Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-02-04
Death OF Mrs. H0fstater.

From recent copy of the Rock
County Herald, published at Luverne
Minnesota, we find the following
notice of Mrs. Susan Hofstater's death,
who formerly resided in Centralia:
Mrs. Susan Hofstater. whose illness
was briefly mentioned in the Herald
last week, died at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Z. c. Croft, in this city,
Wednesday morning, January 9th, at
the advanced age of 10 years. The
Herald is indebted to a friend of the
family for the following brief history of
her life:
Mrs. Susan Hofstater was the second
daughter of family of ten children
born to Stephen and Polly Hart, and
was born at Newton, Sussex Co., n. j.,
Sept. Z, 1917. Removed with her
parents to Trumbull Co., Ohio, in 1880,
where OH New Years, 1884, she was
joined in matrimony to James Hofstater,
who with her eldest son. one of the
the Civil war then raging. Two
brothers, Messrs. S. B. and j. NJ.
Hart, of Stoughton, Dane Co., Wis,
of this family Of ten souls survive her,
both of whom FASTENED TO her dying
bed at the first alarm.
Early N the autumn of 1919 her
husband decided to cast his fortune in
the then young, but vigorously growing
state Of Wisconsin, and thither the
family removed settling at Ft. Atkin-
son. Jefferson Co., where they resided
until 1857, removing thence ts Juneau
Co., and eventually to Centralia, Wood
Co., in the same state, Soon after the
advent of the iron horse IN the infant
city of Iuverne she came to Minnesota,
where she has resided most of the
time since 1877. Mrs. Hofstater was
the mother of five children, three
daughters and two sons, of whom but
two survive her. Mrs. Mary Lobdell, of
Jasper, and Mrs. A. c. Croft, of this
city. Possessed of many Of The traits
that characterize the matrons Of her
day and generation, such as an in
domitable courage and convictions that
once founded were as mistaken as her
native hills, yet she was in her family
relations the most patient and induI-
gent of mothers and the stcadiast and
staunchest Of friends of all deserving
her confidence and sympathy. Her
heroic courage and indOmitable will
made her tower of strength in every
community in which she lived, and her
sudden, though not altogether uneX-
pected demise, will sadden many
hearts and awaken tender memories in
| her old Wisconsin home and elsewhere.
Her convictions of religious duty led
her long years since to unite with the
NJ. E. church, of which she has long
been a consistent and honored, though
quiet and undemonstrative, member.
For more than forty years the writer of
this brief and most unworthy sketch
has known her intimately and well, and
| bears honest testimony to her sterling
purity and worth, and, when her loved
| but pulseless form shall be consigned to
its last resting place in beautiful Maple
wood, and the cold earth conceals her
forever from our sight, with fearful
eyes and tenderest memory Of her
goodness, we will hope that somehow,
somewhere in the great unknown that
lies hidden from our feeble sight, we
shall meet again and renew the ties so
suddenIy-so rudely broken by the
grim tyrant, Death.
| Brief funeral services conducted by
Rev. J. w. Cornish will be held at the
residence this afternoon at 2 O'Clock,
after which the remains will be con
veyed to the NJ. Z. church where
public services will be held. The in
terment is at MapleWood.