OBIT: Henry Alfred HOFFMAN, 1918, Tyrone, Blair County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JRB Copyright 2008. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _________________________________________ TYRONE NEWS H. A. HOFFMAN DEAD. Henry Alfred Hoffman, one of Tyrone's most respected citizens, died about 2:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Edith Stevens of Jefferson avenue, after suffering for about four years from paralysis. It was in May of 1914 that Mr. Hoffman first became afflicted. For two years past he had been helpless and required the constant attention of a nurse. Deceased was born at Alexandria, Huntingdon county, Pa., on June 22, 1843, and was a son of Jacob Hoffman, one of the pioneers of that section. He followed the trade of his father, wagon maker, and worked at various places about the country, prominent among which were Lancaster, Colerain Forges and Barree. He was not yet 20 years of age when he volunteered his services to save the Union. He served several enlistments and had won a lieutenant's commission at the close of the war. He was in many of the hardest campaigns of the Civil war. In 1863 he was united in marriage to Miss Martha Snyder of his native town. It was after the close of the war that he engaged in his chosen trade in Lancaster, Pa., and he came to Tyrone in 1891 and followed the same business with his brother, Jacob A. Hoffman, who retired a number of years ago. He leaves the following children: William E., president of the wholesale company which bears his name; John S. of Tyrone, Mrs. W. W. Locke of Brooklyn, N.Y., Mrs. E. Herbert Mentzer of Philadelphia, Miss Ada S. of Tyrone, Mrs. Edith Stevens of Jefferson avenue and Milton D. of Altoona. He also leaves several brothers and sisters: Jacob A. Hoffman of Tyrone, Miss Wilmina Hoffman of Huntingdon, Mrs. Ann Rough of Altoona and Mrs. Susan Piper of Alexandria. He was a member of the Grand Army Republic and the First Methodist Episcopal church. Funeral arrangements will be completed today. Altoona Times, Altoona, Pa., Thursday Morning, May 2, 1918