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Re: Margaret Cather m William Howe, lived in IOWA 1862

retduck — 2009-04-20 16:52:30Z

Yes I do have more info on Margaret Cather Howe. How are you connected? Contact me directly at retduck@cox.net.

Don Darrow

Re: Margaret Cather m William Howe, lived in IOWA 1862

delldudes — 2009-04-18 22:24:51Z

I know it has been many years since you posted this, but was wondering if you had ever gotten any info. I have in my research a Margaret Cather married to a William Howe. They were married in Vermillion, Indiana 6 April 1845. She is the daughter of Robert and Mary (Mosley) Cather. I don't have a whole lot of info on her, but I know that they ended up in St. Clair, Missouri and she died there in 1870. I am still looking for cemetery info and an obituary. hope you had good luck in your search.

Cather Dyer connections

cbjornstad1 — 2009-03-25 20:37:27Z

Any know of any connections between Cathers and William or Mary Barrett Dyer

CATHER downunder

brucehb171 — 2008-12-04 02:42:14Z

Hello
I am looking for a connection in the Cather family to link Cathers in Australia with those in the U.S.
Does anyone know of any Aussie cousins!!

thanks

Angela Cather in Oklahoma

tulsaguitargrl — 2008-10-07 03:00:49Z

looking to learn more about my family, anyone know of Oklahoma Cathers?

Re: Willa Cather Descedant ...Help Appreciated

LISA_ROSSEY — 2008-08-19 10:20:28Z

Im sorry you said Quincy several times before..... I totally missed that. Dah :-)
I have heard of Quincy before but I have never been there.
My mother emailed me and said that she beleives that your Cather line is a different line than ours. She has gone back as far as 1765 and doesn't have any ties to the information you have given me.

If for some reason I am going to or thru Quincy I will let you know.

Lisa Rossey

Re: Willa Cather Descedant ...Help Appreciated

CAROL_CATHER — 2008-08-18 11:59:03Z

LISA,
AS I REMEMBER- QUINCY, ILLINOIS. I ALSO REMEMBER DAD TALKING ALOT ABOUT MISSOURI(BRAINDEAD AT MOMENT FOR CITY) I THINK OTHER RELATIVES MAY HAVE BEEN IN MISSOURI AS HE WAS CHILD GROWING UP IN QUINCY. I KNOW HE GRADUATED FROM QUINCY HIGH SCHOOL - HAVE SEEN , ACTUALLY LAST YR IF NOT MISTAKEN,POSSIB YR BEFORE , GETTING IN THE MAIL A CLASS REUNION LETTER AND HAD CALLED THE WOMAN LONG DISTANCE ON A FLUKE - AS DAD HAS PASSED, AND, ALTHOUGH MOM DID GO W/DAD Y-E-A-R-S !!! AGO TO WHERE HE GREW UP AND VISITED THE TOWN/SAW THE HOUSE HE GREW UP IN, I HAVE NEVER BEEN TO ILLINOIS- AND ACTUALLY HOPE TO AT SOME POINT JUST TO SEE WHERE MY DAD, AUNT AND GRANDMOTHER (SINCE GRAND FATHER HAD LEFT FAMILY TO BE RAISED ALONE BY MY GRANDMOTHER AT YOUNG AGES) LIVED.

MY FATHER - ROY HENRY CATHER- BORN 4-13-28 TO MARIE AND ROY CATHER WAS BORN IN QUINCY, AS,MY AUNT- MELBA JEAN CATHER - NOT ABSOLUTE ON HER DOB - BELIEVE JULY 2 TO 4 YRS BEFORE MY DAD.

ELOISE SCHONN WAS THEIR COUSIN

BOTH MY AUNT MELBA AND COUSIN ELOISE WENT INTO NURSING SCHOOL, MY AUNT BECAME A NURSE THEN WENT ON TO GET HER MASTERS, DOCTORATE, ETC.. AND THEN TAUGHT NURSING AND AS STATED LATER PUBLISHED WORK IN MEDICAL FIELD.

MY GRANDMOTHER WAS A NURSE WHEN DAD AND AUNT WERE LITTLE = MARIE CATHER NEE FROMME ( CANT TRACK HER SIDE BACK AS SHE WAS ADOPTED)

I DO KNOW THAT MY GRANDMOTHER AND AUNT MOVED SEVERAL TIMES AS I WAS LITTLE AND BEFORE I WAS BORN, SHE TAUGHT/LIVED IN WASHINGTON STATE FOR A WHILE , I THINK CALIFORNIA AS WELL-DO NOT HOLD ME TO THAT ONE, BEFORE MOVING TO SOUTH CAROLINA AND TEACHING AT UNIV OF S.C. FOR MOST THE YEARS AS I WAS GROWING UP. IT WAS IN THE LAST SAY 8 OR SO YRS OF HER LIFE THAT SHE WAS LIVING AND STILL TEACHING IN FLORIDA.

