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Ollivine Emma Besse Lindle
1868 – 1898
| Birth | 1868 |
| Death | 1898 |
| Cemetery | Saint Joseph Cemetery Ennis , Ellis County , Texas , USA |
| Added by | John Bird on 09 Aug 2015 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/147839386 |
Bio
Ollivine Emma Besse was born in 1868 in Illinois to Thomas Besse and Mary Olive Fraser. About her middle name: Ellis County birth records for three of her children list her middle name as Emma and no middle name listed for her other two children. Some of her grandchildren referred to her as Elizabeth. Elizabeth is also the name listed on her son Alfred Benedict's Death Certificate. We are going with Emma here, since those three birth records are more contemporary and likely provided by Emma herself. She married Alfred Benedict Lindle in Waxahachie, Ellis County, Texas on 24 November 1891. They lived and farmed near Alma in Ellis County. They had five children, one girl and four boys, born in a six-year period between October 1892 and August 1898. These children were: 1) Ora Elizabeth Lindle, born October 1892 2) Joseph Herman Lindle, born 14 Jan 1894 3) James Alfred Lindle, born 23 Jan 1895 4) William Arthur Lindle, born 17 Sep 1896 5) Thomas Francis Lindle, born 30 Aug 1898 Ollivine died between the times of birth of her last child Thomas and the 1900 Census, most likely in August or September 1898. In that 1900 census, her first four children were enumerated as "pupils" in the St. Joseph Orphanage located in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, Texas. Her youngest, Thomas Francis, is boarded with the Silas Mitchell family in Ennis. Who was Silas Mitchell? He was the older brother of James Miles Mitchell who had married Susan Mary Lindle, the older sister of Ollivine's husband, Alfred Benedict Lindle. James and Susan had married in Kentucky and were members of the party of Mitchells and Lindles who came to Ellis County together about 1885. Susan Mitchell had died in Ellis County in 1895 leaving James with four young children of his own to raise and thus his married brother Silas took in the baby, Thomas Francis. The Besse family were of the Catholic faith, coming to America from Quebec, Canada in the early 1800's. Ollivine is buried in St. Joseph's Cemetery in Ennis. On 12 Jan 1903 her widowed husband, Alfred Benedict Lindle married her first cousin, Elvena M. Leona Besse, daughter of Edward Besse and Philomine Poitras of Alma.
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- Joseph Herman Lindle 1894–1960
- James Alfred Lindle 1895–1986
- Arthur William Lindle 1896–1968
- Thomas Francis Lindle 1898–1977
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