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John D. Cato and Martha Whatley Bible
The following information has been copied from a family Bible belonging
to John D. Cato and Martha Whatley of Warren County. Their
daughter Corinne (Powell, Grimes) Smith is buried in Glenwood Cemetery
as is Martha Whatley Cato. I am unsure which other family members may have
lived in Yazoo. I do know that Corinne and her third husband, W.J.
Smith, raised the children of her brother James after his death (Alice,
James, Robert).
Mamie Lilley
5980 Clinton-Tinnin Road
Jackson, MS 39209
[email protected]
The Bible itself was published in Hartford by Sumner and Goodman in
1846. I have been told that it and other prized possessions of the
family were wrapped in blankets and hidden in a hollow log during the siege
of Vicksburg. The Bible is fragile- possessing evident water damage-
and the writing in the family section difficult to read. Inside the Bible
are several personal items - a pressed flower (pages 300-301), two poems
"A Thanksgiving Note" and "Something to Be Thankful For" clipped from a
newspaper (pages 140-141), a newspaper picture of a young man in what appears
to be a military school uniform (pages 498-499), a hand-stitched bookmark
(pages 366-367), a lock of hair (pages 472-473), another poem "Sweet Summer-time"
clipped from a newspaper (pages 524-515), red and silver printed foil (pages
82-83 of the Apocrypha), and more pressed flowers (pages 628-629).
The Cato/Whatley Bible was left to my husband, Frank Eugene Lilley,
by his maternal grandmother, Alice Byron Cato Weissinger, daughter of James
White Cato. She died in 1974. I have been told by her daughters
that the items in the Bible were never moved during the time their mother
possessed the Bible. We have honored her practice of leaving the
items in their places.
The Family Record section is transcribed below.
Marriages
John D. Cato and Martha Whatley were married Sept. 16, 1847.
Both of Warren Co. Mississippi.
A section that appears to have been erased.
William R. Cato, and Laura E. Stephenson were married June 1869 both
of Warren Co. Mississippi.
Wesley H. Powell and Corinne Cato were married December 4th 1872.
W. H. Powell of Yazoo County and Corinne Cato of Warren Co.
John W. Cato of Warren Co and E.H. Aikman of Yazoo Co were married
November 12th, 1873.
Births
William Robert Cato was born Sept. 30, 1848
Daniel Cato was born Feb. 5th 1851 (died Feb. 10th)
John Walton Cato was born May 23 1852
James White Cato was born Dec. 6 1854
Corinne Cato was born September 13, 1856
Libbie Corinne Cato born Aug 26th 1874
Stewart A. Cato born March 30th 1879
John D. Cato, Jr born Jan 1st 1887
George Marshall Hawkins daughter of Corinne Hawkins born Feb 11th 1901
John D. Cato was born in Greenville Co Virginia in the year 1808 June
15th
W. J. Smith born March 4, 1871 Died June 22, 1939
John Wesley Powell, son of Corinne and W.H. Powell, was born September
4th 1873
Libbie Corinne Cato daughter of Libbie and John W. Cato was born August
26th 1874
Willie Cato Grimes daughter of Willie and Corinne Grimes born Sept
7th 1877
Deaths
Daniel Cato died Feb 10th 1851
Wesley H. Powell died March 8th, 1874 age 27 years.
John D. Cato died March 9th 1885 age 76 years
James W. Cato died Oct 1900
John W. Cato died June 23rd 1904
Martha Cato, wife of John D. Cato died March 20th 1900
Willie Cato Grimes died 19th 1903 (no month listed)
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