Catharina Bonaventura

   Another name for Catharina was Catharina Spies.

  Death Notes:

Died at the residence of her son, George Spies.

  Burial Notes:

Services from St. Gregory's Church.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Census, 4 Jun 1880, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio. ¹⁷⁵ Katharina Spies, white, female, age 29, wife, mariedr, born in Germany, parents born in Germany

• Residence: 37 Literary, Cleveland, Ohio, Jul 1893. ¹⁷⁶ Boarding house

• Census, 6 Jun 1900, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio. ¹⁷⁷ Katharina Spies, head, white, female, born. Sep 1849, 51 yrs, widow, 9 living children, saloon keeper, owns home/clear, born in Germany, parents born in Germany

• Residence: 136 Wade Park Av., Cleveland, Ohio, 1903. ¹⁷⁸

• Residence: 7413 Wade Park Av., Cleveland, Ohio, 1908. ¹⁷⁹ widow of Peter

• Census, 3 Jan 1920, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio. ¹⁸⁰ Catherina Spies, mother, female, white, age 69, widow, immigrated 1875, naturalized 1878, born in Germany, parents born in Germany

• Will: Last Will and Testament, 18 May 1931, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio. ¹⁸¹

• Probate, 4 Aug 1932, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio. ¹⁸² Filed 18 Aug 1932, Cuyahoga County Probate Court.

Catharina married Peter Spies, son of Balthasar Spies and Maria Schön, 6 Jan 1870 in Erbach-Reiskirchen, Homburg (Pfalz), Bavaria, Germany ¹⁴⁵.^,146 (Peter Spies was born 30 Nov 1848 in Erbach-Reiskirchen, Homburg (Pfalz), Bavaria, Germany ¹⁴⁷, christened 1 Dec 1848 in Homburg, Homburg (Pfalz), Bavaria, Germany,¹⁴⁸ died 11 Feb 1896 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio ¹⁴⁹ and was buried cal 14 Feb 1896 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio ¹⁴⁹.) The cause of his death was Pneumonia.