She was the daughter of James Brown Pike and Elizabeth Carberry; Catherine died far too young at age 22. Granddaughter of Col. Zebulon Pike, Sr. and Isabella Brown.
Neice of Brigadier General Zebulon Pike, Jr. who was famous for naming Pike's Peak on the Expedition he led into the southwest in the years 1806-07.
Catherine's oldest brother, William Montgomery Pike, named his youngest daughter after his sister. Sadly, William Pike's daughter died in 1847 in the Murphy Cabin, at Donner Lake - Truckee, California ... one of the many victims on the Donner Party of that harsh winter.
She is buried at Greendale Cemetery, Greendale, Dearborn County, Indiana.
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