Abner Casey born 1766 in Spartanburg Co,
SC.
Submitted by Susan Fahnstrom
All of ABNER'S and wife ELIZABETH' S children were
grown, by the time the decision was made to leave Tennesse and go
west. By the time they reached the Arkansas Ozarks, all the Casey
offspring were married, but the youngest son, Abner "Berry" Casey
(born 1820) Included in this wagon train, in addition tothe Casey
families, were the Bowens, the Stewarts, the Fubanks, probably the
Arbaughs and many others, practically all the families whose
ancestors had lived as neighbors in Virginia more than 100
years before this time..... (1834 - 1835. when hey reached Mulberry
River, Arkansas, Ozarks) The author of "The Abner Casey Family in
America' quoted that Turner Casey, Abners second son born 1804 was
probably the leader of this extensive wagon train, We are told that
Turner Casey was with a party which selected the route over which
the Cherokee Indians were brought from Georgia to Tennesse to Indian
Territory and that on the return trip, Turner Casey and others came
though the Ozark mountains following Mulberry River an across the
divide, they liked what they saw.
After his return to
Tennesse, Turner lead the assembled families of the Casey clan back
to Arkansas, where he and his older brother Jesse Casey settled on
the Mulberry River along with their families.
Perhaps
ingrained with the old Virginia law restricting the Irish to no more
than ten families per watershed, the Casey families scattered from
the Mulberry river to other river valleys thoroughout the Ozarks,
over the coming decades.
One of Turners sons, Christopher
Columbus Casey, settled on "The falling waters" a Richland Creek
tributary of the Buffalo river, where he in the Casey tradition,
constructed a grismill.
Abner Casey was already 70 years old when
the Caseys arrived on the Mulberry. After he directed the
construction of a mill there, he left the two older sons, Jesse and
Turner to run it and carry on the raising of their ample
families.
Abner gathered the other offspring and their
families and pushed upthe mulberry river's headwaters and down the
divide's other side, into the valley of the Big Buffalo
River.
There they settled, but for Abner's son Levi Casey, Levi
and his wife Polly Haggard Casey and their considerable family,
ventured north into Carroll County, thence into Missouri, where they
settled on White River, near Forsyth and Kisse Mills. Where the
latter town is named after its founder, by coincidence the word
"Kisse" was a recurring christian name for Casey women, including
the mother of Christopher C Casey's 2nd. That youth grew up o be
"Lum Casey' an married Mary U Kisse, daughter of Alexander C Kisse,
who laid out the town of Kisse Mills. Levi Casey's issue from Taney
County, Missouri, were added to the ouflow of the Ozark Casey'
offspring to many points of the nation.
1850 Census. Van Buren Twp. Newton County,
Arkansas.
229 - 229. Casey Abner 84. M. South
Carolina.
Elizabeth Casey 68 F.
South Carolina.
Abner & Elizabeth Casey's children;
1.
Jesse Tipton Casey, b, 1797 in SC.
2.Turner Franklin Casey born
1804 in GA.
3. Levi Casey born April 23, 1805 in GA.
4.
Anthony Casey born abt1807 in GA.
5.Uriah Casey b, abt 1811 in
Roane Co, TN.
6. John Marion Casey b,1812 in Roane Co, TN 7.Mary
Polly Casey, b,Feb 28, 1813 in Roane Co, TN.
8. Abner Ellsberry
Casey b,1820 in Roane Co, TN.
9. Susan Casey b, abt 1822 in Roane
Co, TN.
