A big thank you to FindAGrave contributor, Lester Letson, whose provision of biographical information from 1919 was instrumantal in the upgrading of this site.
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Phebe E. Allen was married to Simon E. Hoffman in Minnesota. They came to Calaveras California with ox teams in 1859. In Calaveras County, they farmed and raised fruit and set out the first muscat vineyard there. In 1871, they moved to Tulare County and pursued grain farming and stock-raising, They became large landowners, ten miles southwest of Tulare city.
Her husband died in 1915, at age eighty-seven, while living with their daughter, Ella, and her husband, George Wampole Horn. Phebe also made her part time home with the Horns, although she lived for the most part in Tulare, and there she died, at the age of eighty-two, on March 3, 1918, She was buried at Selma beside her husband.
There were eleven children in the Hoffman family, one of whom died in infancy. The others were at their mother's bedside at the time of her death, and attended her funeral.
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Phebe E. Allen was married to Simon E. Hoffman in Minnesota. They came to Calaveras California with ox teams in 1859. In Calaveras County, they farmed and raised fruit and set out the first muscat vineyard there. In 1871, they moved to Tulare County and pursued grain farming and stock-raising, They became large landowners, ten miles southwest of Tulare city.
Her husband died in 1915, at age eighty-seven, while living with their daughter, Ella, and her husband, George Wampole Horn. Phebe also made her part time home with the Horns, although she lived for the most part in Tulare, and there she died, at the age of eighty-two, on March 3, 1918, She was buried at Selma beside her husband.
There were eleven children in the Hoffman family, one of whom died in infancy. The others were at their mother's bedside at the time of her death, and attended her funeral.
A big thank you to FindAGrave contributor, Lester Letson, whose provision of biographical information from 1919 was instrumantal in the upgrading of this site.
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Phebe E. Allen was married to Simon E. Hoffman in Minnesota. They came to Calaveras California with ox teams in 1859. In Calaveras County, they farmed and raised fruit and set out the first muscat vineyard there. In 1871, they moved to Tulare County and pursued grain farming and stock-raising, They became large landowners, ten miles southwest of Tulare city.
Her husband died in 1915, at age eighty-seven, while living with their daughter, Ella, and her husband, George Wampole Horn. Phebe also made her part time home with the Horns, although she lived for the most part in Tulare, and there she died, at the age of eighty-two, on March 3, 1918, She was buried at Selma beside her husband.
There were eleven children in the Hoffman family, one of whom died in infancy. The others were at their mother's bedside at the time of her death, and attended her funeral.
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Phebe E. Allen was married to Simon E. Hoffman in Minnesota. They came to Calaveras California with ox teams in 1859. In Calaveras County, they farmed and raised fruit and set out the first muscat vineyard there. In 1871, they moved to Tulare County and pursued grain farming and stock-raising, They became large landowners, ten miles southwest of Tulare city.
Her husband died in 1915, at age eighty-seven, while living with their daughter, Ella, and her husband, George Wampole Horn. Phebe also made her part time home with the Horns, although she lived for the most part in Tulare, and there she died, at the age of eighty-two, on March 3, 1918, She was buried at Selma beside her husband.
There were eleven children in the Hoffman family, one of whom died in infancy. The others were at their mother's bedside at the time of her death, and attended her funeral.
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