Second Family of Samuel Linder and Mary Thom

Third Family of Samuel Linder and Harriet Duchemin/Saunders

First Marriage

Samuel Linder and Maria Eich were married on January 10, 1889 in Elmira. It is recorded in #012164 of the registry of Ontario Marriages for 1889:

   Name:      Samuel Linder
   Age:       21 yrs
   Residence: Elmira
   Born:      Elmira
              B[achelor]
   Occ:       Laborer
   Parents:   William Linder,
              Elizabeth Linder
   Relig:     Methodist

   Bride:     Maria Eik
   Age:       18
   Residence: Mornington
   Born:      Mornington
              S[pinster]
   Parents:   Martin Eik,
              Elizabeth Eik
   Relig:     Lutheran

   Witness:   Theodore Reumer(?), Elmira Ont
              Mary Linder, Elmira Ont
   Date:      January 10th 1889
   Place:     Elmira
   By:        Rev J. Wass
              L[icense]

• Maria's headstone reads "Eich". This will be taken as the correct spelling.
• Charlotte is recorded as "Elizabeth". It may have been a transcription error from the groom's mother.
• Mornington Township is northwest of Waterloo County in Perth County. Millbank is in Mornington Township.

Sam and Mary Linder

This picture comes to us from Wawota Saskatchewan, where Sam's brother William moved. The names "Sam and Mary Linder" are written on the back. There are several Mary Linders to chose from: Mary Ann Linder (sister-in-law and wife of George H), Mary Linder Gowing (sister), Mary Thom Linder (2nd wife) and Maria Eich (1st wife). As a guess, the woman in this picture must be Sam's first wife Maria.

Death of Maria

Maria Linder died without warning on Tuesday April 17, 1917. It is recorded in the Ontario Death Archive of 1917 (#032099) under the name of Maria Lindner:

     Name:     Lindner, Maria
     Age:      46 yrs, 7 ms, 11 days
     Date:     Apr 17th, 1917
     Born:     Millbank, Ont
     Died:     Kitchener
     Burial:   Kitchener
     Occ:      Housewife, married
     Father:   Martin Eick
     Mother:   Lizzie Siegner
     Cause:    Apoplexy
     Physician:  J.E. Hett
     Informant:  Samuel Linder, Kitchener
     Return:     April 17th, 1917
     ------------------
     Physician's Return
     Name:       Lindner, Maria
     Date:       Apr 17th, 1917
     Cause:      Apoplexy, 7 hours
     Immediate:  Paralysis
     Physician:  J.E. Hett,
                 Kitchener
                 Apr 17th, 1917

Maria's obituary and a followup were printed in The News Record on the same day (page 7) and on Friday April 20 (page 7):

Sudden Death of Mrs. Samuel Lindner.     There passed from life to death this morning Mrs. Lindner wife of Mr Samuel Lindner of 63 Wilhelm street.     Mrs. Lindner had not been sick [--] last evening she was out visiting a sick neighbor and returned about ten o'clock. As she was undressing to retire she suffered a paralytic stroke followed by a hemorrhage in the head. A physician was called at once but she only lived until six o'clock this morning and was unconscious from the time the attack came.     Mrs. Lindner was about 47 years of age and leaves a sorrowing husband and nine children to mourn her sudden death. She was born in Millbank on 27th August 1870 and thus was 46 years 7 months and 2 days old. Her maiden name was Maria Eich. Mrs. Lindner was a member of the English Lutheran church. Her funeral will be held on Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The sympathy of all who knew her will be extended to the bereaved family.

