JAMES PATRICK CATTERSON, born 20 March 1827 to JAMES CATTERSON and SARAH WYANT in Owen County, Kentucky, his father the son of Northern Ireland emigrants.

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U. S. CENSUS 1830

Owen County
Kentucky
page 389

JAMES CATTERSON

JAMES PATRICK CATTERSON was in the household of his father JAMES CATTERSON

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U. S. CENSUS 1840

Franklin Township
Marion Indiana
page 283

JAMES CATTERSON

JAMES PATRICK CATTERSON was in the household of his father JAMES CATTERSON

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MEXICAN WAR SERVICE 1847-1848

JAMES PATRICK CATTERSON enlisted in the Fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment , Company D, as a private in May, 1847. He was honorably discharged on 16 July 1848, having fought in numerous battles and traveled throughout Mexico.
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INDIANA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY
Indiana in the Mexican War
Buley

THE FOURTH AND FIFTH IN MEXICO

On August 22, Brigadier General Lane, known to his men as "Rough and Ready No. 2" , returned from General Taylor's headquarters with orders to take his brigade and to proceed without delay to Vera Cruz. Lane's brigade , consisting of the Fourth Indiana, an Ohio regiment, a regiment of Illinois volunteers and the Texas Rangers, had been on the upper Rio Grande near Meir. The Tenth and Sixteenth United States infantry together with General Taylor's command were left to guard the Rio Grande District. When the Fourth reached the mouth of the river, there was some disturbance caused by a few who declared that they entered the service for a year only. Before the men could receive their pay they had to sign the muster roll which declared that they had volunteered for "during the war". To this the men replied, "Go to hell with your pay".

The Fourth, under General Lane reached Vera Cruz, September 16. The men were agreeably surprised by the pleasant three day trip and the beautiful mountain scenery around the city. The men expected to leave in a couple of days for the city of Mexico.

Toward the latter part of September, Lane's brigade passed National Bridge, Mexico. His entire force consisted of about 3,000 men. The only opposition met with was from guerrilla parties and ambuscades. October 12, General Lane succeeded Colonel Childs in the command of Puebla. He drove out the guerrillas , proclaimed martial law and established order.

On the 9th a part of Lane's forces engaged the enemy under Santa Anna, at the Battle of Huamantla. Colonel Gorman's regiment, the Fourth Indiana , entered the west side of the city, and succeeded in routing the main body of the enemy and then proceeded to disperse the groups still remaining in the city. The colors of the regiment were placed on the arsenal. October 18, Lane's forces, including the Fourth Indiana, engaged in a running fight with the Mexicans under General Rea. The cavalry pursued the enemy to Atlixco, where they took refuge. Lane was afraid to risk a street fight in a strange city so placed his battery on a hill overlooking the place and bombarded it. The American's entered the city without trouble. A quantity of arms and ammunition was found and destroyed. The Mexican loss was two hundred and nineteen killed and three hundred wounded.

Colonel Willis A. Gorman wrote home, January 25, 1848. "The Fourth was still in Puebla, in excellent health and spirits. General Lane was out around Orizaba, Tehuacan, Cordova, and vicinity chastising the guerrillas. Colonel Gorman was left in command of the forces in the city, which besides his own regiment, included a regiment and five companies of Ohio men, four companies of the Fourth Artillery, and some Louisiana and Florida volunteers. The troops were well fed with the best the country afforded. Among the principal items of daily consumption were fresh and salt beef, pork and mutton, flour, rice, corn meal and beans, sugar, coffee, and candies with plenty of soap, salt. and vinegar. Quarters were established in churches of roomy dimensions and splendid architecture."

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U. S. CENSUS 1850

Franklin
Marion
Indiana
Household 136

SARAH CATTERSON, Female, 46, Kentucky
JAMES CATTERSON, Male, 23, Indiana, Farmer. (JAMES PATRICK)
ROBERT F. CATTERSON, Male, 14, Indiana. (CIVIL WAR GENERAL)
MARY A. CATTERSON, Female, 12, Indiana
EMERINE CATTERSON, Female, 25, Indiana
ELISABETH CATTERSON, Female, 16, Indiana
MARGARET J. CATTERSON, Female, 19, Indiana

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JAMES PATRICK CATTERSON married EMERINE TURPIN McKEE on 11 November 1852 in Marion County, Indiana.

