Background
Warfield, Catherine Ann Ware was born on June 6, 1816 in Natchez, Mississippi, United States. Daughter of Nathaniel A. and Sarah (Percy) Ellis Ware.
Warfield, Catherine Ann Ware was born on June 6, 1816 in Natchez, Mississippi, United States. Daughter of Nathaniel A. and Sarah (Percy) Ellis Ware.
Lived most of her adult life on husband’s estate near Louisville, Kentucky. One of 1st important female novelists from South. Wrote poetry (with Sister), including The Wife of Leon, and Other Poems, by Two Sisters of the West, 1844, The Indian Chamber, and Other Poems, 1846.
Published poetry showing Confederate sympathies in Emily V.
Mason’s Southern Poems of the War, 1867.
Married Robert Elisha Warfield, 1833.