F, #7613, b. 17 October 1822, d. 9 April 1910
Birth* | 17 October 1822 | Catharine Groendyke was born on 17 October 1822 at Fayette Co., Indiana, 1900 census says Ohio, but keep in mind that this is the "gore" area of IN that was OH, and other censuses say IN. |
Marriage* | 31 January 1844 | She married Samuel Wamsley, son of William G Wamsley and Nancy Bussell, on 31 January 1844 at Hamilton Co., Ohio, bk 12 pg 284. License 26th, marr 31st.1 |
(InHomeOf) Census1850 | 1850 | Catharine Groendyke appeared on the 1850 census in the household of Samuel Wamsley, pg266b #30-30, Cleves District 69, Hamilton Co., Ohio. Her info on the census included - Wamsley, Catherine 27 b.IN. |
(InHomeOf) Census1860 | 1860 | Catharine Groendyke appeared on the 1860 census in the household of Samuel Wamsley, pg 56 #401-403, Elizabethtown Whitewater Township, Hamilton Co., Ohio. Her info on the census included - Wamsley, Catharine 38 b.IN domestic. |
(InHomeOf) Census1870 | 1870 | Catharine Groendyke appeared on the 1870 census in the household of Samuel Wamsley, pg 456b #79-79, Cleves - Miami Township, Hamilton Co., Ohio. Her info on the census included - Wamsley, Catharine 48 b.IN. |
(InHomeOf) Census1880 | 1880 | Catharine Groendyke appeared on the 1880 census in the household of Samuel Wamsley, ED 19 pg 299b #404-418, Cleves - Miami Township, Hamilton Co., Ohio. Her info on the census included - Wamsley, Catharine 58 b.IN Keeping House (both parents b.IN.) |
(Witness) Biography | 1881 | Catharine Groendyke was mentioned in the biography of William G Wamsley: William Maensley (sic) was born in Virginia in 1785, where he married Nancy Bussel. She died, leaving six children, in Miami, in 1822. He came to this State in 1815, but had lived for a time previously in Boone county, Kentucky. His first Ohio settlement was made at North Bend, on the farm now the property of Charles Short. In politics he was an Old Line whig. He died in Ripley, Indiana, in 1837. He had six children: James, at present in Texas; Moses B., now married to Eunice Hayes; John B.(sic, William B., married to Mary J. Ingraham; Eliza, the wife of David Jones, of Indiana; Samuel, married to Catharine Gronendike; and Stephen W., married to Mary Vangorder, and a resident of Indiana at the present time. in 1881.2 |
(InHomeOf) Census1900 | 1900 | Catharine Groendyke appeared on the 1900 census in the household of Samuel Wamsley, ED 299 pg 80a #76-82, Cleves - Miami Township, Hamilton Co., Ohio. Her info on the census included - Wamsley, Catharine 77 b.IN Oct 1822, marr 56 years, 8 kids 4 living. |
Residence | 1903 | In 1903 Catharine Groendyke resided at Cleves - Miami Township, Hamilton Co., Ohio. Samuel had lots 32 & 33 in Cleves, Catherine still lived there in 1903 & rented part out per pension affidavit. She is blind at this time. |
Death* | 9 April 1910 | She died on 9 April 1910 at Possibly, Hamilton Co, Ohio, at age 87 Her death date is from pension 'drop' record. Send for death record as film only goes to 1908. |
(Witness) CAUTION | | She and Samuel Wamsley, William G Wamsley, Nancy Bussell, Moses S Bussell, Nicholas Groendyke and Lydia Garrison, Thomas Maddux Wamsley: has the following CAUTIONARY INFORMATION: On 04 Mar 1929, Thomas Maddux Wamsley wrote a letter. It has a number of errors that must be addressed. Be sure to read it.3 |