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LOFTIN:
Beatty
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SETZER:
Aderholdt
Barringer
Bovey
Bushart
Deal
Heavner
Herman
Ikert
Miller
Motz
Rankin
Witherspoon
GOBLE:
Babst/Bobst
Douglas
Faber
Fink
Fulbright
Hefner
Meinhert
Miller
Muller
Pabst/Bobst
Robinson
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Corzine
Fink
Hamilton
Kaiser
Leslie
Lewis
Moore
Sherrill
Upright
Wilkinson
Catawba County History
The Catawba area was part of several counties before it became Catawba County. The Catawba County area was originally part of Rowan County which was formed in 1753 from the northern part of Anson County. In 1777 it was part of Burke County - then in 1779 it was part of Lincoln County (pictured below). There was great celebration when the area became Catawba County in 1842. In the beginning, the county was only slightly populated. It was still part of the frontier. There were, perhaps, two hundred people living in Newton. Hickory's only building was a tavern at a crossroads. The people who stopped at the tavern were only there to change stagecoaches, water their horses or get something to eat."
Catawba County & Its Eight Townships Established in 1868
Most of the Loftins lived in Cline, Catawba/Hamilton and Mountain Creek Townships
Catawba was named for the Catawba tribe of Native Americans who once inhabited the area.
The present land area is 399.97 square miles. Catawba County is boarded by Alexander County (north), Iredell County (east), Lincoln County (south), Burke County (west) and Caldwell County (northwest. The county is divided into eight townships; Bandy's Caldwell, Catawba, Clines, Hickory, Jacobs Fork, Mountain Creek, Newton, and Longview. Cities, towns and communities in Catawba County include Brookford, Catawba, Claremont, Conover, Hickory, Lake Norman, Maiden, Mountain View, Newton, Sherrills Ford, Longview, St. Stevens and Vale.
A person blessed with longevity could have been born in Rowan County in 1753, married in Burke County in 1778, fathered children in the counties of Burke and Lincoln in the 1780s and died in 1842 during Catawba County's formation year while living on the same land all the while. His land simply became part of the new counties as they were formed.
