Family Group Sheet


Name Peter Hayes Cassity Sr.
Birth Apr 1851, Kentucky
Death 25 Mar 1913, Rowan Co., Kentucky
Burial Scaggs-Harr Cemetery, Oak Grove Rd, Rowan Co., Ky
Father Thomas Cassity (1827->1900)
Mother Elizabeth J. Brown (~1834-)
Other spouses Lula C. Roberts, 3C2R
Marriage abt 1872, Kentucky
Spouse Mahala Jane Hall, GG Aunt
Birth 2 Jan or 20 Jul 1856, Morgan Co., Kentucky
Death bef 1890, Rowan Co., Kentucky
Father George Martin Hall (1827-1900)
Mother Susannah Downing (1832-1900)
Children
1 M Peter Cassity Jr., 1C2R
Birth Apr 1872/1875, Morgan Co., Kentucky
Spouse Katie A. Roberts, 3C2R
2 M George H. Cassity, 1C2R
Birth 15 Jan 1875, Rowan Co., Kentucky
Death 22 Mar 1960, Rowan Co., Kentucky
Spouse Mary Alice "Mollie" Bowman
3 M James "Matthew" Cassity, 1C2R
Birth 27 Oct 1883, Rowan Co., Kentucky
Death 21 Mar 1980, Rowan Co., Kentucky
Spouse May Cornett
4 F Lydia A. Cassity, 1C2R
Birth 1885, Rowan Co., Kentucky
Death 13 Jan 1944, Rowan Co., Kentucky
Spouse Orlando Skaggs
Notes for Peter Hayes Cassity Sr.
Mae (Hall) Gilkison writes in a letter of 16 Sep 95, "My husband's mother, Grace Cassity Gilkison, age 93, is a daughter to the Peter Cassity Sr. that married Mahala Jane Hall, sister to my grandfather (and your great-grandfather) George W. Hall. After Mahala Jane died, which they had several children, one that I knew personally - Mathew Cassity, my mother-in-laws 1/2 brother - Peter Cassity Sr. married Lula Roberts, my mother-in-laws mother. They had 10 or 12 children, most of them I knew or know as some are still living, as my mother-in-law is. Also, my mother-in-law had a sister, Martha Cassity Markwell, whose son Mason married one of Perry Hall's daughters, Pauline."

None of Peter's marriages is recorded in Rowan County.

Index to Kentucky Death Records lists Peter Casidy, d. 25 Mar 1913, age 63, in Rowan Co., certificate Vol. 18, #08740.

His gravestone says Rev. Peter Haze Cassity, 1850-1913. It is a single stone, and there is no other Cassity buried in the cemetery. See also notes for Peter Cassity Jr.
Census
1880 census of Rowan Co., KY, Pearce Prec. (#3), lists on p. 25, family #227:
Cassity, Peter, 30, Ky Ky Ky; Haley, 25, Ky Va Ky; George, 6; Peter, 5.

(I didn't take notes on this family for the 1900 census because at the time I searched that film I didn't know Mahala Jane had died and Peter remarried to Lula, so I was only looking for a Peter Cassity married to a Mahala/Haley.)

1910 census of Rowan Co., KY, Morehead prec, page 6B handnumbered 180B stamped, dated 23 Apr, lists family #105:
Cassity, Peter, 59; (w) Lula, 39, mother of 9 children, 9 living; married 19 yrs, second for Peter, first for Lula; (d) Jocie, 18; (s) Willis, 17; (d) Mary A., 15; (d) Martha, 13; (s) Clifford, 10; (d) Gracie, 9; (s) Noah, 7; (d) Flora, 4; (d) Lula, 2. All born in KY.
Notes for Mahala Jane Hall
Rowan Co. birth records, on LDS microfilm #216839, list Mahala J. Hall b. 2 Jan 1856 to "George Hall & Elizabeth Riddle", place of birth Licking. The entry above is for John W. Hall, b. July 12, 1856, son of "Alfred Hall & Susan Downing". Apparently the clerk transposed the names of the mothers when copying these two lines. (The book is not a day-by-day register, but a copy made at the beginning of one year of the reports submitted by physicians and midwives of the births they had assisted at during the preceding year.)

The dates may be switched, too. Morgan Co. birth records, on LDS microfilm #216835, record birth of an unnamed daughter to George Hall and Susan Downing on 20 July 1856.

"Past Images of Rowan County"7 lists Mahala Hall the daughter of George Martin Hall as marrying Peter Cassidy Sr.

Mahala died fairly young, but I don't know the date. No earlier than 1884, since her son Matthew was born then, and apparently by 1888, as Peter and Laura's daughter Lydia listed her age as 22 when she married in Dec 1909.
Last Modified 21 Apr 2002 Created 30 Jun 2002 by Reunion for Macintosh