Biography

Matilda Childress Catron was the wife of John Catron, Supreme Court Justice from 1837 to 1865. She is the daughter of Elizabeth and Joel Childress. She knew Andrew Jackson familiarly as a child, and supposedly she is the one who asked Andrew Jackson to appoint him to the Supreme Court while he was president. John and Elizabeth had no children together, and instead upon her death she bequethed a house, thousands of dollars in stocks, and a separate property to her African American servant, Pauline Robertson.