Tag Sieben part two: Christopher Jefferson Herrold
                                       Lousia Katzenbach
                                       Our Great Grandparents
                              "Poor financially but rich in pride"

Seventh child of WC and Sarah, raised on a farm.  Bill's recollection of his Great grandparents is at the Katzenbach reunion among lots of people when he was 5 or 6 and only focused on the food.

Louisa's parents Jakob

Information about life with this couple comes from Grandpa's autobiography: The Ups and Downs of One Very Ordinary Earth Being. He is hard to write about because they are simply a mystery.
Christopher, born 1855 d. 1942, had health problems and he was just not a successful farmer. He could not get ahead in farming, things just didn't go his way and yet he raised and made sure his three children were educated.
Grandpa Herrold said his parents were poor financially but rich in personal and family pride and ambition to better their childrens lives. "His father was unlettered but not incompetent" and his mother only had a third grade education because she had to work. Louisa was born 1818, died 1935. They had three hard working and successful children: Charles Hoyt, William Clyde and Gracie May.
After working for his father for 21 years for no pay Christopher inherited one acre in the NW corner of his Dad's farm which he sold to buy his own land. To save, he worked sharecropping the neighboring Poston farm by the Union Canal lock.

              Bill and Teri looking at Poston land by lock 19
Lock 19 is now a park and Bill Deck remembers driving from Columbus to Nelsonville for a picnic with Grandpa and Grandma Mabel where Grandpa showed Bill how to open the wooden lock doors. Bill said Grandpa told him he lived nearby. Christopher finally bought some farmland of his own. Went to records however we could not find any of Christopher and Louisa's houses.
After Louisa's death in 1935, his obituary states Christopher went to live with Grace Lazalear in Athens.