Joseph Cator (1778 - 1852)

Ancestors Descendants

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BIOGRAPHY

Sign for Battle of Ice Mound.

Next to Last Battle of the War of 1812 - The Battle of Ice Mound: Sgt Joseph Cator Sergeant, 48th Regiment, 12th Brigade Battle of Ice Mound.

^[1] Following the end of the War of 1812, some battles lingered on due to the profound lack of communicating to troops that the battle was over Christmas Eve of 1814. Sgt. Joseph Cator was one of Taylors Island's men who got caught in this situation. There was a battle at New Orleans and the one at Ice Mound that were still fought. Picture it this way...land, ice, British ship (the Dauntless) stuck in the ice. The Maryland Militia used a mound of ice to fire muskets from, resulting in the surrender of the crew who were caught below deck without adequate weaponry. Wonder if the Brits did not knew the war was over too.

When Joseph (Sgt.) Cator was born on April 22, 1778, in Dorchester County, Maryland, his father, Levin Cator, was 33 and his mother, Aney Robson Cator, was 33. Aney lived from 1745 to 1800; she was 55. His father Levin surrender. I wonder if the ship was also unaware of the end of the War of 1812 previously? Cator passed away on October 1, 1826, at the age of 81 (1744–1826)

SIBLINGS

Moses Edward Cator 1769–1860. On 4 Mar 1834 Moses married Mary J. Porter in Williamson County, TN

Brother Moses Edward Cator.

Levin Cator 1770–1848. His brother Levin died on March 15, 1848, in Williamson County, Tennessee, when Joseph (Sgt.) was 69 years old. Levin Cator

John Cator 1775–?. He married Elizabeth Carpenter on December 31, 1803.

SELF Joseph (Sgt.) Cator 1778–1852

Mahala Cator born 1782; died after 1860. Married Roger Robson in 1798.

Abel Cator 1784 in Dorchester County MD. Abel died there in September 1850, when Joseph (Sgt.) was 72 years old. Abel married Mary Travers who was born in 1794 and they had one known daughter Louisa Elizabeth Cator born 1819 at Taylors Island also. In 1846 Louisa married Aaron P. Wallace and they had three known children: Anne Victoria, Anthony, and Ida Wallace.

From Chancery Record Abstracts of Dorchester County: Md#240 - 1851 CATOR, Abel, dec (contains his will 10 Sept 1850 - 23 Sept 1850)

Wife - Mary CATOR - living in Baltimore

Bro - Thomas E CATOR

Son - Levin CATOR - living in NY

Son - William CATOR - living in California

Son - Zachariah CATOR - living in Baltimore

Dau - Louisa, wife of Aaron WALLACE

Marriage Joseph married Hannah Brohawn on March 29, 1805, in his hometown. They had 12 children in 24 years. He died on December 10, 1852, in Taylors Island, Maryland, at the age of 74, and was buried there. Hannah lived till 1853. ^[2]

CHILDREN

Maryann Brohawn Cator born January 25, 1806, Dorchester County, MD. She lived till 1872. Maryann married Dr. Stephen Joshua Watters on November 17, 1829, in her hometown. She died on February 28, 1872, at the age of 66, and was buried in Dorchester, Maryland. Dr. Stephen Watters was a graduate of the University of Maryland Medical School and a physician of note in Dorchester County, traveling a professional medical circuit of 40 miles, until his death due to liver disease on May 27, 1840. They had one known child, son William J. H. Watters.

John E. Robson Cator was born on August 13, 1807, in Dorchester Parish in Dorchester County, Maryland. Died September 19, 1837, in New Orleans, Louisiana, at the age of 30.

Levin Cator was born on February 8, 1809. He died Dec 9, 1812. Age 3.

BALTIMORE Birth of Son Joseph Edmondson/Edmonson Cator born on April 28, 1812 in Baltimore, MD. He married Elizabeth Jane Dove and they had children, William Dove Cator; Benjamin Wesley Cator (b. 1844) and Mary Jane Cator. Died 1898. In 1880 census for Baltimore, Joseph lived with his brother Joseph Edmondson Cator in Baltimore. Robinson is a part of the millinery merchantile called Armstrong and Cator. Joseph died in 1898 and is buried at Kingsville Cem in Baltimore.

