The link is through
Ancestry.com (requires membership)
If you'd like I can send copies.
On Jun 4, 2009, at 6:06 AM, Marge wrote:
Priscilla, do you have a copy of the book or a link on the net where
the entire biographies can be read?
Marge
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From: Priscilla Engeman
To: CASTEEL ROOTSWEB ; CasteelPrivateers
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 7:45 AM
Subject: [CasteelPrivateers] Jeremiah>Thomas>Franklin MD>OH>IL>IN
I would like to know who Jeremiah's father and mother were:
Below is a portion of a biography of:
Robert Marion CASTEEL (Sarah BENEFIELD), son of
Franklin CASTEEL (Martha Ann DUNLAVY), grandson of
Thomas CASTEEL (Elizabeth WALTAMYRE), gr grandson of
Jeremiah CASTEEL ( ? ).
In the same book is a biography of his nephew, Frank G. CASTEEL, son
of James T. (Olivia J. Taylor) who was the son of Franklin (Martha
Ann Dunlavy).
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"A History of Clay County, Indiana: closing of the first century's
history of the county, and showing the growth of its people. Vol.
II. History of Clay County" Page 361
ROBERT MARION CASTEEL -- A well known farmer, active and
enterprising, Robert M. Casteel is pleasantly located in Van Buren
township, where he is successfully employed in agricultural
pursuits, having a well improved and well managed homestead. A son
of Franklin Casteel, he was born May 2, 1848, in Madison county,
Indiana, about a mile from the village of Elwood. His grandfather,
Thomas Casteel, and his great-grandfather, Jeremiah Casteel, were
both natives of Maryland, Thomas having been born in the extreme
southwest [note: I think it's possible this is an error and was
actually the extreme NORTHwest] corner of that state. Jeremiah
Casteel, who was an iron worker by trade, moved from Maryland to
Ohio, and there died at the home of his son Thomas in the eighty-
sixth year of his age. He married a bonnie Scotch lassie who came
to Maryland from Scotland when a child.
Thomas Casteel grew to manhood in his native state, down in the
southwest corner [note: possibly northwest], and in after years used
to say that when a boy he frequently went out before breakfast and
ran around the boundary stone breathing the fresh air of three
different states [note: possibly MD/VA/PA]. At the age of twenty two
years he migrated to Ohio, and six years later married. Buying then
a farm located about four miles from Zanesville, he resided there a
number of years and then came to Indiana, stopping first, for a
year, at Greenfield. Settling in Madison county in 1840, he
purchased land near Elwood, and lived there until 1861. Selling out,
he removed to Edgar county, Illinois, purchased a farm, and there
spent the remainder of his life, dying in 1876, in the eighty-fourth
year of his age. He married Elizabeth Waltamyre, who was born near
Zanesville, Ohio, a daughter of Amos Waltamyre, a native of Germany.
Mr. Waltamyre was a batter by trade, and also owned and operated a
pottery near Zanesville for awhile. He subsequently purchased a farm
near there, and that is now owned by one of his sons. His wife's
maiden name was Mercer. Thomas Casteel's wife survived him four
years, dying at the age of seventy-nine years. She was the mother of
eleven children, all of whom married and had children.
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It goes on to tell more about Franklin Casteel and wife, Martha Ann
Dunlavy, and the subject of this bio, Robert Marion Casteel and
Sarah Benefield, his wife.
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