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Some time between 1852 and 1860, my estimate, JAMES CATTERSON served on the Indianapolis, Indiana police force. This is proven by an article in the Indianapolis News in 1898, transcribed later on this site. His cousin , ABEL CATTERSON was also on the force during this time.
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ALVA ROBERT CATTERSON, born 26 July 1855, died 9 August 1856

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U. S. CENSUS 1860

4th Ward
Marion
Indiana
Household 102
page 13

JAMES CATTERSON, Male, 30, Indiana, Farmer, Street Contractor
EMELY CATTERSON, Female, 26, Indiana
BUENNAH CATTERSON, Female, 10, Indiana (Should be 6)
MINNIE CATTERSON, Female, 4, Indiana
FRANK CATTERSON, Male, 1, Indiana (ELZENA FRANCIS)(Female)

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ELZENA FRANCIS CATTERSON, born 23 July 1859, died 9 October 1860.

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CIVIL WAR SERVICE 1862-1864

JAMES P. CATTERSON enlisted on 23 August 1862 as a Second Lieutenant.
On 1 September 1862 he was commissioned into "F" Company, 79th Volunteer Indiana Infantry Regiment.
He was promoted First Lieutenant 17 November 1862.
He was promoted Captain 21 December 1862.
He resigned 22 March 1864.

79TH INDIANA INFANTRY

SERVICE

The 79th Indiana Infantry was organized at Indianapolis, Indiana from August 20 through September 2, 1862, and mustered in for a three year enlistment on September 2, 1862 under the command of Colonel Frederick Knefler.

The regiment was attached to 11th Brigade , 5th Division, Army of the Ohio, September.1862; 11th Brigade , 5th Division, 2nd Corp, Army of the Ohio to November 1862, 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, Left wing, XIV Corp, Army of the Cumberland, to January, 1863; 1st brigade, 3rd Division, XXI Corp, Army of the Cumberland to October 1863; 3rd Brigade, 3rd division, IV Corp, Army of the Cumberland to Jute, 1865.

Engagements CAPTAIN CATTERSON participated in:

Perryville
Stones River
Tullahoma Campaign
Chickamauga
Siege of Chattanooga
Orchard Knob
Missionary Ridge

CAPTAIN CATTERSON received a serious wound in the right foot at Stone's River.
Honorably discharged , probably due to problem with foot, March 1864.

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U. S. CENSUS 1870

Brown Township
Hendricks
Indiana
Household 38
page 5

JAMES CALISON,Male, 42, Kentucky. (CATTERSON), Farmer
EMALINE CALISON, Female, 36, Kentucky, Keeping House
BUENNA CALISON, Female, 16, Indiana, At Home
MINNIE CALISON, Female, 13, Indiana, At Home
JAMES CALISON, Male, 8, Indiana
LAURA CALISON, Female, 5, Indiana
CORA CALISON, Female, 3, Indiana
SARAH CALISON, Female, 0, Indiana

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ELIZABETH JANE CATTERSON, born 28 August 1874, died 17 February 1880

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U. S. CENSUS 1880

Brown
Hendricks
Indiana
Sheet 425A

JAMES P. CATTERSON, Self, Male, 53, Kentucky, farmer
EMERINE T. CATTERSON, Wife, Female, 46, Kentucky, Keeping House
JAMES S. CATTERSON, Son, Male, 18, Indiana, Farm Laborer
LOUISA CATTERSON, Daughter, Female, 13, Indiana, At School
CORA CATTERSON, Daughter, Female, 12, Indiana, At School
SALLY CATTERSON, Daughter, Female, 9, Indiana
EMMA CATTERSON, Daughter, Female, 7, Indiana
INDIANA CATTERSON, Daughter, Female, 4, Indiana

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HISTORY OF HENDRICKS COUNTY , INDIANA
CHICAGO
INTER-STATE PUBLISHING CO.
1885

