Colleen:
I'm now a bit confused.
I have always believed that the Barney Casteel in Union County Georgia was
the son of the Edmond Casteel who was from Blount Co TN and who had died in
about 1831 in McMinn County TN. Do you have something concrete to tie Barney
to Meshack? I think you are referring to the same Barney Casteel (b. abt.
1787) who is found in
Monroe Co TN in 1830;
Cherokee Co NC in 1840;
Union Co GA in 1850;
Cherokee Co NC in 1860 as :-
Barny Casteel age 71, b, Blount Co TN
Harriet J. age 30, b. Buncombe Co NC
Dicy J., age 6, b. Union Co GA
Jasper S., age 2, b. Union Co GA
Barny S., age 1 b. Union Co GA
Some of us believe that the young Harriet J. Casteel in 1860 is Harriet
Janie Simpson, and that the marriage record in Union County Georgia lists Barney
as Benny:
CASTILE, Benny married SIMSON, Jane 28 Apr 1853.
This would indicate that Mary died between 1850 and 1853, and that Barney
followed the pattern of his father and married a vastly younger woman, and that
she bore him three children after he was 66 years old. Personally, I
believe that Barney's first wife, Mary, was probably an Indian woman.
Below is an abstract of the notorious court case wherein Barney and siblings
challenged the will of their father, Edmond. -- Jim Patrick
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From a Chancery court suit filed 25 May 1855 (abstract)
Complaint of L.M. Stansbury and wife Melissa Standsbury formerly Melissa
Casteel, citizen of Roane Co., Tn., and James Casteel a citizen of Anderson Co.,
Tn, married to Luticia Messamore; VS. Pearson Elliott, John Harrell, Barney
and Morris Casteel, John Jackson and wife Mary..
James S.and Melissa were infants when their father died, and attained their
majority only within the last two years; in an amended petition the following
people were added as heirs; Abraham Casteel, Willis Casteel, and Nancy
Casteel - citizens of McMinn Co.
In 1855 the following allegations were made. Complainants charged that
Edmond Casteel made a will which was stolen from Hezakiah Randolph, who had the
will for safe keeping and that said will gave his land to the two children by
Elizabeth. That their older brother sold the land to Elliott and Harrell, and
they and John Jack, William Martin, Pleasant Stubblefield, claim the land
Edmond deeded part of his land in his will for a meeting
house and grave yard.
In 1855 Harrell and Elliott, charge that James S. Casteel is of mixed blood,
a son of a colored man, and not of sound mind. That Elliott, never owned any
of the Casteel land, but owns land which has come through
ownership of Joseph J. Elliott, Burrough Bucker, Levi B. Hunt and Hezekiah
Randolph, who was granted the land.
In 1857, witness William C. Randolph, age thirty, seven, deposes that he is
the son of Hezekiah Randolph, who died July 1856; that the land is owned by
Harrell, and ALEXANDER Casteel lives upon it; but it has changed hands several
times; that he saw the will of Edmond, which was stolen from his
father.
In 1857, witness Elizabeth Case, age 84, deposed at the house of Matthew
Daugherty, that Edmond died, "the day the sun was in the clips"; that she was
there when the will was made; that she heard of the misconduct of Elizabeth
Casteel and Rollins, a colored man, and that she was at Casteels
one day, when the old man waked up and asked his granddaughter where
Elizabeth was, and the girl said, " she was hunting a goose, and the old man said -
gander."
In 1857 witness Jonathan Kelly, age 78; John Elliott, age 80; Nathan Kelly
Sr., age 69; and Edward Manery, age 70; deposed as to the intimacy, both before
and after Edmund's death, of Edmund's wife Elizabeth with Rollins Carter,
whose mother was a colored woman.
J
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In a message dated 6/15/2008 1:17:06 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
colleenlopez(a)yahoo.com writes:
Hello cousins, it has been quite a night. I have found and proved our
ancestry to Edmond Du Castell b. 1635, he was father to Edmond Du Castell b.1660,
father to Edmond Casteel 1684(I read he changed his name to Casteel. (it might
be because his father was pirate hired by Queen Ann) father to Edmond
Casteel b.1713, father to Meshach Casteel b.1739, father to Barney Casteel b. 1787
(got this off of a Georgia census where they must have lived briefly), father
to Robert Casteel/ile b.1844, father to Robert T. Castile b.1871, father to
Allen Castile b. 1897, father to Allen Castile b. 1917 deceased now.
How is that? I have searched for years to find this. I hope it can help some
of you. Please contact me for records.
Thanks Colleen (a descendant of Castile)
Colleen Lopez <colleenlopez(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
This census also shows the children to be born in Tn. My Robert
Castile/Casteel moved to Mo. later. 1850 United States Federal Census
about Barney Casteel
Name: Barney Casteel Age: 63 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1787 Birth Place:
Tennessee Gender: Male Home in 1850(City,County,State): District 85, Union,
Georgia Household Members: Name Age Barney Casteel 63 Charles Casteel 19 James
Casteel 22 Jesse Casteel 27 Mary Casteel 60 Robert Casteel 20 Sophia Casteel 28
William Casteel 15
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