IDFirstMiddleLastDOBDODCOD
120MichaelN/AKaatzN/A6/27/1873N/A

veteran
exhumed
purchaser
cemetery
N/ATRUEN/AAdams Street

lot
plot
N/AR1, GPR scan found no unmarked burial on lot. 1, possibly 2 burial scars on lot. Exhumed?
relations
Henrietta Kaatz (wife, b. c1835) Bertha Kaatz (daughter, b. c1864) Annie [Anna T.?] Kaatz (daughter, b. c1867) Clara Kaatz (daughter, b. Dec 1869)

comments
He was born 5 Jan 1833 (Labaj). He was enumerated in Strongsville, OH, in the 1870 census: He 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. From his obituary we learn how he died: “Fatal Accident- On Thursday evening of last week a sad accident occurred in Strongsville which resulted in the death of Mr. Michael Katz, formally a resident of Berea. We learn that at the time of the accident Mr. Katz was riding in a one horse wagon, and in passing over a sluice his horse jumped, breaking the whiffletree and jerking Mr. K. out, in front of the vehicle and under the horse’s feet. The beast commenced to kick and dealt the unfortunate man blow in the region of the stomach, from the effects of which he died the next day. The deceased was a well-to-do farmer, about forty years of age, and leaves a wife and several children” (Grindstone City Advertiser, 4 July 1873). Berea’s list of burials for 1873 only says “Michael Kaatz”; no date, no age at death. His name is listed between a May 17 burial and a July burial. His tombstone was transcribed in 1904 as “Michael Kaatz, d. June 27, 1873, ae 40 yrs. 5 mo. 22 da.” Another Kaatz is listed with him, “Anna T. Kaatz, d. Mch. 27, 1884. ae 17 yrs. 3 mo. 23 da.” She does not appear on the city’s list of burials. She may have been his daughter Annie listed in the census above (see her entry for other possibilities). Michael Kaatz purchased lot 148; there are two apparent burial scars on the lot but the GPR scan found no unmarked graves there. Before 1934, when another transcription record was made—which did not include their names, 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.”

sources
1870 US Federal Census, Michael Kaatz household, Series: M593 Roll: 1193 Page: 616 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 Michael Kaatz death notice, Grindstone City Advertiser, 4 July 1873 www.findagrave.com