Katherine Maria Kindler was the second wife of my great grandfather and the mother of my grandfather. She married Christian Gustav SCHMIDT on 5/7/1885 in New Haven MO after his wife and two children died. My grandfather Fred SCHMIDT was born 8/10/1887. The family moved to St. Louis where they attended St. John's Evangelical Reformed Church. Katherine came to the US about 1871. She was the daughter of Lorenz Kindler. Katherine died in 1933.