Henry Linguen Ditzenberger

Henry Linguen Ditzenberger was born on Sep. 2, 1842 in Eaton, Preble, OH and died on Feb. 3, 1922 in Eagle, Boone, IN. He married Elizabeth Davis on Oct. 12, 1865 in Boone, IN. Elizabeth, daughter of William Davis and Catherine Clodfelter, was born on Jan. 18, 1847 in Russelville, Putnam, IN and died on Jul. 18, 1926 in Lebanon, Boone, IN.

Other events in the life of Henry Linguen Ditzenberger
Census 1850 District 7, Boone, IN
Census 1860 Eagle, Boone, IN
Census 1870 Eagle, Boone, IN
Census 1880 Fogleman, Crittenden, AR
Census 1900 Zionsville, Boone, IN
Census 1910 Eagle, Boone, IN
Census 1920 Eagle, Boone, IN
Burial: Lutheran Cemetery, Whitestown, IN

Other events in the life of Elizabeth Davis
Census 1860 Worth, Boone, IN
Census 1870 Eagle, Boone, IN
Census 1880 Eagle, Boone, IN
Census 1900 Zionsville, Boone, IN
Census 1910 Eagle, Boone, IN
Census 1920 Eagle, Boone, IN
Burial: Lutheran Cemetery, Whitestown, IN


Children of Henry Linguen Ditzenberger and Elizabeth Davis
i. 16. Wesley Jacob Ditzenberger was born on Jul. 14, 1879 in Eagle, Boone, IN and died in 1909 in Alva, Woods, OK.
ii. 17. Perry W. Ditzenberger was born on Apr. 30, 1867 in Boone, IN and died on Jun. 10, 1938.
iii. 18. Leanken Ditzenberger was born in Nov. 1869 in Boone, IN and died in 1885.
iv. 19. Mary E. Ditzenberger was born on Sep. 9, 1865 in Boone, IN and died on Sep. 24, 1904 in Boone, IN.
v. 20. Sidella Ditzenberger was born in 1872 in Boone, IN and died in 1931.
vi. 21. Berton Clarence Ditzenberger was born on May 15, 1881 in Boone, IN and died on Dec. 31, 1951.
vii. 22. John Franklin Ditzenberger was born on May 15, 1881 in Zionsville, Boone, IN and died on Mar. 8, 1973 in Greenville, Darke, OH.
viii. 23. George Henry Ditzenberger was born on Apr. 17, 1885 in Whitestown, Boone, IN and died on Mar. 13, 1963.

Notice that in 1880 Henry appears in AR on the census while his wife remains in IN. Perry, their second child, oldest son, is also in AR with his father. I've been curious to know the cirumstances. Any Ditzenberger researchers out there who know the reason?

“Then next came ‘Wesley’ [Jacob Wesley] and all I know about him (don’t remember ever seeing him) is that my Dad said He and Grandpa D. [Henry Linguen] never got along too well, they both had ‘Ditzenberger tempers’ and often had regular ‘fist fights’, so when he got old enough he left home and eventually settled in Oklahoma and there he married a ‘part-Indian’ girl by the name of ‘Captolia’ and they had one daughter named ‘Myrtle’, who used to visit Grandpa & Grandma Ditzenberger every few years—she was a ‘pretty blonde’ with real curly hair, so she must have ‘taken after Uncle John [John Franklin], my grandfather and Uncle Bert’ [Berton Clarence] as far as her curly hair was concerned but she was ‘wild as an Indian’ and Grandma couldn’t handle her and I think she sent her home to her mother one time after a ‘short stay’. As I recall what Dad said, ‘Uncle Wesley’ had died and her Mother ‘Captolia’ didn’t have much control over her...." -Pearl Stonebreaker Ditzenberger [Pearl was the daughter of Perry W.]

My grandmother, Myrtle did, indeed, have very curly hair, and it was thick, too. Like the German daughter she was, she wore it in long braids coiled and pinned to her head.

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