Front: Maria Angela
(Nieland) Hoebing (1848 - 1934), Cecelia (7), Edward (5), Leonard
(2) , John Henry Hoebing (1848 - 1934)
Back: Emma (14), George
(9), and Frances (12)
Only five of the Hoebing's eleven children survived
to adulthood. Their first four children died in an epidemic in
1882. Cecelia died in 1898 at the age of 11 years and one other
daughter died as an infant.