 1863 – 1918

Otillia Barbra Hoffart, 1882 – 1973

Katherine "Katie" Veronica Hoffart # 77129738, 1884 – 1940

Joseph "Joe" Simon Hoffart # 77130226, 1885 – 1965

Mary Hoffart, 1887 – 1918

Agatha "Aggie" Hoffart, 1889 – 1977

John Nickolas/Charley J. Hoffart, 1891 – 1919

Cecellia Hoffart O'Brien, 1893 – 1952

George F. Hoffart, WWI # 77129808, 1894 – 1969

Nickolas Hoffart, Jr. # 77129811 1897 – 1919

Eleanora "Nora" Hoffart Harding # 77129822, 1900 – 1994

Veronica Hoffart # 77129819, 1902 – 1905

Helen Hoffart Emo, 1905 – 1982

Where is she buried? No findagrave.com memorial, Aug 2013 for the whole family.

Eugene Hoffart, 1908 – aft 1948

Need his death date, cemetery, spouses name and dates and their children.

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"Eckelson Pioneer Buried at Sanborn

The death of Nickolas Hoffert (Hoffart) 95 year old pioneer, was much felt in the Eckelson-Sanborn community. he came from Georgetown, Minnesota to this territory and in his youth was married to Veronica Diemert. The Hofferts had thirteen children. Four children and his wife preceded him in death.

He and his family lived for several years in retirement in Sanborn but after the death of his wife he spent the later years with his oldest son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hoffert, who live on the home farm.

He enjoyed fairly good health until a few days before his death when he suffered an injury in a fall. Funeral services were conducted from Sacred Heart church on Thursday morning, September 24, with Rev. G. H. O'Donohue officiating at a solemn requiem mass, assisted by his brother, Father Aloysius O'Donohue of Lisbon and Father Pat O'Connel of Lidgerwood. Father Aloysius O'Donohue who was pastor at Sanborn formerly and knew the deceased preached the sermon. Mrs. Ed. Altringer played the requiem mass and funeral arrangements were by Hub Peterson of Valley City.

Survivors include four sons, Joe and George of Eckelson, John and Eugene in Canada, five daughters, Ottelia, Mrs. Fred Schwehr, Agnes, Mrs. Andrew Ellert of Canada, Helen Emo of Jamestown, Eleanora Harding of Ayr and Mrs. Celia O'Brien of Eckelson and a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Mr. Hoffert was buried in Sacred Heart Cemetery with his grandsons, Mervin and Leonard Hoffert and Johnny O'Brien and Jake Hannenberg, Ronald Ames and Jake Weber acting as pallbearers.

Members of the family attending the funeral from out of town were Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Ellert of Liexeau, Canada, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Emo of rural Jamestown and Mrs. Nora Harding of Ayr.

Published in the Valley City Times-Record, Valley City, North Dakota, September, 1947.

Submitted by Dennis C. Olson #48363213 "

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13 May 2024: Research by family member, Wendy Leyes Corcoran, # 47387872. Gifting my completed memorials to the next generation of direct line family, when I offer these memorials to the "editors #8".