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About Catherine Gold
Catee Gold BIRTH unknown DEATH 30 Sep 1742 BURIAL Old Congregational Burying Ground Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA MEMORIAL ID 20847717 · View Source
MEMORIAL PHOTOS 2 FLOWERS 1 Daughter of ye Revd. Mr. Hezekiah & Mrs. Mary Gold in ye 18 year of her Age
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From page 1103 of A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City Bridgeport ..., Volume 2 By Samuel Orcutt
Catee Gold, the second daughter of the Rev. Hezekiah Gold, was born at the Stratford parsonage, August 31, 1725. All the traditions speak of her remarkable beauty. Her long hair, loosened, fell to her ankles.
The minister's salary was small and his family large. The elder girls at the parsonage must have led a busy life. There was always a delicate mother and every year or two a new baby. Once a little girl died and was laid to rest in the large burial-place which skirted the minister's farm. The tract had been but recently laid out and there were not many graves in it then. The child was buried in the corner nearest her father's house, and the other children in their daily work and play looked through the rail fence at their dead sister's little grave.
On the Monday afternoon, October 27, 1740, when Whitefield preached on the steps of the meetinghouse on Meetinghouse (now Academy) Hill, Catee Gold was one of his listeners. The church record states that his sermon was blessed to the conversion of many souls. Catee was numbered among the "converts." She was then fifteen years old, a bright, gay hearted girl.
Many joyous days were gathered into her brief life. She was engaged to be married to a young minister, the pastor of a neighboring church, who at one time had studied with Mr. Gold, according to the custom of the day.
Then came the end - a heavy cold near the close of the winter, hemorrhage, and quick consumption. On the 30th of September, 1742, Catee Gold was dying. A message had been sent for her lover, and when he came on that last day, she unclasped from her neck the string of Gold beads which her grandmother had brought from England and gave them to him at parting.
No tie was strong enough to make her cling to life. With the same gladness with which she had met the joys of life she turned from them to the world beyond. The old people who used to tell the story always said "She died triumphant."
In the course of years her lover married and had sons and daughters. One by one wife and children passed away, and the close of the old man's life was spent among his grandchildren. After his death one of them found clasped around his neck the quaint beads which Catee Gold had given him a half century before.
Molly Gold, the eldest daughter of Rev. Hezekiah Gold, was married a few years after Catee's death, and among hep- descendants, even to the present day, the eldest daughter of the family has been called, according to the fashion prevailing at the time, Catee, or Catharine, in memory of the young girl who died in 1742. On the spot where Catee Gold lived and died there plays to-day a Catharine ol the sixth generation.
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Catherine Gold's Timeline
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August 31, 1725
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Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut
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September 30, 1742
Age 17
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Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut
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Old Congregational Burying Ground, Stratford, Fairfield County, CT, United States
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