When Catherine Hiestand was born on 2 February 1854, in Fairfield, Ohio, United States, her father, Methusela Hiestand, was 37 and her mother, Nancy Weatherholt, was 28. She married Hudson Fitch on 26 September 1905, in Holdrege, Phelps, Nebraska, United States. She lived in Benton Township, Knox, Missouri, United States for about 10 years and Nebraska, United States in 1930. She died on 3 March 1935, in Farnam, Dawson, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Farnam, Dawson, Nebraska, United States.
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