Magadalena Hoffman Ferguson

Born Aug. 30, 1890, in a little house on W. Main in Napoleon, Ohio, to William and Eva Wahl Hoffman. She attended District No. 6 Country School until she was 15 when she was forced to quit to help at home. She started to work at Brown and Meyerholtz Clothing and Dry Goods Store and continued to work there until her marriage. A favorite story of hers was how she was one of the last ones to cross the bridge in the 1913 flood, being rowed across as the water on it was already too deep to walk. She married Grover Ferguson on Oct. 15, 1914, in the Reformed parsonage. They made their home in Toledo, Ohio, where she lived until her death. She was a member of Reformed Church in rural Napoleon until her marriage and she moved to Toledo where she and her husband joined Central Christian Church in Toledo, Ohio. She will be remembered for the many quilts she made and quilted. She died Feb. 3, 1968, in Toledo and is buried beside her husband in Forest Hill Cemetery in Napoleo-, Ohio. Grover and Lena became the parents of 3 children: Dorothy Ferguson Rausch born Dec. 31, 1915. She married Russell Rausch and they have 4 children, Roger, Carol, Lynn and Wayne; Kathryn Ferguson Fahringer born Dec. 16, 1918. She married Richard Fahringer and they have 3 children, Marilyn, Thomas, and Richard; Kenneth Ferguson born Jan. 2, 1930. He married Carol Applegate and they have 2 children, Terry and Kimberly.

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