This is Lena May Thiel Bard as an infant on her father Henry's lap in a family group photo, circa 1906.Lena was born in Clinton, Indiana (according to her son Joseph's birth certificate).The other children pictured are Henry, Jr., Freda Louise, Emma E., William A., and Anton John.Lena's mother is Hattie Sobkowiak Theal. According to their marriage record, Henry was born in Will County,IL, and Hattie in Germany.Henry died in 1944 in Chester, VA, and is buried in Riverview Cemetery there. Hattie died during childbirth in 1918 at Sullivan, IN, and is buried in Center Ridge Cemetery, along with daughter Freda Griggs, sons Henry Jr., William, and Anton, as well as the unnamed male child that died with her.
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