When Catherine Casselman was born on 8 April 1860, her father, Cephrenes Jacob Casselman, was 25 and her mother, Martha Almeda Whittaker, was 19. She married Charles Harris Strader on 16 January 1883, in Williamsburg, South Dundas, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Cambridge, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1871. She died on 30 August 1898, in Matilda, Dundas, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 38, and was buried in Williamsburgh, Dundas, Ontario, Canada.