For some time I have been researching a CASNER family that traveled extensively throughout the West. The family consisted of the mother, 13 sons and 1 daughter. They left IA in 1850 migrating to OR. Circa 1870 there was a split in the family; those remaining in OR/WA changed the name to CARSNER. Those that left and went to AZ kept the spelling CASNER. The daughter married a FIELDS in OR and she remained in OR. Those that went to AZ then traveled through CA, NM, NV, TX, OK, WA, ID and elsewhere. The mother's name was Jincy Jane Fields Casner. She raised a grandson (the 14th son) as her own. His name was George Casner (b.1852 IA); he grew up in OR. He married Margaret Ellen Grover in 1875 in Inyo Co., CA. He appears on the 1880 NV census with his wife and four children (John Lewis, Jard Martin, Alice, and Clara). George Casner dies between 6-7-1880 and 8-30-1884 in Humboldt Co., NV when a horse falls on him. The father of George (John Casner) is one interesting character. After leaving OR, he mines in CA and NV; he and his brothers have a large herd of sheep in TX where two of his brothers are murdered in 1876; John kills 9 men in revenge. He moves to a different part of TX and becomes a respectable farmer/rancher. He is sentenced to prison in 1900 for his part in the shooting death of his grown stepson. The last record found of John Casner is 6-1902 when he is at the courthouse in Haskell Co., TX selling the last of his land. I guess he rides off into the sunset, as I have found no further record of him. I would like to communicate with any CASNER or CARSNER researchers (whether you believe you are connected to this particular line or not). With 13 sons, the families were very prolific; the sons were often married more than once. Liz Freeman