Her great grandson Joseph Marion Meisburger (b 1932) told Helen Nadine Stone this story about his G-Grandmother, told to him by his Grandfather (Joe): “There is one incident related to me by Grandpa, you may or may not have heard. It was before he was born and concerned one of his older sisters, who was a baby during the Civil War. Missourians were constantly visited by soldiers of both sides and they would of course hid valuables as best they could. G-Grandmother Meisburger had a reaonably large sum of money for some special purchase when she was visited by a troop of of soldiers. She prepared dinner for them while they searched the house. The senior Officer held the baby on his lap for awhile. They ate and left without incident. The senior office had the money in his lap most of the time, Grandmother had put the money in the baby’s diaper”.

He is living in 1909 at 704 Spruce Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri60

1910 Census places her at Missouri, Jackson, Kansas Ward 7, 0196, 10 living with Joseph A Meisburger(36) and Lena (32). Also living there was Nonie (8) and Mary M Mother age 76 widowed born in “Fr German”.

DIRINGER, MARY MAGDALENA , born 9-March-1834 in Herlisheim, Haute Rhin, France. Married JOHN MEISBURGER on 12-April-1857. They lived most of their married life in Kelly Twsp near Bunceton, Cooper County, Missouri. She died in the home of her son, JOE, in Kansas City, Missouri. She Is buried along side her husband , JOHN in the Catholic Cemetary in Boonville, Missouri.