Cato Mead

Cato Mead

Cato Mead (Meed)

The only known Black Revolutionary War veteran buried west of the Mississippi River, Cato Mead (ca. 1761-1846; also spelled Meed) is buried in or near Montrose, Iowa. According to historian Barbara MacLeish, who is researching a book on Mead, he joined the 4th Connecticut Regiment commanded by Col. John Durkee of Norwich, Connecticut in 1776 or 1777. It is not entirely clear if he was a former slave. He served at Valley Forge from December 1777 through June 1778, where he contracted smallpox, spending two months in a Pennsylvania hospital. ["Des Moines Register", http://www.libertyfunddc.org/a_soldiers_true_color_dreg.htm] It is not known why he migrated to Iowa. While his exact grave location is unknown, a marker stands at the Montrose Cemetery.

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