When Isabella Cato was born on 1 August 1805, in Kershaw, Lancaster, South Carolina, United States, her father, William Henry Cato, was 39 and her mother, Sarah Massey, was 34. She had at least 2 sons and 8 daughters with Leroy A. Roberts. She died in 1849, in Conecuh, Alabama, United States, at the age of 44.
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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: Monroe, Alabama Territory, United States 1818: Conecuh, Alabama Territory, United States 1819: Conecuh, 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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