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Author: gwashley
Surnames: Castleman Watson Walthall
Classification: queries
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I am looking for information on the parents of my great-grandmother, Dora Ann Castleman
(b. 1873, San Marcos, TX). According to my grandmother, her father was John Castleman and
her mother was Alica Anda Manzona Watson. Family lore has it that her mother was an
invalid, and her father abandoned the family to relatives and started a second family
somewhere in south TX. The mother died and my great-grandmother was raised by foster
parents.
I have found an A.A. Castleman who died of consumption in 1880, who I think may be the
mother. Also, the 1880 US Census names a Dora and Mary Castleman in the home of W.B. and
Martha Walthall near Dallas, as "niece" but later as
"foster-daughter". But I can't seem to connect a John Castleman. Any
information would be much appreciated.
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