Alice America Lamm/Lamb

Alexander Lingenfelter & family

He had lost his money in the "Crash of 1893", lost his wife in 1894, and then the family home burnt in the years following her death. It is said that the picture was taken just prior to the time when Alexander and his sons, Ottis and Ruel, left for Oklahoma Territory. Sylvia (my grandmother) was left behind with her maternal grandmother, Mary Margaret (Wallick) Johnson and gr grandmother, Elizabeth (Lemon) Wallick to raise her. She was 7-8 years old at the time.

Four generations of Lingenfelters

This is a story that my grandmother Sylvia (Lingenfelter) Lamm told her daughters about her childhood. Her grandmother, Mary (Wallick) Johnson, would cut quilt blocks out for her great grandmother, Elizabeth (Lemon) Wallick, to sew. Sylvia was about eight years old at the time this happened. Her great grandmother was blind, so Sylvia was to match two pieces of the block and give it to her gr grandmother to hand sew together. Sylvia told her daughters, when reminiscing about her childhood, that she would turn one of the pieces of the block the wrong way when she got tired of putting them together for her. So there were always some pieces that were not going the correct way in every quilt. Since my aunts told me this story, I purposely turn one piece in my quilts the wrong way to keep it a "Family Tradition"!

Ernest Lingenfelter's home renovated

Leah Jane & Bonita Lingenfelter working