John Dinger and Elizabeth Hendricks

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Husband John Dinger ^{1 2}

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           Born: 10 May 1844 - Redbank Twp, Armstrong Co, PA 2 3
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         Father: John Dinger (Abt 1818-1901) 1
         Mother: Sarah Baughman (Abt 1820-1897) 1

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       Marriage: 3 Jan 1867 2 3

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Wife Elizabeth Hendricks ^{2 3}

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         Father: John Hendricks (      -      ) 4
         Mother: Mary Holben (      -      ) 4

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Children

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1 F Cora Ann Dinger ^{2 3}

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           Born: 8 Jul 1867 - Redbank Twp, Armstrong Co, PA 2
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         Spouse: William Lincoln Patterson (1863-      ) 3 5
           Marr: 20 Oct 1890 - Ridgway, Elk Co, PA 2

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2 M William F. Dinger ³

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         Spouse: Lila Buffington (      -      ) 3

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3 F Idella Dinger ³

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         Spouse: Edward Mills (      -      ) 3

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4 M Bird D. Dinger ³

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5 M Melvin A. Dinger ³

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6 M John C. Dinger ³

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         Spouse: Gertrude Dunsmore (      -      ) 3

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7 M Ralph L. Dinger ³

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         Spouse: Gertrude Fetler (      -      ) 3

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8 M Joseph E. Dinger ³

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         Spouse: Mary McDonald (      -      ) 3

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9 M Harry E. Dinger ³

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         Spouse: Lillian Swope (      -      ) 3

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General Notes: Husband - John Dinger

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He was brought up on the farm and received such education in the public schools as was usual for boys of his day. He remained on the home farm until he reached the age of eighteen. The farmhouse was built of logs, with a clapboard roof. During the severe winters snow was blown under the loose clapboards into the bedrooms, covering the floors and beds as much as two inches at a time. In the morning the boys would jump barefooted from their warm feather bed into the snow on the floor. Shaking the cold crystals from stockings, shoes and trousers they hurried downstairs to the blazing fire of wood in the great fireplace. Until his twenty-sixth year John Dinger never experienced a day of illness. On Aug. 25, 1862, he enlisted for service in the Civil war, and became a member of Company A, 78th P. V. I. He saw service at the battles of Stone River, Resaca, Buzzard's Roost, Dutch Gap, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, New Hope Church, Kenesaw Mountain, and various minor engagements; and he was honorably discharged at Nashville, Tennessee, June 28, 1865. On his return home he took up farming which he followed up to 1892, that year moving to Oak Ridge, where he was employed by the Oak Ridge Mining Company for twelve years, after which he retired.
He was an attendant and supporter of the M. E. Church. He was a member of the G. A. R. post at New Bethlehem, and in politics was a Republican.

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General Notes: Wife - Elizabeth Hendricks

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Oak Ridge, Armstrong Co, PA

1 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 678.

2 —, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 523.

3 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 679.

4 Richard Holben, Gleanings - A History of the Holben and Rettinger Ancestors of Twide R. Holben (Cedar Crest, NM: Privately published, 1976), Pg 19.

5 —, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 522.