John Casper was 26 when he married Barbara who was 40. Wikipedia gives a wedding date of 6 May 1806. Maryland Compiled Marriages, as well as a couple of other sources, give a date of 17 May 1806. John Casper and Barbara did not have any children.
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John Casper's wife became well known part of American folklore by an 1863 poem written by John Greenleaf Whittier. John Casper himself was a well known glove maker, having clients from several surrounding states. His shop was attached to his house in Frederick.
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Casper died intestate; his estate was distributed in a Frederick County equity court case after his wife Barbara's death. The case names full siblings Maria B. Ritchie and Rebecca Ebert, and half-siblings (by his mother's second marriage to a Hauser/Houser) Catherine Thomas, Susan Buckey, Louisa Leavy, and Frederick Hauser.[8]
↑Maryland, Compiled Marriages, 1655-1850
Name: John Fritchie
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 17 May 1806
Spouse: Barbara Hauer
Spouse Gender: Male
County: Frederick County
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Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 28 November 2018), memorial page for John Casper Fritchie (1762–10 Nov 1849), Find A Grave Memorial no. 21385739, citing Mount Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave (contributor 8).
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Casper by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Casper: