Dale Ellen Casey

Family/Spouse: Per Åsmund Slettemoen. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Daniel Christopher Casey Slettemoen

Family/Spouse: Ottar Lidvin Veland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. May Helen Sjursen

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1940 - 12061 Mettetel Street, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan
Charles C. was a sergeant in the US Army during WWII and in Korea.

Charles married June Marie Bessette on 5 Jul 1946 in Garret Methodist Church, Allen county, Indiana, USA. June (daughter of Lester "Cal" Davis and Mildred Bass, daughter of Horace-Leonidas Bessette and Mildred Bass) was born on 6 Jun 1924 in Garrett, DeKalb County, Indiana; died on 25 Jul 2005 in Melvindale, Wayne, Michigan, USA; was buried on 5 Aug 2005 in Parkview Memorial Cemetery, Livonia, Michigan, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Lived in Venice, California when she went to kindergarten (age 5), 1929.
In Sept 1929 Mildred and June was going to Leo in High River Alberta from California. This record states that June was born in Detroit. Later in October 1929 Leo, Mildred and June are headed from Long Beach California to Alberta and again they say that June is born in Detroit. She attended first grade in Kansas (age 6) and at age 7 (2nd grade) she was in a protestant school in Montreal, where she lived until she was 21. After attending the Rapid Shorthand College in Montreal, she took various clerical positions, including one in The Montrealer in 1941, at the sales audit office at Eaton's Department Store 1941-1944 and at Williams and Wilsons. From 1944 she was at Bell Telephone.

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Married:
Charles lived in Detroit, June in Dearborn at the time of the wedding.

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In 1910 he is living with Laura in a rented home om 1830 A North 21st St, St Louis, Missouri, reporter for a newpaper. In October of the same year they are at 1517 Cora Avenue in St Louis.
In 1912, 1166 4th Ave, clerk.
In 1915 he was living at 149 Campbell Avenue in Detroit, his occupation was organizer.
In 1920 and 1927 he was living at 4730 McGraw in Detroit.
The 1930 census says he was a business excecutive. He was living on Sturtevant Ave. in Detroit, with Eloise and Charles Claude jr., and had a housekeeper named Eva S. Graves.
1935 and 1940 4356 Sturtevant Ave, Detroit.
The 1936 marriage record of his son CC states he was a sales manager in Detroit.
The 1942 WWII Draft Registration Cards for CC states he was born in Nashville, Indiana. He was then a work organizer specialist in Detroit.

Published in Detroit Free Press, Detroit MI Feb 45 1952 Tuesday page 21---An office equipment manufacturer, Mr. Casey, 67, died Saturday at his home 4356 Sturtevant.
He was owner and general manager of the Sorter Graf CO and president of Work Organizers Speciality Corp. Born in Bicknell Indiana, Mr. Casey came to Detroit in 1910 as assistant advertsing manager of the Burroughs Adding Machine CO.
He was a member of First Church of Christian Scientist. He is survived by his wife Claire; a son Charles C Casey Jr; and five daughters, Mrs. Carl F Craig, Mrs. Agnes L Smith. Mrs. Donald Hollister . Mrs. Donald Dimitry and Jeanne Chapman.
Services will be at 2:30 pm Wednesday at William R. Hamilton Co Funeral Home. There will be a private service at Evergreen Cemetery.

Charles married Lydia A. Shoemaker in 1911 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA. Lydia (daughter of Dilon Ewing "Dellie" Shoemaker and Orpha Lozetta McAfee) was born on 10 Jun 1886 in Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA; died on 14 Dec 1915 in Pontiac State Hospital, Oakland, Michigan; was buried in Eastlawn cemetary, Detroit, MI, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Liddie

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1900 census of Center township, Muncie city, Delaware Co., Indiana:
Dilon Shoemaker and Orpha L Shoemaker. Census has Lydia born Jun 1885 (not 86) and younger sister Mary born Aug 1887.
1904 in Anderson, Indiana, 334 W 5th St.
1906 stenographer in Terre Haute living with her father and sister at 116 Gilbert Ave.
1910 census of Wabash Ward 2, Wabash, Indiana, has Lydia at home with her parents, now age 23, member of the United Methodist Church.
1910 census for Detroit Ward 5, Lydia is a boarder and stenographer at Wholesale Drug Co.
1910 City directory of Wabash Indiana, Lydia, Stenographer, 174 W Maple.
At the Dec 14, 1915 death of Lydia in Pontiac State Hospital, Oakland county, Michigan parents are mentioned as D.E. Shoemaker and Orpha Macafee. She had been hospitalized for 21 days, sick for 28, and died of exhaustion and sepsis.

