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Author: miatkins1
Surnames: Casterline, Stout, Coon, Castle, Hall, Gallow, Grover
Classification: queries
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Looking for any information on Naomi Casterline here's what I do know:
Naomi was either born 17 Apr 1903 in Shiloh, Maine or Ithaca, New York. Supposedly to
James Henry Casterline and Wealthy May Hall.
Naomi has FOUR older siblings Dora Elizabeth, Nina Ruth, Dwight Hall, Bertha May.
Naomi does not appear in the 1910 census with her family or soon to be adopted family.
Naomi's mother dies 10 Feb 1912 and is buried with her parents under her maiden name.
Naomi's father remarries 28 June 1912 to Nettie M (nee Gallow) Grover, she is
widowed.
Naomi at age 10 is given up for adoption by her father after he remarries and starts a new
family with Nettie M (nee Gallow) Grover widowed, of note he keeps Naomi's younger
brother. She is adopted to Wilmer and Lillian Stout on 20 Sep 1913, Tompkins County, New
York.
Of other note her younger brother James Daniel Casterline is born 18 Feb 1905 in Durham,
Androscoggin, Maine and is listed as the FIFTH Child born to the parents. Naomi should
have been the fifth child.
Naomi appears in the 1915 and 1920 census with her adoptive parents.
Naomi marries 18 Oct 1923 Jamestown New York and list herself as Naomi Castle Stout on the
marriage certificate and as being born in Shiloh Maine. She married Lester Orville Coon.
From this point on she goes by the name Naomi C Coon who was born in
Maine on all census from 1930, 1940, 1945. However on the 1945 Florida census she is
listed as Catherine. Don't know where that came from.
Naomi dies in 1965.
I have three ideas that I am pondering:
1. She is not the biological child of James Henry Casterline and Wealthy May Hall. They
either took her in somewhere from birth to age ten, via adoption, or as a guardian for a
relative child or ??? then adopted to away, so she was adopted twice.
2. The birth record for her is either missing, filed wrong or the name terrible
misspelled. Her younger brother James Daniel Casterline's birth record was translated
as Castulin in the Maine records.
3. She was born in a different state, while her parents were traveling to or from Maine
and New York.
If anyone can help I'd love to hear from you, Thanks
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