1869 Noah A. Lehman was born on January 23, in Illinois. [1] [2]
1867 Anna Garber was born on March 28, in Nappanee, Indiana. [3] [4]
1893 Noah A Lehman and Anna Garber were married on February 21, in Elkhart County, Indiana. [5]
1910 Noah Lehman (age 41), retail merchant furniture, and Anna Lehman (age 41) lived in Nappanee, Elkhart, Indiana with three children. [6]
1920 Noah Lehman (age 50), undertaker, and Anna Lehman (age 51) lived in Nappanee, Elkhart, Indiana with three children. [7] [8]
1921 Noah Lehman, born 1869 in Illinois, was a passenger on the ship Manoa from Honolulu, Hawaii. [9]
1946 Anna Lehman (1867-1946) died and was buried at South Union Cemetery, Nappanee, Elkhart County, Indiana. [10] An obituary reported [11]:
Mrs Anna Lehman, 78, wife of Noah A Lehman and a resident of Nappanee for 53 years, died Friday morning at her home 451 East Van Burren. She had been in failing health a number of years.
Mrs Lehman was born March 28, 1867, in Clinton township, the daughter of Abraham and Fanny Martin Garber. She was married to Mr Lehman Feb 21, 1893. Surviving beside the husband are 2 daughters, Mrs Harvey Becknell and Mrs Emanuel Meyer, both of Washington, DC; a son, Stanley W G Lehman of New York City; 4 grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs Elizabeth Smeltzer of Bremen. The son, his wife, and their child were civilian prisoners of the Japanese during the entire time the Japanese held Manila.
Mrs Lehman was a life long member of the Mennonite church. She also was a member of the WCTU. She spent the winter of 1922 - 23 in Hawaii and other winters in Florida and California.
Funeral services were held in the First Mennonite church at 2 pm Monday, with burial in South Union cemetery.
1960 Noah A Lehman (1869-1960) died and was buried at South Union Cemetery, Nappanee, Elkhart County, Indiana. [12]
A biosketch [13] reports:
Noah A. Lehman. For nearly thirty years one of the best known auctioneers in Elkhart County has been Noah A. Lehman of Nappanee. Lehman is also the leading furniture dealer and undertaker of Nappanee, and his career has been an exceedlngly busy one and one characterized by honorable and straightforward integrity in all his relations.
Though most of his life has been spent in Elkhart County he was born in Sullivan Township of Livingston County, Illinois, January 23, 1869. He represents some of that sturdy German lineage that established homes in the eastern states back in colonial times...
Noah A. Lehman attended the public schools of Elkhart County and grew to vigorous manhood on the farm. He early manifested an inclination for commercial lines and at the age of seventeen did his first work as an auctioneer. He has a high degree of natural proficiency for that work and for fully thirty years was one of the most reliable auctioneers in this section of Indiana. His excellent judgment regarding values extends not only to the usual material merchandise but also to livestock and farm machinery and he has been able to please not only the seller but the customer, and has cried sales all over Elkhart and adjoining counties.
In 1889 Mr. Lehman also became clerk in a hardware store, continued a clerk until 1892 and then engaged in the furniture business at Nappanee, and is now one of the oldest merchants of that little city. He is also engaged in undertaking lines, and is a graduate of Clark's school of embalming at Chicago. He has been connected with the undertaking business here for twenty-one years, has every modern equipment for service including a motor hearse and is the only member of the profession here. In 1893 Mr. Lehman married Anna Garber. She was born in Clinton Township of Elkhart County, a daughter of Abraham and Fanny (Martin) Garber, natives of Ohio, who came as early settlers to Elkhart County. Mr. and Mrs. Lehman have three children: Bernice, Josephine and Stanley.
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[2] Jonas G. Wenger, Martin D. Wenger, and Joseph H. Wenger, History of the Descendants of Christian Wenger (1903), 194, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[3] FamilySearch.org, [FamilySearchRecord].
[4] Jonas G. Wenger, Martin D. Wenger, and Joseph H. Wenger, History of the Descendants of Christian Wenger (1903), 194, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[5] Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].
[6] United States Federal Census, 1910, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].
[7] United States Federal Census, 1920, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].
[8] United States Federal Census, 1920, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[9] FamilySearch.org, [FamilySearchRecord].
[10] Find A Grave Memorial 90154975, [FindAGrave].
[11] Newspaper, Wakarusa Tribune, March 21, 1946.
[12] Find A Grave Memorial 90154971, [FindAGrave].
[13] Abraham E. Weaver, ed., A Standard History of Elkhart County, Indiana, Vol. 2 (1916), 782, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].