HOFFPAUIR, Ford, Vermilion then Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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FORD HOFFPAUIR, LAFAYETTE.--Ford Hoffpauir, a planter of ward 3, was born in
Vermilion parish, October, 1834.  He is one of a family of twelve children,
nine brothers and three sisters, born to Nathan and Lucinda (Spell) Hoffpauir. 
The parents were both natives of Louisiana, where they resided during the
whole of their lives.  Nathan Hoffpauir was a successful farmer.  The paternal
grandfather of our subject was one of the pioneer settlers of Vermilion
parish.

Mr. Hoffpauir has devoted his whole life to planting.  His plantation in
Lafayette parish, located twelve miles west of Lafayette, consists of four
hundred and eighty acres of land, one hundred of which are cultivated, the
principal products being corn, cotton and rice.  In local affairs Mr.
Hoffpauir has always taken an active interest and is a leader.  He has for a
number of years served as justice of the peace, and is at present police juror
from the second ward of Lafayette parish.  During the Civil War, Mr. Hoffpauir
served in the State militia, from 1862 until its close.

He was married, at the age of twenty-one, to Miss Stuts, daughter of Joseph
and Elizabeth (Foreman) Stuts.  This union has been blessed with five sons and
four daughters, viz.:  Nathan O., deceased;  Lemia, deceased;  Elizabeth,
deceased;  Mathilda, deceased;  Adams F.,  John R.,  Joseph E.,  James, A.,
Clara J., deceased.  Mr. Hoffpauir and family are members of the M. E. Church
South.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 232. 
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.