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- Source: (Recollections of Herman Anton Richter in 1972), "My parents sh a re a lot with Bernard Richter and I own the next lot north where my wife Gertrude is buried. My wife Catherine and I are to be buried the two g raves north of Grandpa's grave, this leaves one grave on the north edge of my lot."Catherine Willger went to school at St. Mary's Ridge and some of her classmates were: Peter, John, Casper, Mary and Theresa Willger, Aggie, Tony, Casper, Elizabeth, and Pete Flock, Aggie, John, and Joe Von Ruden, Agnes and Hubert Hemmersbach, Hiloris, Eddie, Francis Rundorf, Paulina, Joe, Albina Esser, William, Henry, Herman, and Bernard Brueggen, Anna, Tony, and Willie Ewalt, Appolina Shier, Francis and Tony Sheir, John Frankie and Theresa Schrier, Tony, Eddie and Herman Smith, Jack, Frank, Florence, and Joe Raddermacher, Joe, Mamie, Rosy, Jake, John Mlsner, Willie Dohl, Willie Butchler, Anna, Emma, Ferdinand, Tony Willman, Jake and Pete Steidel, Theodore Steidel and many more which are very hard to remember.
Catherine's Grandpa Flock served in the Civil War for several years and at that time anybody who would desert or did not want to go was shot on sight and would be buried as a good for nothing.
After Grandpa Flock got home from the war, he had gone to a wedding one day leaving his wife to take care of the farm. A buck sheep had be entied in the orchard and had gotten loose, grandma went to gather up the eggs and was bunted to death by the sheep. She was buried at St. Mary 's Ridge where Grandpa later joined her. Source: (Recollections of Herman Anton Richter, in 1972.)
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1896 - 1982 (86 years)
1940 Census
