Which is your ancestor?? Margaret or Marinda Bridget Weaver Casteel?
Nita
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How do I get a copy of the bio? She is my ancestor, too.
Sister Swanson
In a message dated 3/31/2009 2:10:20 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
n5bry(a)aol.com writes:
According to other people's research, Margaret Jane Casteel is the sister of
my James Nowlin Casteel who married Marinda Bridget Weaver.? They settled in
San Bernardino Co., CA.? I have limited information on this family supplied
others.
We are weathering a couple of medical semi-crisis situations.? Will try to
get back on this next week.
Nita Fry
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Sent: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 2:50 pm
Subject: [CASTEEL] Bio Margaret Jane Casteel daughter of Jacob Israel
Casteel and Sarah Nowlin
Margaret Jane CASTEEL
An undated photo of Margaret Jane Casteel, first wife of William D.
Kartchner. ?
Essentials
Born: 1 September 1825; Cooper County, Missouri
Daughter of: Jacob Israel CASTEEL and Sarah NOWLIN
Married: William Decatar KARTCHNER; 21 March 1844; Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois
Died: 11 August 1881; Snowflake, Navajo, Arizona
Page contents
One-minute history
Longer biography
BY DARYL JAMES
FROM 'JAMES/HATCH ONE MINUTE HISTORIES' (1994)
? ? Margaret Jane Casteel was born Sept. 1, 1825, in Cooper County,
Missouri.
She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Pike County,
Illinois, at 14 and moved to Nauvoo sometime during her teens. In Nauvoo she
met
William Decatar Kartchner and married him on March 21, 1844, at 18.
? ? She and William began a westward journey in September 1844, but went
only as
far as Iowa City that year. They spent the winter in Iowa doing work to
build
rations but finally returned east in March 1845 due to lack of supplies.
? ? Their rations dwindled to one ear of corn per day per person on this
return
trip, and in this condition they walked in water and mud up the Iowa River.
Margaret and William turned west across a large prairie toward Sioux country
and
traveled this direction until some Frenchmen and Sioux came to their wagon
and
invited them to camp near their fort. The Sioux pointed to Margaret's and
William's cheeks, realizing how near starvation they were, and gave them
dried
buffalo meat and roasted corn. A Frenchman, M. Henrie, allowed the
Kartchners to
stay with him on the condition Margaret would cook while his Sioux wife was
away. The Kartchners gladly took this kind offer and stayed with M. Henrie
until
July 1845, when the chance came for them to go on a steamboat down the
Missouri
River to St. Louis. In the spring of 1846, the Kartchners joined a company
of
pioneers in St. Louis headed for the Rocky Mountains.
? ? William and Margaret spent the winter of 1846-47 in Pueblo, Colorado,
where
they had their first child. This baby, Sarah Emma, was the first caucasian
born
in the territory of Colorado. Finally, on July 27, 1847, the young family
arrived in the Salt Lake Valley -- just three days after the company of
Brigham
Young.
? ? Around 1850 Brigham Young asked the Kartchners to help settle San
Bernardino, Calif., and the family crossed the Mohave Desert to the coast.
By
this time William and Margaret had two girls and a boy. They lived near San
Bernardino about seven years until Brigham Young called the Mormons in the
area
back to Utah near the end of 1857. Margaret's parents had immigrated to San
Bernardino but chose to stay behind.
? ? On the journey back to Utah Margaret gave birth to Alzada Sophia, her
seventh child. Her joy was short-lived, however, because the next day her
two-year-old son James Peter died while the family was still camped.
Margaret
had already lost her eldest son, William Ammon, in San Bernar-dino, and the
pain
of losing James Peter was great. She refused to have him buried in the
middle of
the desert away from civilization, so William placed the body in a large
milk
urn and sealed the top. They carried the urn on the wagon the rest of the
trip
and buried James Peter in the urn at their new home in Beaver City, Utah.
The
Kartchners later spent a short time in Nevada and then moved again to Utah
around 1870.
? ? During these years Margaret had four more children, giving her and
William a
total of 11; however, of these 11, only eight lived to adulthood. Margaret
was
always busy raising chickens, spinning, weaving, and putting up fruit.
? ? In 1877, the Church called the Kartchners to help settle Arizona, and
they
responded by moving to Snow-flake, Ariz. By this time Margaret had spent 34
years helping to colonize four western territories; she had walked thousands
of
miles behind slow, plodding oxen with no roads to follow and only a wagon
box
for her home. Now, in Snowflake, she hoped to have a haven of rest. A
permanent
home was built, but Margaret lived only three years to enjoy it. She died in
Snowflake on Aug. 11, 1881, at age 56.
-- Sources: 1. "Margaret Jane Casteel Kartchner." Pioneer Women of Arizona,
pps.
291-295. (On record at Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University,
Provo,
Utah; BX8670.07.C579p). 2. 1992 interview with Merle Kartchner Shumway, a
great-granddaughter of Mary Ann Argyle who helped publish John Henry
Standifird's journal (interview took place in Provo, Utah). 3. Descendants
of
George Palmer and Phoebe Draper, pps. 445-461. (On record at Harold B. Lee
Library, BYU, Provo, Utah.)
Chart 18:
Margaret Jane CASTEEL
Margaret Jane CASTEEL
BORN: 1 Sep 1825
MAR: W.D. KARTCHNER
DIED: 11 Aug 1881
See CHART 2
Jacob Israel CASTEEL
BORN: 1797;
Knox, Tennessee
MAR: 1818
DIED: May 1860
Sarah NOWLIN
BORN: 23 Dec 1799;
Cooper, Missouri
DIED: 4 Aug 1892;
Banning, River., CA
Francis CASTEEL
BORN: About 1755;
Knox County, TN
MAR: Knox, TN
DIED: Jan-Apr 1833
Mary
BORN: About 1755;
Knox County, TN
DIED: After Mar 1831;
Knox, Tennessee
Lewis (Louis) HUFFMAN
BORN: About 1762;
St. Clair County, IL
MAR: 4 Aug 1785
DIED: Mar 1825; IL
Sallie S. WHITESIDES
BORN: 1760;
Rutherford County, NC
DIED: Unknown;
Monroe, Illinois
Edmund CASTEEL
BORN: About 1713
See CHART 149
Rebecca
BORN: About 1716;
Prince Georges, MD
John Isaac NOWLIN
BORN: About 1717
See CHART 153
Sarah
BORN: About 1721
Wexford, Ireland
William WHITESIDES
BORN: Between 1710-18
See CHART 155
Elizabeth STOCKTON
BORN: 1720, Virginia
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