I VISITED ON SUMMERS WHEN SHE WAS IN SOUTH CAROLINA BUT NEVER DID GET DOWN TO WHERE THEY HAD LIVED IN FLORIDA. WAS TOLD HAD BEEN TO SEE THEM IN WASH STATE - INFANT - LIKE I REALLY REMEMBER THAT ONE!

IF YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH QUINCY, LET ME KNOW WHAT ITS LIKE, AND AGAIN, MY SIDE = NOW HERE IN MARYLAND , WERE BORN AND RAISED IN QUINCY, ILLINOIS VIA MARRIAGE OF MARIE FROMME TO ROY CATHER- NO MIDDLE NAME (CANT REMEMBER GRAN CATHER'S MIDDLE NAME)

THANKS= HOPEFULLY YOUR MOM CAN DIG UP MORE INFORMATION,

CAROL LYNN CATHER

Re: Willa Cather Descedant ...Help Appreciated

CAROL_CATHER — 2008-08-18 11:54:48Z

Re: Willa Cather Descedant ...Help Appreciated

LISA_ROSSEY — 2008-08-17 13:25:02Z

I forwarded that information to my mother to see if she can make any kind of connections. She has the software and everything and has been working on this for years and goes back pretty far..........
She lives in Western Pa., which is where I grew up but I live in Illinois now. Funny ha? Where in Illinois was your father from? I live in the south suburban area of Chicago. I don't know much about the ancestry except for what my mother has told me and like I said she has done alot of research and has gone back really far. Don't know how far just remember her telling me things. She hasn't quite reached as far back as when Christ was born, but she is getting there :-)
If I get any additional information I will let you know.
Thanks, Lisa

Re: Willa Cather Descedant ...Help Appreciated

CAROL_CATHER — 2008-08-17 10:04:29Z

Lisa-
I would have to do some SEVERE digging to find the history line that my aunt - Melba Jean Cather (deceased approx,1994 - born if not mistaken July 15,1924) had uncovered.

She and my father (Roy Henry Cather- 4-13-1928--2-12-1997) were 2 chilren of Marie & Roy Cather - my paternal grandfather no middle name- born in Quincy, Illinois (my father and aunt) would presume Roy Cather would have been born 1894 roughly - he had left my grandmother and children when dad and aunt were little and returned after my father came "home" on leave from army -bought aunt who was in nursing school at time a car a took dad to a local bar ordered a beer and said "get the kid a pop". Needless to say my father did not have real great things to say about his father but I do recall him speaking highly of his grandparents, unfortunately I can not remember their names off hand. After service, dad located here in MD and met and married my mother having 2 children =self and older brother Warren Kurtz Cather- who has 3 daughters of his own, I have 2 boys and 1 girl, my daughter the only one to so far have the Cather name- Jillian Ashley Cather-Barth

Aunt Melba had traced the line all the way back, but never lived close, visited for short periods over yrs growing up, for most of my childhood she taught nursing at University of South Carolina , received her Doctorate in Nursing, and Tenior, and published medical books in the Medical/Nursing Field (another published Cather). Later, she and my grandmother moved to Fla. where she finished her teaching work, etc.. until first my grandmother Marie (nee.Fromme) Cather and then she passed. As far as my aunt = Melba Jean Cather - as young child grew up thinking she never married, until I found a wedding announcement in album in basement announcing Marriage of Melba Jean Cather to a (John Brown? -dont hold me to that its been too many yrs) when I asked about what I had found, I was told lasted about a yr and was annulled. My Aunt had converted to the Catholic Faith.

I do remember hearing alot about farmlands, being poor, "holy roller churches" etc.. in dad's days growing up in Illinois. But again, he is not a Jr., he was given the middle name of Henry but his father was only Roy Cather.

Hope that helps some- will try to find out more if mom can remember anything dad might have told her about his grandparents names (she's now 81-so her memory isn't always up to par) and I know packed away are alot of the original Willa works that Dad and Aunt Melba had collected so may be I might find something there. Your mention of Scotland/Ireland -- I do remember dad saying we are of the Welsh decent / Scottland which makes me wonder about Robert, although the name John also rings a bell- but again, Dad was born and raised in Illinois and did not move to MD until was out of service, my mother Jane E. Kurtz Cather was born and raised here.

Thanks again,
Carol L Cather

Re: Willa Cather Descedant ...Help Appreciated

LISA_ROSSEY — 2008-08-16 12:14:23Z

08-16-08
Our tree goes, Me (Lisa Ray Rossey, My mother Nancy Ray Kirkwood, Grandfather Harvey B Ray, William Byron Ray, William Cather Ray, 1843, Jemima Cather (Ray),1817 ,John Cather,1792, and Robert Cather 1765.
It appears, that John Cather, came to Pa after leaving MD, and was in the southern part of PA.

