“There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.” -David Eagleman ——
“To The Person Who Will Be The Last To Speak My Name”
You’ll come across it in some database– an arcane list, an ancient family tree– a ghost town on the edge of cyberspace, where signs decay and landmarks atrophy.
Already several decades will have passed since someone said it, thinking of a “him,” and how he lived. Now you will be the last before my name becomes a homonym.
I have no grand instructions to convey – your breathy, puzzled mumble will be fine. We all have ways to say the things we say, and I’m content to have your way be mine.
Take care as much or little as you will, just hold the silence after till I’m still.
(Above photographs contributed by Lori Cooper Smith)
Father of Gustave (Gus) Lindeman
Gustave (Gus) LindemanHenrietta Okes Lindeman
Gus and Henrietta’s Children (Seeley and Louis not shown)
(Baby photographs contributed by Ellen Notbohm)
Sidney Lindeman 1878
Harry Lindeman 1881
Benjamin Lindeman 1875
Milton LIndeman 1875
(Photo below contributed by Johanna Schwarz Franke)
Hannah 6, Sidney 4-5, Milton 8, Ben 7, August 1881
Sid Lindeman Age 4, with Sister Hannah Lindeman (Schwarz) Age 5
Claudia Lindeman
The family photograph below features members of the Rothchild and Lindeman families. Taken at Dayton, Ohio circa 1900. (See Rothchild family chart)
Back Row, standing: Gustave Lindeman, Tom Tannian, Fanny Okes Tannian, Seeley Lindeman, Minnie Stern Goldsmith, Susan Lindeman Ludwig, Hannah Lindeman, Harry Lindeman.
Middle row, seated: Sarah Shott Okes, Kathryn Rita Tannian, Grandma Henrietta Rothchild Stern, Grandma Miriam Rothchild Okes, Henrietta Okes Hazelberg, Henrietta Okes Lindeman.
Front, on grass: Louis Lindeman, Janet Ludwig, Harold Ludwig, Robert Charles Goldsmith, Claudia Lindeman. (Photo scan by Tim Cooper, contributed by Lori Cooper Smith)
The photograph below was taken at Dayton, Ohio around 1910, possibly on the occasion of Gus Lindeman’s 65th birthday.
Back Row l. to r.: Sidney Lindeman, Mae Elliott Lindeman (his wife), Harry Lindeman, Louis Lindeman, Joseph Schwarz (Hannah’s husband), Seeley Lindeman, Benjamin Lindeman, Milton Lindeman, Estelle (his wife)
Center Row l. to r.: Gertrude (Benjamin’s wife), Hannah (Schwarz) holding Josephine, Edith Lindeman(standing behind Hannah; Mae and Sid’s daughter), Henrietta (Gus’s wife), Claudia, Hermene (in front of Claudia; Hannah and Joe’s daughter), Lucina (behind Claudia and Gustave; Benjamin and Gertrude’s daughter), Gustave (Gus), Pearl (Seeley’s wife)
Front sitting: Etta, Emma (Seeley’s daughters), David (Sid and Mae’s son), Milton (Hannah and Joe’s son)
Lindeman Cousins-1907
Center: Milton Schwarz
Clockwise from top: Edith, Emma, Babette, Hermene Schwarz, Etta, David
The Lindeman Brothers: Standing l. to r.: Sidney Oaks Lindeman, Milton, Harry. Seated l. to r.: Seeley, Louis, Gus, BenjaminFour Generations-Gus Lindeman, Mae Elliott Lindman, Edith Eliott Lindeman Calisch, Etta Lindeman holding Frances Calisch
Group photo below taken in 1934
From left: Hannah Lindeman Schwarz (baby’s grandmother), Eula May Edgerton Schwarz (wife of Milton Schwarz) with baby Johanna Schwarz (Franke)-Center: Mae Elliott Lindeman (babies’ great or ‘grand’ aunt)-Right: Etta Lindeman Koch with baby June Koch (Cooper Price), Pearl Elizabeth Batchelor Lindeman (wife of Seeley and baby’s grandmother)
(Above photograph contributed by Lori Cooper Smith)
The photograph below was taken in 1940 on the occasion of Mae Elliott Lindeman’s 61st birthday, and Edith (Lindeman) and Woolner Calisch’s 20th anniversary.
Standing l. to r.: Elliott “Bud” Calisch, Deane Lindeman, John Bruce Lindeman, A. Woolner Calisch, Edith Lindeman Calisch, Robert N. Rosenthal, David Shields Lindeman. Seated l. to r.: Betsy Lindeman Rosenthal with William Sidney Rosenthal, Mae Elliott Lindeman, Ruth Lindeman with Samuel Oaks Lindeman. On the grass, left Virginia “Nikki” Calisch (Fairman), right Frances Calisch (Rothenberg)Mae Lindeman 80th birthday with David and John Lindeman, Edith Lindeman Calisch, and Betsy Lindeman Rosenthal
The Children of Edith Lindeman Calisch Read her story, In Her Own Words
Frances and Elliott “Bud” Calisch
Elliott “Bud” Calisch, Frances Calisch, Virginia “Nikki” Calisch
Four Generations (clockwise)-Frances Calisch (Rothenberg), Edith Lindeman Calisch, Mae Elliott Lindeman, Martha Ellen Rothenberg
