Notes for Amy Belle CATTNACH

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Notes for Amy Belle CATTNACH

Amy B. Cattnach is listed in the 1900 U.S. Census Soundex for Minnesota (Volume 32, ED 165, Sheet 13 for Martin County) as age 5, born in Iowa in January 1895, and living with her parents and siblings in Fairmont, Martin County, Minnesota. Her father is shown as Hugh Cattnach, age 40 and born in February 1860 in Canada, and whose citizenship is shown as NA; and her mother is listed as Hattie Cattnach, born in Wisconsin in December 1856 and age 43. The children are shown as their son Albert Cattnach, age 17 and born in Iowa in February 1883; their son Leslie Cattnach, age 15 and born in North Dakota in February 1885; their son Lynn Cattnach, age 13 and born in August 1886 in Iowa; their son Floyd Cattnach, age 12 and born in Iowa in October 1887; their daughter Minnie M. Cattnach, age 8 and born in Iowa in October 1891; their daughter Amy B. Cattnach, age 5 and born in Iowa in January 1895; and their son Ora Cattnach, age 2 and born in Iowa in June 1897.

Amy Belle Cattnach Witwer apparently kept diaries much of her life. She wrote an autobiography that she began May 18, 1980, and completed July 27, 1982, a copy of which is in the possession of Susan Thurtell Miller. She reported, "I was the sixth child of my parents and when I was about to arrive, the nurse my parents had engaged was late, so my father was the midwife. This information is on my birth certificate."

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