Person:Susanna Reusswig (14)

Letter, Bob Mickelson, Jr. [grandson of Katherine's sister], to Reece Mayer, January 1985
Michael Mayer worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad Pullman Car Division in Pgh at the old Ft. Wayne yards. So did William Schnellbacher, Aunt Kate's husband. They were cabinet makers and did some of the fancy wood trim in the old railroad cars.

Aunt Kate Schnellbacher was well known to me. When I was little she baby sat with me many times. When I got older I visited her frequently. When she was in her 70's she fell and broke her hip. It never healed properly and she lived with Mother, Dad and me for several years. She was mostly bedridden. She finally went to a nursing home where she died. I don't know her exact age but do know she was over 80.

The parents of grandmother Mayer, our great grandparents, are buried in Voegtly Cemetery (German isn't it?) here in Pgh. The wording on one headstone is unreadable, it is evidently an older marker made of soft stone and is weather worn. [Marker for Conrad Reusswig The other marker reads:

J. Magdalena Reusswig
Born Aug. 9, 1824
Died Dec. 18 1896

Aunt Kate Schnellbacher is buried on the same plot but has no headstone.

Letter, Reece Mayer, 3 February 1992
When I was a kid, my aunts talked of their Aunt Kate and Aunt "Lizzie" Lickertt. [Actually an older cousin, not an aunt.] Aunt "Kate" married William Schnellbacker.

Reece Mayer, Aug. 1984
Anna Marie Magdalena Reusswig Mayer had an older sister, Katherine Reusswig Schnellbecker, who died in Pittsburgh Jan 15, 1942. No children.

Aunt Kate (Kathryn) Reusswig Schnellbecker seemed to be a caring older sister. Not having any children of her own, she helped her younger sister Lena's children a lot. She sent money and clothes out to Roseberry for Aunt Bertha, the oldest girl in Idaho, to go to school at Idaho's Albion Normal School. This after Bertha graduated from Roseberry Hi School. After two yrs, Bertha had her teaching certificate. She went to teaching right off, and per Aunt Kate's instructions, Bertha paid to put Frieda thru Albion Normal instead of repaying Aunt Kate. This went right on down the line, with Hilda, then Marie, and finally Irma, the youngest. All five received teaching credentials after 2 yrs at Albion. Bertha, Frieda and Hilda taught in elementary schools all their working careers, and never married. Marie and Irma taught a couple years or so but quit, they didn't like it.

1. ↑ Notes from Photocopy of Passport issued to Conrad Reusswig (in possession of Robert Mickleson, 1984).

   Description: 42 years old, 5’ 6” tall, brown hair, blonde eye brows, blue eyes, forehead, nose, mouth and chin medium, teeth good
   Signature C Reusswig
   Conrad Reusswig and [wife?] 40 years old [?????]
   Johanna Magdalena geb Wagner and 6 children:
   Anna Maria 15, , Con. [Henrich] 19,
   [JH] [??] 11,
   Sussanna Cath. 9,
   Maria Magdalena 3
   Susanna Maria Magdalena 1/4 years old.
   Resident (wohnhaft) in Meerholz von da nach Nord amerika frei und ungehindert reisen und zurüch reisen, ihren auch Schutz und Beistand angeheihen zu lassen. [thence to north america travel freely and unhindered, returning to their protection and assistance]
   Gelnhausen, 10 October 1864

2. ↑ New York, United States. New York, 1820-1850 Passenger and Immigration Lists: [database on-line]. (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.).

   Ship Christel with passengers from Bremerhaven, sworn 30 Nov 1864
   pp 2-3
   Conrad Reuswig, age 42, male, head, farmer, from Germany, to USA, on Poop Deck
   Magdalena Reuswig, age 40, female, wife, from Germany, to USA
   Conrad Reuswig, age 18, male, son, farmer
   Maria Reuswig, age 15, female, daughter
   Heinrich Reuswig, 11, son
   Caterina Reuswig, 9, daughter
   Magdalina Reuswig, 4, daughter
   Elisabeth Reuswig, 4 months, daughter

3. ↑ email, MSantspree@aol.com 5/6/1999.

   From The Church records in Meerholz, Hessen, Nassau, Germany:
   Konrad Reusswig married Johanna Magdalena Wagner on August 28,1845 in Meerholz
   Children:
   4.Susanna Katharina b:January15,1853

4. ↑ Volume 26, June 1870-March 1871, in Pennsylvania. Orphans' Court (Allegheny County). Orphans' court dockets, 1789-1905. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1971)
   p. 490 - December Term 1870; FHL #0872594.

