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Author: BPeckCooper
Surnames: CASTLINE, CASTERLINE, PHILLIPS, FUNK
Classification: queries
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Christal Fricke, Hi!
I'm interested in your CASTERLINE connections to Blackford Co., IN.
The PHILLIPS (Lewis & Hannah FUNK Phillips)family (their children, some siblings and
spouses may have married there) were in Blackford Co., IN before many of the sibling
families moving to Lucas Co., Iowa. These sibling families show up together most
prominently in the 1850 U.S. Fed Census Iowa, Lucas Co., Whitebreast twp. My gg gm shows
up among children shown as CASTLINE in a PHILLIPS household.
I have never been able to determine who my gg gm's parents are but I do feel that her
biological father was a CASTERLINE. This is really all I have to go on about this family.
(but somewhere I did find that a PHILLIPS sister of Nancy Phillips VanMeter did marry a
CASTERLINE---however I have never found the marriage record again and I did not copy it at
the time I saw it----it had been on some obscurred list somewhere but it was an IL or IN
marriage I believe.)
1850 U.S. Fed Census IA, Lucas Co., Whitebreast Twp
Family:
#51
PHILLIPS, Daniel age33 m laborer Indiana
________,Catherine 32 f Indiana
CASTLINE, Benjamine 12 m Iowa
________,Elizabeth 10 f Iowa
________,Mary 8 f Iowa
________,Caroline 6 f Iowa my gg gm
________,George 4 m Iowa
PHILLIPS,James 15 m Indiana
We have never been able to determine if this is widowed siblings bringing their families
together to survive or if they are actually husband and wife with a blended family.
I know that the numbers of males and female children do not match your John
CASTERLINE's children but they may somehow be connected by proxemity to Blackford Co.,
IN.
Have you found any more?
Thanks for posting your information.
And thanks everyone for reading this!
Any clues or ideas or even hints to give direction would
be greatly appreciated.
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