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I have been away from active Catt research for sometime, but have a lull and am looking at
message boards. It looks like you have it right.
That is, all except, the person so many call Scratch Catt and even one man put that on his
tombstone never went by that name and wouldn't know whose grave he was occupying if he
were to rise from the dead and see the tombstone with Scratch Catt on it. Old Phillip
Catt, Sr., would think he had been using a borrowed grave.
I try all I can to get the name Scratch out of people's genealogy. Some folks, dead
for a number of years, thought it was "cute" to call Phillip Catt that name as
he signed his later papers with an X. As far as I know, until the mid-1900s, noone had
ever heard of a Scratch Catt.
I assume you are related to The Raymond Glass family in someway. Drove down that road
back in July to visit Salem Cemetery again. We got a good look at Catt Hill Cemetery this
time. I can't walk uphill very easily, but I sure would have liked to. I really
think that is where George Catt, Sr., is buried as that was his land from in the late
1700s.
I am still trying to decide if my earlier conclusion about the two Michael Catts being
father and son from Hochdorf that arrived on the Snow Fox in 1738. Talking to an expert
in Germany this past June, he tended to think it would be and the fact that Michael Catt,
Jr., was the biological son of a Rhom in Hochdorf and was listed that way in the
confirmation and communion records would make little difference. This fellow told me that
he probably took the surname Katz as he was subject to the military and had left without
persmission. In fact, one couldn't get permission to leave at that time.
Cary