GEORGE LINGLE, b 13 Feb 1831

LINGLE, BEEBER, WEINBARGER, HEDRICK

Posted By: Donna Moldt Walker (email)
Date: 6/16/2004 at 22:41:09

After a series of years spent in industrious toil the subject of this biography and his estimable wife have practically retired from active labor, and are living quietly amid the comforts of a pleasant home in Green Island. They came to this county during its pioneer struggles, and bore their full share of the heat and burden of the day in transforming a portion of its primitive soil into a good homestead and increasing the value of its taxable property. Their lives have been that of honest, upright citizens, who have lived at peace among their neighbors, owing no man anything, and taking care of that which has fallen to them as the result of their prudence and industry.

Our subject was born in Hancock County, Ind., Feb. 13, 1831, and is the son of John J. and Rose A. (Beeber) Lingle, who were natives of Germany. The elder Lingle emigrated to America with his parents, they settling first in North Carolina, whence they removed later to Southern Illinois. John J., in the meantime, emigrated to Ohio, where he was married, and afterward settled in Hancock County, Ind., where our subject was born. The latter, when of suitable years, commenced attending the schools of his native township, but when a boy of nine years of age his father, in 1840, removed with his family of seven sons and five daughters to Union County, Ill., where George attained to man's estate.

Upon approaching manhood our subject commenced an apprenticeship at the blacksmith's trade, and before reaching the age of twenty was married, in 1851, to Miss Susan Weinbarger. This lady was born in North Carolina, and was the daughter of George and Katie (Hedrick) Weinbarger, who removed to Scott County, Tenn., when she was a little girl of seven years. She still remembers many incidents of this journey, when she, with the rest of the children, trotted along over the Alleghany and Blue Ridge Mountains after their father's "one-horse shay," which was loaded with their worldly effects. From Tennessee, a few years later, they removed to Illinois, and their daughter Susan became a bride at the age of sixteen years.

Mr. and Mrs. Lingle, after their marriage, sojourned in Illinois three years, then came, in 1854, to Iowa, and settled in Jackson Township, this county. In due time they became the parents of twelve children, namely: Mary, William, Daniel, Joseph, Jacob, Michael, Sarah, Julia A., Henry, Delilah, Albert, and Frances. Mr. Lingle, politically, gives his unqualified support to the Democratic party, and both he and his estimable wife are members in good standing of the Congregational Church.

To the parents of Mrs. Lingle there were likewise born twelve children, namely: Melvina, Logan, George W., Jacob, William, Noah, Conrad, John L., Mahala, Susan, Phoebe, and Delia A. Mr. and Mrs. Lingle, in 1887, left the farm and took up their residence in Green Island, where they have a pleasant and comfortable home, and are known to a large number of the people.

("Portrait and Biographical Album of Jackson County, Iowa", originally published in 1889, by the Chapman Brothers, of Chicago, Illinois.)