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Surnames: Grasty,Grastie, Cagle,Webb,McClure,Rathbone
Classification: Query
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I have just read with interst most of the Queries for these names. Ulysses Manson Grastie
was my gr uncle, He and his 2nd wife Minnie Sizemore raised my mother after her fathers
death. Ulysses is from Haywood Cty, NC. He is brother of my GrGrandfather, James Robert
Grasty and Oscar P Grastie of Maggie Vally NC. Their father was William Fifer Grasty. I
have much information on the family that I have gathered over the last thirty years.
Dee Merritt published a book about twenty years ago about the Grasty family, I believe she
is now deceased as I have not heard from her in many years.
The Grasty family of NC married and intermarried many times with the Webb, McClure, Cagle,
and Rathbone families of the same area.
The eldest member of the family in NC that I know of was James Grasty of Clyde, who
passed away several years ago.
He had a number of brothers and sisters. I can only remember one brothers name, Fred.
His parents were Garret Hobert Grasty and Maggie Messer.
I met many of these folks and have written down every conversation with them.
I am willing to share what I have.