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Catherine Kimmel was born February 18, 1774, in Pennsylvania, and died in 1844 in Illinois.

She was married to Jacob Schwartz, and they apparently had ten children: Edward (1800-1843), Juliana (1794-1853), Catherine (1802-1820), Lydia (1807-1880), Benton (1810-1814), George (1796-1867), William (1798-1814), Jacob (1804-1885), John (1808-1814), and Henry (1812-1836). Note that two died in childhood and two in their teens, and five had died before Catherine Kimmel died. Two sons died in 1814.

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Notes by W.A. Schwartz: Catherine Kimmel moved to Illinois in 1812. [Whether her husband moved with her is not clear.] She settled on a farm that her father had bought her across the Big Muddy River from Brownsville, Illinois.

She is buried in Hagler Cemetery near Highway 127 southeast of Pomona, Illinois. She has no headstone but is buried under a lone pine tree in the southwest corner.

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Catherine Kimmel was one year old when the Revolution began and seven when Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown in 1781.

On September 17, 1787, when she was thirteen, the United States constitution was adopted.

The British burned Washington during the War of 1812 on August 24, 1814, when she was forty years old.

Illinois became a state in 1818 when she was forty-four years old and had been there for about six years.

Andrew Jackson won his first election to the presidency in November 1828, when she was fifty-four.

When she was sixty-three, the Panic of 1837 struck. It would continue until about 1844, the year of her death.