Mary Link (or Lingenfelter) Munrath was born June 7, 1882 in Grant County, Kentucky to Abner Lingenfeltner and Lucinda Robinson Lingenfeltner. Mary had eight siblings. In birth order she was a middle child. Mary's generation was the one when the Lingenfeltner name began being changed to Link. Some of her siblings used the name Lingenfeltner while others, like Mary, used Link.

On March 3, 1908 in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio she married streetcar operator Edward L. Munrath, and they became the parents of Gladys Munrath Thiemann and Dorothy A. Munrath Gromen. The family lived on Depot Street in Cincinnati. Mary was widowed at age 33 in 1916.

Mary passed away at age 36 on October 19, 1918 in Grant County and is probably buried near her parents in the Keefer Cemetery by the Antioch Church of Christ in Corinth, Grant County. Her daughter Gladys went to live with Mary's sister-in-law, Mary A. Munrath Cook, and her husband Rudolph Cook in Cincinnati. Dorothy went to live with Mary's widowed mother-in-law, Amanda Thompson Munrath, in Cincinnati.

Did Mary die from the worldwide epidemic known as the Spanish Flu? October of 1918, during the second and deadliest phase of the disease, was the deadliest month of the pandemic which may have been the worst epidemic in human history. Unlike most diseases a large number of young adults died. The peak age for death was 28.

Thanks so much to Link and Munrath family researchers for so much of this information. Any errors, however, are mine alone. Please go to the "edit" link on this site with any corrections or additions. If a closer relative than I would like to manage this burial site, please let me know. I hope someone will add a photo of Mary to this site.