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- BIOGRAPHY:
http://www.remmick.org/Pfaff.Genealogy/Page11.2.html
BIOGRAPHY: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~vari/html/fam03398.htm
This is out of the Flasher 75th Jubilee Book: Magdalena Pfaff m. Sebastian Hopfauf
Sebastian Hopfauf was born September 15, 1854, in Karlsruhe, S. Russia, the son of Peter and Magdalena Ressler Hopfauf. He married Magdalena Pfaff, born May 23, 1858, in Karlsruhe, S. Russia, the daughter of Joseph and Anna Marie Hopfner Pfaff.
Sebastian, his wife and their 10 children left Schomodudlski in the fall of 1903 and came to the USA. They lived in Mandan over the winter and the following summer they and five of the children moved in with the John Friesz family in the Oak Coulee area until a two room stone house could be built on their own homestead. That fall he and some of the boys cut trees near the Heart River to be used as rafters for a lean-to with a grass roof onto the side of the house. They had three horses and one cow.
The following year they started to break land; they brought the stones they found in the fields home to be used for building. Magdalena wanted a summer kitchen built but they didn't have the time so she started to build it by herself. She completed one side of the building herself.
Their children were:
Phillip, born 1880, married Barbara Winchell(Phillip was 23 years old when they came to America, he was sent back to Russia, because he had trachoma. He then came back to America about a year later. Homestead land was saved for him by putting it in Anna's name.)
Evenia, born 10 jun 1882, married Liborius S. Friesz
Anna, born 1883, married Martin Winchell
Pauline, born August 4, 1885, married Joseph Babel
Stanislaus, born 23 November 1888, married Emilia Leingang
Katherine, born 26 september 1890, married Alfred Helbling
Perpetua, born 18 sep 1891, married Charles Renner, then to Emil Ferderer
Peter, married to Mathilda Kautzman
John, born 5 may 1896, married to Wilhelmina Hellmen
Mathilda born 22 jul 1901, married to Louis Schafer
Mrs. Mathild Schafer is the only child still living. She lives in Bismarck. She was only two years old when they came to America and they kept their money in her bonnet for safe keeping while traveling
Sebastian died may 24, 1919 and Magdalena died 7 January 1949. Their homestead buildings still stand today and are still in use. Four generations have lived in the original stone homestead house.
John Hopfauf
John Hopfauf was born in Karlsruhe, S. Russia on 6 May 1896. In the fall of 1903, at the age of 7, he came the USA with his paents, Sebastian and magdalena Pfaff Hopfauf, his 9 brothers and sisters. They homesteaded in the Oak Coulee area.
He married Wilhelmina Hellmen on 25 January 1921. She was born 22 Oct 1897, in the St. Joe area, south of Glen Ullin. She was the daughter of Jacob and Margaretha Doll Hellmen.
They lived on the farm until 1950, when they moved to Mandan, until November of 1971, when they moved to a nursing home in Dickinson, John died March 24, 1975. In June of 1976, Mrs. Hopfauf moved into the Mandan Villa in Mandan.
They are the parents of 9 children.
Rose, born 27 Nov 1921, married to Joseph Helbling in 1943, now living in Roseburg, Oregon. They have 4 children
Ann, born 2 Feb 1923, married Ralph Frank in 1947, now living in Wilton, ND. They have 3 children
Jacob, born 4 may 1924, married Margaret Ferderer in 1948, novw living in Mandan, ND. 9 children
Ralph, born 14 Mar 1927, San Diego, CA
Veronica, born 14 Mar 1927, Bismarck, ND
Josephine, born 11 May 1931, married Alphonse Stein in 1951, living in Phoenix, AZ. 4 children
Hildagard, born 5 Sep 1932 married Maynard Klos in 1960, living in San Diego, CA . 3 children
Richard, born 8 Dec 1935, Flasher, ND
Joe, born 12 Dec 1936, married Dianne Frohlich in 1963, living in Flasher. 4 children
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