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Most genealogies suggest that they had 12 children. However the 1850 obituary of their son, William, states that he, the eldest, was predeceased by 4 siblings and survived by 6 for a total of only 11 children. This was either erroneous arithmetic or one of the children on the usual lists must be removed. It is doubtful that they had both a daughter named Elizabeth (born ~1809) and another named Eliza in 1812 when the first was still alive. Their first child, William, was born when Catharine was a 19-year-old: their last, Melissa, when she was 39. |