The Shelby County, TN death records do not show anyone with a similar name dying on that day, but there is a record for a maried, male, white, age 33 named Lindesteadt who died Dec. 25, 1969 of Typhoid Fever. The attending phycisian was Alex Erskine and burial was by Holst & Brothers Funeral Home. An added note says burial Dec. 28, 1869 in Old Jewish Cemetery.
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