Hoflander, Dorothea Elizabeth

Female 1887 - 1977  (90 years)


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  • Name Hoflander, Dorothea Elizabeth 
    Born 5 Jul 1887  Cooper County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    • According to a 1936 biographical sketch of her father, Dorothea was married to George Geiger and they lived near Billingsville, Cooper County, Missouri.
    Gender Female 
    Died 7 Jul 1977  [1
    Buried Billingsville, Cooper County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    • She was buried in the cemetery of the former Billingsville Evangelical Church, founded in 1855; known since 1957 as St. John's United Church of Christ.
    Person ID I7108  Fiegenbaum
    Last Modified 20 Apr 2013 

    Father Hoflander, Johann Georg,   b. 17 Jul 1841, Sachsen-Coburg Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Mar 1915, Cooper County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 73 years) 
    Mother Back, Elizabeth L.,   b. 30 Jan 1856, Pleasant Green, Cooper County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Sep 1929  (Age 73 years) 
    Married 15 Jan 1880  Pleasant Green, Cooper County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5, 6
    Family ID F2279  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S177] Ancestry.com (library edition), Cooper County, Missouri, Cemetery Records, Vol. 1-12. Accessed in September 2010.
      Volume 7. Cemetery records for St. John's United Church of Christ, at Billingsville, Missouri; formerly Billingsville Evangelical Church, founded in 1855.
           Dorothea Elizabeth (Hoflander) Geiger; born 05 July 1887; died 07 July 1977; daughter of John George & Elizabeth L. (Bach) Hoflander.

    2. [S252] William Foreman Johnson, History of Cooper County, Missouri (Topeka, Kansas: Historical Publishing Company, 1919), pages 975-976; biographical sketch of John George Hoflander.
           "The Hoflander children are: ...Dorothea Elizabeth, born July 5, 1887, is wife of George Geiger, vicinity of Billingsville, Mo.;...."

    3. [S177] Ancestry.com (library edition), Cooper County, Missouri, Cemetery Records, Vol. 1-12. Accessed in September 2010.
      Volume 7. Cemetery records for St. John's United Church of Christ, at Billingsville, Missouri; formerly Billingsville Evangelical Church, founded in 1855.
           Marie Magdalin Bierbaum, nee Hoflander; born 25 January 1897; daugher of John George & Elizabeth L. (Bach) Hoflander.
           Volume 7A, Addendum, pages 4-14. Cemetery records for St. John's United Church of Christ, at Billingsville, Missouri; formerly Billingsville Evangelical Church, founded in 1855. "New" Cemetery.
           Bierbaum: Marie Magdaline, nee Hofflander [sic]; born 25 January 1897 at Boonville, Missouri; died 6 November 1985 at Higginsville, Missouri; daughter of George J. and Elizabeth (Bach) Hofflander [sic]; married Rev. Jonathan Bierbaum on April 30, 1919 (deceased 1977).

    4. [S177] Ancestry.com (library edition), Cooper County, Missouri, Cemetery Records, Vol. 1-12. Accessed in September 2010.
      Volume 7. Cemetery records for St. John's United Church of Christ, at Billingsville, Missouri; formerly Billingsville Evangelical Church, founded in 1855.
           John George Hoflander; born 17 July 1841; died 6 March 1915; son of John Ernst & Kunigunda (Stegner) Hoflander; husband of Elizabeth C. (Back) Hoflander; married 15 January 1880, at Pleasant Green, Missouri.

    5. [S251] J. E. Ford, A History of Moniteau County, Missouri (California, Missouri: M. H. Crawford at the press of The California Democrat, 1936), page 362.
      A biographical sketch of Rev. J. C. Bierbaum.
           "Mr. Bierbaum was married April 30, 1919, to Miss Marie Hoflander, daughter of John George and Elizabeth Hoflander of Billingsville, Cooper County."

    6. [S252] William Foreman Johnson, History of Cooper County, Missouri (Topeka, Kansas: Historical Publishing Company, 1919), pages 975-976; biographical sketch of John George Hoflander.
           John George Hoflander "was married at Pleasant Green, Mo., Jan. 15, 1880, to Elizabeth L. Back, born at Pleasant Green, Cooper County, Jan. 30, 1856. She was a daughter of Philip and Doreathe Fredericka Back."
           "The Hoflander children are: Henry, born Oct. 28, 1880, and died Nov. 1, 1880; Marie Christine, born Sept. 11, 1881, at home; Caroline Henrietta was born March 2, 1885, at home; Marie Pauline, born March 2, 1885, was wife of the late Frank Wallje, is now at Sedalia, Mo.; Dorothea Elizabeth, born July 5, 1887, is wife of George Geiger, vicinity of Billingsville, Mo.; George Thomas, born Oct. 1 1889, at home; Laura Amelia, born Jan. 11, 1892, is wife of Oliver Koenig, near Prairie Lick, Cooper County, Mo.; Marie Magdaline, born Jan. 25, 1897, at home ; and Carl John, born Oct. 25, 1901, at home."