Catherine Kate (Kissinger) Klinger (1831 - 1868)

Born 3 Nov 1831 in Gratz, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States

Ancestors

Died 11 Nov 1868 at age 37 in Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

Daughter of Johannes Kissinger and Elizabeth Hawk. She married Samuel Klinger in 1857. Catherine Kissinger Klinger was only 37 when she died. She is buried in the United Methodist Cemetery, Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, USA.

According to her Obituary:

She was the 2nd wife of Pvt Samuel Klinger, married 1857

"Samuel married Catherine Kissinger in 1857, fathering the following children:

1. Jefferson (b .5 Aug 1857)
2. Mary Emmaline (b. Oct 1858)
3. Catherine J. (b. about 1859)
4. Alexander (b. 4 Oct 1860)
5. Alfred M. (b. 24 Apr 1864)

In 1860, he was a laborer living in Wiconisco Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. A Civil War veteran, he was drafted in Dauphin County October 30, 1862, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg November 2 as a private with Co. K, 173rd Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"), and honorably discharged with his company August 18, 1863. Catherine died in 1868."

• • The information recorded above, is an excerpt from the information recorded on Samuel Klinger's memorial, courtesy of Find A Grave contributor Dennis Brandt**

Sources

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4HC-6PW : 21 October 2021), Catharine Kissinger in household of George Hain, Lower Paxton Township, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• 1870 United States Federal Census for Samuel Klinger, Pennsylvania, Dauphin, Wiconisco [1]

• Find a Grave Memorial [2]

• "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KHNF-C2H : 10 March 2021), Kate Klinger in entry for Alfred M Klinger and Fietta Koppenhaver, 5 Nov 1887; citing Marriage, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States, multiple County Clerks, Pennsylvania.