When William Massey CATO was born on 7 August 1805, in South Carolina, United States, his father, William Henry Cato, was 39 and his mother, Sarah Massey, was 35. He married Ann Elizabeth Rawls in 1830, in Lexington, Lexington, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 21 July 1837, in Dallas, Alabama, United States, at the age of 31.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Historical Boundaries: 1818: Dallas, Alabama Territory, United States 1819: Dallas, Alabama, United States
Scottish and English: variant of Catoe .
Swedish: perhaps a soldier's name, bestowed with reference to Cato, the Roman statesman.
Bosniak, Serbian, and Croatian (Ćato, in Bosnia and Herzegovina also Čato): occupational name from Bosnian, Serbian, and Croatian ćato ‘scribe, clerk’.
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