Died:
Lydia died of septicemia (blood infection following birth) and baby Carleton died of influenza according to the death certificates. There was a big flu epidemic that year in Detroit. Lydia's parents are also buried at Eastlawn cemetary, Detroit.

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DNA matched.

Lester married Mildred Bass. Mildred (daughter of William Calvin "Will" Bass and Nancy Elizabeth Simmons) was born on 12 Nov 1903 in Abesville, Stone, Missouri, USA; died on 28 Nov 1991 in Wayne, Wayne, Michigan; was buried in Spokane Cemetary, Christian Co., MO. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Mildreds parents lived in Tauria, Missouri when she was born.

Mildreds aunt Myrtle Bass was married to William L. Welch. Their nephew Lester Davis (mother Laura Welch m. Fish Davis) was the father of Mildreds daughter, the couple were to get married at one point, unknown why it did not happen. Mildred was sent to a home for wayward mothers in Detroit. She would never talk about the father, but it was common knowledge in the large families that they were courting. Now DNA matched.

1945, Ontario
1960, Hillsdale, Michigan

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Stonemason, and pugilist (fighter). Apparently engaged in a fisticuff engagement (some reports says boxing match in Uniontown). Came home? to Freetown and died approx. two weeks later. His grave has not been found in Freetown.

In the 1880 census for Indianapolis there is a stone cutter Charles Case, born in Ohio (abt 1850), single, father born in Indiana, mother in Vermont.

On the death certificate of Roy in 1906 his brother James registers fathers birth place as Ohio.

When Charles R. Casey marries in 1881 in Brown county, his last name is Case. No parents in the registry.

Birthdate may be Aug 27.

Brown county is just south of Indianapolis, and nabors Bartholomew and Jackson counties, where the familiy settles. Knox is a little further west.

- Not the son of James Solomon Casey and Eliza Ann West. Their son is Charles Thomas Casey. When this Charles T. gets married, his parents are stated. He is also in the census with his mother Eliza in 1880.

Charles married Tobitha Ann Crosslow on 30 Mar 1881 in Brown County, IN, USA. Tobitha (daughter of James W. Croslow and Catharine Simmons) was born on 11 May 1854 in Indiana, USA; died on 28 Sep 1933 in Bicknell, Knox, Indiana; was buried in I.O.F.F. Cemetary, Bicknell, IN, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Orphans. Her death certificate states her father as Crosslow, her mother as Simmons.

1860 census for Salt Creek, Jackson, Indiana, Tobitha is six years old and living with William Arthur and his wife Mary Jane (her older sister).

Not yet found in 1870 and 1880, 90 is missing.
There is a Tobitha Miller, age 17 in 1870 Coal Creek, Montgomery, Indiana, USA

1900 Census for Busseron Township, Emison Precinct, Knox, Indiana:
Tabitha A. Miller (why Miller?) lives with her children and rents a separate house on the farm where her brother Joseph and wife Bashiba live with their children, plus their son Ulysses with his wife Joanna and their children live:
Tabitha A Miller May 1856 Indiana, widow, eight children born, six living.
James E Casey May 1880 Indiana
Charles C CaseyMar 1884 Indiana
Etta M Casey Jan 1885 Indiana
Albert R Casey Mar 1888 Indiana
Efford Casey Oct 1889 Indiana
(There is also a John K. Miller born Oct 1852 in Illinois on the same page, married farm laborer, but I believe he is a day laborer, and his family is in Montgomery, Crawford, Illinois.)

1906 marriage of James, she is registered also as Tabitha Miller.

1910 she is 53, and a washerwoman in Bicknell, Vigo, Knox, Indiana, has both parents born in Virginia. Lives with Efford.
1920 census for Bicknell has her as Tabitha A. Casey, age 55, widow, washer woman born in Indiana, has both parents born in Virginia.
1930, widow on Alexander Street in Bicknell, father born in Kentucky, mother in Virginia.
Tobitha had tuberculosis for ten years before she died of myocarditis in 1933.

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Ekteskap:
Title: Brown County, Indiana, Marriage Records 1853-1901 Books 2-4 Books 2 - 6, Part I Index of Grooms Part II Index of Brides Com; Book: 4;Page: 436.
Name: Tabitha A Croslow
Spouse Name: Charles R Case
Marriage Date: 30 Mar 1881
Marriage County: Brown
Source Title 1: Brown County, Indiana

Other Events:

• Name: Dill E
• Name: Dillman
• Name: Dillmond
• Name: Dillon
• Name: Ewing
• Name: Shoemaker

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AKA. Dellman, Dillman, Dilmond or Dill.

1870-census for Harrison township (Bluffton post office), Wells Co., Indiana on the 25th of June 1870, has Dillman Ewing Shoemaker, age 4, with mother Lydia Shoemaker, age 25, born in Ohio, keeping house, and farmer Warren K. Shoemaker, age 27, born in Ohio.

