Catharine (along with her likely infant grandchildren, 'Eddy' and Alice), are buried in the Andrew Bornheimer family plot here in Milwaukee.
To understand why, we have to unravel a little puzzle.
Wright's 1890 city directory for Milwaukee lists Catherine as 'widow of Chas.', and gives her home at 837 Booth Street. The same address is given as the home of H. Hugo Zahn, who operated a printing company at 421 E. Water Street--within a block of where the Bornheimer family had lived and worked for two decades.
Back then, neighborhoods retained their ethnic identities and folks looked out for one another, especially the first generation immigrant families, but it still doesn't explain why three valuable burial plots were given up.
For that, we have to dig a little deeper.
A search for 'H. Hugo Zahn' reveals a marriage record which gives his parents names as Catherina & Carl August Zahn, so we now know that Catherine is living with her son, whose full name is Hans Hugo Zahn, and he was born in Evansville, Indiana.
However, the woman that Hans Hugo married on the 12th of June in 1875 was named Carolina "Carrie" Fuchs. Which doesn't mean anything unless you know that Andrew Bornheimer married Elinor Kahl, and Elinor's mother's maiden name was...Fuchs.
A little more poking about reveals that, in fact, Hugos's wife Carrie Fuchs and the mother of Andrew Bornheimer's wife, Ellie Kahl, are sisters and so, by marriage, the Bornheimers and Zahns are related.
Sadly, I've so far not been able to come up with any evidence to lead to who the parents are of the two little Zahn babies in this plot, who died within a day of one another.
To understand why, we have to unravel a little puzzle.
Wright's 1890 city directory for Milwaukee lists Catherine as 'widow of Chas.', and gives her home at 837 Booth Street. The same address is given as the home of H. Hugo Zahn, who operated a printing company at 421 E. Water Street--within a block of where the Bornheimer family had lived and worked for two decades.
Back then, neighborhoods retained their ethnic identities and folks looked out for one another, especially the first generation immigrant families, but it still doesn't explain why three valuable burial plots were given up.
For that, we have to dig a little deeper.
A search for 'H. Hugo Zahn' reveals a marriage record which gives his parents names as Catherina & Carl August Zahn, so we now know that Catherine is living with her son, whose full name is Hans Hugo Zahn, and he was born in Evansville, Indiana.
However, the woman that Hans Hugo married on the 12th of June in 1875 was named Carolina "Carrie" Fuchs. Which doesn't mean anything unless you know that Andrew Bornheimer married Elinor Kahl, and Elinor's mother's maiden name was...Fuchs.
A little more poking about reveals that, in fact, Hugos's wife Carrie Fuchs and the mother of Andrew Bornheimer's wife, Ellie Kahl, are sisters and so, by marriage, the Bornheimers and Zahns are related.
Sadly, I've so far not been able to come up with any evidence to lead to who the parents are of the two little Zahn babies in this plot, who died within a day of one another.
Catharine (along with her likely infant grandchildren, 'Eddy' and Alice), are buried in the Andrew Bornheimer family plot here in Milwaukee.
To understand why, we have to unravel a little puzzle.
Wright's 1890 city directory for Milwaukee lists Catherine as 'widow of Chas.', and gives her home at 837 Booth Street. The same address is given as the home of H. Hugo Zahn, who operated a printing company at 421 E. Water Street--within a block of where the Bornheimer family had lived and worked for two decades.
Back then, neighborhoods retained their ethnic identities and folks looked out for one another, especially the first generation immigrant families, but it still doesn't explain why three valuable burial plots were given up.
For that, we have to dig a little deeper.
A search for 'H. Hugo Zahn' reveals a marriage record which gives his parents names as Catherina & Carl August Zahn, so we now know that Catherine is living with her son, whose full name is Hans Hugo Zahn, and he was born in Evansville, Indiana.
However, the woman that Hans Hugo married on the 12th of June in 1875 was named Carolina "Carrie" Fuchs. Which doesn't mean anything unless you know that Andrew Bornheimer married Elinor Kahl, and Elinor's mother's maiden name was...Fuchs.
A little more poking about reveals that, in fact, Hugos's wife Carrie Fuchs and the mother of Andrew Bornheimer's wife, Ellie Kahl, are sisters and so, by marriage, the Bornheimers and Zahns are related.
Sadly, I've so far not been able to come up with any evidence to lead to who the parents are of the two little Zahn babies in this plot, who died within a day of one another.
To understand why, we have to unravel a little puzzle.
Wright's 1890 city directory for Milwaukee lists Catherine as 'widow of Chas.', and gives her home at 837 Booth Street. The same address is given as the home of H. Hugo Zahn, who operated a printing company at 421 E. Water Street--within a block of where the Bornheimer family had lived and worked for two decades.
Back then, neighborhoods retained their ethnic identities and folks looked out for one another, especially the first generation immigrant families, but it still doesn't explain why three valuable burial plots were given up.
For that, we have to dig a little deeper.
A search for 'H. Hugo Zahn' reveals a marriage record which gives his parents names as Catherina & Carl August Zahn, so we now know that Catherine is living with her son, whose full name is Hans Hugo Zahn, and he was born in Evansville, Indiana.
However, the woman that Hans Hugo married on the 12th of June in 1875 was named Carolina "Carrie" Fuchs. Which doesn't mean anything unless you know that Andrew Bornheimer married Elinor Kahl, and Elinor's mother's maiden name was...Fuchs.
A little more poking about reveals that, in fact, Hugos's wife Carrie Fuchs and the mother of Andrew Bornheimer's wife, Ellie Kahl, are sisters and so, by marriage, the Bornheimers and Zahns are related.
Sadly, I've so far not been able to come up with any evidence to lead to who the parents are of the two little Zahn babies in this plot, who died within a day of one another.
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