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Christian and Nancy Lindenberg This is a picture of my maternal Great Grandparents in front of their farm home
in Henderson County, Kentucky, taken circa 1909. Left to right in the photograph
is Henrietta Knowles; my grandmother, Lula Myrtle Mattingly, holding a child who
is Tommie Louise Koonce. Next is my great grandmother Nancy Ann Brown. A
grandchild, Ethel Mae Koonce, is in the buggy with Christian Lindenberg, my
great grandfather. The youngest child of Chris and Nancy Lindenberg, Harry
William, is believed to be the man standing to the far right in the picture.
Henrietta and Lula Myrtle are daughters of Christian and Nancy Lindenberg. The
two small children are children of Zora Emma Koonce (not in this picture), the
eldest child of Chris and Nancy Lindenberg. Christian Lindenberg was born in Germany on 23 November 1847. Christian Lindenberg arrived in this country from Germany aboard a sailing ship named Jenny at the Port of New York on August 15, 1864. It is thought that Christian’s parents, John Lindenberg and Christina migrated through New York nearly a decade earlier, as their next born child, a daughter Lisetta, was born in New York in 1853. Family bible records indicate that the Lindenberg family changed their name from Lindenberger after emigrating from Germany. Christian Lindenberg served in the Civil War as a substitute in the 38th Infantry Regiment, Indiana Volunteers. He mustered in the Civil War on 10 October 1864, from Black Hawk Mills in Posey County, Indiana, and was discharged from Company E at the end of the war in Louisville, Kentucky on 15 July 1865. The daughters and wife shown in this picture are Christian’s second family. Chris Lindenberg was left alone with four children when his first wife, Ruth Grant, died in 1884 after fourteen years of marriage. Nancy Ann Lindenberg was the daughter of John Brown and Elizabeth Haburn and was widowed twice before her marriage to Christian Lindenberg. A first marriage to Peter Cavins in 1876 yielded one son, Hubert, before she was left a widow in 1878. Her second marriage in 1880 to Maurice Decamp resulted in a daughter, Mary, who died at age three. Left a widow a second time in 1883, she married a third time in 1884 to Christian Lindenberg who had been left with four children, the youngest less than one year old. Nancy was left a widow for the third time in 1910 when Christian died at the age of 63. She lived another thirty-one years until she died in 1941 at the age of 86. Christian and Nancy are both buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Evansville, Indiana. |
