William Edward Bennett

M, b. 29 December 1872
  • Last Edited: 11 Mar 2014
  • Biography*: William Bennett and family moved to Texas around 1904 or 1905. He was a carpenter and part time farmer. The family moved several times in Texas to be near where work for a carpenter was best at the time. When they moved he usually built the family a new house.
  • (Child) Birth*: 29 December 1872; Antioch, Troup Co., Georgia
  • (Groom) Marriage*: 21 August 1894; Bride=Frenchie Beatrice Caswell
  • Research Note*: 21 August 2013; From Clare Dunkle:

    We're big storytellers in my family--after all, I'm a published author--so I know a number of family legends about Pop and Frenchie. One of the only things I know about Frenchie is that she used to tell my grandmother, "There's nothing sweeter than a little child who wants to cook," and my grandmother passed that on to me when I myself was a little child, as I stood on a step stool in my grandmother's kitchen, helping her make pies. I also know that my grandmother saw her mother-in-law, Frenchie, as a silent and somewhat grim figure, sitting on her wooden porch in her rocking chair and chewing tobacco. My grandmother said that there was an empty knothole in the porch and that Frenchie could spit her tobacco and hit that knothole with unbelievable accuracy from anywhere on the porch.

    About Pop Bennett, her husband, I know more. He was indeed a legend to us kids. He was a small, scrawny man by all reports, and as poor as he was, he once got beaten up so badly that he lost an eye. After that, he made himself brass knuckles with short spikes welded across them. My brother Anthony still has the set, and I've seen it--I think it's just for the one hand, not two. Anyway, that was back in Alabama. One night after that, Pop came home and woke the whole big family up and put them all on the next train out of town. The police stopped that train before it reached the state line and took Pop Bennett off the train to talk to him. After several hours, they let him rejoin his family and leave the state, with the cordial invitation never to return to Alabama. That, the story goes, is how they ended up in Texas. Apparently, no one ever had the courage or lack of respect to ask Pop what he had done, but my brother thinks he and his brass knuckles had probably killed someone in a fight. The police probably felt that they would have trouble getting a conviction since it might be considered self defense--and besides, Anthony says, they likely felt that it was someone who "needed killing."1

Family: Frenchie Beatrice Caswell b. 21 Jan 1877, d. 29 Mar 1965

Citations

  1. [S516] Clare Nynyve (Buckalew) Dunkle (ID: 8566) e-mail,.

Alma Lorena Caswell

F, b. 30 April 1878, d. 5 September 1932
  • Last Edited: 18 Apr 2010

Family: James J. Scott b. 1878, d. 1957

Cora Lee Caswell

F, b. 17 November 1882
  • Last Edited: 6 Oct 2000

Family: (?) Snellgrove b. s 1880

(?) Snellgrove

M, b. say 1880
  • Last Edited: 10 Aug 2001
  • (Groom) Marriage*: Bride=Cora Lee Caswell
  • (Deceased) Death*:
  • (Child) Birth*: say 1880

Family: Cora Lee Caswell b. 17 Nov 1882

Benjamin Franklin Caswell

M, b. 13 December 1883, d. 4 September 1937
  • Last Edited: 4 Jan 2019

Family: Lois Elizabeth Griffin b. 7 Sep 1886, d. 21 Apr 1962

Lois Elizabeth Griffin

F, b. 7 September 1886, d. 21 April 1962
  • Last Edited: 13 Jun 2002

Family: Benjamin Franklin Caswell b. 13 Dec 1883, d. 4 Sep 1937

Noah Zacharias Caswell

M, b. 22 April 1886, d. 15 April 1965
  • Last Edited: 17 Jul 2001

Family 1: Nora Lacriesia Johnson b. 20 Oct 1885, d. 4 Nov 1942

Family 2: Lura Ammon b. s 1888, d. 12 Dec 1962

Silas Monroe Caswell

M, b. 29 September 1879, d. 24 December 1956
  • Last Edited: 15 Sep 2002

Family: Lillie Mae Wright b. 2 May 1884, d. 29 Jan 1970

Citations

  1. [S173] Janie Widemon, 2002 e-mail.

Lillie Mae Wright

F, b. 2 May 1884, d. 29 January 1970
  • Last Edited: 23 Sep 2002

Family: Silas Monroe Caswell b. 29 Sep 1879, d. 24 Dec 1956

Citations

  1. [S173] Janie Widemon, 2002 e-mail.