JAMES P. CATTERSON, a prominent farmer and stock raiser of Brown Township, is a native of Owen County, Ky., born March 20, 1827. In the fall of 1839 his parents, James and Sarah Catterson, moved to Marion County, Ind., and there he was reared to manhood. He was a soldier in the Mexican War, enlisting in May, 1847, and serving till July 1848, and participated in many important engagements. After the breaking out of the Rebellion, he again enlisted in the defense of his country, in August, 1862, and was appointed Second Lieutenant of Company F, Seventy-ninth Indiana Infantry. He was afterward promoted to First Lieutenant and then to Captain of his company. He participated in the engagements at Perryville, Stone's River, Mission Ridge, and others of minor importance. He was wounded in the right foot at Stone's River, and was discharged in April, 1864. In 1865 he settled on the farm in Brown Township where now lives. He has 100 acres of valuable land, all under a high state of cultivation. He is an influential man in the township, and has served two terms as Trustee. Mr. Catterson was married Nov. 11, 1859, to Emerine T. McKee, daughter of William and Jane McKee. To them have been born eleven children, seven of whom are living--- Buena Z., James S., Loretta, Cora M., Sallie W., Emma F., and Indiana M. The deceased are Alva R., Elena, Minnie R., and Elizabeth J. Mr. Catterson is a member of the Masonic fraternity and the Grand Army of the Republic. In politics he is a Greenbacker.

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A PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF BOONE, CLINTON, and HENDRICKS COUNTIES,IND.
CHICAGO
A. W. BOWEN & CO
1896

CAPT. JAMES P. CATTERSON, a prominent farmer of Brown Township, Hendricks County, Ind., is of Irish descent. His grandfather, James Catterson, emigrated from Ireland about 1774, and located in Virginia, and later in Pennsylvania. His grandfather's wife is supposed to have been a sister of Patrick Henry. They were married and four children were born to them in Ireland. After some years the children went to Kentucky, where they married. James Catterson, son off above, and father of our subject, was born in Ireland, in Donegal County. He married Sarah Wyant, of Kentucky, daughter of Jacob and Sarah Wyant, the former whom was a slave owner and planter and who became the father of the following children: Cyrus (deceased), Zerelda, Emerine, James P., Sarah (deceased), George, Elizabeth, Mary, Robert, Margaret (deceased).

Robert Catterson was a soldier in the late Civil War in Company A, Fourteenth Regiment, Indiana Infantry. He was wounded in the Battle of Antietam, and soon as he recovered he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel of the Ninety-Seventh Indiana volunteers. He led the charge at Jackson, Miss., and was promoted to brigadier general and honorably discharged with the rank of brevet major general. The father and mother of subject were married in Owen County, Ky., lived there some ten years, and then emigrated to Marion County, Ind., in the fall of 1832, where they owned 160 acres of land, cleared it up and made a nice home, all by hard work. The father was a Jackson democrat in politics, but afterward when Jackson vetoed the bank law, he voted with the old-line Whig Party. He was a deacon of the Missionary Baptist church many years and a charter menmber of Lick Creek Church, and aided in building the old hewed log structure. He lived to see much improvements in the county, and died April 5, 1841, the wife dying January, 1873.

james P. Catterson, our subject, was born in Owen County, Ky., March 20, 1827, and was four years old when his father emigrated to Marion County, Ind. He has seen the county develop to its present high state of cultivation from its primitive state. He attended the old log school-house of the pioneer fathers, and later attended the old academy at Lebanon, Ind., and secured a license to teach. He enlisted in May, 1847, for the Mexican War in Company D, Fourth Indiana Infantry: went down the MississippiRiver to New Orleans, thence on a sailing vessel to the Rio Grande, then to Vera Cruz; then marched several hundred miles and participated in the Battle of Hulamantola, on October 9, 1847, next was at the Pueblo fight, on the 12th of October, in which they withstood all of Santa Anna's troops. On the 18th of October he fought at Acleso, and on the road at Clasdelier. Our subject had traveled several hundred miles, had seen much active service, and was honorably discharged. July 16, 1848. He married Emerine T. McKee, daughter of William and Jane McKee, early settlers of Trimble County, Ky., but who came to Marion County, Ind., in 1848. Our subject's children are named Buena Z., hula, Alva R., (deceased), Minnie R., (deceased), Elizabeth J., )deceased), India McKee, James, Lou Etta, and Emma F., attended Danville Normal College, and have all taught some years. our subject has served two terms as township trustee. He is a staunch republican , with strong prohibition proclivities. He and wife are devout Methodists, and his family and the church financially very largely. He owns 100 aqcres of fine farm land--- as good as any in the township----and has a good house and two barns.

