In Baltimore County, Maryland, on December 10, 1842, Henry Kratz and Mary Fishpaw were married. She was born in that
county and state, near Pikesville, on October 18, 1823, a daughter of Thomas and Anna (Rutter) Fishpaw, who were both deceased by 1884. Henry and Mary
Kratz had the following children: Thomas Kratz, September 7, 1845-?, who served in the Confederate army during the Civil war and was wounded in the head
at the battle of Kernstown; Henrietta Kratz, November 9, 1846-?; Laura V. Kratz, January 3, 1851-before 1884; Alexander Kratz, January 1, 1848-before 1884;
Josephine Kratz, January 9, 1853-before 1884; George F. Kratz, April 13, 1856-?, lived in Ohio; Rebecca T. Kratz, March 1, 1858-?; Helen Marr Kratz, March 21,
1860-before 1884; William Henry H. Kratz, March 24, 1862-?, lived in Ohio; and Lelia A. Kratz, February 18, 1864-?.
Henry Kratz was a clothier and merchant tailor at Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia.
Submitted by Marilyn Gouge and extracted from West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia, Volume 3,
a reprint of Hardesty's Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia Berkeley County, WV, Biographies List, 1884.
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Henry KRATZ was born in Jesse-Darmstadt, Germany, April 1, 1820, and emigrated to this country while a young man.
His parents were natives of Germany, in which country his father died (no names were given). He moved to Berkeley County in December 1856.