• General Notes

  Cause of Death:<CAUS> Apoplexy
  REFN: 626
  According to the History of Seneca County, Ohio, by Warner, Beers & Co.,
  published in 1886, at page 557, "Catharine Shedenhelm, wife of George
  Shedenhelm, who migrated to Seneca County, Ohio, in or about the year
  1832 and settled three miles north of Tiffin, in Hopewell Township"
  Catharine lived to nearly ninety years of age, and is mentioned in a
  letter from her son, Henry Shedenhelm, to his brother, Levi Shedenhelm,
  who had migrated to Iowa Co., IA, in September 1853, with the wagon train
  of his father-in-law, John Anthony Rosenberger, Levi having married John
  A's eldest child, Margaret Elizabeth Rosenberger.  From the tone of this
  letter, it appears that Catharine had a stroke or was ill enough to
  require a lot of care and lifting.  This letter was in the possession of
  Robert Alva Shedenhelm in 1964 (a great grandson of Levi & Margaret
  Elizabeth Rosenberger Shedenhelm). 
  George & Catharine spoke almost entirely German in the home.
  George & Catharine Lease Shedenhelm are both buried in what is called the
  Fravel cemetery Northwest of Tiffin, Ohio, presumably in the near
  vicinity of the farm where they settled in 1832.

Details of Catharine's family with George Shedenhelm