Esther (King) Casey (1856 - 1942)

Born 1856 in Americus, Sumter, Georgia, United States

Wife of James Casey — married 2 Feb 1871 in Sumter, Georgia, United States

Descendants

Died 1942 at about age 86 in Birmingham, Jefferson, Alabama, United States

Biography

Esther (King) Casey is a part of US Black heritage.

Esther King Casey was interviewed in Birmingham, Alabama on 6/4/1937 about her life and her time as an enslaved person.

Most of the interview is recounted by the interviewer, and not recorded as the actual words of Ms. King Casey.

"Less vivid, too, are the memories of her own journey to Georgia, where she, with her parents and brother, were brought to be the slaves of Captain King."

"At eighteen years of age the girl had acquired sufficient education to qualify to teach in the public schools for Negroes. After three years of teaching, she married Jim Casey, an ex-slave, who took her to his "three-plow" farm in south Georgia."

"After her only daughter's death in 1919, Esther was brought to Birmingham by her grandson who has kept her comfortably ever since."

Interview: Esther King Casey was interviewed in Birmingham, Alabama by Edward F Harper as part of the Federal Writer's Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The results are made available by the Library of Congress. ^[1]

Jim C and Esther "Cassie" are enumerated next door to their daughter's Hawk family in the 1900 census. See lines 84-85 of the 1900 census page cited below.

Sources

1. ↑ [1] Library of Congress - WPA - Slave Narrative - Esther King Casey - Vol. 1, Alabama, pages 55-57, images 61-63 of 442.

• "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC3R-6LG : 28 May 2021), Esther King in entry for Stephen King, 1870.

• "Georgia Marriages, 1808-1967", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FW6Z-K3J : 11 January 2020), Estha King in entry for James Casey, 1871.

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8LD-FN8 : 13 January 2022), James Case, District 1304, Calhoun, Georgia, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm .

• "United States Census, 1900", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3FT-JSZ : 15 February 2022), Wyatt Hawke, 1900.

• "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX8D-CQ7 : 31 January 2021), Esther Casey, 1920.

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V15K-Y2R : 5 January 2021), Esther Casey in household of James W Hawk, Election Precinct 9, Jefferson, Alabama, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 68-4, sheet 10B, line 77, family 237, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 91.

• "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JD1Q-GQK : 11 January 2021), Esther Casey, 1942.