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Catherine Self (daughter of Presley Self and Amelia Gunter) was born 1790 in Old Cherokee Nation, Alabama, and died 1859 in Smith County, Texas.She married (1) Robert H. Little.She married (2) Perry Tunnell on 1807 in Green, Tenn., son of Stephen Tunnell and Kezia Money.
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Catherine Self was married to Perry Tunnell and they had twelve children. When Perry died, she married Robert Little, who had fourteen children from a previous marriage.Catherine and Robert then had two children one of which was Celia Little, mother to Thomas Jackson Howell.The children of Thomas Jackson Howell and Willie Josephine Tunnell can claim Catherine Self as their great Grand Mother through the Howell side, or as their great great Grand Mother through the Tunnell side.Natural mother to fourteen, and step mother to fourteen more means that a lot of people can claim kinship to Catherine Self in one way or another.
She is buried at Gelena, but the grave cannot be located.A man named Jess Starr used the cemetery as a place to feed his hogs, and all of the tombstones were destroyed.
More About Catherine Self:
Burial: Unknown, Unmarked grave in Galena, Texas.
More About Catherine Self and Perry Tunnell:
Marriage: 1807, Green, Tenn..
Children of Catherine Self and Robert H. Little are:
  1. Martha Little, b. Abt. 1833, Alabama, d. date unknown.
  2. +Celia C. Little, b. April 15, 1835, CoosaCounty, Alabama, d. January 02, 1902, Van ZandtCounty, Texas.

Children of Catherine Self and Perry Tunnell are:
  1. Jessee Tunnell, b. Abt. 1808, Alabama, d. date unknown.
  2. Mahulda Tunnell, b. September 27, 1810, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, d. August 29, 1885, Van Zandt County, Texas.
  3. James Tunnell, b. June 12, 1812, d. date unknown.
  4. Elisha Tunnell, b. April 13, 1814, Alabama, d. March 25, 1884, Comanche,County, Texas.
  5. +Enoch Tunnell, b. January 20, 1816, Alabama, d. December 09, 1879, Texas.
  6. Josiah Tunnell, b. 1818, d. date unknown.
  7. Stephen Tunnell, b. Abt. 1819, d. date unknown.
  8. Nancy Tunnell, b. 1821, d. date unknown.
  9. John Wesley Tunnell, b. 1822, d. date unknown.
  10. Mary Tunnell, b. Abt. 1824, d. date unknown.
  11. Elizabeth Tunnell, b. Abt. 1826, d. date unknown.