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Ann Eliza Platter Lingo

Source: David Edwin Platter, A History of the Platter Family from about the Year Sixteen Hundred to the Present Time. Cleveland, Ohio, 1919, p. 69.

Ann Eliza Platter Lingo (February 4, 1841—1919; burial in Fairview Cemetery, Denison TX). Daughter of Andrew Platter, born near Bainbridge, Ohio. Married Edward H. Lingo. [He was] born in Millsboro, Sussex County, Delaware. Lived for a time in Chillicothe, Mo.,
where they were married. Then removed to Texas, where Mr. Lingo engaged in the lumber business in Denison, before the town was incorporated. He has been prominent in the lumber business in Texas ever since, serving for a time as the president of the Texas Lumbermen's Association. He has also been a great factor in the support and counsel of the Episcopal church in Texas. A great colony of relatives and friends found their way to Texas, and through his influence and counsel found their way also to business success. He and his wife are both living and enjoying their beautiful home in Denison. Mr. A. F. Platter, of Dallas, in writing me of his sister, says: "Here is truly
a wonderful character. She has mothered the family since the death of her mother. Her brothers and nieces and nephews have found the same welcome in her home as was given to her own children. She has given much of her time for the upbuilding and usefulness of her church, the meetings of which she never denied herself, till the disease which is taking her away from us made her too feeble to attend. She is brave and confident, realizing that she is nearing the end through the shadow, with no regrets other than that she will be missed by those who need her assistance and her love." Mr. and Mrs. Lingo have had three children; two living:

1. Cora Jean Lingo. Graduate of St. Mary's College, Knoxville, Ill. Married Howard G. Kelly, who was at the time chief engineer of the
Cotton Belt Railway, and is now the president of the grand Trunk Railway System of Canada. Both Mrs. Kelly and her husband are prominent in social and church circles.

2. Georgia Lingo. Died in childhood.

3. William Mac Lingo. Graduate of Marmaduke Military School, Mo. Married Clifton Dulaney, daughter of George B. Dulaney, Hannibal, Mo. Followed the footsteps of his father and chose lumber as his calling. Is vice president and general manager of the Lingo Lumber Company of Dallas. Prominent in Episcopal church circle. Has three children: Clifton Dulaney Lingo (born October 12, 1910); George Dulaney Lingo (born December 30, 1913); and William Mac Lingo Jr. (born December 19, 1915).

Clifton & William M. Lingo
source: passport photograph on ancestry.com

Lingo family members buried at Fairview Cemetery, Denison, Texas