On 1 June 1860 Elizabeth Kittsteiner, age 34, born in Bavaria, Germany lived in Bayfield, Wisconsin with her husband Lenard and 3 children. She worked as a washerwoman.1853 On 1 June 1880 Mary Kitsteiner was a 53 year old housewife born in Bavaria who lived with her husband Lenhard, 61, and children Henry, 23 and Frederick, 22, in Cleveland, Ohio. 1854 She lived at 17 Willett in Cleveland at the time of her burial on 28 July 1887.1910

They had lived in Cleveland, Ohio at least until Mary was born in August 1854 before moving to Bayfield by the summer of 1856.1853 The first cabin had been built in Bayfield in March 1856, so Leonard, about 36, Mary Elizabeth, about 30, and Mary, about 2, were pioneer settlers. Eleanor Knight, in one of her stories about Bayfield pioneers asked whatever happened to Bayfield Kitsteiner. The story Eleanor relates is that Henry Rice, founder of the City of Bayfield, told Mr. Kitsteiner that if he would name his son “Bayfield”, he would give the father a town lot. Mt. Kitsteiner did, and he received a choice lot near the Town Hall. In a letter from Marjorie F. Benton to Ms. Andrea Carter, 717 Clark Street, Saginaw, Michigan dated 21 November 1982, Marjorie said the assessment records for 1875 and 1876 list E. Kitsteiner owned Lot 8, Block 58, City of Bayfield, which would have been on the north edge of the old Town Hall. Leonard owned two 40 acre tracts of Section 20, Township 49, Range 4 worth $800 in 1874, 1875, and 1876. On 1 June 1860 Lenard [sic] Kittsteiner, a 40 year old laborer born in Bavaria, Germany lived in Bayfield, Wisconsin with Elisabeth, 34, Mary, 6, Bayfield, 3, and Fred, 2. He owned real estate worth $800 and had a personal estate worth $50. The Civil War registration for the 18th District of Ohio shows that in July 1864 Leonard Kitsteiner was over age for service, so he may have returned to Ohio by July 1864.1860 I cannot find him on the 1870 US Census. On 1 June 1880 Lenhard [sic] Kitsteiner, a 61 year old laborer born in 1819 in Bavaria, Germany lived at 248 Birch Street, Cleveland, Ohio with Mary, 53, Henry B. , 23 and Frederick, 22. Daughter Mary no longer lived with the family, 1854 having married Jacob Gehring in 1873.