Katharina Barbara Muench was born and baptized on 04 Mar 1810 in Obrigheim, Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, as the first child of Johann Georg Muench and Margaretha Baier. She had three siblings, namely: Joseph Adam, Anna Margaretha, and Joseph. Her last name was often written, “Münch.”

When she was 23, she married Georg Adam Stadler, son of Johann Georg Kaspar Stadler and Anna Barbara Gerhard, on 29 Dec 1833 in nearby Mörtelstein, Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany (also known at the time as, “Mörtelstein, Baden, Preußen“).

Georg Adam Stadler and Katharina Barbara Muench had the following children:

1. Johann Adam Stadler was born on 25 Jul 1834 in Mörtelstein, Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He married Anna Rosina Grehser on 02 Feb 1865 in Evangelisch, Binau, Mosbach, Baden. He died 26 Jul 1894 in Mörtelstein, Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
2. Johann Georg Stadler was born on 28 Aug 1836 in Mörtelstein, Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He married Katharina Edler on 16 Feb 1865 in Evangelisch, Binau, Mosbach, Baden. He died 1 Mar 1897. His Beerdigung (burial) was on 3 Mar 1897 at Mörtelstein.
3. George Adam Stadler was born on 23 Nov 1838 in Mörtelstein, Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany (Moertelstein, Mosbach, Baden). He married Margretha in 1868. He died on 08 Sep 1916 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois (Age: 78).
4. Katharina Margaretha Stadler was born on 09 Nov 1842 in Mörtelstein, Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. She married Johann Christian Seitz on 27 Aug 1868 in Evangelisch, Binau, Mosbach, Baden.
5. Barbara Mary Stadler was born on 23 Aug 1844 in Mörtelstein, Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. She married Jacob B. Meyer on 29 Jan 1867 in St John Lutheran Church, Mendota, La Salle, Illinois. She died on 20 Jan 1904 in Sioux City, Woodbury, Iowa.

Katharina Barbara Muench Stadler died on 15 Apr 1846 in Mörtelstein, Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. She was buried on 17 Apr 1846 in Mörtelstein, Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Her life was so brief. She was only 36-years old at the time of her death.

Where is she in the tree?

DNA Note

DNA testing of her descendants indicate a mtDNA Haplogroup of H1a3a. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is the DNA located in the mitochondria. It is passed from a mother to her children. Both men and women receive it from their mothers, but only women pass it down to their children. In our tree, Katharina passed it down to Barbara who passed it down to Barbara who passed it down to Lona, who passed it down to her children. Lona’s daughters passed it down to their children. So, the group was determined by DNA testing of one of Lona’s daughters and granddaughters.

H1a3a is a branch of mtDNA that is estimated to have started with a woman who lived between 2,200 and 5,500 years ago.

Selected Sources:

Ancestry.com, Baden, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1502-1985 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016), ancestry.com.

Ancestry.com, Germany, Select Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014), Ancestry.com,

“H1a3a,” Haplogroup ( https://haplogroup.org/mtdna/rsrs/l123456/l23456/l2346/l346/l34/l3/n/r/r0/hv/h/h1/h1a/h1a3/h1a3a/ : accessed 15 Feb 2019).

“Mitochondrial DNA,” Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_DNA : accessed 15 Feb 2019)