Grandpa’s siblings 2

Peter P and Margaretha’s third child and second daughter was Katharina P, born 1 March 1895. She was baptized 1 June 1914 by Heinrich H. Epp, a minister of the Bethesda Church (for the date of the baptism, see here; to learn more about Heinrich Epp in a two-volume history of York County, see here).

The following year, on 26 August 1915, twenty-year-old Katharina married Dietrich C. Quiring in a ceremony performed by Heinrich Epp. Over the next twenty-one years the Quiring family grew to include eleven children: seven boys and four girls.

Katharina lived to be ninety-six, passing away on 24 October 1991, fifteen years after Dietrich’s death. They are both buried in the Mennonite (Buller–Siebert) Cemetery.