   No. 158
   Henry Reuswig
   Catharine Reuswig
   Magdalena Reuswig
   The petition of Henry Reuswig Catharine Reuswig & Magdalena Reuswig by their next friend and mother Magdalena Reuswig
   respectfully represents
   That the said Henry & Catharine Reuswig are minor children over the age of 14 years and said Magdalena a minor child of Conrad Reuswig late of Allegheny City and is under the age of 14 years, and entitled to no real estate and personal estate amounting to about Eighty dollars as nearly as can be ascertained. That said minors have no Guardian for their estates, and praying a Guardian for that purpose, for the said Magdalena, and to allow said Henry & Catharine to make choice of a fit Guardian.
   Affidavit filed Magdalina Reuswig
   Bond of Conrad Reuswig with Geo K Reuswig and Martin Fromm as sureties in $200 filed and approved. By the Court
   March 4, ’71
   Petition presented and Conrad Reuswig chosen and the Court appointed said Conrad Reuswig Guardian of said minors. by the Court

5. ↑ Allegheny County (Pennsylvania). Recorder of Deeds. Deeds, 1788-1901; index, 1788-1904. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1987-1988)
   Vol 1041, p. 359.

   14 October 1899
   Michael Mayer and Anna M. his wife, of Allegheny City, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
   for $700 paid by
   Katarina Reusswig of same place
   sell the southerly half of lot 12 in a plan of lots laid out by the heirs of John Gass Sr. on Sigel Street, the same lot 12 sold by George A. Adams & Nellie J. his wife on 2 August 1890 to Michael Mayer (Book 705-297)
   Signed Michael Mayer, Anna M. Mayer
   Recorded 11 November 1899

6. ↑ City of Allegheney, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, in United States. 1900 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T623)
   ED 64, p. 10, HH 136.

   391/2 Sigel Street
   Reusswig, Catherine, head of household, white female, born January 1856, age 44, single, born in Germany, both parents born in Germany, immigrated 1865, resident in US 35 years, occupation housekeeper, able to read, write and speak English, owns house with a mortgage.

   Kate was renting out part of the house she owned and lived in to two other families:
   Address 39 Siegel Street (Household #135)
   James Wyle, (a plumber) and family, all born in Pennsylvania, renting house;
   and James Blair (a blacksmith, born in Scotland) and wife (born in Ohio), renting house
   The house was on the half-lot she had bought from her sister and brother-in-law. They lived on the other half of the lot, although facing a different street (39 Wolfe Street (Household #137))

7. ↑ Pittsburgh, 21st Ward, in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States. 1910 U.S. Census Population Schedule . (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication T624)
   p. 185B; HH 235, Fam 278.

   1220 California Avenue
   Schnellbacher, William, white male, 55, married twice, married 2 years, b. Germany 1st language German, both parents b. Germany 1st language German, immigrated 1874, NA, speaks English, laborer with City, wage worker, able to read and write, owns house free of mortgage
   , Reswic [sic], wife white female, age 55, married once, married 2 years, no children, b. German 1st language German, both parents b. Germany 1st language German, immigrated 1867, speaks English, no occupation, able to read and write
   , Marie, daughter, white female, single, age 18, b. PA, both parents b. Germany 1st language German, speaks English, no occupation, able to read and write
   Mayer, Lillian, roomer, white female, 19, single, b. PA, both parents b. German 1st language German, speaks English, saleslady in Department store, wage worker, able to read and write

8. ↑ Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, in United States. 1920 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T625)
   Ward 21, ED 664, Sheet 43B, HH 70, Fam 95.

   1220 California Avenue,
   Schnellbucker, William, head owns with mortgage, white male, age 64, married, immigrated 1882, NA 1889, able to read and write, born German 1st language German, both parents b. Germany 1st language German, able to speak English, carpenter, city work, wage worker
   , Catherina, wife, white female, 62, married, immigrated 1866, NA 1884, able to read and write, b. Germany 1st language German, both parents b. Germany 1st language German, able to speak English, no occupation

9. ↑ Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, in United States. 1930 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication T626)
   HH 97, Fam 112.

   1257 Junitia Street,
   Schnellbecher, Catherine, Head, rents, no radio, white female, age 72, widow, able to read and write, b. Germany, both parents b. Germany, 1st language German, immigrated 1865, Naturalized, no occupation

10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1 10.2} Death Certificate.

    Death Certificate of Mrs. Catherine (Reussweg) Schnellbacher
    Place of Death: Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, Protestant Home for Incurables
    Place of Residence: 5500 Butler Street, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
    Resident of USA for 78 years
    White female, age 87 years, born 15 January 1855, widow, spouse: William Schnellbacher
    Born Germany, father: Conrad Reussweg, born Germany; mother: Lena Wagner, born
    Information provided by Ava A. Carlson Sup't, 5500 Butler Street, 17 January 1942
    [Burial] Voegtley; funeral director W. F. Leslie, 721 Brushton Ave., Pittsburgh
    Date of death: January 15, 1942, 10:45 am, of edema of lungs (duration 3 days), underlying condition: Cardiac Asthma (duration 5 years).
    S. K. Hall, Physician, attended deceased from March 11, 1937 till death.

11. ↑ Allegheny, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States. Voegtly Evangelical Church Records, Allegheny City, Pennsylvania (Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
    WPGS Film #209 2/3.

    Vol. 11, Cemetery Records ca 1881-1927
    p. 83 - Catharina Reisswig Reusswig (Reihswig), Block C, #24, 8x16, $50, by Cash
    
    Vol. 14, Cemetery Records 1925-1968
    p. 73 - January 15, 1942
    Grave opening for Katherine Schnellbacher Age 87, Lot No. 24 East half Sec C $15