When Catharina F. Freund was born on 5 May 1861, in Johnsburg, McHenry, Illinois, United States, her father, Joeph Friend, was 31 and her mother, Anna Catharina Wagener, was 33. She married William Benjamin Schendt on 10 November 1895, in Fairfield Township, Clay, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Fairfield, Clay, Nebraska, United States for about 30 years and Liberty Township, Nuckolls, Nebraska, United States in 1930. She died in 1950, in Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 89.