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Margaret Slingluff Kindy

Photo taken: abt. 1900 Photo Found: Blue Peacock Antiques - Winchester, VA Status: looking for family Margaret Slingluff, born in 1848, was the youngest of nine children born to William Henry Slingluff and Elizabeth Ulrich Schlater, who lived Whitemarsh and Lower Providence Townships in Montgomery County, PA, just northwest of Philadelphia. Margaret’s elder sister Hannah Slingluff Davis and her family are also subjects of this blog (I found 12 photos of them at Blue Peacock Antiques in Winchester, Virginia!) but I thought Margaret deserved a blog post of her own - she had her own family and descendants, after all. The back of Margaret’s photo gives us an introduction to her family: it states that she married Harry Kindy and had three children: Harry, Mamie, and Bert. Let’s look into that a little more. Margaret, or Maggie as she was known, did marry a man with the surname Kindy, although based on their children’s marriage certificates, it appears he went by John. His name could have b

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