Re: Charles E. Cass family
CASS, SINCLAIR
Posted By: Bill Hansen (email) In Response To: Charles E. Cass family (Mary Ellen)
Date: 2/19/2006 at 10:45:10
I sent the following. I did some quick checking and it appears that there are no living direct relatives to Ora and Ulta Cass.
Charles E. Cass (born 1835) died in 1913 and is buried in Brooks Cemetery, near Hedrick in Keokuk County. Jane W. Cass died on 23 Apr 1934 and is also buried in Brooks Cemetery. Jane's obit lists only one living daughter, Ulta. Ora also died in 1913, apparently unmarried. Jane's obit also lists a sister, Mrs. D.P. Durfey of Hedrick and a brother, Allen Sinclair, of Rogers, Arkansas.
Ulta died, unmarried, on 2 Mar 1949 and is also buried in Brooks Cemetery. Her brief obit indicates that her parents and sister had pre-deceased her and that her only survivors were cousins - no nieces or nephews, which would confirm that either Ora never married or, if married, had no children.
I have been able to find little on Charles E. "Charley" Cass, except that he was born in Missouri. Possibly Schuyler County.
Jane W. Sinclair was the daughter of Marion Sinclair and had at least two sisters and one brother. One sister, Margaret I. Sinclair, married Daniel P. Durfey on 14 Jan 1883 in Keokuk County. According to censu records, they had 3 children, but none were living in 1920. Mary S. Sinclair married Moses Whisler on 20 Aug 1891 in Keokuk County. She was last known to be living in Benton County, Arkansas in the 1930 census as a widow. I have not been able to determine if she had any children. The brother, Allen R. Sinclair, apparently never married and is last found in the 1930 census living with his sister, Mary, in Benton County, Arkansas.
My conclusion, possibly erroneous, is that the cousins listed in Ulta's obit would be Cass family members possibly living in Missouri or Whisler family members possibly living in Arkansas.
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