Jesse Elax Casey Sr (1768 - abt. 1830)

Born 1768 in Spartanburg, South Carolina Province

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Died about 1830 at about age 62 in Morgan County, Tennessee, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Jesse Elax Casey (Sr.) was born in 1768 in Spartanburg, Spartanburg District, English Province (colony) of South Carolina. He was the 1st-born son of Aaron Casey, b: 1741 in Roanoke, Virginia, and his wife, Mary "Polly" (Wayne) Casey, b: 1752 in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He was named for his paternal grandfather who had migrated from Maryland to the southern Shenandoah Valley in Virginia before 1740 when it was still wilderness. ^[1]

Jesse E. Casey married Mary Pedland around 1789 in Spartanburg, Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA. Mary was from Spartanburg. They had the following children:

1. Ambler Casey, son, b: ca. 1790 in Spartanburg, South Carolina
2. Jesse Casey Jr., b: 1797 in Greene Co., Georgia; m. Martha (Patsy) Coe, 4 Apr 1817 in Roane Co. Tennessee

NOTE: A FamilySearch profile for Jesse Casey Sr. indicates that Jesse Casey Sr. had 2 wives and that "Elizabeth Allison," [possibly "Ellison"] b: 1773 in Spartanburg S.C. was the mother of Jesse Casey Jr. It cites a 1790 marriage (but no marriage documentation has been found on FamilySearch). ^[2]

Jesse's parents and siblings moved from South Carolina to Roane County, Tennessee, after 1800. Jesse had already left South Carolina for Georgia in the mid 1790s but he and his family also moved to Roane County in eastern Tennessee before September 1809 (when his daughter Ambler married in Roane Co., Tennessee). ^[3] His son, Jesse Jr., nonetheless served as a Private in the 1st South Carolina volunteer regiment during the War of 1812.^[4]

Jesse Casey Sr. had 53 acres on Cainy Creek, Roane Co., Tennessee. In 1817 Morgan Co. was created from Roane Co., and it included Crab Orchard Creek also called "Casey's Creek" or Cainy Creek. Thus, without moving, the family switched from Roane to Morgan County.^[5]

Although no death record has been found, family lore states that Jesse E. Casey Sr., passed away shortly before 1830 on his farm in Morgan County, Tennessee, USA. His brother, Abner Casey, and his son, Jesse Casey Jr., along with their close relations, members of the local Snow family, left Morgan County after Arkansas Territory, which became a state in 1836, was opened for American settlement (the area had been Cherokee Indian land before 1833) under US President Andrew Jackson. Their migration path (lasting some half-dozen years) took them from Morgan, Tennessee to southern Missouri, where some stayed, and then south to Johnson County, Arkansas, and finally to Newton County, Arkansas, where Jesse Jr. and his Coe - Snow relatives settled around 1841. Jesse Sr. and Jesse Jr. have been confused in some accounts but the preponderance of evidence is that Jesse E. Casey Sr. died in Tennessee before the family move. His burial site is not known.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ https://wc.rootsweb.com/trees/192583/P36204/jesse-casey/individual
2. ↑ Research Notes for Jesse E. Casey Sr. on FamilySearch
3. ↑ https://wc.rootsweb.com/trees/192583/P36206/ambler-casey/individual
4. ↑ United States War of 1812 Index to Service Records, 1812-1815, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29V-Y1MZ : 12 March 2018), Jesse Casey Or Caisey, 1812-1815; citing NARA microfilm publication M602 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); roll 36; FHL microfilm 882,554.
5. ↑ Ancestral File, internet; LDS Church Records: reside with Eugene Delbert Tidwell, 3484 E Summer Hill Dr., Salt Lake City, Utah. Cited on Research Notes for Jesse E. Casey Sr. on FamilySearch
6. ↑ Note: A modern revision of the Casey family in America has decided to ignore all undocumented family ties prior to the births of Ambler and Jesse E. Casey Jr. in the 1790s. See Casey Family History 2d Ed.

• Genealogy: "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 01 September 2019, 03:00), entry for Jesse Elax Casey Sr(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LCQC-1MR); contributed by various users.

• Genealogy: Casey, Robert and Harold Casey Family History page 2-8. Accessed 24 October 2019.