Is Waldheim office friendly? They should have some information, it may not be much from back then but some <G> has to be better than none. I did a quick and dirty and the only Catherine I found was a wife of Jacob living in Kane Co born @ 1834 Eliz On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 11:48 PM, judy petersen <skigranny@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a new brick wall:  Katherine Goetzelman(n) was buried at Waldheim > Cemetery 31 May 1882, at age 56, so born abt 1826.  There is no burial card > & no headstone.  I cannot find a death record on familysearch.  A friend > searched her ancestry & came up empty handed.  Googling the name brought up > nothing.  My guess is that she is a sister-in-law of my gr gr grandmother > Barbara Goetzelmann Schaetzlein.  Or, if Barbara was not married when she > had her first 2 children in Oberaltertheim Germany, Barbara's maiden name > could have been Goetzelmann, making Katherine her sister or sister-in-law. > The first burial in the Waldheim plot was Michael Schaetzlein (d. 1876), > the next was Katherine.  Michael is the 2nd husband of Barbara, so > Katherine was technically not related to him.  I have plenty of info on the > entire Goetzelmann/Schaetzlein family, except this newly discovered > Katherine Goetzelman(n). > > Can someone with access to the Daily News or Trib obits look up an obit > for Katherine (or Catherine) Goetzelman(n)?  I won't be surprised if there > is none, but I need to cover all the bases.  Thanks in advance. > Judy, in Alaska, where we now have had 133.6" snow.  Enjoy your warm temps, > Chicago. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COOK-CO-IL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message