Bruce Garver, who manages this Memorial, has written the following "bio" of his first cousin-twice-removed Katherine May "Katie" (Lotz) Richardson (1875-1912). Bruce is the grandson of Emma (Lotz) Morton (1877-1962), one of the many first cousins of Katherine May "Katie" (Lotz) Richardson. Viewers who have an interest in the history and photos of the Lotz family may wish to begin by viewing the Memorials to Katie's parents, Herman Lotz (1849-1910) and Mary G. Schneider Lotz Brown (1858-1936) and to Katie's uncle Henry Lotz (1835-1906) -- Memorial No. 125021787 -- a maternal great-grandfather to Bruce Garver
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Katherine May ("Katie") Lotz was born on February 9, 1875, to German immigrant Herman E. Lotz (1849-1910), born in Aßlar, Kreis Wetzlar, in the Kingdom of Prussia (today's Kreis Land-Dill, Hessen, Germany) and to Mary G. Lotz Brown (1858-1936), born in Pennsylvania to German immigrants, Phillip Willliam Schneider (1829-1906) and Helene Wilhelmina ("Mina") (Lotz) Schneider (1832 to circa 1864), the eldest of the six daughters and three sons born to Wilhelm Lotz (1807-1878) and Magdalena ("Maggie") (Lotz) Lotz (1806-1890) in Aßlar, Kreis Wetzlar, in the Kingdom of Prussia (today's Aßlar, Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Hessen, Germany). Mary G. (Schneider) Lotz (Brown, 1858-1936) wed her uncle, Herman Lotz (1849-1910), the youngest of three sons and six sisters born to Wilhelm and Magdalena (Maggie) Lotz whose first-born child, Helene Wilhelmina (Mina) Lotz (June 13, 1832, to circa 1864), wed Phillip William Schneider (1829 at Klein Altenstädten, Kreis Wetzlar in the Kingdom of Prussia, to March 3, 1906, in Hamilton, Ohio). Their daughter, Mary G. Schneider (Lotz Brown) wed Helene's youngest brother, Herman Lotz, who was, of course, Mary's uncle and her senior by only nine years.
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Herman and Mary (Schneider) Lotz's eldest child, (1) Katherine ("Katie") May (Lotz) Richardson, was the first-born of seven siblings, the others being: (2) William T. Lotz (1879–1895), (3) Otto Louis Lotz (1882-1958), (4) Herman Ernst Lotz (1885-1965), (5) Wilhelmina ("Minnie") Lotz (1887-1959), (6) Paul Walter Lotz (1891–1955), (6) Edna Lotz (after 1896 to unknown), and (7) Emma Louise (Lotz) Koehs (1896–1952) who is interred at Hamilton's St. Stephen Cemetery alongside her husband, German immigrant John Joseph Koehs (1889–1964). Emma & Joseph raised five children of whom three are deceased: (1) Marcella Koehs (1922–1922), John B. Koehs (1921–2007), and Norbert Frank Koehs (1925 to March 15, 2006, at Cornville, Yavapai County, Arizona) who wed Eleanor Krzeczkowski (1925 to Oct. 4, 1986, at Park Ridge, Cook County, Illinois).
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During the year 1890, at Hamilton, Ohio, Katherine May ("Katie") Lotz wed William H. Richardson (Aug. 12, 1864, to Oct. 29, 1916), the son of Catherine (Cooper) Richardson and a father whose name has not yet been ascertained. Together "Katie" and William Richardson raised seven children: (1) Ethel Richardson was born circa 1892.(2) Estelle Richardson was born on April 13, 1895, and died on Sept. 5, 1976. (3) William H. Richardson, Jr., was born in March 1897. (4) Dennie W. Richardson (O'Moore?) was born on March 6, 1898, at Dayton, Ohio, and wed Ingrid E. Lovgren (1906-1981) with whom he raised at least one son who is still alive in 2020; Dennie W. Richardson died on Oct. 15, 1981, at Palmetto in Fulton County, Georgia. (5) Marie S. Richardson was born in during February 1900. (6) Truman R. Richardson was born on January 27, 1902; and (7) Cecelia E. Richardson was born on April 14, 1909, and died during the year 1974. Efforts are being made to discover the location of the graves of these seven children. Thanks to P. Carman for having discovered essential information about these children.
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According to the records of the Greenwood Cemetery Association, Katherine May ("Katie") Lotz Richardson died on May 5, 1912, at the age of thirty-seven, in Hamilton, seat of Butler County, Ohio, and was interred there on May 8, 1912, at Greenwood Cemetery in Section 01, Lot/Row 01, Grave 66. The photo posted to this Memorial by Frank Flack depicts how Katherine May ("Katie") Lotz Richardson's headstone is inscribed with "MOTHER" atop the headstone and with the name "KATIE MAY, WIFE OF WILLIAM H. RICHARDSON" incised on its front side and followed by "DIED MAY 5, 1912, AGED 37 Y, 3 M & 26 D."
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