Mrs. Linder's Funeral     There was quite a large attenancel[?] at Mrs. Samuel Linder's funeral yesterday afternoon. It was conducted by Rev. Mr. Behrens [--] the pallbearers were Messrs Weber, Faber, Eick, Krueger, Shanks and Treblecock. Many wreaths of flowers were sent by sorrowing relatives and friends. They were conveyed to the grave in a special rig. Among the friends from a distance were: Mrs. Eick (her mother), Mrs. Wrong and Mrs. Johnson of Listowel; Mr. and Mrs. George Eick and Mrs. Gowin[g] of Milverton; Mr. Irvin Seigner of Stratford; Mr. Fred Seigner of Tavistock; Mr. Louis Seigner of New Hamburg; Mr. George Linder and damily[sic]; Mr. John Lindner and family and others of Elmira.

• Her obituary is consistent and always spells the last name incorrectly as LindNer. The writeup after the funeral only misspells it once for brother-in-law John.

Marriage

Samuel Linder and Maria Eich were married on January 10, 1889 in Elmira.

Birth

Mary Sophia Thom was born on September 23, 1875 in Rockingham, Ontario according to information found in her obituary. William Musclow whom she married on April 25, 1893 in Brudenell, Renfrew County, was her first husband and the record of that marriage confirms that she lived in Rockingham and was born in Raglan Township, Renfrew County. Mary's first marriage lists Christian Thome as her father but no mother is given.

Second Marriage

Samuel was remarried to Mary Musclow (nee Thom) after the death of his first wife. They married in Kitchener on July 05, 1922. She had been married to William Musclow and was a widow with nine children.

Together they had four more kids, Marie, Reginald, Douglas and Donald who died at birth.

Mary in backyard, 184 Breithaupt St

Mary Thom (1875-1931)

Death of Mary

A death notice first appeared in the Kitchener Daily Record on Tuesday February 3, 1931, the day that Mary died. The obituary followed two days later on Thursday February 5, 1931 on page 15 of the "Record":

Mary Thom 1875-1931

The Departed ----- Mrs. Samuel Linder     The death occurred at St. Mary's hospital at 12.35 A.M. on Tuesday, February 3, of Mrs. Samuel Linder, formerly Mrs. Musclow who before her first marriage was Miss Mary Thome. Death came following an illness of three weeks and two days. The deceased was born at Rockingham on January 23rd, 1875, and at the time of her death she was 56 years and 11 days old. She was a member of the First English Lutheran church and she is survived by seven sons and four daughters including William, John, Fred, Harold and Kenneth Musclow and Douglas and Reginald Linder and Mrs. C. Clayfield, Mrs. George Jackson, Mrs. Roy Wing and Miss Lillian Musclow. The entire family resides in Kitchener. Two brothers and two sisters also survive. The funeral will be held on Saturday at two o'clock with a service at the family residence, 184 Breithaupt street. Rev. J. Maurer, the pastor of First English Lutheran church will be in charge. Interment will be made in the East End Lutheran cemetery.

     Name:       Linder, Mary
     Place:      St Mary's Hospital, Kitchener
     Residence:  184 Breithaupt Street
     Sex/orig/marriage: female/German/married
     Born:       Rockingham, Ont/ January 23, 1875
     Age:        56 years, 9 days
     Parents:    Christian Thom, born Germany
                 mother not known, born Germany
     Informant:  May Clayfield, 192 Breuthaupt St, daughter
     Burial:     Lutheran Cemetery, Feb 7, 1931
     Undertaker: Frank Siennpiper (?)
     Registered: 5th Feb 1931
          Medical Information
     Died:       Feb 2, 1931
     Cause:      Cardio vascular ..., 5 years
     Contrib:       , 6 years
     Physician:  P.D. ..., 39 Water N, Kitchener
     Registered: Feb 5, 1931

• Mary died from complications of diabetes.
• She is buried in Section "D" of St Peter's Cemetery in Kitchener.
• Mary's maiden name was Thom. Her obituary and the record of her first marriage in 1893 gave the name as "Thome".

Third Marriage

Samuel married for the third time to a widow, Harrietta Saunders in about 1932. Her maiden name was Harriet Ann Duchemin. Hattie had several older children from her first marriage to Truman Saunders and they had already left home.

