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JOHANN HOFFERMAN FAMILY

OFFERMAN, HASS

Posted By: LAURA (email)
Date: 5/25/2007 at 21:27:25

The Offerman's were Roman Catholics and there was a large German Catholic population in Davenport. The Bishop of the See of Dubuque had actively promoted the immigration of German and Irish Catholics to Iowa starting in 1840. There is a story in my family that my grandfather, Elmer Offerman, was excommunicated for allowing his children to be raised as Lutherans by his wife, Edna Dengler Offerman.

*Note from Mary Lanigan:

MaryLanigan1942@aol.com

They are both buried at Fairmount Cemetery in Davenport, Iowa. For more info go to http://www.findagrave.com

In America John met a widow, Dorothea Haase (maiden name unknown). Her last name is sometimes spelled Haas, Hass or Hasse. She had been born in December 1822, per the 1900 census, in Mecklenburg, Germany. She married Fritz Haase in Mecklenburg and came to America in 1853


 

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