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I have quite a bit of information on the Casterline from Blackford Co., IN. I do not
have who the parents of Loammi were but not sure any of us have that. Mine was mostly
that information which appeared in the newspapers years ago in Blackford Co., IN. I have
some cemetery pictures of Phineas Casterline grave etc. in Steuben Co., NY. Got a
descendant of him by pure surprise. Chasing down my Wixsom line is a story that might max
a computer. You notice my e-mail name. Well cannot find what happened to my
great-grandfather Smith Wixsom but the research had yielded lawsuits etc. and a lot of
help from others. The cemetery pictures in Steuben Co., NY. was in 2000 my sister and I
etc. went to Steuben Co., NY to find Wixom-PePew cemetery which is up Reservoir Hill Rd.
where Isaiah Wixsom 1801-1856, son of Shuble Wixsom of Blackford Co., IN is buried. Well
as you start up the hill it is steep etc. and my sister had had two strokes and she
claimed the car would not take the!
incline and we creeped up with me talking all the way. Was not sure if the car would not
make it or she was just scared. Well we never found the cemetery do to my bad preparation
as I expected it to be next to the house on Reservoir Hill Rd. just past Wixom Rd. put
then we found out it was in the woods across the road but she would not go back up the
hill to look. So came home disappointed, got on the computer and a man from Steuben Co.
offered to get me pictures of Isaiah's tombstone and just happened that he was
descended from Phineas Casterline. Do not know a lot about him otherwise but got my
pictures. Well last Sept. went to Brimfield, Ma. for flea markets and made my husband go
by way of Steuben Co. and then we went up Reservoir Hill Rd. and we found the cemetery
about 280 steps from the road down in the woods. Wanted to take picture of me with the
Wixom Rd. sign as Wixsom my maiden name, but the camera would not work. So made him take
me down Wixom Rd. whic!
h is not paved and into the cemetery just in case I never got back up there. Did go down
into Hammondsport though and get a camera so got a Wixom Rd. picture but did not go back
into the cemetery or down Wixom Rd. again. So I did get to see Wixom Rd. which starts out
as an unpaved road through the woods and then 2 houses on the right and one trailer on the
left and then looks like the road, more like a path might go further put somewhat weed
grown. Got to see Wixom-DePew cemetery and Isaiah's stone which is laying on the
ground and looks like a mower or something ran over it but did not stay long in the woods.
Was not sure if they have bear or such up there in what is a state forest. Did not find
the cemetery where Phineas Casterline is buried but that supposed to be up another road
which starts at a steep incline and then one portion had a drop off and I though if we
went over the cliff, I might roll all the way into Keuka Lake. I do not like water. When
I was with m!
y sister the road to where Phineas Casterline is supposed to be buried started out as a
steep incline and my sister said no way and took the road next to Keuka Lake. I do not
like water and first opportunity I could find had her turn the car around. Some of the
hill and water genes of ancestors lacking in these descendants of flat land Toledo, Ohio
area. Not sure that we will get on many cemetery etc. tours again. My sister is having
trouble with her knee and thinks most likely a knee replacement is in the works. I have
arthritis also. My husband is not really interested in genealogy. He was glad when my
sister would take me but age and health are running against us. If I ever found Smith
Wixsom's burial though would use ever ounce of energy I could to visit the grave. Got
my sister poison ivy in 1998 either at Carver cemetery in Madison Co., weeds bust high, or
maybe when we were looking for the burial of Eliza Wixsom Casterline but the cemetery we
were in then was!
mowed but my sister went to one side and I the other. We did not find the name so not
sure if it was Elizabethtown cemetery. If we were in the correct cemetery, then it would
appear a tombstone for
Eliza Wixsom Casterline does not exist anymore but then we could have been in a wrong
cemetery since I could find no name and when in Blackford Co. thought I saw a picture that
had Elizabethtown cemetery in a stone entrance picture. Afraid I do not always get my
directions down good. Have found that you had better take the pages of people buried
there as lists and what exist today do not always seem to match. Probably a number of
stones that made the lists, now gone. I was hoping that maybe Smith Wixsom was buried by
Eliza. His second wife, Sarah Wheeler Payne Wixsom is buried in Converse Cemetery and
probably he is there somewhere but can find no record. Sarah did live in Reed Station
though which is in Delaware Co. before Converse though it appears. They moved so much
that Smith Wixsom could be anywhere. Of their marriage, Sarah says JP dead, records
burned, no living witness, this in Civil War records of her first husband Daniel Payne
that came up missing in the C!
ivil War. Eliza Wixsom Casterline's parents I have as Shuble and Mary Elizabeth Smith
Wixsom though I do not have a marriage for them and just from descendants a loose idea
that Mary Elizabeth was a Smith and no idea of her parents. You do not have any further
information on her ancestors do you? Since a Smith Casterline comes out presume the fact
that she was a Smith is correct. Then since my Smith Wixsom and his first child Mary
Elizabeth would seem that it was also correct. Yet the family never seem to have enough
males to include my Smith Wixsom in the family. A 1917 affidavidit to the 1848 property
of Benjamin Wixsom who died then, given by a Casterline, descendant of Ira I think, lists
the Shuble Wixsom family and does not list Smith Wixsom as a son but I think he also
missed a Shuble Wixsom that came from Wheeler, NY about 1835 and settled in now Fulton
Co., Ohio as a son also. Cannot prove this. But Shuble Wixsom I of Carmel, Ny had a son
and grandson Suble W!
ixsom and 1835 census of Wheeler, NY had Shuble with a Shuble below him. The Shuble of
Fulton Co., Ohio went to Oceania Co., MI 1880 census and then lost him. He born ca. 1802.
I have recently found a couple of Casterline descendants from Lewis and Mahitable
Casterline Carver (Mahitable being the daughter of Loammi Casterline). The one sent me
hundreds of Casterline descendants pages. These would be off Mahitable. We really need
though our missing links from Loammi to the first Francis Casterline from France. I was
told once that many New Jersey records were lost in wars but I have not done much research
there. Think we have a lot of Casterline relation. I was surprised to find that Phineas
Casterline had stayed in Steuben Co., NY. I had never really researched all the family
but knew that John and Ira and I think a Timothy came to Indiana as well as my Mahitable
Casterline Carver who is buried 1848 in Carver Cemetery, Madison Co., IN. Let me know if
you would lik!
e any tombstone pictures etc. Elizabeth May, 4352 Fairview, Toledo, OH 43612. Thanks