Elizabeth Margaret Brode Elizabeth Margaret Brode, the seventh child of Jonathan Brode and Sarah Donaldson was born November 6, 1831 in Bedford County, Pennsylvania and died in Los Angeles, California, January 17, 1919. She married March 23, 1854, Obadiah P. Lineaweaver who was born October 29, 1829 in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, and died near Newton, Kansas, November 21, 1903. Two children were born to them as follows: Alice and Ida who grew to maturity and married. Ida had two children. She was above average height and weight and had brown hair and brown eyes. She was quiet and retiring in disposition, a good homemaker and wife and a devoted mother. She excelled in the use of the needle and was a tailoress by trade. She had a mechanical bent and enjoyed working with tools. She also enjoyed the work on the farm. Elizabeth Brode was born on the Brode homestead which is located about two miles west of the present town of Saxton, Pennsylvania. Her father died in 1837 and in 1848 the family broke up housekeeping and went to live with her sister Anna Funk at Woodbury, Pennsylvania. In the spring of 1852 she moved with her mother and the children to Whitley County, Indiana. On February 14, 1854 she came with her brother, Andrew, to Walnut Grove south of Buda, Illinois, and lived for two years with the Funks who had recently come to Illinois. While here she married Obadiah Lineaweaver and soon moved to Iowa, living a short time in Benton County and a longer time at Tipton where Mr. Lineaweaver was associated with Mr. Funk in a grocery store. They later lived on a farm near Tipton. In 1871 they moved to Kansas and took up a homestead near Newton. Mr. Lineaweaver died here and his wife continued to make her home here until December 1912, when she accompanied her daughter Ida, to Los Angeles, California where she enjoyed her later days. She was a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and was much interested in religious matters.