Sorry for the error, I clicked on "reply to" when I wrote Sue. But,
Carol, it's always nice to meet a new cousin. I live in Winnfield, LA,
but my line is from Bradley Co., AR after migrating from GA. Jesse
Castleberry is my 3rd gr-grandfather, then James, John-Sr, then ??? (two
possibilities).
I didn't know that Fredd Eugene was even still alive. That's great! Did
he keep the files like he stated he would in the newsletter?
As to the spelling, my understanding - I forget where I read this - is
that there is some 40 spellings of Castleberry with all of them tracing
back to Heinrich.
Jo Castleberry Branch
Subject:
Re: [CASTLEBERRY] Re: Castleberry/Dopson/Gay
Date:
Thu, 22 Jun 2000 23:43:28 EDT
From:
CCastlebur(a)aol.com
To:
jojr(a)earthlink.net
Jo...
Well, I am a CASTLEBURY, but not the Sue you have sent e-mail to recently.
Guess I may have put a post on Roots-web (can't remember) for Castleberrys
and somehow the lines have gotten mixed up.
I like to think all the Castleberry/Castlebury folks came from the Heinrich
Kesselberg of Germany written about in the Gamp Tree and Jesse
Castleberry's
book, Castleberry and Allied Families. Having been schooled in genealogy
through my membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution, I --
like
you -- have some questions about the validity and documentation of
everything
in those documents.
Recently by chance, I met in Longview, Texas, a niece of Fredd Eugene
Castleberry, who lived in Washington, D.C. at the time he wrote the Gamp
Tree,
but is now said to live in Nacogdoches, Texas. I hope to have an
opportunity in the near future to try to look him up.
I am, however, married into the Castleberry family. My husband's family
came
to Paris (Lamar Co.) Texas in 1841 (receiving land grants from the Republic
of Texas) from Tennessee. They had lived in Tennessee and Illinois, having
immigranted there from Orange Co. (I think) North Carolina, where the line
connects with all those that went from North Carolina to Georgia to Texas
and
have been written about by Fredd and Jesse. So, I've got my work cut out
for
me researching this renegade branch.
Oh, yes, I was told that the -berry was changed to -bury by my husband's
ggrandfather, who sided with the Confederacy during the Civil War and left
Lamar Co. for Wilbarger County, Texas, where a large family grew and
eventually populated Eastview Cemetery there.
So, I don't know anything about the Dopson & Gay connections, but I wish
you
luck in your search -- and hope you find Sue, too.
Carol(yn) Martin Castlebury
P.O. Box 13538
Austin, TX 78711-3538
ccastlebur(a)aol.com
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MZP