Mary Catherine Oberholtzer

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Mary Catherine was small but mighty force in her family. She worked very hard. When her father caused her to want to leave home she went to William Oberholtzer who she apparently was seeing and asked if he would want to marry her. As they walked to town to get married a circuit riding preacher came along and they were married under a tree on the road. Warren, her son split his nose open once and she just wet some brown paper and drew the wound together with that and it healed very well. She gathered nuts and fruit in her apron and brought them in. Taking her grandchildren with her at times to help them learn what she had known for years. She was a self made Dr.of sorts having worked with her father who was a Dr.of herbal medicine, and she gathered herbs for medicinal uses. She was the daughter of James Bernard Hoffman and Susanna Weidland. Her father had three marriages. This was a woman of faith all her life, a good wife and mother. She bore ten children but only six grew to maturity.