Posted on: Jackson County, WV Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/Jackson/1907 Surname: PARSONS, GREEN ------------------------- Could be. In the marriage record, his parents are listed as J & S, but hers are S & P, so it could be the transcriber misread it, too. The date is 20 July 1871.

Posted on: Jackson County, WV Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/Jackson/1906 Surname: Parsons, Green ------------------------- Is the Adam B. Parsons, married to Harriet Green, Adam Benson Parsons son of Joshua Parsons and Susan Garnes? Link: Families of the Thirteenmile and Mill Creek Area URL: <http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/8003/family.html>

Hi Les & Valerie, Could you please send this to your State list and let the CC's know they can send it to their mailing list if they wish to? Thank you, Kelly WV-CENSUS-LOOKUP-L-request@rootsweb.com WV-CENSUS-LOOKUP-D-request@rootsweb.com.

Posted on: Jackson County, WV Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/Jackson/1905 Surname: GREEN ------------------------- Thanks, Don. Here is one more child. Jackson County Death Records: (infant) Green, 4/15/1858, 4d, b&d Jackson Co, parents, Leonard & Pheba Green

Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/170 Surname: OURS, CASTO, BONNET ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section Tug Fork Ours Family Godfrey Ours lived in the Buckhannon settlement. His daughter, Sarah, married George Casto, and moved to Mill Creek. Her brother, John Ours, came out to his brother-in-law's, married Mary Bonnet, and located on a farm on Tug Fork, about one and a half miles from its junction with the main creek, and after a few years sold it to Enoch Thomas, and went to Ohio. There were two other brothers, Nicholas, who married Nancy, sister of Jonathan Casto, and Henry, neither of whom came to Mill Creek.

Posted on: Jackson County, WV Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/Jackson/1904 Surname: Green, Casto, Parsons ------------------------- Leonard Green b. ABT 1826 d. 1902, mrd. 1848 Phoebe Casto b. ABT 1830 d. 1878. Leonrd mrd 2nd 1878 Elizabeth (Melissa) Jane Parsons b. ABT 1852 d. UNK Children of Leonard & Phoebe: Charles b. 1849 d. 1869 single John Henry b. 1852 d. UNK Mrd. Jane Elizabeth Price Harriet b. 1854 d. UNK Mrd Adam B. Parsons Emily b. 1856 d. BEF 1878 Mrd Augustus F. Slaughter Jemima(Melissa) Jane b. 1860 d. AFT 1880 Mrd John A. Woods Willaim b. 1861 d. 1937 Mrd Mary Z. Mary b. 1863 d. AFT 1880 maybe mrd. Jesse Carpenter Samuel b. 1868 d. AFT 1880 in Spencer State Hospital Anna b. 1873 d. AFT 1880 Mrd Leander Warner Only known child of Leonard & Elizabeth(Melissa) Jane: Lenny F. b. 1880 d. ABT 1940 Mrd 1st Estella King Like most of us I am still filling in blanks and would appreciate any additional info on my line. Don

Posted on: Jackson County, WV Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/Jackson/1903 Surname: Casto, Green ------------------------- Sorry. Phoebe is evidently an error in my family hx. Will make the correction!

Posted on: Jackson County, WV Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/Jackson/1902 Surname: parsons, asbury, rowley, walker ------------------------- george walker parsons is my ggg grandfather. he was from jackson county. my great grandfather was perry hoffman parsons. i have recieved this information from the querie boards and am very grateful for all the help. i got perry married to kate rowley,my great grandmother and got him dead in1896 and this all i have found. and my grandfather hernie jack parsons doesn't show up anywhere does any have a direct link to george walker and mary asbury as i would love to fill in what i got and learn a little more about perry and my grandfather. thanks for all the help..

Posted on: Jackson County, WV Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/Jackson/1901 Surname: CASTO ------------------------- The only children I have for Charles A and Deborah are, from the census, Rachel, Mary Margaret, and Enoch S, and Franklin in the death records. I've seen Joseph listed as a child of theirs before, but why? What am I missing?

Posted on: Jackson County, WV Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/Jackson/1900 Surname: CASTO, GREEN, PARSONS ------------------------- I find, in the Jackson Co death records: Pheboa Green, 2/26/1878, 48y, D Grass Lick, Parents A & Z Casto, b Mill Creek, married She is the right age to be Leonard's wife. Then in the Jackson County marriage records: Leonard Green, 52, Mason Elizabeth Jane Parsons, 26, Jackson 6/12/1878 The censuses show: 1860 Jackson Co Green, Leonard, 34 Phoebe, 30 Charles, 11 John, 8 Harriet, 6 Emily, 4 Melissa, 4 mo 1870 Jackson Co Green, Leonard, 44 Phoebe, 37 John, 17 Harriet, 15 Emily, 13 1880 Jackson Co Green, Leonard, 55 Melissa Jane, 28 William, 17, s Samuel, 12, s Anna, 7, d Allowing for transcription errors (easy with that writing, Melissa and Elizabeth could be the same person - and the age is more or less right for Leonard ---but who are those kids on the 1880 census??

