Cynthia,
Sterling Green Cato b. 1817 Hancock Co., Ga. d. 1867 St. Louis, Mo. (date
and place of death from notes written by Lewis L. Cato's daughter-in-law,
Leila Belle Cato, nee Conner). Sterling and his younger brother, Lewis Lewellen
Cato were partners in a law practice. Their law office was on Broad St. in
Eufaula, Al. They were both members of the Eufaula Regency and the masonic lodge in
Eufaula. Sterling was also an editor of the newspaper the Southern Democrat
and active in the temperence movement. He was appointted a U. S. District Judge
in the Kansas Territory and served as an associate justice 1856-1857. He and
Chief Justice Samuel D. Lecompte were involved with the pro slavery side in
Kansas. Gov. John W. Geary (Kansas Territorial Gov.) state that his first
interview with Sterling Cato was in the Missouri camp, at Franklin, where he found
him doing duty as a soldier. The writing from the period splits along political
lines as to Sterling Cato. Southerners seemed to think he was a good guy and
the yankees thought he was a dog. On the 1850 census, he is living with his
brother Lewis and Lewis' wife, Martha Jane Richardson and their mother, Martha
Cato (nee Mitchell). This was not at the Cato house in Eufaula as it was built
in 1858. Sterling Cato was living with Zuber Aoiser (sp), a barber, (b. in
Mexico) in Kansas City, Jackson Co., Mo. on the 1860 census. According to the
notes of Leila Cato he was practicing law in St. Louis where he died. I have not
found any record of his death or grave so this is uncertain. He never married.
The posting you found looks like it my be part of something I put together a
few years ago. Lewis L. Cato was my gg grandfather. His oldest child, William
Richardson Cato and his wife, Leila Belle Conner, were my great grandparents.
Tom Tilton