Catherine Hoff ^{1 2 3}

   Other names for Catherine were Catherine Beacher, Katherine Beacher, Catherine Fegley and Katherine Fegley.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Census, 1860, Tremont, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA. ⁴ Simon Fegley is listed as a 37-year old miner married to Catherine, age 24. Also in their household are Mary (age 4); Elizabeth (2); and Catherine Derr (10). Everyone was born in Pennsylvania.

• Census, 1900, Darby Borough, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA. ³ George Beacher, brass finisher, 27, born Aug 1872, was married for 27 years to wife Hannah, 27, Jun 1872. She had birthed one child: Kathrine, 3, Jan 1897. Living with them: Harvy R. Martin, brother-in-law, painter, 20, May 1880; and John Koehler[?], brass finisher, 20, Feb 1880; Beacher, Kathrine, mother, 63, Jan 1837, widow, who had birthed 7 children, 4 alive in 1900. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania, except George is listed with a father from Germany.

• Issue, 1900. ^{2 3} She had 7 children, 4 were living in 1900.

• Census, 1920, Tremont, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA. ¹ The 1920 Census shows Jacob Eisenacher Sr. heading a household on East Laurel Street in Tremont that included his wife, Mary A., and daughter Alice, age 22. Also living with them is Catherine Beacher, widow age 83, listed as mother-in-law. This would imply that Mary A.'s mother was married to a Beacher.

Catherine married Simon Fegley. (Simon Fegley was born about 1823 in , , Pennsylvania, USA ⁴.)

Catherine next married George Becher, son of Conrad Becher Jr. and Kitty. (George Becher was born about 1840 in , , , Germany ².)