Born in Saxony about 1831-1832 Catherine, the daughter of Adam and Maria Schneider, was first married to Civil War veteran Frederick Hamann, who was also from Saxony.
They appear together on the 1860 U.S. census at Waukesha, Wisconsin with their year-old daughter Catherine.
Frederick was listed as eligible for the draft at Waukesha in 1863. He volunteered on 14 Feb 1865 and was attached to Co. D of the 48th Wisconsin Infantry. He mustered out one year and five days later in Kansas.
No record of Frederick’s death or burial could be located. However, by the 1870 census Catherine was enumerated at Milwaukee as the head of household with two sons: Fritz (d. 05 Apr 1872), and Charles; her daughter apparently being deceased by then. (Their surname is mistranscribed on the census as 'Namann.')
On 20 June 1871, she became the third wife of Heinrich Freckmann.
Whatever the fate of her first husband, he was most certainly deceased by 18 Aug 1888, when she applied for a widow’s benefit under his military pension. It was apparently granted to her, for nine months later the Washington, D.C. paper the Evening Star carried the notice in their 02 May 1889 issue, that: “Catherine Freckman has been arrested…at Milwaukee, Wis., on a charge of making a false claim for pension as the widow of Frederick Haman after she had remarried to Freckman.”
She was enumerated as 'Catharina' on the 1880 census with Heinrich and Casper at Milwaukee. Her step-son Casper named her as his mother on his 1898 marriage record to Ida Bromski, his own mother having died when he was still a toddler.
She was named as 'Catherine Schneider,' Heinrich's spouse, on his 1901 death record, which doesn't indication whether or not she survived him. She may be the widow "Froeckman" who appears on the 1905 Milwaukee census, residing on 14th Street.
Catherine and Heinrich are not known to have had any issue. Charles, the only surviving child from her first marriage, was enumerated on the 1880 census along with Hermann Freckmann, both of them boarding in the household of Joh? Toh? Schneider and his wife.
They appear together on the 1860 U.S. census at Waukesha, Wisconsin with their year-old daughter Catherine.
Frederick was listed as eligible for the draft at Waukesha in 1863. He volunteered on 14 Feb 1865 and was attached to Co. D of the 48th Wisconsin Infantry. He mustered out one year and five days later in Kansas.
No record of Frederick’s death or burial could be located. However, by the 1870 census Catherine was enumerated at Milwaukee as the head of household with two sons: Fritz (d. 05 Apr 1872), and Charles; her daughter apparently being deceased by then. (Their surname is mistranscribed on the census as 'Namann.')
On 20 June 1871, she became the third wife of Heinrich Freckmann.
Whatever the fate of her first husband, he was most certainly deceased by 18 Aug 1888, when she applied for a widow’s benefit under his military pension. It was apparently granted to her, for nine months later the Washington, D.C. paper the Evening Star carried the notice in their 02 May 1889 issue, that: “Catherine Freckman has been arrested…at Milwaukee, Wis., on a charge of making a false claim for pension as the widow of Frederick Haman after she had remarried to Freckman.”
She was enumerated as 'Catharina' on the 1880 census with Heinrich and Casper at Milwaukee. Her step-son Casper named her as his mother on his 1898 marriage record to Ida Bromski, his own mother having died when he was still a toddler.
She was named as 'Catherine Schneider,' Heinrich's spouse, on his 1901 death record, which doesn't indication whether or not she survived him. She may be the widow "Froeckman" who appears on the 1905 Milwaukee census, residing on 14th Street.
Catherine and Heinrich are not known to have had any issue. Charles, the only surviving child from her first marriage, was enumerated on the 1880 census along with Hermann Freckmann, both of them boarding in the household of Joh? Toh? Schneider and his wife.
Born in Saxony about 1831-1832 Catherine, the daughter of Adam and Maria Schneider, was first married to Civil War veteran Frederick Hamann, who was also from Saxony.
They appear together on the 1860 U.S. census at Waukesha, Wisconsin with their year-old daughter Catherine.
Frederick was listed as eligible for the draft at Waukesha in 1863. He volunteered on 14 Feb 1865 and was attached to Co. D of the 48th Wisconsin Infantry. He mustered out one year and five days later in Kansas.
No record of Frederick’s death or burial could be located. However, by the 1870 census Catherine was enumerated at Milwaukee as the head of household with two sons: Fritz (d. 05 Apr 1872), and Charles; her daughter apparently being deceased by then. (Their surname is mistranscribed on the census as 'Namann.')
On 20 June 1871, she became the third wife of Heinrich Freckmann.
Whatever the fate of her first husband, he was most certainly deceased by 18 Aug 1888, when she applied for a widow’s benefit under his military pension. It was apparently granted to her, for nine months later the Washington, D.C. paper the Evening Star carried the notice in their 02 May 1889 issue, that: “Catherine Freckman has been arrested…at Milwaukee, Wis., on a charge of making a false claim for pension as the widow of Frederick Haman after she had remarried to Freckman.”
She was enumerated as 'Catharina' on the 1880 census with Heinrich and Casper at Milwaukee. Her step-son Casper named her as his mother on his 1898 marriage record to Ida Bromski, his own mother having died when he was still a toddler.
She was named as 'Catherine Schneider,' Heinrich's spouse, on his 1901 death record, which doesn't indication whether or not she survived him. She may be the widow "Froeckman" who appears on the 1905 Milwaukee census, residing on 14th Street.
Catherine and Heinrich are not known to have had any issue. Charles, the only surviving child from her first marriage, was enumerated on the 1880 census along with Hermann Freckmann, both of them boarding in the household of Joh? Toh? Schneider and his wife.
They appear together on the 1860 U.S. census at Waukesha, Wisconsin with their year-old daughter Catherine.
Frederick was listed as eligible for the draft at Waukesha in 1863. He volunteered on 14 Feb 1865 and was attached to Co. D of the 48th Wisconsin Infantry. He mustered out one year and five days later in Kansas.
No record of Frederick’s death or burial could be located. However, by the 1870 census Catherine was enumerated at Milwaukee as the head of household with two sons: Fritz (d. 05 Apr 1872), and Charles; her daughter apparently being deceased by then. (Their surname is mistranscribed on the census as 'Namann.')
On 20 June 1871, she became the third wife of Heinrich Freckmann.
Whatever the fate of her first husband, he was most certainly deceased by 18 Aug 1888, when she applied for a widow’s benefit under his military pension. It was apparently granted to her, for nine months later the Washington, D.C. paper the Evening Star carried the notice in their 02 May 1889 issue, that: “Catherine Freckman has been arrested…at Milwaukee, Wis., on a charge of making a false claim for pension as the widow of Frederick Haman after she had remarried to Freckman.”
She was enumerated as 'Catharina' on the 1880 census with Heinrich and Casper at Milwaukee. Her step-son Casper named her as his mother on his 1898 marriage record to Ida Bromski, his own mother having died when he was still a toddler.
She was named as 'Catherine Schneider,' Heinrich's spouse, on his 1901 death record, which doesn't indication whether or not she survived him. She may be the widow "Froeckman" who appears on the 1905 Milwaukee census, residing on 14th Street.
Catherine and Heinrich are not known to have had any issue. Charles, the only surviving child from her first marriage, was enumerated on the 1880 census along with Hermann Freckmann, both of them boarding in the household of Joh? Toh? Schneider and his wife.
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