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| 2751 | Sister Ruth married Ted and raised their children. | HOSS ANNA VIRGINIA (I00483)
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| 2752 | Sister to Enos Johnson, Rose Lee Owens husband. | JOHNSON JUANITA (I00821)
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| 2753 | SKILL DATES BACK 38 YEARS by Joe Roberts (A member of The Star's staff) J. P. (Percy) Friend stepped down from the 12:30 p. m. Greyhound just in from St. Louis and walked briskly through the 917 McGee street bus terminal to the driver's room to make his reports and to sign in. For 38 years the veteran bus driver has been making similar reports, sometimes with trouser pockets stuffed with fares in bills and coins before collections were streamlined, but this day he had agreed to a chat about busses. "I've got to take the bus to the garage. Got your car? You can ride with me on the bus if you haven't and I'll drive you back here in my car," he said as we shook hands. Riding with Percy seemed an honor stemming from the respect one man has for another who obviously knows his job. The confidence and ease with which he swung the big vehicle into the afternoon traffic was a delight to witness. Nor is his apparent skill just a happenstance. It was built in over years of experience and 3 million miles of driving busses in the public transportation industry. Percy is oldest in service in the company's district here and is the kind of driver Greyhound has in mind when it advises one to relax and "leave the driving to us." Proud of This Card Proudest possession is a card in the driver's identification case which emphasizes that "Greyhound Lines is proud to certify that J. P. Friend" has completed 31 years of safe driving. The date - February 27, 1963. Equally proud of his record is Percy's wife, Helen. More than 38 years ago she was the pretty country school teacher who rode in the seat behiind the driver on his 12-mile run from Nashville, Ill., to Venedy, Ill. In this instance it was LaRue Friend, an older brother, who discovered what was transpiring. He drove the same route on alternate days. "Why aren't you punching that little teacher's bus ticket?" he queried. Percy confessed that he was considering taking over all of his young passenger's ticket worries. "I was one sharp bus driver," he quipped. But it was really the older brother who had been sharp enough to earlier advise his romantic brother to quit his job in a grocery store in his native O'Fallon, Ill., and go to work with Superior Bus Line that led to the latter action. The Brother's Advice "If you want to make some good money, start working for this guy," he advised. "He's going to buy more busses." Big brother apparently was ahead of his time for Percy moved ahead with the industry to Community Motoer Bus, Purple Swan Safety Coach Line, then to Picwick Greyhound-all part of the warp and woof of the present Greyhound corporation. "I drove an old Dodge at first-it was a regular truck chassis-between Scott Field and Belleville, Ill.," he said. "There were long red plush seats along each side of the bus. You could squeeze nine in on each side. "I drove 'em when the bodies were made of wallboard - beaver board we called it then, and I drove 'em when they were built with a sedan door for each seat." In His Blood Perhaps the peppery driver comes by his liking for his job because its in the family. "My father was a streetcar motorman," he explained. "He ran the second streetcar over Eads bridge in St. Louis - the first one was too wide for the bridge. My brother is the oldest driver with the Gulf Transport company. Percy drove the St. Louis run 14 years until 1941 when he switched to the western Kansas highways. He returned here last October. When he started to drive busses only a chauffeur's license was necessary and this was just a recording matter, he recalled. A Big Change "When I started there wasn't any driver training program. We used to take about 20 applicants in a bus and watch them drive in turn. Now a high school or college education is desired and Greyhound has a 6-week drivers school. Then the student drivers are checked over the routes for several round trips before they are permitted to drive regularly. "Why I was even checked out over theSt. Louis route when I returned to this area." The veteran driver observes a simple rule for safety: "When it gets too bad (driving conditions) I park the bus." The most dangerous surface for motor cars in his estimation is "packed snow when it melts." Bus driving isn't monotonous or dull "but it would be if you let it get that way," he said. Some Experiences Experiences such as a 13-hour overnight wait in a Kansas blizzard with 39 passengers aboard; a panicky older passenger who wanted to get off on an icy night in an isolated place in Kansas when he suddenly recalled that he had left the water running in a California irrigation ditch, (Percy called and had the water shut off) and a mental case behind his seat who continued to place long distance calls by dropping half dollars down the window slot - the fact that answers were coming in bothered Percy - are typical of a trip's possible variety. In another instance a passenger became so worried about a home situation that she left the bus and raced up the town's main street. and for a short time Percy did police work to solve the problem. Our conversation concluded in the front seat of a motor car with Percy in the incongruous setting