Her nickname was Katy (spelling may have been Caty).
Censuses
1850 Calaveras Twp, Calaveras Co CA, Newton Hough, 33 KY, with wife Catherine, 29 KY, with two children, both born in Missouri, miners; possibly the third child is listed at the top of the next household, but the image is too blurred to see clearly. In same township, TJ Hough/Huff, 24 KY, head of a household of single men, all miners.
1860, Diamond Springs, El Dorado Co CA, PM Huff, 42 KY, C, 40, G W, 17, M A, 14, J W, 12, W W, 10, H L, 8, J B, 6, I N, 4, B F, 1, the first three children born in MO, the others in CA, and W Moore, 35.
1870 El Dorado County, California
Philip N Hufft
Catharine Hufft
William N Hufft 18 California
Hattie L Hufft 16 California
Joseph B Hufft 15 California
Isaac N Hufft 13 California
Charles E Hufft 8 California
Thomas J 5 California
Research Notes
Conflicting vital information in a merge 3/2023:
Born 10 Jan 1816 in Ashe County, North Carolina
Died 1880 at about age 63 in Lamar County, Mississippi,
Born about 1820 in Kentucky, United States
Died 2 Nov 1887 at about age 67 in Diamond Springs, El Dorado, California, United States
Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209290353/catherine-hufft : accessed 17 December 2021), memorial page for Catherine Shearer Hufft (1820–2 Nov 1887), Find a Grave Memorial ID 209290353, citing Diamond Springs Cemetery, Diamond Springs, El Dorado County, California, USA ; Maintained by Sue (contributor 47371789) .
Acknowledgments
This person was created through the import of Shortened files.ged on 30 December 2010.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Catherine by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Catherine:
A birth date (Shearer-326 born 1820) is more than 40 years before or after a sibling's birth date (Shearer-1235 born 1776) .