Margarette Katherina Reiner

Her granddaughters remember her as a cheerful woman with round rosy cheeks.

She came to Munich from Eslarn and worked as a cook according to the records. Benedict had a date to take the maid to a fasching party but needed a date for a friend so the maid got Retta. Soon after Benedict started courting Retta and they married.

her birth year may have been 1851, it looks corrected in the marriage record