Elizabeth (Duckett) Casey (1759 - 1839)

Born 27 Sep 1759 in Frederick County, Maryland

Ancestors

Wife of Levi Garrett Casey — married about 1775 in , , South Carolina

Descendants

Died 1 Dec 1839 at age 80 in Rawhide Community, Lauderdale County, Alabama, USA

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Biography

Elizabeth (Duckett) Casey performed Patriotic Service in South Carolina in the American Revolution.

Elizabeth (Duckett) Casey is Notable.

Elizabeth (Duckett) Casey is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A132025.

Elizabeth (Duckett) Casey was a Maryland colonist.

Birth

Date: 27 SEP 1759^[1]

Place: Frederick, Maryland, USA^[2]

Parents

Elizabeth Duckett was born to Jacob Duckett and his wife Sarah Odell in Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland.

Lineage

Elizabeth Duckett (Jacob14, Richard13, William12, John11, Stephan10, John9, William8, Richard7, Richard6, Thomas5, Richard4, John3, Richard2, Richard1)^[3] was born 27 September 1759 in USA, and died 1 December 1839 in Lauderdale, Alabama, USA. She married Levi CASEY 1775 in Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA, son of Abner Brooks CASEY and Harriett GREEN.

Siblings

1. Richard Duckett (1740– )
2. Ann Duckett (1744–1804)
3. Thomas Duckett (1744–1824)
4. Mary Duckett (1748–1805)
5. Jacob Odell Duckett (1748–1809)there is dispute if this is the son's full name
6. Margaret Duckett (1755–1805)
7. Josiah "Si" Duckett War of 1812 (1752–1828)
8. Joseph Duckett (1752–1812)
9. Elizabeth Duckett (1759–1839)
10. Richard Duckett (1762–1762)
11. Charity Duckett (1760-1830)

Marriage

Name Elizabeth Duckett

Gender Female

Birth Year 1759

Spouse Name Levi Casey

Spouse Birth Year 1749

Marriage Year 1775

Marriage State SC

Number Pages 1

Household Members

Name Age

Levi Casey

Elizabeth Duckett^[4]

Spouse

Levi Garrett Casey

Children

1. John A Casey (1775–1862)
2. Nancy Ann Casey (1785–1860)
3. Sarah Siner Casey (1789–1872)
4. Levi Garrett Old Flynn Casey, Pvt (1791–1855)
5. Elizabeth Betsy Casey (1795–1872)
6. Jacob Duckett Casey (1796–1853)
7. Samuel Otterson Casey (1801–1866)

Her Life

Elizabeth Duckett married in 1775-6 at the age of 16 to Levi Casey,her senior by ten years. She had a number of children and at a young age proved sturdy and dependable for her family and her neighbors. There were such atrocities to all who surrounded her while the struggle was in full throttle.

When her husband died unexpectedly, he died intestate. She was left with only a child's portion of the estate. She was widowed while there were still minor children to be raised, she raised them alone. She bravely loaded up her then minor children and joined the caravan of a nephew, John Duckett, and went into what was virtually another untamed land. The caravan arrived in what would become Lauderdale County before the year 1820, likely before statehood. She had a home place in the then Rawhide Community on what is now Cloverdale Road in Lauderdale County, where she raised her minor children, and where she died. Her home place was located near the Forks of Cypress, the plantation of James Jackson.

Her patriotism to America

Casey was an unsung heroine of the Revolution.

This story is about a small, forsaken family cemetery about nine miles north of Florence. Here lies the remains of the widow of Revolutionary War hero Brig. Gen. Levi Casey. Her marriage occurred a year before the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Elizabeth Duckett Casey was only 16, 10 years younger than the groom. She had grown up in what was considered to be the backwoods of South Carolina - Newberry County. Hardship was a necessary part of her daily life. This never changed. In fact, it grew worse. The seven years of strife with England on the frontiers of South Carolina were difficult, and sometimes sacrificial, for the families those who bore arms against the king.

Newberry County was divided politically even before the first guns were fired in Lexington. By 1776, there was open, hostile conflict among its own People. Those loyal to King George III were called Tories. The Whigs were those who had cast their lots on the side of the struggle for American Independence.

The Long Lane and the Duncan and Enoree Creeks settlements, homes of the Ducketts, Caseys, Lindseys, Lyles, Littletons, Duncans and others whose families would one day make their way to Lauderdale County, Alabama, were Whigs. These patriots sent fathers and sons to fight both the British and Tories.

