Caroline Linn, Riverside Cemetery, Rockford, Mercer County, Ohio (2024 photo by Karen)
This is the tombstone of Caroline Linn, located in Riverside Cemetery, Rockford, Mercer County, Ohio. Her marker is inscribed:
Caroline
LINN
1897-1983
Caroline Linn was born in Liberty Township, Mercer County, Ohio, on 28 July 1897, the daughter of Jacob Linn Jr (1865-1927) Elizabeth (1872-1943) Garman. Caroline’s parents were both born in Germany.
Caroline Linn, age 2 years, was enumerated with her parents and 3 siblings in 1900: Jacob Linn Jr, 34, head; Elizabeth, 28, wife; Peter [sic] [Otto], 6; Louise, 4; Caroline, 2; and Peter, 2 mo. This enumeration indicates that both her parents were born in Germany, that her father immigrated in 1872 and her mother in 1888, that her parents were married for 9 years, all their children were all born in Ohio, 4 of their 6 children were living, and that her father Jacob Jr was a farmer,. [1]
By 1910 there were five children in the Jacob Linn Jr family: Otto, 16; Lucy, 14; Caroline, 12; Peter, 10; and Philip, 3 mo. [2]
The 1916 Mercer County Directory shows the following: Jacob Linn Jr, wife Elizabeth, 5 children, farmer, owned 120 acres, 8 horses, and 18 cows, lived at Route 1 Celina, Liberty [Twp] 48, and had an Indiana telephone. [3]
In 1920 Caroline Linn, 22, resided with her father and 3 siblings: Jacob Linn Jr, 54; Louisa, 25; Caroline, 22; Peter, 19; and Philip, 9. [4]
In 1940 Caroline, age 42, single, was employed as a housekeeper in the Bernard Westbrock household, Dayton, Ohio. Caroline’s employer was an undertaker, and she had been at this residence for at least five years. The highest grade she had completed was the 5th grade. [5]
Caroline Linn died in a long-term care facility in Fairborn, Greene County, Ohio, on 29 October 1983. [6]
Caroline Linn had the following siblings:
Infant brother (1891-1891)
Otto Linn (1893-1960), married Norah Gladys Stover
Infant brother (1894-1894)
Catharine Louisa Linn (1895-1974), married Theodore Arndts
Peter Linn (1900-1976), married Iola Ione Kanorr
Philip Linn (1910-1994), never married
[1] 1900 U.S. Census, Ohio, Mercer, Liberty, ED 85, p.8, dwelling 149, family 154, Jacob J Sinn [sic]; Ancestry.com.
[2] 1910 U.S. Census, Ohio, Mercer, Liberty, ED 119, p.16a, dwelling 349, family 310, Jacob Linn; Ancestry.com.
[3] The Farm Journal Illustrated Directory of Mercer County, 1916, Wilmer Atkinson Co, Philadelphia: 1915, p.108.
[4] 1920 U.S. Census, Ohio, Mercer, Liberty, ED 140, p4B. dwelling, 83, family 86, Jacob Linn; Ancestry.com.
[5] 1940 U.S. Census, Ohio, Montgomery, Dayton, ED 94-156, p.4A, house 531, Caroline Linn; Ancestry.com.
[6] Ohio Deaths, 1958-2007, Ohio Department of Health, Carolin [sic] Linn, 29 Oct 1983; Ancestry.com.
