"Wittig" is an altered version of the original "Wittich." Anna Kunigunde Wittich came from Germany to Vermilion, Erie County, OH. She married Casper Ernst, and they had six daughters. Casper and Anna divorced. The oldest daughter, Elizabeth, had married Rev. John Streiter, and he was called to organize a Lutheran congregation in what was then Newburgh, OH (now Garfield Heights, OH, St. John's Lutheran Church.) Anna Kunigunde and the daughters followed to Newburgh and the Cleveland area. In Nov. 1859, Rev. Streiter was called to be a missionary in Wisconsin, but the rest of the Ernst girls remained in the Cleveland area at that time. Later Martha moved to Frankenmuth, Michigan.

For more information about Anna Wittig, Casper Ernst, and the six Ernst daughters, google the unpublished family document "A Sketch of the Parents of the Ernst Girls."

For references to Mother Ernst and her daughters in the autobiography of her son-in-law and first pastor of St. John's church, see Lebenslauf des Johannes Strieter, Pastor Emeritus, von ihm selbst erzählt und geschrieben (Life Story of Johannes Strieter, Pastor Emeritus, as Told and Written by Himself) (Cleveland: F. M. F. Leutner, 1904). The online translation is by Red Brick Parsonage, and you can find it by googling it or at redbrickparsonage dot wordpress dot com

1811 Mar 16, birth, Bebra [in 1830, Bebra had 1066 inhabitants, per Wikipedia]
from Sketch of the Ernst Girls:
"Anna Kunigunde Wittich was born March 16, 1811 in Kreis Rothenburg, Bebra, Hessen, Germany. Her parents were well-to-do and she received a very good education for those times. She had command of a very fine high German and later here in America acquired a very good command of English. She was a fine seamstress and a past master in fine knitting and crocheting... she had the misfortune to lose her mother by death. Her father married again and [Anna] did not get along very well with her stepmother."

1836 June 6 NY passenger list
Conrad Klein, 36, farmer
[line unreadable due to crease], ?3, female
John Klein, 40, farmer
Lusennius [? indexed as Susannah] Klein, 11, male
Kunigunde Wittick, 25
ship St. Lawrence from Bremen
[several pages later]
Henry Wittick, 34
Catherine Elizabeth Wittick, 37
John Wittick, 13
Anna Margeretta Wittick, 11
Martin Wittick, 8
Glenn, Elizabeth, 16
[next page]
Elisabeth Wittick, 21
[none by the name of Kropf]

"Some of her cousins, the Gleins and the Kropfs and some friends decided to come to the United States. She thought it would be fine to accompany them here and if she did not like America, would return to Germany. They left Germany in March 1836... the company of travelers were on the ocean eleven week. They made the entire trip by water. From New York, they went up the Hudson to the Erie Canal; then by canal boat to Buffalo and by lake boat to Cleveland..."

1850 Census, Vermilion, Erie, Ohio
Casper Ernst, 40, carpenter, $800, b. Germany
Cornelia, 37, b. Germany
Elizabeth, 11, b. Ohio
Martha, 8, b. Ohio
Sophia, 6, b. Ohio
Cornelia, 5, b. Ohio
Sarah, 3, b. Ohio
Mary, 2, b. Ohio

1870 Census Cleveland Ward 2
Lehen [sic, probably Leutner], Fred, 23, teacher, b. Baden
-, Mary, 22, b. Baden
Ernst, Anna, 60, b. Baden

1875 Mar 23 death Cleveland
Anna King [sic for index, appears to be Kung] Ernst
64, b. Germany
bronchitis
married
98 Bolivar

1875 Mar 24 interment Erie Street Cemetery, Cleveland Cem Records
Earnst, Anna K, 98 Bolivar, 64, b. Ger, bronchitis
removed to Newburg - vault 174 - Box 144

Note: This memorial has been linked by another contributor to a Casper Ernst buried in Illinois. Although the memorial appears to have the same birthdate as Casper Ernst of Vermilion, Ohio, I do not have any evidence that he was buried in Illinois. I've emailed the contributor who manages that memorial to request documentation, and have not yet received a response.