Concerning her own older siblings whom she obviously never knew, all Josephine had to say was (writing about her father):
"…shortly after his return from service, he sold the house and farm and established a planing mill at the mouth of Mahoning Creek on the Allegheny River. This was successful, but since Bradys Bend was being developed and offered great opportunity he went there. This was very profitable as he built superintendent's homes, schools, churches, and many tenements or "row houses." A baby, Adelaide, died there also Nannie died of whooping cough and measles."

Frank Dumm wrote the following (again writing about Josephine's father, Joseph):
"He married Sara Kalb, known to all of us as "Aunt Sarah Minteer". Their children were: John, Eva, James Winters, William Findley, Norah, and Josephine. One other daughter died in childhood, I do not recall her name."

James Shields "Jim" Minteer listed the following children as the third and fourth of Joseph and Sarah's children:
1.3.12.3. Adalade Nannie Minteer
1.3.12.4. Adabelle Gertrude Minteer

Mary A, age 10 months, is listed in the 1860 census, so for quite some time I assumed that the names had gotten mixed up, and listed their names as Mary Adabelle and Nannie Gertrude, I think. And that was all the information that I expected would ever be known about those children.

Then in November 2010 we got Cable Internet and I began to look more closely at all the Census records. And I found that in the 1910 Census Sarah stated that she had had ten children, only six of whom were alive at the time. So I added two more children, listing them simply as "Minteer, child (per 1910 census)" – and again, I had to be content to leave it at that, and accept that nothing more would likely ever be known about them.

Then January 29, 2011 a package showed up at my door. It was a Family Bible. The book itself was printed in 1876, and tucked in between some pages were the Family Record pages from an older Bible, with the information in a different hand than what was written in the newer book, the Scans of which are added here. So now we know the names and birth and death dates of these previously little-known or completely unknown older sisters of Josephine's.

The Bible had been in the possession of one of Joseph Winter "Wint" Minteer's granddaughters, who in early 2011 moved from her Retirement Community to its Health Center. While removing things from her old apartment, her son and daughter came across the Bible, and didn't know any more of its history than that their mother had it. Her father was Roy Minteer, and my best guess is that he got the Bible from his Aunt Josephine, who mentioned the following about him in her book:
"Before he was twenty-one he came to live with us in Pittsburgh and worked with Robert at the Westinghouse Machine Company. He and his uncle came to be more like father and son, mutually admiring and enjoying each other. When Roy came here, I suggested that he start a savings account and when he left, he had $1000 to invest in a home. He was drafted into the Army (World War I) and because of his skill and experience, he was assigned to doing electric installations."