I am looking for any information on Daniel Julius Caswell born in Kent CT to Daniel
Johnson and Currence Averill and adopted by his mother's sister, Amy Averill and
Julius Caswell in Kent CT.
Amy and Julius also adopted his brother and another sister's daughter.
Daniel is found in Indiana and Hamilton Co Ohio about 1818. I feel that he married first
Nancy Hay who died about six months after they were married. I know there was a Daniel J
Caswell that married Nancy Hay and feel that this is my Daniel. He married second in
Hamilton Co OH Mary Bankhead Wilson, daughter of James Wilson and Mary Bankhead Campbell.
Mary Wilson was from VA and after the death of her father her mother married 2nd William
Hartshorne son of William Hartshorne and Susannah Sunders. At some point they moved to
Ohio.
Daniel Caswell and Mary Wilson had 3 children who died of scarlet fever within 3 weeks of
each other. They are found in New Orleans in 1838 where their last child was born.
Daniel died of yellow fever in 1839 and Mary died in 1881. After his death Mary is found
in a Boarding House, which I think was hers.
Daniel was an attorney.
Their oldest daughter, Margaret Indiana Caswell, married Joseph Adams Hall (he was from
Boston, son of Joseph Hall and Maria Bartlett) who was with the firm Hayden and Hall on
Poydras St in New Orleans. They had three children. One son who died at age 2 and two
daughters Maria and Annie. Maria was born in New Orleans and married William F
Fortenberry of Pike Co MS, and Annie was born in MA and married a Simmons from Pike Co MS.
Their mother remarried after their father's death to John Ellzey of Pike Co MS.
I would like to find out when he left CT and arrived in the Indiana & Ohio area. I
would also like to find out when his birth parents married and died. I do have
information on Currence Averill, and feel that I have correct parents on Daniel Johnson,
but would like additional proof that his parents were Moses Johnson and Eunice Brownson.
Any information would be appreciated.
Thank you
Delores
tousinau(a)bellsouth.net
Slidell, LA