Martin Leo Werling

Martin Leo Werling was born on July 13, 1913 in Tiffin, Seneca County, Ohio. He was the youngest of four siblings to Leo and Emma [Stine] Werling.

At the age of 23 years old, Martin married Grace Ruth Linthicum on November 20, 1937, in Wood County, Ohio and had three children (Marlene A., Mary L. and Martin Leo, Jr.). Martin and Grace divorced in October 1941. 

Martin was a World War II and Korean War veteran with 10 years of service in the Air Force. He entered the US Army at Camp Attebury, Indiana on December 1944 and discharged as a Private in the service battery, 49th field artillery at Camp Attebury on January 29, 1946. Martin re-entered the service on June 28, 1946 and was discharged as a Sergeant in the US Air Force on May 9, 1950. Martin died in the Veterans hospital in Fort Harrison, Montana.

Leo Andrew and Emma Cecelia (Stine) Werling

Leo Andrew Werling was born in Seneca County, Ohio, on January 31, 1879. Born and raised in Seneca County, he is the third youngest of Martin Nicholas Werling and Sarah Ann Lonsway's twelve children.

Emma Cecelia Stine was born in the Rising Sun, Wood County, Ohio, on November 4, 1868. She was the seventh of John and Elizabeth (Krauft) Stine's ten children.

While working as a farmhand for Emma's brother, William, Leo got to know Emma. On Tuesday, February 17, 1903, Leo and Emma tied the knot at St. Joseph's Church in Tiffin, Ohio. Together, they reared three boys and one daughter — Vincent Ignatious, James Louis, Cletice Leona, and Martin Leo. Leo cultivated his own acreage near Hopewell. 

Leo was employed during the Great Depression as a night watchman at the Great Western Pottery Company. Leo died on October 22, 1959, in Tiffin, Ohio, at the age of 80, and interned at St. Joseph’s Cemetery. Emma died of a cerebral hemorrhage on November 28, 1944 and buried alongside Leo.