Martha lavinia hoffman biography sampler

Date of birth: July 21,
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"Martha Lavinia Hoffman was born in Jackson Valley, Amador County, California, July 21, When three years of age her parents moved to Ukiah, California, where her girlhood and young womanhood were spent, and where she received inspiration from the beauties of nature in that, and adjacent valleys, for many of her poems.
From childhood she evinced an unusual love for the true and the beautiful.
When fourteen years of age she was stricken with a severe case of inflammatory rheumatism which left her in frail health and terminated in her death, from consumption, at the age of thirty-five; but her spirit rose above the sufferings of the frail body and made her the joy and the life of the family.
To her mother she was devoted and the two were the closest companions and intimate friends.
One thought seemed at time to burden her mind and cast a shadow over her otherwise sunny nature and that was, that