1880 census for Harrison, Wells, Indiana says Warren Shoemaker is Dillmond Ewings stepfather.

1900, Center Township, Muncie City Ward 5, Delaware, Indiana

1904 Anderson, Indiana, engineer.

Died:
Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947

Dilon married Orpha Lozetta McAfee on 26 Nov 1885 in Wells Co., IN. Orpha (daughter of William James McAfee and Mary Elizabeth Taylor) was born on 3 May 1868 in Jefferson, Wells, Indiana; died on 18 Jul 1942 in Riverside, CA, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Probably born in Jefferson, Wells, IN as family is there in 1870 census, Bluffton post office.

1930 census for Long Beach, Los Angeles, California has Orpha L Shoemaker, widow, age: 61, as a nurse for Horace O. Lewis, age 75. Enumeration District Number: 1143 Family Number: 279 Sheet Number and Letter: 10B Line Number: 70 NARA Publication: T626, roll 131 Film Number: 2339866 Digital Folder Number: 4532462 Image Number: 00026.
Orphas father was born in Ohio, her mother in Indiana.

1936 voter registrations is is registered with superintendent Harry Grant Doddridge. They were married in March, and her father is listed as: F. Mcbride. Her second and his fourth marriage.
1940 census Orpha lived at 628 North Main Street in Elsinore, California, married, but not living with Harry. He was at the institution Rancho Los Amigos in Downey, a convalescent hospital. When he died in 1947 he had been 5 yrs 3 mos 19days at Mar Vista Sanitarium.
Her death is registered as Orpha Doddridge in Riverside, CA, 1942.

Died:
Source Citation: Original data: State of California. California Death Index, 1940-1997.
Orpha Doddridge
[Orpha McAfee]
Place: Riverside; Date: 18 Jul 1942
Birth Date: 3 May 1868
Birthplace: Indiana
Death Date: 18 Jul 1942
Death Place: Riverside
Mother's Maiden Name: Taylor
Father's Surname: McAfee

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1870, 1880, 1900 census. Galloway, Christian, Missouri, United States

Martin married Laura Welch on 3 Mar 1887 in Christian, Missouri, USA. Laura (daughter of Thomas Harris Welch and Angeline Whitlock) was born on 3 Mar 1872 in Galatia, Saline, Illinois; died on 7 Mar 1942 in Reeds Spring, Stone, Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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1940 census Laura was living with Duke in South Galloway township, Christian, Missouri.

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When Will was courting Lizzie both families lived in Abesville, Missouri. The Bass family lived up "Bass Hollow" southeast of Abesville. The Simmons familie lived northeast of Abesville near the Christian-Stone county line. Will rode a horse or walked across the fields to go see Lizzie. They were married in the home of her parents; both fathers were witnesses to the ceremony. They lived in Stone county most of their married life and were parents of nine children.

William and Elizabeth (Lizzie) moved to North Hayes, Reno County, Kansas by 1930 with son James, where they farmed a rented farm. They were back on the family farm in Reeds Spring by 1935. Lived in Garber, Missouri in 1942.

Farmer, died age 69 years 11 months 9 days. Death Certificate # 10802, informant: Mrs. Lizzie Bass, Garber, Taney Co., MO.

William married Nancy Elizabeth Simmons on 20 Jan 1895 in Ponce de Leon, Stone, Missouri. Nancy (daughter of Francis Marion Simmons and Malinda Cordelia Hagewood) was born on 28 Jul 1877 in Hickory County, Missouri, USA; died on 2 Feb 1960 in Branson, Taney, Missouri; was buried on 20 Feb 1960 in Ponce de Leon, Stone, Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Lizzie

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Unnamed child born Jun 10, 1898.

Christian County Republican 23 Feb. 1960 p 5: Funeral services for Nancy Elizabeth Bass, 82 who died Tuesday, Feb. 16, were held Saturday, Feb 20 at 2 p.m. with burial in the Ponce de Leon Cemetery under the direction of Chaffin Fineral Home. On January 20 1895, she was united in marriage to William C. Bass, who preceded her in death on February 18,1945. To this union were born 9 children, of whom four preceded her in death. Survivors include four daughters, Mrs. Roy Stewart and Mrs. Nannie Hilton, both of Spokane, Mrs. Mildred Bessette, Hillsdale, Mich. and Mrs Fannie Weston, New Boston, Mich,; one son, James S. Bass of Garber, one sister, Mrs Amy McDonald of California; 18 grandchildren and 32 grat grandchildren. A great, great grandchild passed away the same day as Mrs. Bass.
Official death certificate says Feb 02, 1960.