Margaret Lee (Hoffman) Rhea Photo Album
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Margaret Lee "Peggy" Hoffman (1893-1967), a student from Paris MO, completed the Elementary Course at First District Normal School, Kirksville, MO in 1912 then taught for several years in North Dakota and Iowa rural schools. This photo album contains 125 b/w photographs (1910-1920s; some later) of her family, school friends, vacations and early teaching assignments.
Mary Yeager, Peggy Hoffman, Esther Jarnin, Most of the photos are captioned but the individuals in them are not always
identified. Some of the family members not named in the captions were identified
by Peggy's cousin, Ruth (Hoffman) Smiser, at the time the album was donated to
Pickler Memorial Library in 1997. It was a gift of Ruth's daughter-in-law, Dr Patricia
Smiser, Division
of Education, 5 June 1997. Front Cover: Photo of “Peggy” taken at Kirksville [1912] and funeral service memorial folder, 1967. |
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| 1 | The Class of 1910, Paris, MO [“Maggie” Hoffman, 2nd from
left, front row]
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| 2 | The Class of 1912, Kirksville State Teachers College [see Bulletin,
June 1912, pg 191]
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| 3 | Peggy and college friends: “The jolly five, Kirksville 1912, Mary,
Peggy, Esther, Marie, Malie” [Mary Yeager, Peggy
Hoffman Esther Jarnin, Marie Tooley (identified from the other photos in
album) and Malie Buford (Bulletin, June 1912, pg 152)]
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| 4-5 | Peggy & friends in Moberly, MO, ca 1912; includes Mary, Lola and
Mart Yeager
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| 6 | Peggy & school friends in Kirksville; 2 individual photos of Marie
Tooley, 1912
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| 7 | Marie Tooley, Peggy Hoffman, Mrs Carder and Edna, Kirksville,
1912.[ Bessie (Mrs. Clyde) Carder & daughter Edna;
possibly Marie & Peggy's landlady]
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| 8 | Peggy & family, including Mabel, Rena, Ruth [donor’s mother-in-law]
& Lawrence; individual snaps of Esther Jarnin & Bess Enfield
ca 1912
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| 9-12 | Family and friends, including Mabel & Clarence (wedding 30
Oct 1912), Bob Moss & family, Annie Laurie, Bina; others
unidentified
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| 13 | “Darling little Ruth Hoffman in the grape arbor at home”
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| 14-16 | Mrs Wright , Peggy & friends, & individual photos
of Myrtle Herman, Erma Wills, Frank Ball, Marie Tooley & Flossie
Harpham; Kirksville, ca 1912 [Mrs. Wright is possibly Birdie
(Mrs. DP) Wright, Mrs. Carder's neighbor]
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| 17 | Julia Luttrell
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| 18-25 | Peggy and relatives including Mabel & Clarence, Lockhart, TX; Bonnie
Divers; Maggie, Ruth & Bobbie (dog); Cecil Hoffman; Wes, Lawrence
& Ruth Hoffman; John Adam Hoffman (Dad) & Uncle Dick Hoffman.
ca 1912
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| 26-33 | Teaching in North Dakota, 1915: Betsy, pupils, the Hirengen home &
children
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| 34-39 | Family members in Texas, Michigan & at home near Paris, Monroe
County, MO, 1915; including Clarence & Mable (Hoffman) Schrader,
Ruth, the Hewletts, Dad, Uncle Calvin “Cad” Hoffman & Aunt Joey
(Hoffman) Howell
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| 40 | Students of Sanford School, Monroe County, 1912
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| 41-43 | School, students, Hirengen family & friends; North Dakota, 1912
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| 44-53 | Luttrell Family in Lockhart, TX and family reunion “at Dad’s”, Monroe
County, and the Schrader home, Monroe County, 1915; includes the Hewletts, Uncle Henry, Uncle Aaron, Eva, Aunt Cora, Aunt Ruth and
Lulie (Luttrell) Hoffman (Mama); snow scenes at home w/ Ruth & Lawrence
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| 54-57 | O’Shea School, the Merriam home & family, & Arvy Miers; North
Dakota, 1916
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| 58-61 | "Peggy in the Bad Lands of N. Dak.” ca 1916
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| 62-66 | O’Shea School, Hirengen home & family; North Dakota, 1915-16
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| 67 | [photo cut from album] caption reads “The sun was too bright”
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| 68-73 | The Merriam farm, home & children; O’Shea School; North Dakota,
1916
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| 74-77 | In Montana, ca 1916: Frank Ball, 2 groups of unidentified men, unidentified
soldier
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| 78-79 | O’Shea School House & Catholic Church and school pupils, North
Dakota, 1916 |
| 80-83 | The Stover family, building & teachers at Rodman School, Rodman,
Iowa; ca 1917 |
| 84 | Family home in Iowa
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| 85-86 | The Hoffman sawmill (Peggy sitting atop pile of lumber)
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| 87 | Wes, Lawrence, Ruth, Mable & Maggie Hoffman
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| 88 | Teachers sitting in front of unidentified school (Madison?)
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| 89 | Obituary for William Wesley Hoffman [died 17 May 1923, Galesburg,
IL]
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| 90-92 | “Dad’s saw mill”
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| 93-95 | Snow scenes at home; Ruth and John Lawrence ca 1916
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| 96 | Wes, Ruth & Lawrence at home
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| 97-100 | Later photos (1920s or 30s; one 1960s in color) of unidentified family
members
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| Back Cover: | group in front of Mt. Zion Church, southwest of Paris, MO; ca 1925-26. |
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