Catherine died of pneumonia in Osu, the village attached to Fort Christiansborg, on 14 January 1891, and was buried there the same day. She was the last of the 1843 group from Jamaica to have passed away at a Mission location. Her tombstone gives her date of birth as 19 November 1826, but that has been contested: in the light of the dense detail and quality of her recollections, as recorded in Zimmermann's 1852 letter to the Basel Mission, and the relative ages of her siblings, it would mean that she was only six years of age when she was kidnapped. Zimmerman's letter cites her saying that she was 13 years old at that time, meaning that she was born in 1820 and aged over 70 when she passed away.  
Catherine's narrative of her life as a child in Africa and on the ship indicates a lively intelligence and a highly observant mind, alive to the details of her surroundings. On the other hand, she endured the difficult challenges and went on to become a pioneer in the bringing of new knowledge to communities in Jamaica and West Africa; there were several wrenching separations - from relatives, from familiar places, from husbands - but she had the courage and strength of character to overcome them and exercise agency as she navigated the difficulties towards the spiritual and material satisfaction that she had always worked for. One hopes that she was able in her latter days to attain peace of mind and a sense of pride in her accomplishments and her noble life of sharing. Her life story illustrates, among many other things, the sometimes serendipitous nature of personal and historical events and the tremendous potential talent of the individual that can be realized if placed in favourable circumstances.  
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[^0]:    11 See the extract of a letter from Br. John Collis, dated 31 December 1834 in Periodical Accounts relating to the Missions of the Church of the United Brethren Established among the Heathen, Vol. 13, p. 230. Published for Brethren's Society for the Furtherance of the Gospel among the Heathen.