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b. Bet 1790 and 1799
d. Abt 1841
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Children
No children are known to have been born to the marriage.
- After Elizabeth's death, Cassman married again. His second wife was called Thirza. A Delaware County document refers to her as a "free white female." No children are known to have been born of this marriage. In the 1840 census she is recorded as being between forty and fifty years of age, while Samuel is between fifty and sixty.S2
- As for Samuel Cassman, after Thirza's death in probably the early 1810s, he is said to have spent some time at the Mississinewa Reservation near Peru, Indiana.S2
- There is a family joke about the tendency of some of the Cassman men to imbibe: they were descended from an Indian woman named "Thirsty" and had been so ever since. Though amusing', this is quite inaccurate. The woman's name was Thirza, not "Thirsty" (though nine¬teenth century pronunciation may have. been closer to "Thirzie". She probably was not an Indian but a white woman (see note above). More¬over, the son from whom the jokesters were descended was born in 1815, prior to the death of Cassman’s first wife. They more likely derived their drinking prowess from Cassman than from his wife.S2
References
- ↑ Gene Cassman. Cassman GED Gene Cassman. (GED File, Downloaded Aug 25, 2001).
- ↑ Dolores M. Lahrman & Ross S. Johnson. Indiana Magazine of History: A Delaware Indian's Reservation: Samuel Cassman vs. Goldsmith C. Gilbert. (Indiana University Department of History in cooperation with the Indiana Historical Society, http://www.indiana.edu/~imaghist/, June 1975).
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