Keeping Up With the Joneses: Margaret (Jones) Hofmann and family

John Allen & Margaret (Jones) Hofmann and children.    Left to Right: John A., Christine, Phil, Jim, John, Margaret.   (Photo taken in Wooster, Ohio.  Date unknown.  Probably ca 1925)

Margaret Victoria Jones was the first daughter of John Roberts Jones.  She was his only child by his first wife, Victoria Hamilton Jones.  Margaret was born 16 February 1888 and her mother died giving birth to her.  Margaret was sent to live with her maternal grandparents, James & Susan Hamilton, in Blue Earth, Minnesota.  In 1892, when Margaret was 4, her father married a second time to Mary Elva Stillwell.

Margaret became a teacher and in 1913, she traveled to China as a Presbyterian missionary.  While in China, she met Dr. John Allen Hofmann and they were married at the Second Presbyterian Church in Canton, China, on 15 December 1915.

John Hofmann was born in Germany and immigrated to the United States in June 1887. 

John and Margaret had the following children:  John Robert (born 1916), Christine (born 1918), James Hamilton (born 1920), and Harold Philip (born 1921).  I believe all the children (except perhaps Harold Philip) were born in China.  When not in China, the family lived in Wooster, Ohio.

Dr. Hofmann died in China about 1933 and sometime after that Margaret and the children returned to Wooster, Ohio. 

Margaret died in Los Angeles, California on 22 June 1980.  All of her children are also now deceased.

I would be happy to give this photograph to a descendant, if contacted.