When Samuel's older brother George died in 1939, Sam and his wife Hattie signed "The Book of Remembrance":

Death of Samuel

The Vernon City Directory for 1918 records Samuel and five working children living at 183 Ahrens West in Kitchener. Samuel and three children were employed at Consolidated Felt. Sam later moves to Wilhelm Street working for the Smart Step Shoe Co and then Ames-Holden Tire. In 1925, living at 184 Breithaupt Street Samuel has gone back to Canadian Consolidated Felt and then to O. Rumpel Felt Co.

Starting in 1928, the City Directory included wives' names in the listing. From 1928 to 1930, Samuel is living with his second wife, Mary Thom. In 1931 Samuel is still on Breithaupt Street and still at Rumpel Felt but now Mary is gone and Clarence Clayfield owns the house. The following year, 1932, Samuel is boarding at 119 Victoria Street but still works at Rumpel.

Samuel died on Sunday December 17, 1950 and his obituary was printed in the Kitchener-Waterloo Record the day after on page 7:

Samuel Linder, Sr.     Samuel Linder, Sr., 84, of 176 1/2 Hall's Lane, died at the K-W Hospital Annex yesterday after a lengthy illness.     An Elmira native, he was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Linder. He was a former employee of the Rumpel Felt Co. and the Canadian Consolidated Felt Co. for many years. Mr. Linder was a member of the New Apostolic Church.     Surviving are his wife; six sons, Samuel, Jr.; Roland, Reginald and Douglas, Kitchener; Theodore, Mt. Forest, and Veron, Montreal; two daughters, Mrs. Grenville (Marie) Munro, Drayton, and Mrs. Arthur (Donella) Swinton, Detroit; one brother, William, Wawota, Sask.; one sister, Mrs. Otto Krueger, Kitchener; 14 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.     He was predeceased by two daughters, Mrs. Amanda Talmage and Mrs. Charlotte Elliot, and two sons, Cecil and Charles.     The body will rest at the Ratz-Bechtel Funeral Home until tomorrow noon when removal will be made to the New Apostolic Church for service at 2:30 p.m. Burial will be in Mr. Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, with Rev. Michael Kraus officiating.

Samuel Linder (1867-1950)

• Samuel was survived by a wife who is nameless in his obituary. This was Samuel's third wife Hattie.
• This obituary mentions a total of twelve children by name while Maria's only mentions the existance of nine children. Three of the twelve were from the second family with Mary Thom. The last son, Donald, who died as an infant was left out. Samuel was the natural father of thirteen children.

Death of Hattie

Hattie survived her husband by about two years. The death notice and an obituary were printed in the K-W Record on Saturday March 7, 1953, page 7:

Deaths LINDER, at Our Lady of Mercy Hospital, Toronto, Friday, March 6, 1953, Mrs. Harriet Ann Linder, formerly of Kitchener. Beloved wife of the late Samuel Linder, and dear mother of A. E. Saunders, Edmonton; C. A. Saunders, Toronto; Herbert Saunders, Hamilton; Mrs. George Anger, Dunnville and Mrs. Arthur Storer, Kitchener, in her 74th year. Resting at the Ballard Funeral Home, Dunville, for service on Tuesday, March 10, at 2:30 p.m. Interment in Riverside Cemetery, Dunnville.

Mrs. Samuel Linder     Mrs. Samuel Linder, 74, the former Harriet Duchmin of Kitchener, died yesterday at the Toronto General Hospital. Her husband, died two years ago. She was predeceased by her first husband many years ago.     Surviving are three sons, Herbert Saunders, Hamilton; Alex Saunders, Toronto; and Arnold Saunders, Edmonton; two daughters, Mrs. George Anger, Dunnville and Mrs. Arthur Storer, Kitchener. Fifteen grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren also survive.     The body is at Dunnville where the funeral will be held Monday. Interment will be made in the Dunnville Cemetery.

• There is disagreement on the same page whether the funeral is to be on Monday or Tuesday.

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