My husband's Casey ancestor is:
Hilliard John Casey b 1813 South Carolina b Benton Co., MS
md place/date unknown
Ruth Hicks
They were in Hardeman Co., TN when their first children
were born.
I do not know who his parents are. My mother-in-law
says his father was Randolph Casey and grandfather was
Moses Casey and gr grandfather was John Casey but I
can not prove any of this.
peggy
David L. Casey wrote:
Greetings Casey cousins,
I and several other researchers have been searching for a number of
years for the father of our "earliest recorded" Casey ancestor, James
Hill Casey b. 1813 in Spartanburg, SC. His descendancy is the subject
or at least starting-off point for my website at
http://www.casey-genealogy.com <
http://www.casey-genealogy.com/> We
know Jas. H. Casey was in Wayne Co., Tennessee by 1830, and married Jane
Turnbow there in 1832. The family later moved on to Texas in 1851
(Williamson Co.)
Recently I received a document from my cousin Michael Casey that was in
essence an obituary but was really a "memorial" to Jas. H. Casey at his
death. The document is online at this address:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~caseytexas/gifs902/jhc/jhcaseyo
bit.jpg
In the document it says that James H. Casey moved to Wayne Co.,
Tennessee in 1817 with his family. Somehow I guess we thought he may
have come to TN only later, but with this new clue, I looked at the 1820
census for Wayne Co., TN.
The
ancestry.com images online is very useful and I pulled it up online
at home. The index showed no Casey surnames in that county, but as the
indexes aren't always completely reliable, I scanned the entire census
for the county. On image #11 out of 13 (fortunately there weren't tons
of enumeration districts/townships or for that matter images) and found
an Abner Casey on line 2 of the top page of this census document. Just
above and below his name were familiar names (Turnbough and Powell) that
are names of James H. Casey's wife's (Jane Turnbow) family, etc. I
thought I'd hit the mother lode. But, that Abner Casey had no male
child under 10. Shucks!
HOWEVER, on the same image, but on the next "page" of names, fourth from
the bottom was ANOTHER Abner Casey, who indeed had a male child under
10! His age was between 26-45, and there were two females under 10 and
(presumably) the wife who was listed as 16-26.
IF the document I have is reliable (i.e. James Hill Casey was in Wayne
Co., TN by 1817) and they stayed in that county (which is probably since
he met and married Jane Turnbow in that county some 13-15 years later),
then I'd say this Abner Casey HAS to be the father of James Hill Casey,
or the evidence is needless to say overwhelming.
I have always assumed that my James Hill Casey, being born in 1813 in
Spartanburg, SC was somehow connected to the Abner Casey clan of CFA
fame (i.e. the Abner Casey who immigrated from County Tyrone ca. 1727),
but this somehow only seals that even more.
Anyone have knowledge of a younger Abner Casey who was in Tennessee?
I'd like to connect him back to the South Carolina Caseys. The 1810
Spartanburg Co, TN census doesn't have an Abner Casey on the index, but
perhaps the index isn't complete, OR perhaps this Abner was still in the
household of his father in 1810?
Thanks for any help, and I'm hoping I've just found the hole in my brick
wall!
David L. Casey
http://www.casey-genealogy.com <
http://www.casey-genealogy.com/>
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