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From: "Dan & Marlene" <>
Subject: Re: [WVJackson] Jackson County History Book
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 17:30:08 -0500
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Betty , guess that really makes me lucky, my Grandma was a double Casto!
Marlene
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From: "Betty Briggs" <>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: [WVJackson] Jackson County History Book


> Dan & Marlene wrote:
>
>> Bette, you should be able to shake any bush in Jackson county and find a
>> Parsons or a Kessel. Marlene Parsons Harden
>
> You've made me curious, because I don't have that many Kessels in my
> database. So I checked the 1880 census. In Jackson County:
> Kessel 58 (104 in all of WV)
> Parsons 322 (out of 1090 in WV)
> Smith 186
> Sayre 199
> Rhodes 206
> But the 'winner' is still Casto at 426 out of a total of 636 in WV. :)
>
> The majority of the rest of the Kessels lived in Grant Co. which is just
> west of Shenandoah Co, VA, where George Kessel married Catherine Boyer in
> 1773, according to "Jackson County West Virginia Past and Present 1990",
> and this article states that George, born 1804 and moved to Jackson Co,
> where he married Delila Casto, was their son. Another article states that
> Job Kessel, the other Jackson County Kessel pioneer, was probably the son
> of Jonathan Kessel, and was born in Hampshire Co - north and west of
> Shenandoah county. I haven't dug into those early records in those
> counties, but they have to be related.
>
> So maybe there is another George who married Jane Baker.
> Betty
>
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> If you have made a list of burials of any Jackson County cemetary, you can
> send them to to have them added to the Jackson County
> WVGenWeb pages.
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