Mr. Catterson enlisted June 7, 1862 , in Company F., Seventy-ninth regiment Indiana volunteer infantry, and was in the campaigns of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama, taking part in the battles of Crab Apple Orchard, Perryville, Murfreesboro, (in which he was badly wounded in the right foot, ). He was captured at Harper's Shoals, parolled and afterward exchanged. His next battle was at Mission Ridge. He next was placed in charge of batteries Sixth Ohio, Twenty-sixth Pennsylvania, Captain Bridges battery of Chicago, and First Missouri Artillery from St. Louis, located at Chattanooga. In forming the company our subject was elected Second Lieutenant, and was afterward promoted to the first and later to captain. He was the first new captain appointed in his regiment. He was honorably discharged May 4, 1864. He is a member of the G. A. R. , Post 241, Brownsburg, and a member of the F. & A. M. He is one of the progressive and enterprising citizens of Hendricks County.

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INDIANAPOLIS NEWS
14 June 1898

AN OLD SOLDIER'S SUGGESTION
(Special to the Indianapolis News)

Brownsburg, Ind. June 14--Capt. James P. Catterson, one of the few survivors of the Mexican and Civil wars and also an ex-member of the Indianapolis police force, has undertaken a movement toward the care of the Hendricks county volunteers in the present war who may die in the service. He would like to see the soldiers of the county who are now drawing pensions set aside a certain per cent of their yearly allowance to make a fund to be deposited in a bank to bring back the bodies of all Hendricks county soldiers who lose their lives, He agrees to give half of his pension , or more if necessary, toward carrying his suggestion into effect.

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U. S. CENSUS 1900

Brown Township
Hendricks
Indiana
District 26
Sheet 9A
Household 171

JAMES P. CATTERSON, Head, Male, 73, Kentucky, Farmer
EMERINE CATTERSON, Wife, Female, 66, Kentucky
LOUETTA CATTERSON, Daughter, Female, 34, Indiana, School teacher
INDIANA M. CATTERSON, Daughter, Female, 23, Indiana, At School

JAMES PATRICK CATTERSON passed away 25 September 1909 in Hendricks County, Indiana. He was buried in the Greenlawn Cemetery in Brownsburg, Indiana.

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U. S. CENSUS 1910

Brown
Hendricks
Indiana
District ED 29
Sheet 2A
Household 33

HARRY H. HOPKINS, Head, Male, 30 , Indiana
INDRA M. HOPKINS, Wife, Female, 33, Indiana
EMERINE CATTERSON, Mother-in-law, Female, 75, Kentucky

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EMERINE TURPIN CATTERSON passed away on 15 November 1913 in Hendricks County, Indiana. She was buried beside her husband of 57 years in the Greenlawn Cemetery in Brownsburg, Indiana.
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LIVING CHILDREN

JAMES PATRICK CATTERSON and EMILY TURPIN McKEE had the following children who lived to adulthood.

BUENA ZERELDA CATTERSON, born 4 September 1853, died 10 January 1941. Married FRANCIS M. BALLARD on 8 February 1871.
MINNIE ROCENIA CATTERSON, born 14 June 1857, died 18 March 1881, married DR. SIMEON MARTIN ,19 March 1877.
JAMES SIEGEL CATTERSON, born 8 September 1861, died 15 April 1933, married ROSA JANE CLARK, 4 February 1884.
LOUETTA CATTERSON, born 14 June 1866, died 14 April 1947, married MARTIN L. CLINTON, 15 October 1910.
CORA MAY CATTERSON, born 30 September 1867, died 1 December 1945, married SANTFORD PORTER ENNIS, 11 October 1891.
SALLIE WYANT CATTERSON, born 1 July 1870, died 20 February 1954, married ULYSSES GRANT ARBUCKLE, 9 September 1891.
EMMA FLORENCE CATTERSON, born 6 August 1872, died 17 December 1936, married CLARENCE PEARL LAYCOCK , 25 May 1896.
INDIANA McKEE, born 28 August 1877, died 24 November 1924, married HARRY HOPKINS , 23 January 1910.

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information provided by ED CATTERSON
CATTERSON FAMILY GENEALOGIST
[email protected]
2/29/2020