Hello Cathey Researchers,
I am a newcomer to the Cathey list, and I know that my query is a very long
shot,
but I am researching an elusive person, Sarah Cathey SANTMEYER, b. about 1823,
VA, probably in a part that is now West Virginia. She and her husband,
Samuel H.
WOODS, moved west before she died about 1892 in Kansas. I have traced Sarah's
Santmeyer line back two generations, but need leads on her maternal line. I
have Sarah's
mother as Martha Elly CAIN b. 1788 and her grandfather as William Cain (or
Keene). I
have only the given name Ann for Sarah's grandmother, but I wonder if Ann's
surname could
have been CATHEY before her marriage. I have identified several other
lines by middle names
which were surnames a few generations back. Does anyone have an Ann Cathey
who could
have been the mother of Martha Elly Cain, whose daughter married a Woods?
Roberta