Homer Williams Caswell

M, b. 11 September 1881, d. 29 September 1953
  • Last Edited: 10 Oct 2002

Family: Lona Jane Pirtle b. 21 Feb 1885, d. 10 Dec 1954

Lona Jane Pirtle

F, b. 21 February 1885, d. 10 December 1954
  • Last Edited: 9 Apr 2002

Family: Homer Williams Caswell b. 11 Sep 1881, d. 29 Sep 1953

Nina Pearl Caswell

F, b. 28 July 1883, d. 29 December 1963
  • Last Edited: 16 Feb 2020

Family: William Thomas Forbus b. 19 Oct 1876, d. 22 May 1968

William Thomas Forbus

M, b. 19 October 1876, d. 22 May 1968
  • Last Edited: 16 Feb 2020

Family: Nina Pearl Caswell b. 28 Jul 1883, d. 29 Dec 1963

Citations

  1. [S3] FindAGrave.com, .
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/29506709/william-thomas-forbus

Charity Ann Caswell

F, b. 16 February 1885, d. 17 December 1956
  • Last Edited: 16 Feb 2020

Citations

  1. [S3] FindAGrave.com, .
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46672112/charity-ann-caswell

Joseph Benjamin Caswell

M, b. 16 March 1888, d. 22 December 1940
  • Last Edited: 16 Feb 2020

Family: Lady Filmore Gibson b. 30 Oct 1899, d. 15 Dec 1995

Citations

  1. [S3] FindAGrave.com, .
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/91366606/joe-benjamin-caswell
  2. [S3] FindAGrave.com, .
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/91366707/lady-filmore-caswell

Cefus Zebedee Caswell

M, b. 14 February 1890, d. 29 September 1969
  • Last Edited: 23 Sep 2002

Family: Esther Nevada Cason b. 28 Mar 1900, d. 4 Nov 1980

Citations

  1. [S173] Janie Widemon, 2002 e-mail.

Marcus D. Caswell

M, b. 12 February 1892, d. 19 January 1959
  • Last Edited: 16 Feb 2020

Family: Mary Evelyn Sharpes b. 2 Sep 1900, d. 20 Dec 1950

Citations

  1. [S3] FindAGrave.com, .
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46672119/mark-d-caswell
  2. [S3] FindAGrave.com, .
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46672135/mary-evelyn-caswell

George Russell Caswell

M, b. 28 May 1894, d. 7 January 1957
  • Last Edited: 16 Feb 2020

Citations

  1. [S3] FindAGrave.com, .
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46672142/george-russell-caswell

Eunice T. Caswell

F, b. 1 June 1898, d. 4 September 1900
  • Last Edited: 11 Jun 2002

Winnie Ruth Caswell

F, b. 22 July 1900, d. 4 October 1976
  • Last Edited: 16 Feb 2020

Family: Arthur Lee Condra b. 5 Apr 1899, d. 21 Jun 1986

Citations

  1. [S3] FindAGrave.com, .
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89485626/arthur-lee-condra
  2. [S3] FindAGrave.com, .
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89485722/winnie-ruth-condra

Edna G. Caswell

F, b. circa 1902
  • Last Edited: 11 Jun 2002

Grady B. Caswell

M, b. 9 August 1904, d. February 1986
  • Last Edited: 20 May 2008

Family: Alice Dee Good b. 29 Apr 1905, d. 26 Dec 2007

Citations

  1. [S2] Social Security Death Records,.

Jesse F. Caswell

M, b. 31 July 1881, d. 30 March 1946
  • Last Edited: 6 Oct 2000

Family: Lena Tate b. 15 Nov 1879

Lena Tate

F, b. 15 November 1879
  • Last Edited: 6 Oct 2000

Family: Jesse F. Caswell b. 31 Jul 1881, d. 30 Mar 1946

Ben Lee Caswell

M, b. August 1883
  • Last Edited: 6 Oct 2000

Family: Ida Tate b. c 1889

Ida Tate

F, b. circa 1889
  • Last Edited: 6 Oct 2000

Family: Ben Lee Caswell b. Aug 1883

Burnie L. Caswell

F, b. February 1885
  • Last Edited: 6 Oct 2000

Family: William E. Bailey b. s 1883

William E. Bailey

M, b. say 1883
  • Last Edited: 17 Jul 2001

Family: Burnie L. Caswell b. Feb 1885

Ella Tomera Caswell

F, b. February 1888
  • Last Edited: 6 Oct 2000

Family: Elmer T. McCaulis b. s 1885

Elmer T. McCaulis

M, b. say 1885
  • Last Edited: 3 Aug 2001

Family: Ella Tomera Caswell b. Feb 1888

Loomis Leslie Caswell

M, b. 19 March 1896
  • Last Edited: 2 Jul 2020
  • (Child) Birth*: 19 March 18961

Citations

  1. [S1] https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/152768786/person/302114462149/facts.

Marcus Delayette Caswell

M, b. 4 July 1899, d. March 1973
  • Last Edited: 1 Dec 2019

Family 1: Clara Mildred Head b. 14 Dec 1903, d. 24 Jan 1986

Family 2: Mary Pearl Moore b. 7 Oct 1907, d. 24 Jun 1977

Citations

  1. [S245] Ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/153740252/person/142045086159/facts
  2. [S245] Ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/153740252/person/142045086816/facts
  3. [S245] Ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/153740252/person/142045086894/facts