The Frank Lindner Family

By Margaret Lindner

The Frank Lindner family arrived in the Jacksonville area in 1914, from Galveston County, Texas. Frank Lindner had come to the United States at age fourteen, with two brothers and a sister, from Kirrweiler, near Heidelberg, in (West) Germany. He had lost a family, his wife and five small children, in a disastrous flood in Galveston and moved to the Cove Springs area to be removed from such disasters.

In 1907, Frank Lindner returned to Germany and married Elisabeth Hund of his home town, and they returned to Galveston. His sister, Mrs. Sophia Best, accompanied them here.

In the Cove Springs community, he purchased a farm and ranch of 93.6 acres from Doctors Stokes and Travis. Here he located a two-room house to which the family moved. They came by train from Galveston to Fry's Gap. Conveyance from there to the farm, a distance of 2/2 miles, was by wagon over a sandy road. A new five-room house was built in 1918 to replace the original weather-beaten building. The first car, a Ford touring car, was purchased in 1924. The family affiliated with the Methodist Church. Mrs. Lindner, active in the Cove Springs Methodist Church until her death in 1965, served as Sunday School teacher and trustee for many years.

Mr. and Mrs. Lindner were parents of three children. Elizabeth, a public school teacher of this area, died in 1958; Margaret is a radiologic technologist at Travis Clinic; and Henry H. Linder, Sr., owns and operates Tipton Drug Store. He and his wife are parents of a son, Henry Lindner, Jr., and a daughter, Barbara Lindner Graves. The two great-grandchildren of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lindner are Kathryn Elece Graves and Claire Elaine Graves.

Four generations of the Lindner family in 1964.

First Lindner family car, 1914 Ford.