All born in PA, until John Cather 1792, wo was born in MD. and his father Robert Cather, possibly Scotland or Ireland.

As to Willa, 1873, Charles F. Cather 1848, William A Cather 1823, James Cather 1795, Jasper Cather 1739. Jasper married a Catherine Lawrence from Fayette County PA, but the Caspers were all born in Va. Jasper and Catherine, had, Mary 1775, John 1779, Thomas 1777, Jane 1773.
He then married Sara Moore, Hannah 1793, Sarah 1800, Mary 1806. Robert 1787, Wm 1789, David 1789, and James 1795,. Lastly he married Barbara Lawrence, and had Margaret 1781.

The time elements do not figure, so one has to assume that Jasper and one of his siblings, could be the father of our Robert(1765).

Hope this helps you and if you can give me any information would appreciate it.
Thanks,
Lisa

J.G. Cather of St. Louis, Missouri in 1883

BasketLady420 — 2008-03-02 01:25:02Z

J. G. Cather, St., Louis, face bruised and cut, not serious.

Cincinnati, Ohio, March 30, 1883

In the woods. a mile south of Mason, Ky., forty miles from Cincinnati, at 5:30 this morning, the northbound express passenger train met with a disastrous accident and its passengers suffered a rude and painful awakening. The train consisted of an engine, baggage, smoker, ladies’ car and two sleepers, one from Vicksburg and the other from Jacksonville. There is a sharp curve at this point and an embankment forty feet high. The train was going at full speed when the engineer felt a rail yield. He instantly applied the brakes and in an instant heard a frightful crash and saw his train, except the baggage car, hurled right and left down the embankment.

I am not related to this family, just passing on this information which comes from a website called "Catskill archives." The link for the site is listed below.
Joyce

http://www.catskillarchive.com/rrextra/intocean.Html

census & obit fyi - Catherine CATHER Lowell, 1918 PA. - 2008 CA.

LorraineGilmer02 — 2008-02-18 15:55:38Z

not related - for board info :

Source Citation: Year: 1920;Census Place: Smethport, McKean, Pennsylvania; Roll: T625_1600; Page: 11A; Enumeration District: 147; Image: 560.

John C Cather 28
John Cather 28 (it actually says Mrs. John Cather)
Katherine Cather 4/12
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Source Citation: Year: 1930; Census Place: Smethport, McKean, Pennsylvania; Roll: 2079; Page: 15A; Enumeration District: 33; Image: 1111.0.

Name Age
John E Cather 37
Irma Cather 37
Catherine Cather 10
Ella V Cather 9
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Lowell, Catherine Cather

Catherine Cather Lowell 1919-2008 Catherine Cather Lowell passed away peacefully in her sleep at Crofton Manor in Long Beach on February 13, 2008, where she received loving care. Catherine was born September 18, 1919 in Pennsylvania to John and Irma Cather and moved with her family to Whittier, California where she and her sister, Ella, attended Whittier High School. After high school she attended and graduated from the University of Southern California. She spent her entire career as a teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District while being a resident of Long Beach. Catherine was preceded in death by her father, John Cather (brother of Pulitzer Prize winning author, Willa Cather), mother, Irma Cather, and only sibling, Ella Cather Lewis, longtime faculty member at Long Beach City College. Both Catherine and Ella were longtime members of the Board of the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial in Red Cloud, Nebraska. She was the last remaining niece of Willa Cather. Catherine was always an elegant woman with a strong presence - she will be missed. Visitation will be at 10:00 AM, Wednesday, February 20, 2008 with service following at 11:00 AM, both at McKenzie Mortuary, 3843 E. Anaheim Street, Long Beach. "The end is nothing - the road is all" - Willa Cather McKenzie Mortuary (562) 961-9301
Published in the Long Beach Press-Telegram from 2/16/2008 - 2/18/2008.

