Ann Catherine SHOEMAKER RIDDLEBAUGH JOY NORMAN (b. 1829 Pennsylvania d. 1901 Ohio)

Ann Catherine SHOEMAKER was my great-great grandmother. I have to thank a cousin, Jody Steuer, for sending several CDs with family photos on them a few years back. A true treasure.

I have only seen Catherine/Katherine's name in official records a few times.

On her marriage certificate to Henry REIDLEBAUGH it is spelled "Ann Catherine SHOEMAKER."
In the 1860 Census Greenfield, Fairfield, Ohio it's "Ann C. RADEBAUGH."
In the 1870 census Greenfield, Fairfield, Ohio, it's "Catherine RIDDLEBAUGH"
In the 1880 census Falls, Hocking, Ohio it's "Ann C. JOY"
On her marriage record to Mark NORMAN in 1891 it's "Mrs. Ann C. JOY"
In the 1900 census Whetstone Township, Crawford, Ohio it's "Alice C. NORMAN"

I mention this because Jody has the spelling of Katherine or Katherina. I'm guessing she's seen the birth or christening records and that is how it was spelled there. And perhaps even Katherine herself spelled her name that way...

Ann Catherine SHOEMAKER is the daughter of Jonathan SHOEMAKER (b. 1796 Pennsylvania d. 1852 Ohio) and Hannah KEUHNER/KEENER (b. 1798 Pennsylvania d. after 1860 Barnstallon, Fairfield, Ohio)

b. 29 August 1829 in Pennsylvania (probably Berks county, perhaps Tulssen Township or Bern Township)

m. 1st on 9 November 1856 in Lancaster, Fairfield, Ohio to John Henry REIDLEBAUGH, Sr. They later divorced. Click on his name to go to the post about him.

*m. 2nd on 14 December 1876 in Fairfield county, Ohio to John JOY (b. 1807 Maryland d. 14 Jan 1886 in Adamsville, Hocking, Ohio) of Falls, Hocking, Ohio.

**m. 3rd on 5 December 1891 in Morrow county, Ohio to Mark NORMAN (who was her son James's widowed father-in-law) (b. August 1841 in England d. after the 1900 census)

d. 21 January 1901 in Galion, Crawford, Ohio
bur. in Campbell Cemetery in Whetstone Township, Crawford, Ohio

 Another photo of Catherine, date unknown.

Ann Catherine probably immigrated to Ohio from Pennsylvania with her parents as they both passed away in Fairfield county, Ohio. She married Henry and they had 6 children:

1-Jacob Albert RIDDLEBAUGH b. 28 July 1857 Lancaster, Fairfield, Ohio d. 17 December 1915 Bucyrus, Crawford, Ohio (m. 25 November 1888 to Catharine Augusta HELFRICH)

2-John Henry RIDDLEBAUGH, Jr. (aka JH, Jr.)b. 28 September 1859 Burnstation, Fairfield, Ohio d. 28 September 1951 (yep, he died on his 92nd birthday) (m. 9 November 1882 to Almeda Elvira WISELEY--later divorced)--my great-grandparents

 Wedding photo of John Henry RIDDLEBAUGH, Jr. and Almeda Elvira WISELEY.

3-Therese Ellen RIDDLEBAUGH b. 10 March 1862 Fairfield county, Ohio d. 6 March 1949 (m. 4 September 1879 to John H. SNIDER)

4-Mary Elizabeth RIDDLEBAUGH b. 18 September 1864 Lancaster, Fairfield, Ohio d. 29 September 1940 Falls Township, Hocking, Ohio (m. 5 January 1888 to Charles ANGLE)

5-James Jonathan RIDDLEBAUGH b. 5 September 1867 d. 24 December 1945 (m. about 23 January 1892 to Olive Loretta NORMAN--who became Catherine's step-daughter)

6-Augustus Michael RIDDLEBAUGH (aka Gus) b. 10 August 1870 Greenfield Township, Fairfield, Ohio d. 10 December 1936 Columbus, Franklin, Ohio (m. 10 December 1893 to Caroline Margaretha BUNZ)

This is a photo of James, JH, Jr, and Gus.
JH was almost 8 years older than James and 11 years older than Gus.

A wedding photo of Augustus Michael RIDDLEBAUGH and Caroline Margaretha BUNZ. They were married in 1893. Caroline was deaf and four of their seven children were born deaf. Their grandson, Kenneth McVicker, was also born deaf and has done a lot of work in collecting genealogical information on the Riddlebaughs.

