When Catherine Kieffer was born on 23 November 1796, in Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Johannes Kieffer, was 18 and her mother, Christina Klotz, was 24. She married John Rudy on 14 May 1839. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Schuylkill Haven, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, United States in 1870. She died about 1885, at the age of 90, and was buried in Union Cemetery, Evans City, Butler, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1800: Butler, Pennsylvania, United States
The Borough of Schuylkill Haven was established in 1811.
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
German, Luxembourgish, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Kiefer . The surname Kieffer is also found in the province of Luxembourg and elsewhere in Wallonia (Belgium).
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