The following drawing will help us keep track of who's in the photo.
Here's who we know so far (and this will be updated as people respond with information).
1. Clarisse Cerf Rosenberg
2. Phoebe Levy Cerf
3. Aaron Cerf
4. Aline Rosenberg (Warren)
5. Elias Lobree
6. Celia Hofman (Lobree)
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8. Eva Lobree (Mordecai)
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11. Clotilde Cerf (Rosenberg)
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13. Camille Rosenberg (Goldstein Jagorda)
14. Sarah Hofman (Mish)
15. Emile Cerf
16. Felice Cerf (Hofman)
17. Deborah Lobree (Hirschberg)
18. Bennie Hofman
19. Arthur Cerf
On the back of one of the photos is a list of names, written faintly in pencil, showing who is in the photo. Some names are difficult to read and when the photo was cropped for framing, some names were cropped as well. Here are the names as best as I can decipher, in the order written, and transcribed as written. Future married names are in parentheses. My additions are in brackets, including relationships and birth years if known for those individuals not shown on the Short Family Tree. Exercise caution because the names written on the back of the photo may be wrong; it is unknown who wrote them and when. I would like to hear from the descendants of Clotilde Cerf Rosenberg about whether she and her husband are in the photo.
Mrs. A. Cerf [Phoebe Levy Cerf]
? [too faint to read]
Mrs. C. Hofman [born 1851, first name Sophia, married to Charles Hofman]
Elias Lobree [born 1872, nephew of Phoebe Levy Cerf, later married Celia Hofman]
Deborah Lobree (Hirshberg) [born 1879, niece of Phoebe Levy Cerf]
Eva Lobree [born 1877, niece of Phoebe Levy Cerf]
Maurice Wertheimer
Cecile Lobe (Bettman) [born 1875, niece of Phoebe Levy Cerf]
Louis Hofman [born 1879, son of Charles and Sophia Hofman, later married Felice Cerf and in a second marriage to a niece of Phoebe Levy Cerf]
Celia Hofman (Lobree) [born 1875, daughter of Charles and Sophia Hofman]
Bennie Hofman [born 1882, son of Charles and Sophia Hofman]
Aaron Cerf
Emile Cerf [son of Aaron and Phoebe Cerf]
Lucien Cerf [son of Aaron and Phoebe Cerf]
Felice Cerf (Hofman) [daughter of Aaron and Phoebe Cerf, later married to Louis Hofman]
Arthur Cerf [youngest son of Aaron and Phoebe Cerf]
Camille Rosenberg (Goldstein Jagorda) [born 1889, mother is Clarisse Cerf Rosenberg]
Sarah Hofman (Mish) [born 1888, daughter of Charles and Sophia Hofman]
Aline Rosenberg (Warren) [born 1892, mother is Clarisse Cerf Rosenberg]
The Hofman family is related by marriage through Felice Cerf's marriage to Louis Hofman and the marriage of Elias Lobree, who was Phoebe Levy Cerf's nephew, to Celia Hofman. The Lobes and Lobrees are relatives of Phoebe Levy Cerf on the Levy side of the family.
Aaron Cerf's family lived in Ukiah, Mendocino County, California, from about 1887 or 1889 to 1897. Before moving to Ukiah, Aaron Cerf had a general merchandise company in Willits, Mendocino County, California, north of Ukiah, called Cerf & Lobree, which he sold in 1884. Aaron then had a store in Covelo, north of Willits. Aaron's family lived in Oakland until the store in Ukiah opened.
I don't know the address of the Cerf house in the above photo or whether it is still standing in Ukiah. The Charles Hofman house in Ukiah pictured below is on the National Register of Historical Places in Mendocino County. The Hofman house, a Stick Eastlake Victorian built in 1889 for Charles Hofman by F. M. Mason, is located at 308 South School Street in Ukiah.
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| The Charles Hofman House in Ukiah, CA |
The family ties to Ukiah remained strong even after Aaron Cerf and his family moved back to Oakland in 1897, resettling in San Francisco shortly thereafter. Sisters Clarisse and Clotilde married the Rosenberg brothers and continued to live in Ukiah until sometime between 1900 and 1910. Felice Cerf Hofman lived in Ukiah until her early death in 1919 from cancer. Her daughter remained in Ukiah. Felice's brothers often camped and hunted at Blue Moon Lake near Ukiah.
Please send any additions and/or changes to dawncerf [at] gmail.com. Thank you.
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