Posted on: Jackson County, WV Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/Jackson/1899 Surname: CASTO, DEWEES ------------------------- You are entirely right. At first, when told Phoebe was a child of Charles and Deborah, I was elated, until I found the error. Phoebe who married Leonard Green on May 12, 1848, would have been too old to be the daughter of Charles and Deborah Casto SINCE, Charles Casto married Deborah Casto on March 18, 1852. I have the children of Charles and Deborah Casto as follows: (1) Joseph K. Casto born ca. 1859 - 1866 (2) Rachel Casto b. ca. 1853 (3) Mary Margaret Casto b. ca. 1855 (4) Franklin A. Casto b. April 1858 (5) Enoch Staats F. Casto b. ca. 1868 Charles was the son of "big" John J. Casto and Gracy McDade, and Deborah the daughter of Elijah R. Casto (son of William Casto and Susanna Rollins) and Rachel Charlotte Dewees (dau. of Samuel Dewees and Edith Battin). The families of William Casto and Samuel Dewees were located in the Parchment Valley area and many of their children intermarried.

Posted on: Jackson County, WV Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/Jackson/1897 Surname: CASTO ------------------------- Could you please tell me where you found Phoebe as the daughter of Charles and Deborah? I have found only four children for Charles and Deborah Casto Casto: Rachel, b Nov 1852 Mary Margaret, b c 1855 Franklin, b & d Apr 1858 (Jackson Co Death records) Enoch S, b Jun 1867

Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/169 Surname: THOMAS, WESTFALL, RADER, CASTO, OURS, BONNET, SLAUGHTER, ROLLINS, MCDADE, WINTERS, SHAMBLIN, CARNEY, FLESHER, HYRE ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House. Tug Fork The right fork of Mill Creek is formed by the confluence of Bear Fork and Grass Lick, two considerable sized streams, which unite twelve miles from the junction of Tug Fork with the Left Hand, or Trace Fork. There are two origins assigned to the name of the stream. The one, that because the path, trail or "trace" leading from the river settlements to Harrison County and the regions beyond, led up this branch, it was called Trace Fork, and the settlers who commonly used bark or rawhide tugs in their primitive harness, instead of chain traces, gradually came to apply the name Tug Fork to the right branch, to distinguish it from the Trace Fork. The other legend is that in the early days when settlers were crowding in and game began to be scarce, markets were distant and inconvenient, and the people, many of whom had not become adapted to the new style of making a living, thought they had a hard tug to live, and so called their home the "Tug Fork". The name is said to have been first used by Enoch C. Thomas, when he moved up on the creek. The country along Tug Fork is mostly rough and hilly. There is much fine rolling tableland on top of the hills, and good bench and cove land in the runs and small streams, and the bottoms are of fair width and fertile, but the hills bordering the valley are high and often steep. On the upper reaches of the creek, the hills are so rocky and precipitous and the stream zigzags back and forth from hill, hugging the rocky bluffs so close that there is not room for the road to pass around it. In consequence, the fords were numerous, and owing to the rocks and the rapidity of the current, very inconvenient to the traveler. The left branch of Tug Fork runs far up into Jackson County mountains, which attain an altitude of eleven hundred feet, and abound in sheer cliffs and wild rocky ravines. The right branch, on the contrary, includes the finest rolling uplands of Jackson County, especially towards the head of Grass Lick, the hills are low and the ascent gentle with wide tops, often level or only slightly rolling. Parts of Bear Fork are a miniature edition of the Allegheny mountains with its cliffs, bluffs, rocks, clefts, caverns, fissures and silvery, leaping rills flashing through the sunlight down the hillside. Often as on Laurel Fork, there are rocks as large as a smoke house, and from that down to boulders no bigger than a salt barrel, scattered over the narrow bottoms below the cliffs, from which they have fallen away. Some miles below the confluence of Grass Lick and Bear Fork, near the Falling Water Church, a little stream coming down through the hills leaps over a sheer cliff of rock eight or ten feet high, into the valley below. Tug Fork is twelve miles to the forks and from there to the head of Bear Fork is eight miles, and to the sources of Grass Lick twelve and one half miles, at Garnes Knob, a lofty hill eleven hundred feet above sea level. The right branch of Grass Lick, in going upstream, curls back nearly to the main stream. If a drop of water were to fall on a knife edge set on the top of Salt Lick Hill, so as to divide it, one half would reach Mill Creek within less than a half mile, the other flowing by way of Grass Lick would reach the same spot, after a journey of twenty three miles, or more. By water, the valleys are, respectively, Tug Fork, about six miles, Bear Fork, six or seven miles, Grass Lick, eleven miles. By road, the distances are a few miles shorter than by following the course of the very crooked streams. Tug Fork Valley is about seventeen miles long, Trace Fork, or so called main Mill Creek, some twelve and one half miles, counting the longest branch of Buffalo Fork. The villages on Tug waters are Staats Mills, seven and a quarter miles up the creek, Belgrove, five miles up on the Bear Fork, and Fair Plain, near the head of the right branch of Grass Lick, and Kenna at the head of main Grass Lick. There was a Buffalo "stomp" on Buffalo Lick at Lick Springs two or three feet deep, at the upper side, sixty years ago. OTHER SETTLERS ON TUG FORK Next was Stephen Westfall. His father was a brother of Zachariah Westfall. He lived here for a space of years and later moved to Elk Fork to a farm three or four miles above the Rader settlement. I give these settlements according to locality, and not necessarily with regard to date of settlement. The next cabin was that of George Casto, who moved from the Salt Lick farm about the 1820's. His history is given elsewhere in this history. George Casto was a brother-in-law of Stephen Westfall, whose sister had been his first wife. John Ours, a brother of the George Casto's second wife, owned the next farm, which was about a mile and a half from Mill Creek. He came out from the Buckhannon River, and married Mary Bonnet, a daughter of William Bonnet, who lived above Ripley. After a few years he sold the farm to Enoch C. Thomas, and he crossed into Ohio to make his home. Then came Jesse Slaughter, who married Polly Rollins, a sister of Elijah, J.O., Zachariah Rollins, from Lewis County, and settled one mile above Staats Mill. Later he sold this farm to George Casto, before mentioned, and it was the home of his son, Nicholas, till 1905. John J. Casto, or "Big John" Casto, was a son of John Casto. He lived on the Elijah Rollins farm for a number of years, but sold it and moved to another place just above George Casto's. His wife was Gracey McDade, supposed by my informant to be a daughter of the Samuel McDade who was one of the first settlers at the mouth of Mill Creek. [James McDade, not Samuel...b] They had five sons in the Union Army. Jesse Slaughter, when he sold his first farm to George Casto, bought what has since been known as the Slaughter farm on Bear Fork. His son, Silas H. Slaughter, settled just above him, and James C. Slaughter immediately below his father. Daniel Casto, brother of the man who was shot in the woods, settled first on Grass Lick, on the farm where Henry Winters now lives, but moved on to the head of Bear Fork. He married Polly Shamblin. I think Nic Casto was my informant that Thomas Carney had been there five years (in 1816). William Bonnet about 1811. Isaac Flesher, Lige Rollins and John Casto the same. Jacob Hyre about 1810. Michael Rader before 1810.

