THIRD GENERATION

Henry Cato (1810-1887) and Sarah Peterson (1813-1865)

Henry Cato was born in 1810 in Montgomery County, Georgia, the son of William and Polly Ann Cato. He grew up in Montgomery and later Telfair Counties, and on June 9, 1831 in Telfair County he married Sarah Peterson (1813-1865), daughter of John Peterson, Jr. and Elizabeth Lott. Henry and Sarah had five children before Sarah's death in Coffee County about 1865. Henry Cato subsequently married Ann Hutto, daughter of Isaac Hutto and Katherine "Katie" Underwood, with whom he had another six children before his death in Coffee County on May 11, 1887.

Children of Henry Cato and Sarah Peterson

1. Elizabeth Cato, born 1832; married James A. Solomon on April 14, 1853; died c1856 in Coffee Co., Ga.
2. Francis "Fanny" Cato, born 1835; partner of James L. Worth c1866-1871 in Coffee Co., Ga.
3. William R. Cato, born August 23, 1836; married 1st Ellen Hutto c1857, 2nd Elizabeth McKinnon c1880; died September 20, 1895 in Coffee Co. (CSA)
4. Delilah Cato, born c1843; married Henry Sapp
5. Benjamin Cato, born c1849

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: As is the case with the vast majority of the family bio pages on this site, some of the information and details regarding this family are derived from the voluminous research of my uncle Daniel Worth, now available online at my father Gene Worth's web site Worth and Solomon Genealogy. My aunt Iva Yeager also shared her own related research with me more than two decades ago, which first sparked my interest in genealogy.

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