When William Henry Cato was born on 27 October 1765, in Drowning Creek, Burke, North Carolina, United States, his father, Lt Henry Cato, was 25 and his mother, Tabitha Massey, was 36. He married Sarah Massey on 8 September 1787, in South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 14 September 1842, in Monroe, Alabama, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Monroe, Alabama, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
North Carolina is the 12th state.
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
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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