at the wheel of his just-a-bit-larger-than-compact vehicle. But not before the ruddy 177 pounds of energy, looking for all the world like a good blocking back, denied any such athletic prowess. "Nope, when they were having those "track and field events I was usually sitting in the stands with some of the pretty girls," he laughed. Yet he hasn't lost a day because of illness. However,, there was an instance about four years ago when it was rumored all over the circuit that Percy Friend, the indestructible, was through - his electrocardiograph was phenomenal. No one could interpret his heart action. After the company's insistence on a 30--day observance - a non-driving period - it was discovered that the test had been made with the equipment attached erroneously in reverse positions. That was four years ago and regulations call for a heart checkup every six months for those over 40. Percy is 58 years old and all of his subsequent tests, you can rest assured, have been normal. The Friends live at 2607 Buchanan Street, North Kansas City. they have a son, Dale Friend, Salina, Kas., and a daughter, Mrs. Joan DeBeaux, St. Louis, and seven grandchildren. | FRIEND JOHN PERCY (I00106)
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| 2754 | Social Security Number 341-20-0219. | PETERSEN JOSEPHINE ALDA MARIE (I21601)
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| 2755 | Social Security Number: 331-16-2884 - Issued IL | EVILSIZER JAMES OLIVER (I00417)
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| 2756 | Social worker, Dallas, Texas. | SCHROEDER SON (I02520)
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| 2757 | Soldier in the American Revolution per p. 372-C of "History fo Davidson Co...." by W. W. Clayton. 1880. | GREER JOSEPH (I14573)
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| 2758 | Son of a Lutheran Teacher. He was in earlier years employed by Illinois Central R. R., Centralia, Illinois - then farmed and later worked for Midwest Dairy. They live in Hoyleton and he worked part time for the local lumber company. Dod per Jerry Cowley. | STAHMER FRANZ (I16678)
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| 2759 | Sonja Bentley states marriage took place in Monett, Barry County, Missouri. | Family F00351
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| 2760 | Sophie spent the last 8 years of her life living with her daughter at La Blanc, Mich. Her wish to live to see her 90th birthday was fulfilled. She died four days after it. | MEINERT SOPHIE (I16421)
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| 2761 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Living (I16260)
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| 2762 | Source: Jeannine Scholz Barbara can be found on the 1860 census records for Wayne Co, Plain Twp, Ohio. She is livng with her children: Fanny, Anna, Barbara, Mary, and Elizabeth. The family is living between the families of David Mellinger and Christian Mellinger. | BINKLEY BARBARA (I19554)
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| 2763 | Source: Jeannine Scholz Came to America when 2 years old, his mother had died and was buried at sea. Landing at Baltimore, his father immediately removed to Lancaster County, PA where he followed the occupation of a weaver. After marriage, Benedict worked at weaving 12 years and removed to Ohio sometime before 1807. He can be found on the Ohio Census Records for 1807 and 1809 in Columbiana County. ************************************************************************** *************************************** www.the-daily-record.com-10/22/2002 Mellinger land donated for research, education By MARC KOVAC Staff Writer -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ WOOSTER The Mellinger Farm, located located about eight miles northwest of Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, has been donated to OARDC and its development rights to the state and a local land trust to ensure the site remains agricultural for generations to come. Ken Chamberlain photo The Mellingers came to Wayne County to farm close to 200 years ago. The family had come to the United States from Germany and first settled in Lancaster County, Pa., before Benedict Mellinger loaded a covered wagon and began clearing 300-plus acres not too far from what today is Ohio State University's Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center. In total, five generations of Mellingers farmed the site, and numerous tenant farmers planted crops there after Patricia Miller Quinby and her sister, Virginia Miller Reed, inherited the site in the 1940s. Earlier this month, Quinby, who lives in Upper Arlington in the Columbus area, and the estate of her late sister donated the farm to OARDC and its development rights to the state and a local land trust to ensure the site remains agricultural for generations to come. "Out of respect for all of (the Mellingers') work, and for Wayne County too, I think it's important that it's not all paved over," Quinby said. The donation of the land to OSU will ensure the site remains a working farm. The 324 acres, located about eight miles northwest of OARDC, will be used for agricultural research, education and conservation activities by students and faculty. Steve Slack, OARDC director, said in a release, "We were in need of an outdoor laboratory to bring together the research in integrated systems by our faculty during the last decade. This is a unique opportunity for