Willa Cather Descedant ...Help Appreciated

2006-10-27 02:56:11Z

I and my brother-Warren Kurtz Cather are the children of Jane nee Kurtz and Roy Henry Cather(04/13/28--2/11/97) born to Roy Cather and wife Marie (they also had a daughter,my aunt- Melba Jean Cather aprox. 1 or 2 younger than my father. She became a nurse in Illinois/Missouri along w/their cousin Eloise Shoen nee Cather -daughter of Roy Cather's brother Jack if not mistaken -she was married when they taught nursing in Fla. and had 2 children Andrew Shoen was one. My Aunt Melba had taught Nursing in S.C., Wash.State etc.as well and had her Doctorate and Published articles in Medical line before her passing.
They had traced the direct relation to Willa all the way back but unfortunately when she passed I was still young and she passed in state of Florida, I born in MD which is where my dad located after getting out of the service. If anyone has any info please let me know!!And to see in the family line there are Caroline's and Carol's is amazing, like Willa I HATE THE MISPRONOUNCIATION!!!
Again my father Roy Henry Cather born 4-13-28 in Quincy, Illinois to Roy - no Middle Name -Cather& Marie Cather-think I remember dad saying his grandparents lived on a farm. Also mentioned Missiouri Alot.
Thanks
Carol

Re: Missing Data

2006-06-13 22:35:41Z

Dear Liz::

Received your message and I hope tor hear from you again.

Joseph and Rachel Cathers of Helen, Clarion County, Penna. were my gggparents. Their son, Robert and Nancy Cathers of Winslow, Jefferson County, Penna.were my gggrandparents. Their son. William and Mary Cathers of Rathmel, Jefferson, Penna. were my ggrandparent, their daughter, Rachel Anna Cathers, was my grandmother. She married John Martin Wylam in Reynoldsville, Jefferson, Penna.

I beleive that Joseph and Rachel Cathers were the progenitors of the Cathers families in that part of Pennsylvania. I also beleive that they both were married in North Ireland and that they migrated to USA about 1760. I have no proof except for the family stories as told by my grandmother.

Another story that I picked up (at a later date) was that the original Cather(s) were one of the 49 line officers of Oliver Cromwell's Army during the invasion of North Ireland,. That one brother added the "s" to their name thus the surnames in North Ireland became Cather and Cathers. They came from Berkshire, England.

Would like to hear from you.

William A. Wylam

Re: Missing Data

2006-06-08 20:26:23Z

I am related to Rebecca Cathers, who is the daughter of Joseph and Rachel Blake Cathers. Rebecca married John Fuller. Her mom,
Rachel Cathers, was buried at the Fuller farm, Winslow, PA, January 16, 1844. She was 79 years old. I have a photo of her gravestone.
My records show that Rachel Blake Cathers' parents were Joseph Cathers and Rachel Smiley Blake.
Rachel Smiley Blake was the daughter of Joseph Blake and Rachel Smiley. I haven't been able to find much information on The Blakes or the Smiley's, or confirm this info. I received it from old family records.
Robert Cathers and Rebecca Cathers Fuller were quite close and his name appears on many genealogical items.

CATHOR

Corinne62161 — 2006-04-19 19:10:37Z

Is anyone doing research on this spelling?

Re: George Blanford Cathers

annawongus — 2006-03-05 01:28:10Z

I know that when my Cather family came to America, they added the 's' to the end to make it Cathers, I guess for it to sound more American. My Great-Great Grandfather was William Earl Cather(s).

Willa Cather

2005-09-08 02:45:48Z

I understand that my great grandmother was a first or second cousin of Willa Cather. Does anyone have a geneology of Willa Cather?

Re: My Cather's

2002-09-26 02:47:53Z

I have a great aunt, Sarah A. Cather (Swatsland) born 08 August 1860. Daughter of Henry B. Cather and Mary O'Donnel.

Re: cather lineage Robert of PA

2002-09-23 03:15:29Z

Do you have a descendancy list of Robert Cather of PA? Is there a James W. Cather born 1807 in that list?
Jeannet

Re: cather lineage

2002-09-10 01:12:51Z

Seeking the descendancy of William Cather who was in the War of 1812 from SW PA.

Re: Fabricus Augustus Cather/ Virginia Malonee

2003-05-03 12:13:41Z

My grandfather was Clay Cather's older brother. His name was Henry Keirle Cather. He had a sister Alma May and a brother Thomas. Their father died in Augusta, Kansas where he died at the age of 36. I have been to the grave site where he is buried with his mother and baby son, Willie. All 3 died within a few months of each other. The wife, Helen Virginia Mallonne Cather returned to her parent's home in West Virginia to raise her four children. I have a good record of the family except for Uncle Clay's heirs.

I'd like to hear from you.

Missing Data

williamawylam — 2005-10-09 03:18:08Z

I am searching for the vital data such as Birth/death places and dates of the following ancestors;

Robert and Nancy (Thompson) CATHERS of Reynoldsville, Jefferson, Pennsylvania. Their lifespan was probably 1790 - 1870.

Joseph and Rachel (unknown maiden name) CATHERS of Helen, Clarion, Pennsylvania. Their lifespan was probably 1760 -
1820,

My great grandparents were William Thomas and Mary Anne (Douthit) CATHERS of Rathmel, Jefferson, Pennsylvania. I have their line almost completed and I will share this with other members.

Willa Cather