Joseph E Cator 68 lives with brother Robinson W Cator 54 in Baltimore MD on Old York Rd

Birth of Daughter Elizabeth Ann Cator born on March 1, 1814 in MD. Elizabeth Ann passed away on April 9, 1845, at the age of 31 on April 9, 1845 MD. She married Levi Pagan (1802-1876) in 1836 and they had one known child, William Henry Pagan (1837-1906).

Hannah Jane Cator born in 1817. She married Jackson Dorney, a fisherman.

Capt. William Whitfield Cator born on March 20, 1818, in Taylors Island. Died 1865. He married Mary Ann Augusta (Travers) Cator

Moses Brohawn Cator born in 1822. Death of Son Moses Brohawn Cator who passed away on October 28, 1837, at Sea, Somerset, England, at the age of 15.

Baltimore Birth of Benjamin Franklin Cator born on February 10, 1824 in Baltimore. Died 1872. Soon after his family moved back to the family's old homestead in Dorchester County, MD. He ultimately came to be part of the merchantile business names Armstrong, Cator and Co. Death 5 Jan 1872; Cemetery: Green Mount Cemetery, in Baltimore. Benjamin married Sarah (Sallie) A. McNamara of Lancaster County, Virginia and had children Mary Josephine Cator 1852–1913; George Cator 1856–1932; Benjamin F. Cator Jr. 1858–1888; Carrie Louisa Cator 1860–1935; Robinson W Cator (III?) 1863–1933; Grace Stewart Cator 1864–. For more on Benjamin Franklin Cator, please see: [1] https://catorfamilies.com/genealogy/benjaminfcator.htm

George Washington Cator born February 16?, 1824. (Twins?) George died March 6, 1841, in Port-au-Prince, Ouest, Haiti, at the age of 17. He might have been the twin of Benjamin??

Robinson Wesley Cator (DAR) born on August 16, 1826, in Taylors Island. Died 1902. Robinson Wesley Cator who was born on August 16, 1826, at Taylors Island, Maryland. This Robinson Wesley Cator is named in the DAR. He died in 14 Feb 1902 and is buried at Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland. He married Mary Caroline (Carrie) Hooper Pattison Cator and had children:

James Hooper Cator (TB) 1850–1903

Franklin Pattison Cator 1854–1936

Mollie Cator 1856–

Elizabeth P. "Lissi" "Lizzie" Cator (Never married) 1857–1902

Sarah "Sally" Cator (Mrs. Hopper) 1859–1920

harles R Cator 1860–

Margaret Le Compte "Maggie" Cator 1862–1935 (Mrs. Smoot)

William Whitfield Cator 1864–1939

Lucy Hooper Cator

Joseph Sister Mary C. Cator was born in 1830. She may have been born in Baltimore, but no other information is currently known.

1850 Census Sgt. Joseph Cator was 72 in 1850 Census, born in MD, and living in Baltimore Ward 15, His family were:

Self Joseph Cator 72

Wife Hannah Cator 66

Son Wm W Cator 30 Sailor

Son Benjamin F Cator 26 Clerk

Son Robinson W Cator 24 Merchant

Mary B Waters 44

Daughter Mary C Cator 20

Hannah J Waters 16

Wm J Waters 15

Charlotte Harrison 32

1852 Death Joseph (Sgt.) Cator died on December 10, 1852, in Taylors Island, Maryland, when he was 74 years old. At age 72 he was in the Baltimore MD Census, but by 74 he was back at Taylors Island. Buried at Grace Cemetery on Taylors Island, Dorchester County, Maryland

Gravestone of Sgt Joseph Cator

1853 Death of Wife - Hannah passed away in Baltimore, MD., on September 19, 1853, at the age of 67...about one year after the death of her husband!

His mother's Gravestone.

SOURCES

1850 United States Federal Census

Ancestry Family Trees

Maryland Marriages, 1655-1850

U.S., Find A Grave

1. ↑ http://allenbrowne.blogspot.com/2011/06/becky-phipps-and-battle-of-ice-mound.html
2. ↑ Marriage Reference Dorchester County License Book No. 1, p.90