us, and we are indebted to Mrs. Quinby." The donation of the easement to the Killbuck Watershed Land Trust and the Ohio Department of Agriculture will prevent future nonagricultural development. The easement donation prevents present and future owners from developing anything on the land other than agricultural uses, except by judicial order. Howard Wise, executive director of the Ohio Department of Agriculture's Office of Farmland Preservation, said the easement donation is the 10th his office has received and the first in Wayne County. "We're working on several (more) right now," he said. The Mellingers purchased the land from the government and went to work making it a farmstead. "It was all in timber," Quinby said. "They had to clear the land." The Mellingers were weavers and opted to raise flax and sheep at the farm. They were skilled in designing patterns for linens and coverlet, Quinby said. Quinby's father's sister married a Mellinger, which is how the Wayne County farm eventually was passed down to the siblings. Since 1946, the farm has been rented to tenants; it was operated a dairy for some time and was used for crops. Quinby said she and her sister wanted to find someone to continue to farm the land. They contacted OARDC and finalized the details earlier this month. More than half of the farm is used for crop production. Mixed hardwoods cover another 120 acres, and the remaining area includes buildings, pastures, a stream and road right-of-ways. According to OSU, the farm "will incorporate integrated systems of forestry, crops and livestock, emphasizing the linkages among production, environmental quality, economic feasibility and social responsibility. Research will be conducted at multiple levels -field, landscape, whole farm with diversified enterprises. These include balancing field crop and livestock management, development of high-value food and 'nutraceutical' products, creating cropping systems with the use of new species and combinations of species, composting and nutrient management studies, precision agriculture and environmental quality, and whole farm/landscape modeling." Ownership of half of the property (the portion held by the Virginia Miller Reed estate) already has been transferred to the university. The remainder will be transferred during the next six years. WAYNE COUNTY OHIO ************************************************************************** *************************************** The farm has been in operation since 1816, when Wayne County pioneer Benedict Mellinger purchased land from the United States government to raise sheep and flax for his family's weaving business. "History of Wayne County, Ohio, From the Days of the Pioneers and First Settlers to the Present Time", published in 1878, by Robert Douglass, Publisher BENEDICT MELLINGER, SR. Benedict Mellinger, Sr., was born in Germany, over one hundred years ago, and removed to America when but two years of age, landing at Baltimore. His mother died on the ocean, his father immediately re- moving to Lancaster County, Pa., where he followed the occupation of a weaver. After marriage he worked at weaving twelve years, and removed to Plain township, Wayne county, Ohio, in 1816, locating where Christian Mellinger now lives. He had eleven children--seven daughters and four sons--the names of the latter being David, John, Benedict, and Christian. He died twenty years ago, at the age of eighty. Last Will and Testament of Benedict Mellinger I, Benedict Mellinger of the County of Wayne in the State of Ohio do make and publish this my last will and testament in the manner and form following that is to say that it is my will that all my funeral expenses and all my just debts be fully paid. Second, I give, devise and bequeath to my wife Barbara Mellinger in the lieu of her dower the plantation on which we now reside in Plain Township and County of Wayne during her Natural life and all the live stock horses cattle sheep and hogs by me now owned and kept thereon also all the household furniture and other items not particularly named and otherswise disposed of in the will during her natural life. Third, to Each of my married children I bequeath five hundred dollars at my decease. Fourth but if any children which are now single should marry after my decease one year after marriage shall receive five hundred dollars out of my estate. Fifth if any should marry after my wifes decease each shall receive five hundred dollars out of my estate one year after marriage. Sixth the residue of my estate I bequeath unto my unmarried children, and lastly I hereby constitute and appoint my three oldest daughters Franney, Ann and Barbara to be the executors of this my last will and testament voiding and annuling all former wills by me made and ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this eighteenth day of November one thousand eight hundred and thirty three. Benedict Mellinger Signed published and declared by the above named Bennadict Mellinger as and for his last will and testament in presence of us who at his request have signed as witnesses to the same. George McCulley Jane Mc Culley Elizabeth Mc Culley We the undersigned appraisers of the estate and property of Benedict Mellinger deceased after being duly sworn have made an inventory and appraisement there as follows: One note on David Mellinger calling for five hunderd dollars. Date May 28th 1831 wtihout interest. One note on John Mellinger calling for five hundred dollars. Date May