Sidney Oaks Lindeman and Mae McIntyre Elliott Lindeman – RLMFamily

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“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.

-David Rosenthal

Rosenthal Lindeman Murphy

Sidney Oaks Lindeman and Mae McIntyre Elliott Lindeman

(The Parents of Betty Ann Lindeman Rosenthal and the grandparents of William Sidney Rosenthal.)

The story goes that Sid Lindeman, one of Gus and Etta Lindeman’s nine children was in a department store in Sedalia, Missouri: a traveling salesman of light bulbs. Actually, his work was more broadly bringing electrification to rural areas. He was approached and befriended by Mae Elliott and her mother, who invited him for Thanksgiving dinner. Ann Shields Elliott, Mae’s mother had raised seven children from two husbands, the first lost in the Civil War. She was intent on placing her youngest child and concluding her parental duties.

Mae Elliott and Sid Lindeman around the time of their marriage

Mae Lindeman, about Age 17

Sid Lindeman As a Young Man

Mae Lindeman, Early Portrait

Mae Lindeman with Edith and David Shields Lindeman

Mae Lindeman and Edith Elliott Lindeman (Calisch)

Mae Lindeman with David Shields Lindeman, Age 13

Mae Lindeman 1911

Mae Lindeman with Betty Ann Lindeman (Rosenthal)

Mae Lindeman 1920, Possibly at Edith’s Wedding

Mae Lindeman 1920, Possibly at Edith’s Wedding

Mae Lindeman, Taken at Greensboro, North Carolina

Sid Lindeman As a Young Man

Mae Lindeman, Taken at Richmond, Virgina

Sid Lindeman

Mae Lindeman, Final Portrait

Sid Lindeman, Final Portrait

MaeLindeman 1913 — Mae Elliott Lindeman, 1913. Found in Sid Lindeman’s briefcase after his death.

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