James Solomon, Jr. was born in 1834, the son of James and Rebecca Solomon. He grew up in Ware County, and on April 14, 1853 he married Elizabeth Cato (1832-c1856), daughter of Henry Cato and Sarah Peterson. After fathering one son by wife Elizabeth, she evidently died, after which James married Martha Jane Bowen about 1860, with whom he had a second son in 1861. Shortly thereafter James enlisted on March 4, 1862 at Nashville, Ga. in the Berrien Light Infantry, Company I in the 50th Regiment of Georgia Volunteer Infantry for a period of three years. The unit was shipped to Richmond in July, and on their August march to Manassas to engage the enemy, James caught typhoid fever and was left behind at Sulpher Springs, Virginia. He was sent to a hospital in Richmond in November, but died from the disease on December 7, 1862, never having seen battle.
After the war, James and Elizabeth Solomon's only son John was raised in the household where his mother's aunt Cassandra Cato was housekeeper for Edmund Spivey (1786-1872), with whom she had two children of her own after the death of Spivey's first wife about 1855. John's half brother James presumably was raised with his widowed mother, but eventually married Cassandra's daughter Olive Jane Spivey in 1878. Cassandra Cato, who came to be known as John William's mother by his children, died on September 1, 1914.
Children of James Solomon and Elizabeth Cato
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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