More KY misc. info:
Will Book A, pg. 350, Trigg Co., inventory & appraisement of Estate of
Philip Smith, deceased., Jan. 13, 1834. Buyers listed include U. Cato.
Will Book A, pg. 433, Trigg Co., Sale of Estate of Charles Kenedy,
deceased, Dec. 1834. Buyers included Uriah Cato.
Will Book A, pg 450, Trigg Co., Sale of Estate of Robert Kenady, Feb. 9,
1935. Buyers included Uriah Cato & Wm. F. Smith.
From book, "County of Trigg, Kentucky, Historical &
Biographical" Edited
by Wm. Henry Perrin. Published 1884. p. 122. "...
In 1792 or 1793
Samuel Goodwin & his family, together with a few spirits as hardy and as
daring as himself, left the Nashville settlement and came to Kentucky.
Goodwin found his way into what is now Trigg County, and settled a short
distance from Cerulean Springs on what is known as the Gardner farm,
where he erected a diminutive log-cabin & cleared a small farm. This in
all probablility was the first permanent white settlement in the county
east of the Cumberland River. (skipped down) Among other very early
comers were Benjamin Ladd, Elisha Harber, John Jones, Richard Stowe,
Robert Rogers, H. Hayden, John McAtee & James Brownfield, all of whom
located within a radius of three miles of the village. Later came David
Haggard, John Guthrie & his sons...Wm., Jas., & John Blanks, Samuel
Campbell, Wiley, Joel & Wm. Wilson, Seth Pool, Adam Thompson & J. Pool.
(skip down) Among the early industries of this part of the county was a
distillery operated by Jacob Stinebaugh about the year 1800. The first
blacksmith in the precinct was one Uriah Cato, who ran a shop on the
Goodwin farm a few years after the arrival of the first settlers."
From the book, "Missouri Obituaries, Jan. 1870-June 1872,
Abstracts of
Obituaries Published Weekly in the "St. Louis Christian
Advocate", Vol.
1", by Mrs. Howard W. Woodruff. Mar. 1871, Cato, Thomas Lee, son of W.
H. & Susan Jane Cato, aded 18 years 4 mos 14 das, died at his father's
near Wallome, Trigg Co., KY, 24 Dec. 1870. He had promised his father
during a protracted meeting at Mt. Zion two or three weeks previous that
he would seek religion.. - His father. Nashville Advocate, please
copy.
Caldwell Co., KY, Vital Statistics - Births, 1852-1910:
Cato, not named; born 31 Jan. 1852; white; born on Turnpike Road; pts
Miles & Caroline (Nichols) Cato; pts live on Turnpike Road.
Cato, Susan F.; born 1 Sep 1856; female; alive; white; pts M. C. Cato &
Caroline Nichols; pts live 11 miles from Princeton.