Meanwhile, it was necessary to maintain constant vigilance on the home front. Terrible and unspeakable atrocities became dreaded hazards of life. Local guerrilla bands on both sides roamed the region. At the beginning of hostilities, Levi Casey was recognized as a leader among the Whigs in Newberry County. He quickly rose in rank from lieutenant to brigadier general. Much of his early military activities were as a partisan leader on the home front.

One of his encounters away from home was late 1778, in Savannah, GA. Here he commanded a company of militia attached to a weak American force of less than 1,000, under Gen. Robert Howe of North Carolina. Following this British victory, local Tory units began to intensify the war in the Carolinas.

Battles were fought at encounters where Levi Casey won distinction as a leader of militia. He was with the "Over Mountain Men" at Kings Mountain in October 1780, and a month later, the Battle of Cowpens. Few battles in American history have electrified the country as did these victories won by men from the backwoods of the colonies.

Gen. Levi Casey was a genuine American hero. Following the war, he was honored by being elected state senator, and later, to the U.S. House of Representatives for the 8th, 9th, and 10th Congresses. He died in Washington on Feb. 1, 1807, and is buried in the Congressional Cemetery.

As was her husband, so was Elizabeth Duckett Casey. She was one of the unsung heroines of the American Revolution.

As the wife of a high-ranking partisan leader, she was constantly the target of harrassments and attacks by both the British and the Tories. Although records of her sacrifices have long since been lost in time, there are few surviving accounts involving her close friends and neighbors. On one raid, two young sons of a neighbor, Robert and James Dugan, were captured and brutally murdered. The next morning, their mother found their mutilated bodies. She wrapped them as best she could in sheets and buried them quickly in dug graves without the benefit of coffins.

Another neighbor, Benjamin Edins, was captured and confined as a prisoner of war. During his absence, the Tories destroyed all of Eddins' worldly possessions. His home was plundered and burned, along with his barns, fences and fields. His wife was so mistreated that she bore her wounds as long as she lived.

Elizabeth Casey came to Lauderdale County in a caravan with a number of her sons and daughters sometime prior to 1830. She died in 1839, at the age of 80, and is buried in the deep woods near Cloverdale.

This small cemetery has recently been ruthlessly violated and almost destroyed.How sad that even the mortal remains of this heroine of the American Revolution continue to be the target of vandals.'^[5].

Elizabeth Duckett Casey was a great asset to her husband, her family, and to her nation. When her husband would have those tremendous gatherings for a week or more at a time, she was the backbone of the family. Notwithstanding all the heroic feats of her husband, his father and his brothers, she served as a patriot in her own right. She furnished supplies to the to the war effort and struggle for Independence. She is a patriot in the Daughters of the American Revolution, having furnished supplies.

Elizabeth Duckett Casey Ancestor #: A132025

Service: SOUTH CAROLINA Rank(s): PATRIOTIC SERVICE

Birth: 9-27-1759 PRINCE GEORGES CO MARYLAND

Death: 12-1-1839 FLORENCE LAUDERDALE CO ALABAMA

Service Source: SALLEY & WATES, STUB ENTRIES TO INDENTS, BOOK G, #60, P 14

Service Description: 1) FURNISHED SUPPLIES

Probate Records

John Casey vs. Elizabeth Casey, Jacob Rhodes, & Thomas Davis March 1811 General Levi Casey died in 1807 intestate with a tract of 75 acres on Hunting Fork a branch of Indian Creek, being a tract originally granted to James Hughes, and a tract containing 100 acres on the drafts of Enoree River and Duncan’s Creek on a small branch called Casey’s branch, originally laid out to James McCracken, and a tract containing 715 acres on Duncan’s Creek and Enoree River. Levi Casey left a widow, Elizabeth Casey and the following children: John Casey, Siner the wife of Jacob Rhodes, Nancy the wife of Thomas Davis, and four minors — Elizabeth Casey the younger, Levi Casey the younger, Jacob Casey, and Samuel Casey. Thomas Duckett appointed guardian of minors. Land was divided between heirs. 3 plats included.^[6]

Lauderdale County, AL Inventory Record A-4 1840-1844 ::Inventory of estate of Eliz. Casey dec'd by S. O. Casey Exector (among notes de, by Jack D Casey) note refers to rev. ser. by family.^[7]

Lauderdale County Will Records

Elizabeth Duckett Casey's Will: In the name of God amen I Elizabeth Casey of the State of Alabama Lauderdale County being very much diseased in body but sound in mind, thanks be to God for mercy, do this 22nd day of October in the year of our Lord 1839, make and declare this my last will and testament, in the manner following. First I desire my body to be committed to the earth in a Christian like manner, and my soul I recommend to God, who gave it, and as respects my worldly effects, when with it hath pleased God to bless me, I give and devise as follows,

I give and bequeath to my daughter Nancy Davis my negroe girl named Lucinda.

