Alicia,
Thanks for the info on your line.
I had seen the info about Dempsey having the first store or business in
McMinn Co. Also found where a William Casey signed a Petition desiring mill
to be built for the accommodation of community - 15 Sept 1825.
I know Dempsey had left Tennessee by 1850 but the name Dempsey Casey appears
in the Inventory of the Estate of N. C. Frazier August 1850 in Rhea Co., TN
- Account on Dempsey Casey 2.50. Another Dempsey?
Do you know anything about an A. S. Casey who was in McMinn Co. in 1855. I
have a note that in the Will (May 1855) of Henry M. Sloop????? (Can't read
that last name Geeze what was I drinking when I wrote that - could be any
name that starts with an "S") he names a son James who had a daughter Eliza
who married A. S. Casey and she had died (obviously before 1855) leaving L.
C. Casey her only child. On the 1860 McMinn Co census I found an A. Cazey age
21 from NC and in the household Elizabeth 50, Melmoth 17, Jane E. 23 and
Lucinda 12. Also another household with John A. Cazy 21 from Tenn with Mary
J. 21 and Clarissa M. 1. Only thing I could find that comes close to a Casey.
Again thanks for the info on Dempsey.
OK folks I now have 4 layers of Casey material (one on top of the other)
scattered over 3 rooms - SC on the bottom then Virginia, Tennessee and
Missouri. I'm digging back down to SC where I started and I should have
stayed! :-)
Vonda
In a message dated 1/23/2003 8:44:45 PM Central Standard Time,
alicia(a)brightok.net writes:
Vonda,
I have researched our Dempsey Casey for five years. I have cousins that
have
researched our line for forty years. I just paid a certified genealogist to
thoroughly go through the McMinn records and see what she could find and
NONE of us have been able to connect Dempsey Casey b. 1798 son of Dempsey
Casey b. 1762 with the other lines in McMinn.
I know there are two young men listed in the 1840 census in his household
that cannot be explained.
I have been working the records in Currituck and Pasquotank Co. NC to see
if
the Pasquotank Casey's would connect with him and then try the McMinn Casey
lines again, but so far no luck.
Dempsey was listed as one of the first businessmen in the area, a Sadler.
If
we could find out about his second wife Dicy Martin, then possibly we could
get a lead there, but out of all the children and their descendents , no
one
was told more than her name. I research with three other lines of Dempsey
and Dicy Martin Casey's children, one, her family has taken care of the
headstone of Dempsey Casey for years. He is buried in Raglesville cemetery
in Davies Co. IN. He left Athens, TN after the birth of his youngest child
Louisa-she was born in May of 1849. He is found in the Greene Co. IN census
in 1850.
Dempsey and Dicy's oldest daughter Mary Chauncy married a Crossland before
her parents left the state and did not go with them but migrated to
Georgia.
The 160 acres of land he seems to have just left unsold or gifted , the
researcher I hired tried to trace and we came up empty handed.
We can traced Dempsey's brother Martin Ross to Davidson Co. TN and on to
Kentucky. I can trace his older brother Thomas C. Casey to Nashville in
1829
and then lose him. One brother Graham stayed in Norfolk until he died of
yellow fever in 1855. Three other brothers William b. 1794, William born
1806 and Frederick b. 1809.....are unproven theories.
Of course the names John, James and William run through the family so that
always helps the Casey research.
Sorry I couldn't help .
Alicia