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individual record

id
first
middle
last
dob
dod
cod
119AnnaT.Kaatz3/27/1884Diptheria

veteran
exhumed
purchaser
cemetery
TRUEAdams Street

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plot
R1, GPR scan found no unmarked burial on lot. 1, possibly 2 burial scars on lot. Exhumed?
relations
2 possibilities: Michael Kaatz (father, b. 5 Jan 1833, d. 27 June 1873) Henrietta Kaatz (wife, b. c1835) Bertha Kaatz (daughter, b. c1864) Clara Kaatz (daughter, b. Dec 1869) OR, less likely: August Kaatz (father) Wilhelma Kaatz (mother) Etc, see below.

comments
Anna is a little mystery. She may have been enumerated in the 1870 census in Strongsville, OH: The father, Michael Kaatz, was a farmer, age 37, born in Prussia, with $4,000 real estate, a citizen of the United States. His wife Henrietta was 35, keeping house, also born in Prussia. Children were Bertha (6), Annie (3), and Clara (5 months, born in Dec. 1869) Also in the household was Charles Wegner, 25, a farm laborer from Prussia. Family relationship is suggested by Annie’s age and the fact that Anna is buried with a Michael Kaatz. Michael Kaatz died after being kicked by a horse in 1873, leaving his widowed wife to bring up the kids (see entry for Michael Kaatz). However, there is also an Anna Katz of age 13 enumerated in Middleburg Twp in the 1880 census. Father August Katz was 51, a farmer born in Prussia. Wife Wilhelmina was 47, keeping house, also born in Prussia. Children were Fred (20, working in Stone Quarry, unemployed 5 months out of the year), Ida (18), August Jr. (16), Anna (13), Clara (11), and Gustav (6). All children were born in OH; August Jr, Anna, Clara, and Gustav were attending school. The ages of Anna and Clara suggest this could be a combined family, although the census names Anna and Clara both daughters of August and Wilhelmina. Anna’s name does not appear on the city’s list of burials, but the Berea Advertiser reported her death on April 3, 1884: “The remains of Miss Anna Kaatz who died in Strongsville, of diphtheria, were interred in the Village Cemetery Saturday.” In 1904, her tombstone was transcribed: “Anna T. Kaatz, d. Mch. 27, 1884. ae 17 yrs. 3 mo. 23 da.” Another Kaatz is listed with her: “Michael Kaatz, d. June 27, 1873, ae 40 yrs. 5 mo. 22 da.” He was possibly her father. Michael Kaatz purchased lot 148; there are two apparent burial scars on the lot but the GPR scan found no unmarked graves there. Michael and Anna T. Kaatz were exhumed and moved to Strongsville Cemetery; they now share a family pillar of white marble and have two rose granite headstones engraved “Michael Kaatz 1833-1873” and “Anna T. Kaatz 1867-1884.” A nationwide search for Henrietta Kaatz in 1880 turned up nothing. August (d. 26 May 1886) and Wilhelmina Kaatz (d. 12 Jan 1889) are buried in Woodvale Cemetery (www.findagrave.com), with daughter Ida Bertha (d. 20 Oct 1886) and son Gustav M. (d. Sept. 1896). This and the fact that Anna was living in Strongsville, not Middleburg, when she died, suggest that she was Michael’s daughter and not August’s.

sources
1870 US Federal Census, Michael Kaatz household, Series: M593 Roll: 1193 Page: 616 1880 US Federal Census, August Katz household, Series: T9 Roll: 1009 Page: 213 E. S. Loomis and D. T. Gould, “Inscriptions from the Old Berea Cemetery,” 1904, Berea Historical Society “Cuyahoga Cemetery Inscriptions,” Vol. I, compiled by the Western Reserve Historical Society, 1934 "List of Burials and Names 1856-1871", City of Berea Records “Number of Burial Lots and Price,” Adams Street Cemetery folder, Berea Historical Society Anna Kaatz death notice, The Berea Advertiser, 4 March 1884, p. 3, c. 3 Michael Kaatz death notice, Grindstone City Advertiser, 4 July 1873 www.findagrave.com