Catherine Satter Kuntz

Catharine Satter was born June 5, 1862 in Waldhambach, Germany the daughter of Gertrude Schlick and Nicholas Satter. They were farmers but struggled to make ends meet. Once they even had to sell a cow to pay off a debt to a money lender.
At the age of 16 she came to America as an indentured servant, which paid for her passage.
She struggled immensely, as the people she worked for her were not nice, and did not provide nearly enough food for her. She would eat the apple peels leftover from the pies she had to bake for them to get by.

Catharine Satter and John Kuntz

Catharine met John Kuntz, who had also immigrated from a small town in Germany, only 20 miles from her hometown of Waldhambach but here they were meeting in Brooklyn of all places. They married when Katherine was just 18 years old and John was 30. She wore a black wedding dress and a white veil, as this was the European tradition back then.
The couple had four children together. Edward (1889), Louis (1891), Josephine (1896)
and Wilhelmina (1903.) John worked as a day laborer to provider for the family.

Josephine, John, Louis, Edward, Catharine, and Wilhelmina Kuntz
 



In 1918 Josephine died at age 22 in childbirth with her second child, who died only a few months later. Just two years after that John passed away in 1920 at the age of 65.
Catharine lived with her youngest daughter Wilhelmina and her husband Albert until
she passed away on July 28, 1942.
*Catharine is the wife of my 2nd cousin 4x Removed John*