The editor:
I am writing a book on the Castle/Cassell/Cassel family and currently have 1,700 pages complete.
I am still looking for lines that I may have missed or that I have incomplete information on.
I would like to encourage any individual with the surname of Castle, Cassell, Cassel and in some cases Kassel to contact me with their information. I will provide an ancestry graph of each individual that responds to this letter.
For those that do respond, please go back as far as you can and advise me of that ancestor since this will make it easier for me to connect your lines. I need dates of birth and location, spouses as well as marriage dates and locations and the children from that issue.
This family is mostly concentrated in Southwest Virginia, Southeastern Kentucky, Southwestern Tennessee, Eastern & Western West Virginia and Southern, Southeastern and Central Ohio. In Virginia, the counties would include: Lee, Wise, Washington, Russell, Scott as well as some other outlying counties. In Kentucky, the counties would include: Johnson, Floyd, Lawrence, Martin, Boyd, Pike, Elliott Greenup, Rowan, Carter, Magoffin, Pulaski, Perry, Letcher, Knox, Bell, Harlan, Morgan, Menifee and Montgomery. In Tennessee, the counties would include: Sullivan, Hawkins, Campbell, Union, Claiborne as well as any other outlying counties. In West Virginia, the counties would be: Greenbrier, Pocahontas, Pendleton, Mingo, Cabell, Wayne as well as any other outlying counties. In Ohio, counties would include Scioto, Jackson, Lawrence, Adams, Brown, Highland, Hamilton, Clermont, Franklin, Montgomery, Greene, Warren, Butler as well as other outlying counties.
You may reply via email: jcastle@ekns.net or reply via regular mail at the address listed below.
You may also send any photos that you may have (the older the better). If you send via email I can scan these in. If you use regular mail, all photos will be returned once I have scanned. Regardless of how you send photos, please be sure to identify those included in the photo as well as your relation to them since I already have many photos from many different lines.
For the record, I represent the 10th and 11th generations in my Castle lines with my ancestor being Inman Castle who was born circa 1801 at Castlewood, Va. but later migrated to Johnson County, Kentucky with three brothers.
I look forward to your responses.
James W. Castle
P.O. Box 777
Aberdeen, Ohio 45101
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