>From: MLSASSER@aol.com >Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 23:40:48 EDT >To: EWSass@writeme.com >Subject: Re: Thanks for the reply. >X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 120 > >Good to hear back from you. I spent some time on the internet last weekend >researching Melungeons. I am surprised at all the information out there. I >just haven't seen a connection to the Sassers in any way yet. When I get more >time I'll do more research. > >Here's information regarding my line of Sassers starting with Barden Sasser's >son, Abraham Henry Sasser (my great grandfather): > >Abraham Henry Sasser b. 4-5-1864 in Laurel Co. KY. d. 7-7-1925 in Enterprise, >OR m. Margaret Hammack b. 2-6-1874, d. 7-31-1927 in Enterprise, OR. > >John Wesley Sasser b. 1-19-1897 in Laurel Co. KY, m. (1) Gladys May Baker (b. >6-21-1901 in Wallowa Co. OR, d. 7-15-1922 in Wallowa Co. OR) on 10-20-1918. >Two children were born to this union: Reta Marie Sasser b. and d. 1919; Cecil >Edward Sasser b. 9-16-1921 d. 6-13-1977. >m. (2) Pearl Winters (b. 8-12-1908) on 8-30-1924. Their children were Wesley >Eugene Sasser b. 3-6-1926 in Wallowa Co. OR, d. 5-1-1992 in Coeur D' Alene, ID >(buried in Enterprise, OR) and Velma Calista Sasser b. 3-22-1928 in Wallowa >Co., OR. John Wesley Sasser (known as "Wes") died 3-14-1967 and is buried in >Enterprise, Oregon. (Note: John Wesley's brother, Robert [b. 10/18/1904, d. >3/1982] married Pearl Winters' sister, Violet.) > >Cecil Edward Sasser (my father) b. 9-16-1921 in Wallowa Co. OR, m. Betty Pace >(b. 8-29-1926 in Wallowa Co. OR) on 9-23-1946 in Lewiston, ID. Children: >Michael Edward Sasser b. 1-29-1948 in Enterprise, OR. Mitchell Edwin Sasser >b. 1-29-1948 in Enterprise, OR (they're twins), and Michele Lee Sasser (me) b. >1-31-1953 in Walla Walla, WA. My father died on 6-13-1977 of cancer at the >age of 55 at home in Elwood, Illinois. He is buried in Enterprise, Oregon. > >Michael Edward Sasser b. 1-29-1948 in Enterprise OR m. (1) Dorcas Gooday >2-14-1968 in Elwood, IL. (divorced) Child: Michael David Sasser b. 10-3-1970 >in Joliet, IL. >m. (2) Diane Martha Wachal (b. 7-12-1958 in Schuyler, NE). Children: Stacie >Diane Sasser b. 7-22-1986, Meagan Lee Sasser b. 10-23-1991. > > Michael David Sasser b. 10-3-1970 in Joliet, IL m. Vicki Nothof (b. >4-30-1971) on 6-1-1991 in Joliet, IL. Children: Michael William Sasser b. >8-14-1992 in Joliet, IL, Zachary James Sasser b. 5-23-1996 in Joliet, IL. > >Mitchell Edwin Sasser b. 1-29-1948 in Enterprise OR m. (1) Rita Hughes in >1969 (divorced). m. (2) Christena Diane Ellis on 4-14-1973 in Elwood, IL. >Children: Rebecca Diane Sasser b. 11-29-1973 in Joliet, IL, Scott Edwin >Sasser b. 8-12-1977 in Joliet, IL. > >Michele Lee Sasser b. 1-31-1953 in Walla Walla, WA m. Wayne R. Young (b. >7-27-1949 in David City, NE) on 6-10-1972 in Elwood, IL. Children: Zachary >Wayne Young b. 3-15-1974 in Joliet, IL, Leslie Lee Young b. 12-15-1979 in >Seward, NE. > >My father, Cecil, was a Federal employee and we were transferred to many >places (such as Hanover, Illinois; Umatilla, Oregon; Okinawa; and Elwood, >Illinois - where we moved to in 1958. My mother and two brothers still live >in Elwood, Illinois. I married a man from Nebraska who worked for a large >construction company that moved us from one end of the country to the other >for many years. In 1988 he left that company and we settled here, near >Spokane, Washington. We love it here and don't plan to ever live anywhere >else! This information is from Michele Lee Young (nee) Sasser. Cordially, Earl Sasser ewsass@writeme.com