| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Seventh Generation235. Catharine Wittman BITTING45,47,48 was born on 24 Jan 1869. She died on 8 Feb 1905 in Pottstown, PA. She was buried in Pottstown Cemetery, Pottstown, PA. Know as Kate. Catharine
Wittman BITTING and John Harrison PRUTZMAN were married about 1886 in New Hanover
Lutheran Church, Montgomery Co., PA. John
Harrison PRUTZMAN45,47,48,54,55 (son of
Isiah PRUTZMAN and Elizabeth EISENHAUER) was born on 10 Nov 1864 in Pottstown,
PA. He died on 20 May 1918 in Pottstown, PA. He was buried
in Pottstown Cemetery, Pottstown, PA. John was known as "Uncle
Bob". He was reported to be a wagon driver for the Reading Breweries, hauling
beer from Reading to Pottstown, PA. He lived his last years in a one room shack
on N. Evans Street, near Wilson Street, Pottstown, PA. His obit confirms his
residence but makes no mention of his occupation. Only his first wife Kate is
mentioned; if he married Emily Buck, he was apparantly divorced before he died.
John died in the Pottstown Hospital from diabetes and he was mentioned as the
last of eight children of Isaac and Elizabeth Prutzman to die. His age was given
as 53-6-10 so we can calculate his birth date as 10 November. He was buried
in the Pottstown Cemetery on 23 May. The funeral service was conducted at the
home of Lucinda Boyer, 227 Beech Street. Catharine Wittman BITTING and John
Harrison PRUTZMAN had the following children:
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