EGENHOFF, David February 25, 1888 Mariposa Gazette ( submitted by W. Disbro)
An Old Timer Passed Away.
David EGENHOFF, so long and favorably known, passed away on the 16th of this month. He has been ill for some time and was in the German Hospital San Francisco, where he died. He removed to Traver, Tulare county, several years ago. He came to this county in 1850 and settled with his family in Agua Frio, and followed the pursuit of merchandising. He afterwards had a store on the Merced River, near the mouth of Sherlocks. Sometime in the sixties, he moved into Mariposa where he built a store and residence and was a good citizen and neighbor. He was
a member of long standing in the Order of Odd Fellows of this place, from whom he received benefits up to his last moments. He raised a large family of children, William, the oldest, was the husband of Mrs. W.D. EGENHOFF, the present School Superintendent. He died some three or four years ago, while attending the law college in Tuscalooosa, Alabama, leaving a wife and two children. Julius had learned the trade of machinist, was married and lived in Oregon, was taken sick and came home to his parents, where he died,. leaving a widow and two children. The
balance of the family, several in number, live with there mother in Traver, where they have a Hotel and property acquired by the deceased before his death. The deceased during his life was a man of sterling integrity, liberal, kind-hearted, and the family have lost in him a devoted husband and providing father. He was a brother to Mrs. George BERTKEN of this place. With the loss of the deceased the limited number of the old rank and file of pioneers is one less.
He was buried in the Odd Fellows' Cemetery in San Francisco on the 19th, inst., under auspices of the Odd Fellows.