Elias H. Dinger is the son of Peter D. Dinger and Esther Hettie Stahlman. He married first to Eve Shoffner. Elias married second to Lydia Catherine Bachtel.

The Jeffersonian Democrat Newspaper, Brookville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, published May 6, 1926:

Elias Dinger died at his home in Dora at 11:45 a.m., April 18, aged 83 years, 1 month and 28 days. He had been ill for six days of pleuropneumonia. Mr. Dinger was a son of Peter and Esther (Stahlman) Dinger and was born in Clarion County February 20, 1843. He was twice married, the first time to Eve Shoffner, of Dora, and after her death to Lydia Bechtel, of Coolspring. He was a farmer by occupation and had lived for more than sixty years on his farm at Dora. After advancing age compelled him to become less active, his son Harry continued the farm work.

Mr. Dinger was the father of fifteen children, of whom twelve survive: Hattie, wife of James Young, Ringgold; Arzella, wife of N. L. Caylor, Dora; Idella, wife of Alec Kennedy, Distant; Iva, wife of E. C. Synder, Timblin; Pearl, wife of Robert E. Christy; Ellen, wife of Melvin Burkett, Markton; Bertha, wife of Harry Hughes, Timblin; Leona, Timblin; William, Harry, Leroy, and Lawrence, all of Dora. Other descendents include thirty-eight grandchildren and fourteen great-grandchildren. The only survivor of his own generation is a brother, R. B., of Timblin.

Mr. Dinger was a member of the Lutheran Church. Funeral services were conducted in St. Paul's Evangelical Church at Dora at 10 a.m. April 21, by Rev. T.O. Fuss, with interment in Ringgold Cemetery. The pallbearers all were immediate relatives of Mr. Dinger: C. P. and Harry Dinger, Timblin; Paul and James Young, Jr., Ringgold; and Elmer and Maurice Caylor, Dora. The floral tributes included a number of beautiful ones from various members of Mr. Dinger's family.

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