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Facts and Events
The German spelling of her name was Anna Katharina. She immigrated to join her brother Johannes in Muscatine, Iowa. Her obituary says she came to Muscatine in June of 1866. Ship records show a Catherine Hahn of the correct age immigrating in 1864 (it has not been possible to verify that it is the same person). The earlier date fits best with the story of the marriage to Jacob. Oral tradition says that after the Civil War ended in 1865, Jacob saw Catherine hanging laundry while delivering coal and was smitten; he sent her a valentine (1866?); and they were married in June of 1867. If she had come in June 1866 this would have to had to happen Valentine’s Day 1867 with a marriage very soon afterwards which isn’t as likely. (Her granddaughter Louise Schomberg Padgett concurs that Catherine had been in the USA for awhile before marrying Jacob.) Oral tradition also says that when her mother died (Catherine would have been 5 yrs old) it became her job to take several loaves of bread to the “town ovens” for baking each day.
Louise Padgett recalls Grandma Hahn sayings: “Ach, it twill pass,” with a wave of the hand; and “I ist barely able to staggar around,” as she grew older (conversation of Louise Padgett with Steve Schomberg, Jul 2001).
References
- ↑ Source (12).
- Source.
- ↑ Immigrated in 1864 to join bro John in Muscatine, IA
- ↑ Could read and write German.
- ↑ Homemaker/Farmer
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