the 28th 1831 without interest. One note on Benedict Mellinger calling for 5 hundred dollars dated May 28th 1831 without interest. One note on William Spitler calling for 5 hundred dollars dated July 18, 1835 without interest. One note on HENRY GEINES calling for 5 hundred dollars dated May 9th 1840 without interest. One due bill on Mathias Rittenhouse calling for $157 dated November 7th 1851 with interest from date. One due bill on Thomas Pallips calling for $107.54 dated November 11, 1851 with interest from date. One note on Henry Long calling for $25 dated July 8, 1851 with interest from date. One note on Joseph rittenhouse calling for $40 dated June 15, 1849 with interest from date. One note on William Beck since callinge for $95.41 dated November 6, 1851 with interest from date. The final account of Christian Mellinger Administrator with the will annexed of the estate of Benedict mellinger deceased. Signed Paid HENRY and ESTER GEINES No 1 $4500.00 Amount paid to SR. Barnuf as per receipt No 2 $28.00 Amt paid for clerk of court of Lawrence Co, IL $6.40 Amount paid probate judge $2.63 Amt returned as .... ..... $500 This is to certify that Benedict Mellinger my father in law gave me on my marriage with his daughter the sum of five hundred dollars. Lawrenceville Illinois docket number 1854. Signature of HENRY GEINES Benedict is found on the 1809 census records for Columbiana County, Ohio Benedict is found on the 1820 census records for Wayne County, Ohio, Plain Twp. This part of Columbiana Co became Wayne Co in 1812. Benedict is found on the 1830 census records for Wayne County, Ohio, Plain Twp, he is living close to his sons David and John. Benedict is on the 1840 census records in Wayne County, Plain Twp, living next to his sons David and John. Benedict is found on the 1850 census records for Wayne Co, Ohio, Plain Twp, Benedict, 79 years old, born in Germany, 7,000 acres Barbara, 77, born in PA Francis, 56, born PA Anna, 53, born PA Barbara, 51, born PA Mary, 49, born PA Elizabeth, 47, born PA The family is living next to the sons Christian and David. The family is living next to the sons Christian and David. | MELLINGER BENEDICT (I19553)
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| 2764 | Source: Jeannine Scholz Christian and his family are found on the 1870 census records for Wayne Co, Ohio, Plain Twp, they are living next door to his sisters Fronica, Barbara, Ann, and Mary, and also Mary Mellinger, born 1703 in PA (perhaps this is Mary Felger.) | MOELLINGER CHRISTIAN (I19563)
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| 2765 | Source: Jeannine Scholz Jacob lived first at Eppstein but was living at Freisenheim by 1717 and in 1724. | MELLINGER JACOB JR. (I19582)
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| 2766 | Source: Jeannine Scholz Melchior Mellinger migrated to America on October 16, 1772 along with his wife who died at sea, two nephews, and his sister Christine Mellinger Burkholder and her husband. The nephews were the sons of Melchior's brother, Johannes Jacob Mellinger. Melchior can be found on the 1790 Lancaster Co, PA census records and the 1800 census records where he is recorded as overseer of the poor house. Goshen Archives: That frontier settlements were not without certain cultural treasures is testified to in the recod of Melchior Mellinger's personal property. Mellinger's heirs sold on January 20, 1807 his library consisting of at least forty-four books. Many were in German. the books were on theology, the bible, geography, arithemetic, and history. There were Latin and German dictionaries, maps of South America and Asia, Barclay's Apology, Godfred (sp) Arnold's History and Menno Simons' Confession. The county probate Court Record, C.P. Dock 13, 1807, which records the sale is one of the earliest records of its kind in Columbiana County. A copy of a Devotional Book of the Swiss Mennonites that was owned by Melchior Mellinger and listed in his estate at time of his death, is housed in the Schwenkfelder Library at Pennsburg, PA. This writer was allowed to hold and look through the book, it is still in pretty good condition though the clasps have been broken and the cover is somewhat used. There was no writing or signature in the book itself. The founding of Mennonite communities in Columbiana County, Ohio, began in 1801 or before. Melchior Mellinger settled in Salem Township in 1803, having come from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Melchior purchased section 24 with his son in law Martin Hoke. It seems likely that the ship they came over on was the Crawford which docked in Philadelphia on October 16, 1772. The ship had started out in Amsterdam and then stopped in Cowes, England, and then proceded on to Philadelphia, a normal route for those days. | MELLINGER MELCHOIR (I19568)
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| 2767 | Source: Jeannine Scholz | MELLINGER JACOB (I19584)
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| 2768 | Source: Jeannine Scholz | MELLINGER MARGARET (I19579)
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| 2769 | Source: Jeannine Scholz | MELLINGER ELIZABETH (I19578)
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| 2770 | Source: Jeannine Scholz | MELLINGER MELCHOIR (I19575)
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| 2771 | Source: Jeannine Scholz | MELLINGER JOHN (I19570)
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| 2772 | Source: Jeannine Scholz | HAMILTON MARGUERITA (I19569)