I give and bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth Johnson my negroe woman named Charity. And also I give my daughter Elizabeth Johnson Charity’s daughter named Hammit.

I bequeath to my son Jacob D. Casey my negroe girl named Nancy.

I give and bequeath to my son Samuel O. Casey, my little negroe boy called Benjamine.

I desire each of these negroes that is willed to be valued, and made of equal worth to the owners. I also desire that my negroe man called Moses to be sold, and I also will that my negroe woman named Sarah and her child Atlantie be sold.

I desire at the valuation of the negroes that are willed together with the amount of those sold, including the amount of my dues and other effects subject to sale (after my just debts and funeral expenses be paid) be added together and divided into six equal parts in shares, one of which

I give and bequeath to my son Levi Casey to be paid my money, raised out of my effects that I have left to be sold, and one six part, I desire to be retained in the hands of my herein after named Executors for the use and benefit of my daughter Siner Rhodes to be to her given by my Executors as they may think needful, and should the amount reserved not be exhausted during her lifetime, ::I desire the surplus to be equally divided among my children.

I desire the other four shares to be made equal between Nancy Davis, Elizabeth Johnson, Jacob D. Casey, and Samuel O. Casey provided, nevertheless, thus n…un of the four above named, has heretofore received more than the other. I desire them to add it to the four shares and divide equally between themselves.

I give and bequeath to my son John A. Casey, the note which I hold on him, together with all dues or demands I may have against him.

I give and bequeath to my son Samuel O. Casey my tract of land on which I live, know by the Southeast quarter of section fifteen in Township one of Range twelve west, free of all encumbrances and without valuation as respects former legacies, or present bequeaths. I also give one feather bed, first choice, two domestic sheets, two cotton sheets, one used bed quilt, and two new ones, one blanket, two pillows and two pair of pillow slips, one cotton and one domestic. I also give him my quart decanter, which together with the bed and furniture are all clear of valuation,

and I do constitute and appoint my son Samuel O. Casey, and my friend John Duckett, my executors of this my last will and testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written signed, sealed, published and delivered as and for the last will and testament of the above.

Elizabeth (her mark) Casey.

C. Sullivan

Basil Robinson

W. P. F. Darby

The State of Alabama, Lauderdale County Be it remembered that Charles Sullivan, Basil Robinson, W. P. F. Darby the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing will. Who being s….ed according to law proved the making signing sealing and publishing of the same by the testator, and it is therefore …..ded thus said will be established & recorded  ::J. T. Haraway, Judge

Dec. 23 1839

Recorded 21 January 1840^[8]

Death

Date: 01 DEC 1839

Place: Rawhide Community, Lauderdale, Alabama, USA^[9][10]

Date: 1839^[11]

Burial

Casey Family Cemetery, Rawhide Community (now Cloverdale), Lauderdale County, Alabama^[12]

Gravermarker Inscription

Sources

1. ↑ gravemarker inscription
2. ↑ Source: #S1 Records for Jacob Duckett & Sarah O'Dell
3. ↑ Kennard Scribner Jr, USA
4. ↑ U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
5. ↑ Casey was an unsung heroine of Revolution, published in The Times Daily, newspaper article, written by William Lindsey McDonald, August 15, 1996, Florence, Lauderdale, Alabama
6. ↑ March 1811 Common Pleas Court, Box 1, Folder A-16
7. ↑ Alabama Records V 230, p 51 Lauderdale County Alabama
8. ↑ Will of Elizabeth Duckett Casey transcribed from microfilm Box CH-40 located at Florence-Lauderdale Public Library, Florence, Alabama, entitled Lauderdale County Will Records. Elizabeth Casey's will is on pages 70, 71, and 72.
9. ↑ Source: #S1 Records for Jacob Duckett & Sarah O'Dell
10. ↑ placement of grave
11. ↑ Source: #S1 "O'Dell's Tree" by Bannister, Jesse
12. ↑ Source: #S1 Record for Sarah O'Dell
13. ↑ Duckett-17.jpg

NOTES

Elizabeth Duckett Casey is one of the few women honored in the Daughters of American Revolution, as most were soldiers and were men.