As far as Catherine's marriage to John JOY, I have not found a marriage record yet. I tried Morrow county (and surrounding areas) records at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City and found info on John's first wife and their children, but nothing about Ann Catherine. Jody wrote and told me that there are two family versions about this marriage. After her divorce to Henry, "she went all over looking for shelter, work, and a way to survive." A widowed farmer took her in so she could keep his house and care for his children. One version of the story then goes that she bore the widowed farmer one or two children and then they married. The other is that they married and then she had the children, perhaps three in all. "At any rate, she was close to starvation when that farmer took her in."

I could not find any birth records indicating that John JOY and Ann Catherine had any children together, though family stories say they might have had 2 or 3 children together. I do know that Ann C. age 50 is listed as being his wife in the 1880 census and that Michael REDLIBAHE age 9 (Michael Augustus RIDDLEBAUGH) is listed as a son with no other children being enumerated. John JOY was listed as being 73 years old. At some point after the 1880 census, Gus went and lived with JH, Jr. and Elvira.

 This picture on the left apparently had Katherine's name with "the Pierce boys" written on it because cousin Jody's supposition was that these were the children she bore after divorcing JH, Sr. Because I since have found the John JOY connection (and his name obviously isn't Pierce), the mystery of this picture has only deepened. I had seen the photo before and just figured the 3 boys were grandchildren.
Maybe one of Mark NORMAN's daughters married a PIERCE?

Now in the 1900 census where "Alice C." is listed as the wife of Mark NORMAN, she is listed as having 8 children with 8 still living. She and Henry had 6. Also listed with Mark and "Alice" are two boys Joseph and John NORMAN, born 1870 and 1878, but they are two of Mark's children from his first marriage to Nancy Elizabeth DANA. So, is the census record wrong (or counting Joseph and John as hers) or did Ann Catherine have 2 children with John JOY that were still living? If they were still living, where are they? If they were not listed in the 1880 census and John died in 1886, they would have been between 14-20 years of age. So, I guess it's possible that she had 2 other children...

Here is what I have, which isn't much, on the other marriages and families of Catherine's other husbands:

*John JOY (b. 1807 Maryland d. 14 Jan 1886 Adamsville, Hocking, Ohio) and Mary Ann WATTS (b. 1822 Virginia d. 11 Nov 1875 Hocking county, Ohio) married 12 Jan 1837 Muskingum, Muskingum, Ohio

1-Thomas JOY b. 1837 d. 1841
2-Sarah JOY b. 1839 d. 1841
3-Henry Dexter JOY b. 1841- d. 1922
4-Francis Marion JOY b. 12 Oct 1843 d. 6 Jul 1920 Lancaster, Fairfield, Ohio
5-Elizabeth JOY b. 1848 d. 1875
6-Mary Ann JOY b. 1850 d. 1924
7-Catherine JOY b. 1852 d. 1928
8-Margaret JOY b. 1854 d. 1938
9-John JOY b. 1857 d. 1930
10-Susan JOY b. 1859
11-Ida A. JOY b. 1869 d. 1902 (where was she in the 1880 census?)


**Mark NORMAN (b. Aug 1841 immigrated 1844 d. after 1900 census) and Nancy Elizabeth DANA/DANIE (b. 28 Oct 1841 in Ohio d. 22 Feb 1885) married 4 Aug 1860 Morrow county, Ohio

1-Mary Ann NORMAN b. 1863/64 in Ohio
2-Louisa Jane NORMAN b. 1866/67 in Ohio
3-Joseph Barker/Barton NORMAN b. 1870/71 in Ohio d. 4 Jul 1939 Gilead, Morrow, Ohio (I think this is his death date)
4-Olive Loretta NORMAN b. 29 Jul 1872 Marion county, Ohio d. 6 Jul 1932 Galion, Crawford, Ohio (m. James Jonathan RIDDLEBAUGH about 23 Jan 1892 in Morrow county, Ohio)
5-Rosa Belle NORMAN b. 1874/75 in Ohio
6-John William NORMAN b. 12 Jul 1878 in Ohio d. 17 Oct 1955 bur. Fairview Cemetery Galion, Crawford, Ohio (m. 23 Jul 1901 in Galion to Dora May SOLIDAY)
7-Elizabeth Mary NORMAN b. 12 Sep 1882 Canaan, Morrow, Ohio