Lexington Intelligencer, April 18, 1903 Died, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Metcalf, two miles north-east of Blackburn, Friday, April 10, 1903 Nannie Catron, of old age. Mrs. Catron was the wife of Mr. Christopher Catron who succeeded her in death some 23 years ago. The deceased leaves seven children besides a number of grand children and relatives and the entire community to mourn her loss, for those who knew her say a better woman never lived than Mrs. Catron. All of the children were at the bedside of their mother at death. The names and place of abode are as follows: Mrs. Elizabeth Metcalf, Mrs. Ola Field, Mrs. David P. Groves, of Blackburn, Mrs. John Baldwin, of Dresden, Mo., Mr. A.T. Catron, of Lawton, Okla., Mr. John Catron, Walla Walla, Wash. The deceased was 82 years 8 months and one day old. Funeral service at Blackburn M.E. church. Interment at Blackburn cemetery, Saturday the 11th.
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Lexington Intelligencer, April 18, 1903

Mrs. N.H. Catron Miss Nancy Harrison Gordon was born in Eddyville, Ky., Sept. 8, 1820, at the age of 3 her bather moved his family to Paris, Tenn. In 1830 she moved with them to Lafayette Co., Mo., where she spent the rest of her life. On August 10, 1843 she married Christopher Catron near Lexington, Mo. She joined the church in early girlhood, her fathers home being used as a meeting place for 8 years.

Unto her were eleven children, seven of whom survive her: Mesdames Lizzie Metcalf, Ala Field, Ida Groves, of Blackburn, Mo., Mrs. Lee Baldwin, of Dresden, Mo., Mrs. Carrie Fewel, of El Paso, Texas, John, of Walla Walla, Wash., and Dolph of Lawton, Ok. Beside her children she leaves 26 grandchildren, and one great grandchild, a sister, Mrs. Emily Spratt, of Kansas City, two brothers, Geo. P. Gordon, of Corder, and Brooks Gordon, of St. Joe, to mourn their loss.

She has been a widow 23 years the 5th day of April. After he husbands death she moved to Higginsville with her daughter's family, Mrs. Fewel, after four or five years residence there she moved to her daughters' home, Mrs. Metcalf, where she resided till her death. Two mornings before her death she felt much better, she called her children to her bedside, she looked at them, then said: "Now why don't you stand in the order you were born." She gave them each a blessing and parting message; drawing her sons down to her she asked them to promise her they would join the church and become Christian men, which they did. In her last conscious moments she called for her old slave Harriett, embracing her and feeling her wooly head she said: "You have been a good faithful slave, nursing me and the children through many sicknesses." Not till the last did she forget that the didn't want to be any trouble to her loved ones, always saying thank you for every favor. She gave messages to her grandchildren and their husbands to become Christians, always thoughtful of the one who was dear to her. Her sons-in-law all loved her. Her whole life was an unselfish one. She was the tie that bound these seven families. Now these will scatter. She often said to friends "The Lord has been good to me to let me gather my children around me once more, and now I am ready to go. I pray the Lord may take me quickly and that I many not linger and suffer." The morning before her death she requested her granddaughter to read to her the 90th Psalm; then she said, "I am ready to go to sleep."