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Always With Spirit
A Leinfelder legacy
This ancestral history begins with a survivor of the “Black Death” plague in 1351 who was given the surname of Leinfelder. Details are given about direct, consecutive generations who lived in Schwaben, Bavaria for 5 centuries. In 1847 a family of descendants including Caroline, Maria and Joseph Leinfelder immigrated to Lorain County, Ohio.
Caroline wed Michael Hoffmann and became the mother of Crescentia Hoffmann Loescher and the grandmother of her Loescher children: John, Henry, Herman, Margaret and Rose. These Loescher sisters married Minch brothers, Christian and John.
Maria Leinfelder wed Michael Klingshirn and had Klingshirn and Bruder descendants.
Joseph Leinfelder moved his family to Jefferson, and later La Crosse, Wisconsin.
The index contains over 1500 names covering 19 generations of Leinfelder descendants. If your name or the birth name of your biological parent or grandparent is included in this end list, you are related to all of those individuals.
The detailed, illustrated, meticulously researched history of their direct ancestry has been traced from 1992 back to 1351 in the hard cover book Always With Spirit: A Leinfelder Legacy. Memories and pictures of the Loescher/Minch ancestors in Ohio cover 68 pages in this unique family history. Beginning December 2020, we are offering a limited printing of Always With Spirit for sale to descendants. More information can be found on the How to order page.