Nicholas, Sr.'s Children
Nicholas had four children with Elizabeth Krauser and one with Margaret Jakobi.
| Child | Birth | Death | Married |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nicholas, Jr. | 10 April 1905, Philadelphia | November 1982, Philadelphia | Ruth Esther Wesemann, 27 July 1929 |
| Anna Elizabeth | 1908 | 1986 | Robert John Schmidt, Sr., 1927 |
| Eva | 15 September 1910, Philadelphia County | 15 February 1924, Nockamixon Township, of cardiac asthma | |
| Elizabeth (“Betty”) | 1913 | 2000 | James Lee Pearman, Jr., licensed 31 March 1936 |
| Catherine Margaret (of the second marriage) | 1916 | 2010 | Vincent Thomas McCarty, licensed 8 June 1939 |
Nick, Jr.’s life is told in the next section. His sister Anna Elizabeth went with him to Philadelphia about 1920 and married Robert John Schmidt, Sr., known as Bob, there in 1927. Their three children were baptized as Lutherans, probably at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, American and Brown Streets.
Living family members are not shown.
Anna and Bob are buried at Forest Hills Cemetery, Philadelphia, beside Nick and Ruth. Anna has roughly sixty living descendants, in families named Schmidt, Claus, Cliver, Doolittle, Cruser, Dahline, Spuhler, McClendon, Loux and Rilling.
Betty, born in the year her mother died, lived with her brother Nick and his wife, Ruth, in the early 1930s, until she married James Lee Pearman, Jr., known as Jim. Her descendants carry the names Pearman, Caffrey, Miller, Ringkamp, Acosta, Rivera, Horger, Cardamone, Chappelle, Beerley and Otto.
Catherine Margaret, the only child of Nicholas and Margaret, married Vincent Thomas McCarty (1914 to 2012). Vincent was the son of Thomas Roscoe McCarty (1883 to 1948) and Mary Frances Fleck McCarty (1884 to 1952). His obituary and Catherine’s, printed in the Bucks County Intelligencer in 2012 and 2010, describe the McCartys as the “8th generation” on a Nockamixon Township farm settled by Vincent’s Irish ancestors in 1737. They name seven children of the marriage, one of them an infant daughter, Janice Margaret, who died in 1943.
| Child | Birth | Death | Married |
|---|---|---|---|
| Janice Margaret | 1943, in infancy |
Living family members are not shown.
When their parents died, in 2010 and 2012, their six surviving children lived in South Carolina, Pennsylvania and Nebraska. The obituaries count about 13 grandchildren and 18 to 20 great-grandchildren without naming them.
References
- “Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, City Births, 1860-1915,” FamilySearch, 1:1:VBTK-KW8, Nicholas “Jieiter,” born 10 April 1905, parents Nicholas and Elizabeth Krouser; and “Pennsylvania, Births and Christenings, 1709-1950,” 1:1:HHKF-YP6Z (film 007611613). Index only; the register image is restricted.
- Nick Reitter, Jr. and Ruth Wesemann Reitter, a family memoir written by their four children (Ruth, Gladys, Doris, and Nickie), 2018–2019, transcribed 8 August 2026; family archive transcript dated 2019.
- The Wesemann Family Bible, Marriages page, transcribed in full, family archive scan, 2026.
- 1910 U.S. census, Philadelphia Ward 42, ED 1067, sheet 6A, lines 36-39, Mervine Street, enumerated 19 April 1910, Nicholas Reitter household. “United States, Census, 1910,” FamilySearch, 1:1:MGHW-41H; image 3:1:33S7-9RN1-PKD (NARA T624). Transcript: Read the record
- Genealogy-software descendant report, Nicholas Reitter, Sr., page 1, supplied to the archive 8 August 2026, family archive scan.
- Genealogy-software descendant report, Nicholas Reitter, Sr., page 2, supplied to the archive 8 August 2026, family archive scan.
- Genealogy-software descendant report, Nicholas Reitter, Sr., page 3, supplied to the archive 8 August 2026, family archive scan.
- Philadelphia marriage index, 1927, Robert J. Schmidt and Anna E. Reitter (1:1:ZWSZ-172M, 1:1:JV9N-NQY); “Pennsylvania, Births and Christenings, 1709-1950,” baptisms of Robert John (1:1:HHF9-WQW2), Dorothy Anna (1:1:HHFZ-Z1ZM), and [name withheld] (1:1:HHFC-JP3Z), from FamilySearch film 1312256. Index only.
- “Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906-1972,” Ancestry, collection 5164: Elizabeth Reiter (file 93544, 1913), Eva Reitter (file 19153, 1924), Margaret Reitter (file 27086, 1940), Eva Reitter (file 41726, 1951) and Nicholas Reitter (file 056578-69, 1969). Read on the images.
- Bucks County Index to Marriage License Applications: Vincent McCarty and Catherine Reitter, 8 June 1939, book 152, page 112; Elizabeth Reitter and James Lee Pearman, Jr., 31 March 1936, book 130; index entries for Marian Reitter and Nicholas Onkow, 16 December 1938 (1:1:Q28B-57N4) and Theresa Reitter and Ernest Svites, 14 October 1940 (1:1:Q28B-5VZ3). “Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1775-1991,” FamilySearch. Read the record Read the record
- 1920 U.S. census, Nockamixon Township, Bucks County, SD 3, ED 42, sheet 4A, dwelling 77, family 84, enumerated January 1920, “Nicklos Ritter” household. “United States, Census, 1920,” FamilySearch, 1:1:MFBF-ZD3; image 3:1:33S7-9RTB-B8H. Transcript: Read the record
- Vincent McCarty and Catherine Margaret Reitter McCarty obituaries, Bucks County Intelligencer, transcribed via Find A Grave, 2012 and 2010.
- FamilySearch Catalog, search by film/DGS 1312256: koha:553018, “Church records, 1869-1966 [St. Paul’s Lutheran]” (Philadelphia, American and Brown Streets), items 1–4 of film 1312256 (baptisms 1869–1966; marriages and burials 1869–1966); and koha:335895, St. Michael’s and Zion, items 6–7 (item 7: Vol. 1, baptisms 1745–1762, marriages 1745–1748).