Her birth name was Katharina and she was born in Hessen, Darmstadt, Germany, the daughter of Phillip Bretz and Ann Mary Elizabeth Frick (Anna Maria Margaretha Elisabetha Frick).
Her name is found spelled Catherine, Catharine, Katy and Katherine.
She married David G. Abell and raised her own family along with the abandoned sons from her husband's brother, James Abel's, first marriage to Mary Cox and the son from husband David's first marriage to Mary Jane Dameron.
Her cause of death was consumption.
Informant on the death certificate is David G. Abell.
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Excerpt from History of Dubois County Biographical Sketches
Goodspeed 1885
Page 772
"PHILIP BRETZ, a native of Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, was born July 13, 1836, being the third of ten children born to the marriage of Philip J. Bretz and Ann M.E.M. Frick, also natives of Germany, from which country they came to the United States in 1840, and located on a farm in Jackson Township, Dubois Co., Ind., where the father died in 1884 at the age of eighty years. The mother is still living....."
Her name is found spelled Catherine, Catharine, Katy and Katherine.
She married David G. Abell and raised her own family along with the abandoned sons from her husband's brother, James Abel's, first marriage to Mary Cox and the son from husband David's first marriage to Mary Jane Dameron.
Her cause of death was consumption.
Informant on the death certificate is David G. Abell.
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Excerpt from History of Dubois County Biographical Sketches
Goodspeed 1885
Page 772
"PHILIP BRETZ, a native of Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, was born July 13, 1836, being the third of ten children born to the marriage of Philip J. Bretz and Ann M.E.M. Frick, also natives of Germany, from which country they came to the United States in 1840, and located on a farm in Jackson Township, Dubois Co., Ind., where the father died in 1884 at the age of eighty years. The mother is still living....."
Her birth name was Katharina and she was born in Hessen, Darmstadt, Germany, the daughter of Phillip Bretz and Ann Mary Elizabeth Frick (Anna Maria Margaretha Elisabetha Frick).
Her name is found spelled Catherine, Catharine, Katy and Katherine.
She married David G. Abell and raised her own family along with the abandoned sons from her husband's brother, James Abel's, first marriage to Mary Cox and the son from husband David's first marriage to Mary Jane Dameron.
Her cause of death was consumption.
Informant on the death certificate is David G. Abell.
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Excerpt from History of Dubois County Biographical Sketches
Goodspeed 1885
Page 772
"PHILIP BRETZ, a native of Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, was born July 13, 1836, being the third of ten children born to the marriage of Philip J. Bretz and Ann M.E.M. Frick, also natives of Germany, from which country they came to the United States in 1840, and located on a farm in Jackson Township, Dubois Co., Ind., where the father died in 1884 at the age of eighty years. The mother is still living....."
Her name is found spelled Catherine, Catharine, Katy and Katherine.
She married David G. Abell and raised her own family along with the abandoned sons from her husband's brother, James Abel's, first marriage to Mary Cox and the son from husband David's first marriage to Mary Jane Dameron.
Her cause of death was consumption.
Informant on the death certificate is David G. Abell.
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Excerpt from History of Dubois County Biographical Sketches
Goodspeed 1885
Page 772
"PHILIP BRETZ, a native of Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, was born July 13, 1836, being the third of ten children born to the marriage of Philip J. Bretz and Ann M.E.M. Frick, also natives of Germany, from which country they came to the United States in 1840, and located on a farm in Jackson Township, Dubois Co., Ind., where the father died in 1884 at the age of eighty years. The mother is still living....."
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