Elizabeth S. Beard, married Robert A. Caskey
Elizabeth S. Beard, married Robert A. Caskey
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The parents of Elizabeth S. Beard
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Elizabeth, who was called "Betsey", was born between 1780 and 1790 in either Virginia or Eastern Tennessee. She married Robert A. Caskey Junior on 5 April 1810 in Adair County, Kentucky. He was the son of Robert Caskey, Senior and Jane Caskey, who apparently came to this part of Kentucky from New Jersey or Pennsylvania, according to researchers, and one of those places is where Robert Jr. was born about 1785. He and Elizabeth are on the Adair County censuses in 1810 and 1820. On 12 September 1826, his 82 year old father, Robert Caskey Senior, was murdered by one Malcolm Worley, age 25, in Greene or Adair County, according to the Kentucky Register. In 1820 in Adair County, Robert and wife Betsey Beard had four girls under ten years old. In 1830 in same, there were still four females, and also three young males. In an 1850 lawsuit in Adair County, the heirs of Elizabeth and Robert Caskey were listed as the five girls and one son, indicating that only one son was surviving by then. This list in the court case has revealed all the children of Elizabeth Beard Caskey who were still alive in 1850. Robert Caskey Junior died between 1830 and 1840, probably in Adair County, and Elizabeth Beard Caskey appeared as a widow on the 1840 census with a male and female, both between fifteen and twenty. They lived very close to Elizabeth's brother, Samuel Beard, and his family as well as her younger brother David Beard and family. Elizabeth is not listed on the 1850 census at all. We do not know of any burial places for Robert or Elizabeth. In a biographical article written in 1886, it is said that Robert Caskey was a farmer all his life, but also served as a constable, a magistrate, and was sheriff "under the old constitution." This article was from Kentucky: A History of the State, Battles, Perrin, Kniffin, 1886.
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