Catharine Mae Spong ^{1 2}

   FamilySearch ID: LXLX-XTV.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1940 in Allen Twp., Cumberland, PA. ⁴ The 1940 census recorded at 209 Milltown Road: Robert C. Shearer, cemetery caretaker, 32, living with wife Catharine M., 33; daughter J. Carroll Shearer, 4; daughter Joyce E. Shearer, 1; and step-daughter Patricia A. Rhoads, 15. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania.

Catharine married Charles Mabery Rhoades, son of William Henry Rhoads and Caroline Sybella Rader, on 13 Jun 1924 in , Dauphin, PA.¹ (Charles Mabery Rhoades was born on 10 Oct 1901 in Lancaster, Lancaster, PA,^{1 2} died on 13 Sep 1962 in East Chicago, Lake, IN ⁵ and was buried in Hammond, Lake, IN.)

Catharine next married Robert Carroll Shearer Jr. on 21 Dec 1934 in Mechanicsburg, Cumberland, PA.¹ (Robert Carroll Shearer Jr. was born on 8 Aug 1907 in Mechanicsburg, Cumberland, PA,^{1 6} died on 17 Sep 1980 in Lemoyne, Cumberland, PA ⁶ and was buried in Camp Hill: Rolling Green Cemetery, Cumberland, PA ⁶.)