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Although there was more than one Ulysses Casto, I believe this is the correct one.
Ulyssess was born in Feb., 1874 and showed up with his parents on the 1880 census. He was
with Tennie by 1900, having just married within the year, and by 1920, he had 6 children,
including May, whom you were looking for. I've detailed this all below. I
haven't located the family on the 1910 census but I did find that by 1930, Tennie
& Ulysses were divorced. He was living with his brother, Jack Casto, and she was the
head of the household in another state. I have information from another researcher, also,
which I have also listed below. I don't have a lot of information on the descendents
of William Casto-1717 on my website yet but Ulysses is of that line.
1880 Morgan Co., Utah Census - Croydon - Page 520A:
Casto, John 44 IL-NJ-OH Trapper
Betsey 38 ME-ME-ME
Franklin I. 16 UT-IL-ME
Leon 13 UT-IL-ME
Matthew 11 UT-IL-ME
Ethan 8 UT-IL-ME
Ulyssess 6 UT-IL-ME
Christopher 3 UT-IL-ME
1900 New Mexico Territory Census - Socorro Co - 37th Precinct - ED 149 - Sheet 3B:
Casto, Ulysses 26 born Feb., 1874 married 0 years ID-IL-ME (notice the
state of birth changed)
Tennie L. 19 May, 1881 0/0 children TX-TN-TN
1920 Arizona Census - Greenlee Co - Blue Dist - ED 66 - Sheet 2B:
Casto, Ulyssis S. 45 married UT-IA-ME Ranger
(no family listed with him)
1920 AZ-Greenlee Co - Clifton - ED 69 - Sheet 10B:
Casto, Ulysses 40 UT-ME-ME
Tennessee 38
Elizabeth 18
William 16
May 14
Ralph 12
Frances(?) 1? little hard to read
Phillip 2? little hard to read
1930 Colorado Census - Mesa Co - White Water - Dist 5 - Sheet 3A:
Casto, Jack 49 married at age 29 ID-IL-ME
Mabel M. 45 married at age 25
Burd L. 18
Ulysses 56 Divorced brother UT-IL-ME
1930 AZ-Greenlee Co - Clifton - Dist 1 - Sheet 1B:
Casto, Tennie 48 widowed married age 19
Ralph 22
Phillip 25
Faucher, Phillis 2 granddaughter?
McCauley, May 3 granddaughter?
McCauley, David 12? grandson
This came to me from long-time Casto researcher Ina Tuft. In her notes she lists people
who also provided information but I'd rather not list them publicly in this forum.
These notes, however, I think are interesting:
From a book called DOWN ON THE BLUE, Blue River 1878-1986 : "Another character on
the Blue River was Bill Casto who had a vineyard and made wine. He raised two bys that
were old landmarks of the Blue River.
Ulysses "Ulus", who was a packer for the Forest Service and ran a pack
train of burros and mules and packed supplies to the fire station and lookout points. He
was at our place in Alpine to pack my brother out to one of these lookout stations. While
they were getting packed up my mother brought out about 10 or 12 dozen eggs and an old
Sears and Roebuck catalogue. She asked them if they could wrap them in paper from the
catalogue and keep them from breaking. Ulus looked at them and said, "By George, Kid,
here is some hen fruit. I will pack them in front of me to be sure we get there with
them."
Forest Service History, from Forest Service Files, (Springerville, Arizona 1986) "In
1907 Ulysses Casto, sometimes called by the nickname of Eulace, applied for a homestead on
this land. (At the Bobcat ranger site there was a two-room cabin and some outbuildings.
The legal description of the location is T-4-N, R-32-E. According to a survey of October
19, 1907 there were approximately 49 acres partly on the Black Mesa (south) and partly in
the Gila
National Forest, NM) The Casto's had a house somewhere on a promintory on this Bobcat
site. The house had small holes used for spying out the surrounding country for Indians
and were also used for gun holes, should the occasion
arise. The Castos were improving "proving up" on this land, but evidently
changed their minds, since they withdrew the homestead application in 1908."
By T.H. Zimmerman, a school teacher on the Blue. After boarding at the beautiful Snyder
place, Bonnie told me he had found another place for me to stay, as they were expecting
the stork to appear. So I moved my two suitcases
to the Casto family, where I lived in a tent with a dirt floor, which was okay until
winter set in. Then there was no way to keep warm except in bed. Here I developed a bad
case of strep throat and had to miss one week of school. Ulysses Casto, unlike his raspy
wife, was a kind and henpecked husband. He would jump when she spoke and sometimes before.
They had three children in school, Bessie, Willie, named after his Uncle Bill, a bear
hunter, and little
Ralph."
If you would like more info on the lineage of Ulysses' father, John, let me know and
I'll send that next.
Danita