Biographical Sketch (1923):34, v. 2, p. 489. "Mrs. Catherine H. Sibert was born at St. Johns, this county, her parents having been among the pioneers of that part of the county. Her father, Henry Bitler, was a Pennsylvanian by birth, and her mother was a Virginian. Henry Bitler died of cholera in July 1851, during the prevalence of that scourge of that dread disease that swept through this region at that period."

1870 U.S. census:1667 Catherine was enumerated in the household of her mother Margaret and step-father John Iiams as Catherine Bitler, female, age 18, white, house keeping, born in Ohio