Don Greene wrote: > get up early, take medicine, drink coffee, find ancestors > on list and reply while head is still muddy. S.O.P. ......LOL!!! Julie, who doesn't do mornings.....(gracefully!)

I have a feeling that someone has abstracted newspapers in Jackson County, but I don't know if they have been published in book form. Does anyone know? And where would one buy it, if they have? m Marilyn Steber in San Diego, Ca. ------- Pvt. William B. Potter, Civil War Union veteran, my Great-grandfather, was memorialized on May 18, 2000 at Warm Springs, Montana. His headstone was dedicated with the assistance of the Montana Veterans Council's color guard and firing squad. ____ Currently researching these families: Potters of WI, Oppenborn of MI; McCoy of Greene Co. PA; Powhatan Carter of WV and Indiana, Seaman of KY, WV & NJ and Clark of NJ.

Posted on: Jackson County, WV Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/Jackson/1896 Surname: Slaughter, Brown, Lewis, Voirs ------------------------- Anybody found any info on the hangings of Slaughter, Brown, Lewis & Voirs in Jackson county yet? Just morbid curiousity I guess. Don

Posted on: Jackson County, WV Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/Jackson/1895 Surname: Green, Casto, Parsons ------------------------- Whoops, Sorry, must be too early. It is Edward Green & Sarah Parsons and Leonard Green & Phoebe Casto. Can't belive that I did that. Anyway picked up a tidbit the other day that indicated that Edward's mother remarried after his father's death and am pursuing it. Also found the husband of the other Sarah Green with son Edward that shows up in Jackson Co about the same time as mine. Such a relief. Sorry again, get up early, take medicine, drink coffee, find ancestors on list and reply while head is still muddy. I apologize for the confusion. Don

Posted on: Jackson County, WV Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/Jackson/1894 Surname: Coleman, Green, Casto ------------------------- Diana, Iam ag-g-g-grandson of Edward Green & Pheobe Casto. Contact me via email for parents, children etc. if you would like to. There has been some discussion of Elijah of this List for Jackson County. Just refresh, using his name & it will all come back up. Don

Posted on: Jackson County, WV Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/Jackson/1893 Surname: Green, Casto, Coleman ------------------------- Phoebe is in my line and is the d/o of Charles & Deborah (Casto) Casto. Leonard is the s/o of Edward & Sarah Parsons. Contact me at my e-mail address as we may be related. I have no Coleman info.

Posted on: Jackson County, WV Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/Jackson/1890 Surname: green, casto, coleman ------------------------- I am trying to find any information on a Phoebe casto, she married Leonard Green on may 12, 1848 in Jackson county , west virginia. I need his parents names and hers and they had for a time in 1850 in their home a boy by the name of Elijah Coleman. does anyone know the connection between this couple and the boy Elijah?