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| 2773 | Source: Jeannine Scholz | MOELLINGER MARY (I19564)
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| 2774 | Source: Jeannine Scholz | MOELLINGER CATHARINE (I19562)
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| 2775 | Source: Jeannine Scholz | MELLINGER BENEDICT (I19561)
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| 2776 | Source: Jeannine Scholz | MELLINGER JOHN (MOELLINGER) (I19560)
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| 2777 | Source: Jeannine Scholz | MOELLINGER ELIZABETH (I19559)
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| 2778 | Source: Jeannine Scholz | MOELLINGER BARBARA (I19558)
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| 2779 | Source: Jeannine Scholz | MOELLINGER ANNA (I19557)
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| 2780 | Source: Jeannine Scholz | MOELLINGER DAVID (I19556)
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| 2781 | Source: Jeannine Scholz | MOELLINGER FRONICA (I19555)
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| 2782 | Spelling may be Ossie Artelia Parmelia Palestine Moudy. (Oscie, Ossie, Osce, Ocelia, Parmalia, Permillia). She died in childbirth and was buried with the child. Her mother died when she was real tiny and she was raised by Grandmother Riddle, her mother's mother, Martha (Riddle) Moudy. She was a half sister to Dora Summers. There was not quite 2 yrs. between them but they weren't together until good sized girls. | MOUDY OSA ARTELIA PERMELIA PALESTINE (I00747)
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| 2783 | Spelling of name changed to one "n" from information sent by Paige Peithman 5/19/2004. | PEITHMAN GARY (I07576)
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| 2784 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Living (I09191)
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| 2785 | Sponsor was Ernst Koester per Robert Brink. August's father, Ernst, bought the farm near Irvington on May 1, 1880. It was passed on to Gus (August) and then to his son, Robert Brink. | BRINK AUGUST ERNST WILHELM (GUS) (I08526)
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| 2786 | Sponsors were Caroline Koester and Caroline Cramer per Robert Brink. | BRINK MARIA CAROLINA WILHEMINA (MARY) (I08527)
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| 2787 | Sponsors were Fred Mientemeyer and Wilhelm Cramer per Robert Brink. | BRINK GUSTAV FRIEDRICH CARL (I08529)
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| 2788 | Sponsors were Louise Brink Maria Muennich, Maria Maschhoff per Robert Brink. | BRINK LYDIA MARIE LOUISE (I08533)
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| 2789 | Sponsors were Maria Buchholz and Emma Korte per Robert Brink. She survived the 1896 tornado. She was an infant along with Amanda Buchholz and both were in a double cradle. In the haste to get to the basement the babies were sleeping and they failed to get them. The house was blown away and they found the cradle beside the foundation of the house and both were safe. Per Robert Brink. | BRINK LOUISE (LULU) MARIA WILHEMINA (I08522)
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| 2790 | Sponsors were Sophia Mientemeyer and Ilsabein Cramer per Robert Brink. | BRINK EMMA SOPHIA MARIA (I08530)
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| 2791 | Spouse of Bonnie Owens reportedly and unverified as Buck Owens. | OWENS BUCK (I10819)
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| 2792 | Spouse reportedly and unverified. | HAGGARD MERLE (I10820)
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| 2793 | Spouse unknown. Thought to be two or three children, names unknown. | OWENS WALTER WARREN (I09862)
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| 2794 | SSDI | UNKNOWN FLORA (I12318)
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| 2795 | SSDI | GREIMANN LAWRENCE (I12316)
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| 2796 | SSDI | GREIMANN PAUL (I12315)
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| 2797 | SSDI | DIEKMEYER FRED (I12307)
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| 2798 | SSDI | DIEKMEYER EDWARD (I12304)
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| 2799 | SSDI | RIXMANN LOUIS H. (I12237)
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| 2800 | St. John's Lutheran Church of New Minden, Illinois lists her name as Ilsabein rather than Tesabein. Burial records from St. John's Lutheran Church of New Minden, Washington County, Illinois show the following information: Christine Sophie Ilsabein Brink died of congestive intermittent fever February 11 at 8 p.m. at the age of 26 years, 2 months, and 1 day. Burial February 13 at 12 noon with a grave address. She was a Christian unmarried lady as long as she was known by others among us until her end. She experienced severe spiritual attacks before her end. She was the second person to be buried in their new cemetary in the year 1847. This cemetary is to the north of the church. There is no record of where they started burying the bodies and most of the stones have deteriorated and are no longer around. At that time there were no family plots. Bodies were buried in the order of death. Information was provided by LuAnn Sprehe, Secretary of St. John's, New Minden, on March 15, 1995. | BRINK CHRISTINE SOPHIE TESABEIN (I00029)
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