Benjamin’s gravesite cannot be found, although his death certificate states that he is buried in Danville, PA. Benjamin and Elizabeth (Boyer) Lindner had three children: Harry, Grace, and Carrie. In previous censuses, he is listed as a farmer. He is listed in the 1910 census as the proprietor of an “eating house” in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. In later years, they lived in the Ashland, Pennsylvania area.īenjamin married Elizabeth Boyer. Sarah Jane married Frank Coleman and they had three children: Bessie, Bertha, and Merrill. Several articles have already been written about Mary Ann (Lindner) Hagenbuch. All the children were born in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. A son, Joseph William, was born in 1859 and died young. Israel and Catherine (Lindner) Hagenbuch’s children in the photo are (left to right): Mary Ann (b. Back row: Mary Ann, Sarah Jane, Benjamin, and Francis Walter, c. Israel was a son Hiram and Mary Ann (Lindner) Hagenbuch and was named for his maternal grandfather, Israel Lindner. 1807), the house had been owned by the three siblings’ parents, Israel and Minnie (Keefer) Hagenbuch. Originally built by William Hagenbuch (b. The photograph hung in the house of Bruice, Andrew, and Julia Hagenbuch in Liberty Township, Montour County, PA. The photo of her, Israel, and their four children is the oldest known photo in the archives and probably dates to about 1870.

Israel died in 1901 and Catherine lived to the age of 88, dying just twelve days before her daughter Mary Ann on June 25, 1916. Among the adjacent graves are those of her mother, Catherine, and her father, Israel Lindner.Ĭatherine was born in 1827 and married Israel sometime before 1852. Mary Ann died on Jand is buried with Hiram and other family members at Oak Grove Lutheran Church Cemetery in Montour County, PA. Catherine was the mother of Mary Ann (Lindner) Hagenbuch who was born in 1853 in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. The Hagenbuch archives contain three photographs depicting Catherine (Messersmith/Messerschmidt) Lindner.

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