Cato Nathan (Monroe County)
State House: 1874-1875
I have been unable to locate Nathan on the 1870 or 1880 census, but he is probably the Cato Nathan listed on the 1900 census in Cache, Arkansas, with wife Sallie Robinson (m. 1883). That Cato Nathan was born in Mississippi in March 1824.
I believe he was the father of Ames Nathan (1874-1944), who was living with an Uncle and Aunt McIntosh and Grandmother D. Nathan (born c. 1797 in Virginia) on the 1880 census in Chickasaw County. His Social Security paperwork, as transcribed in an Ancestry database, lists his father as “Catler” Nathan and gives his birthplace as Monroe County, Mississippi. It also makes sense that Cato Nathan would name his son after the governor. Ames Nathan married his first wife, Nora Buchanan, in 1895, and they had several children who are well documented in later records.
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