We enjoyed a visit at the Lucas County Historical Society Museum yesterday afternoon from Gay Hedrick Moffit, of North English, and her daughter, Sherrie Maschmann (above), as well as Sherrie's husband, Ron.
They had driven down to Lucas County to visit two family cemeteries, Coal Glen and Strong (aka Belinda), as well as to deliver a treasure trove of vintage photographs related to Gay's Lenig and Umbenhower families and to the once-upon-a-time village of Belinda. A bonus was the small paperweight that Gay is holding, heavy glass with an embedded photograph of the Lucas County Courthouse.
Among the photographs was this wonderful image of Jonathan D. Lenig, Gay's grandfather, who arrived in the Belinda neighborhood from Pennsylvania to farm during the early 1870s. The rig and Mr. Lenig's winter-time outfit are explained by these sentences from his 1937 obituary: "Later for 21 years he carried the United States mail, first on a star route to old Belinda, and later on a rural route. This was done with a team, and every morning his horses were hitched and ready at six o’clock, and his patrons could almost set their clocks by his coming."
Jonathan died at the age of 83 on July 12, 1937, at the home of his son, Thomas (Gay's grandfather), near Columbia and was buried with his wife, Malinda, and other family members in Strong Cemetery, near Belinda and his home.
We have a considerable collection of vintage photographs at the museum and it's always a good day when the collection grows!
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