Cook, Claude "Gene." "The Chastain Family Revisited," WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORIAN, (Salem, Indiana: Washington County Historical Society, Fall 2010), pp. 21-26. NOTE: The information noted below was abstracted by Randi Richardson from material that is copyright protected. For more information, contact the John Hay Center at 812-883-6495. The article is accompanied by a number of pictures. Claude Eugene Cook, the author of this article is a descendant of George Chastain, his third great grandfather and an original settler in Washington County. A Chastain family tree includes the three brothers, their father and their children. Cook has done extensive research on the Chastain family that includes a visit to France, their historic home of the Chastain, and follows them on their journey to Washington County. He speculates that the three brothers, sons of William Chastain, were grandsons of Peter Chastain. Some of his findings are based on family traditions, some on primary evidence such as census records and tax lists.