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Catharina Maria Magdalena Zweigner was the great-grandmother of Johann Friedrich Eberlein (AKA Frederick Eberlein), who immigrated to the USA and settled in Shawano, Wisconsin. A transcription and translation of the difficult-to-read text follows.

Thanks to Fritz Juengling, PhD, contributor to the German Empire forum on familysearch.org, for his invaluable help with the transcription.

Death record for Catharina Maria Magdalena, 1785

Evangelische Kirche of Züttlingen (OA Neckarsulm), Kirchenbuch, 1619-1938, Family History Center film #2271090. Death record for Catharina Maria Magdalena Eberlein, December 1785.

Transcription

1785
Züttlingen, am. 1. December h.a. starb Catharina
Maria Magdalena, Albrecht
Eberleins, bürger und Gerichtsverwandter
Ehefrau, an einem Durch Geschwulst darin.
[?] [?], nachdem die ihm [sic] Leben auf
59 Jahr, 3 Monat, und 1 Tag gebracht.
hatte. Sie wurde Sonntags darauf als am
4 ten d. M., bey einer gehaltenen Predigt
ordentlich begraben.

Translation

1785: In Züttlingen, on the 1st of December, Catharina Maria Magdalena, wife of Albrecht Eberlein, townsman and administrative judge, died of a tumor. [?], after she lived for 59 years, three months, and one day. She was properly buried on Sunday the 4th, after a funeral sermon at 10 in the morning.