Catharine Landis Swartz

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Catharine Landis Swartz (Fretz)

Also Known As: "Kate"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Bedminster, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States
Death: December 27, 1929 (73)
Place of Burial: Deep Run Mennonite Cemetery, Bedminster, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Henry W Fretz and Elizabeth Alderfer Fretz-Moyer
Wife of Isaac Meyer Swartz
Mother of Elizabeth Fretz Swartz; Fretz Swartz; Anna "Annie" Fretz High-Gross; Ida Swartz; Ella Fretz Leatherman and 1 other
Sister of Maria L. Fretz; Elizabeth "Eliza" Landis Moyer; Sarah L. Meyers and Barbara L. Moyer

Occupation: House Keeper
Managed by: Private User
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About Catharine Landis Swartz

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68759052/catherine-l-swartz

A Brief History of Jacob Wismer and a Complete Genealogical Family Register With Biographies of His Descendants from the Earliest Available Records to the Present Time By A J Fretz, Eli Wismer

http://books.google.com/books?id=nwBgAAAAMAAJ

Page xiii, 7, 117, 120, 122, 333

I. Jacob Wismer, (...) was born in Germany about 1684, and died in Bedminster Township, Bucks Co., Pa., Feb. 4, 1787 in his one hundred and third year.

(...)

The children of Jacob and Nanny Wismer, as near in the order of birth as could be placed were: ---Jacob, Mary, Elizabeth, Joseph, Henry, Mark, Daniel, John, Christian, Nanny, Abraham.

II. Joseph Wismer, bn. in Bucks Co., ---; died before his father made his will. His portion of his father's estate, was paid to his two sons in 1791. Mrd. ---. Children: Jacob, Joseph.

III. Joseph Wismer, bn. in Bucks Co., Pa., July 23, 1753; died in Chester Co., Pa., Aug. 30, 1820, aged 67 yrs., 1m., 7d. Married Barbara Wismer, daughter of Henry Wismer of Hilltown, Pa. ---. Farmer in Bedminster Twp. Children: Elizabeth, Barbara, Catharine, Esther, Henry, Henry, Joseph, Jacob, Mary, Anna.

IV. Barbara Wismer, bn. June 13, 1785; died Mar. 14, 1870. Mrd. Mark Fretz (son of "Shoemaker" Henry Fretz). Children: Joseph, Henry, John, Mary, Barbara, Elizabeth.

V. Henry Fretz, bn. Nov. 27, 1811; died Sept. 12, 1864. Mrd. Elizabeth Landis, Dec. 12, 1859. Farmer. Menn. Children: Maria, Catharine, Eliza, Sarah, Barbara.

VI. Catharine Fretz, bn. Oct. 30, 1856. Mrd. Isaac M. Swartz, Sept. 7, 1878. Farmer. Menn. Children:

VII. Elizabeth Swartz, bn. May 10, 1879; died Aug. 3, 1879.

VII. --- Swartz, bn. June 3, 1880; died May 20, 1885.

VII. Annie Swartz, bn. Oct. 4, 1882.

VII. Ida Swartz, bn. Aug. 15, 1886.

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Catharine Landis Swartz's Timeline

1856
October 30, 1856
Bedminster, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States
1879
May 10, 1879
1880
June 3, 1880
1882
October 4, 1882
1886
August 15, 1886
1891
February 19, 1891
Bucks, Pa, USA
1895
January 26, 1895
Bucks, Pa, USA
1929
December 27, 1929
Age 73
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Deep Run Mennonite Cemetery, Bedminster, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania, United States