Katarina Christiana Kugler, daughter of Johann M. Kugler and Maria Katarina Kolb , was born on 20 August, 1868, in Leibenstadt, Adelsheim, Germany, died on 30 May, 1916, in RR Benson, Illinois, at age 47, and was buried on 1 June, 1916, in Clayton Township Cemetery, Benson, Illinois.

Katarina married Albert G. W. Schroeder on 21 June, 1894, in German Evangelical St. Pauls Church, Minonk, Illinois. Albert was born on 10 February, 1860, in RR Benson, Illinois and died in 1933, at age 73.