When Priscilla Casteel was born on 16 February 1819, in Tennessee, United States, her father, Frederick Shadrach Casteel, was 39 and her mother, Sarah Farley, was 47. She married Larkin Delucious DeWitt on 12 July 1840, in Cooper, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Center Township, McDonald, Missouri, United States in 1860 and Heaths Creek Township, Pettis, Missouri, United States in 1870. She died on 19 May 1887, at the age of 68, and was buried in Clifton City, Cooper, Missouri, United States.
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The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
Historical Boundaries: 1832: Cooper, Missouri, United States
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Altered form of mainly northern French Ducastel: topographic name, with fused preposition and definite article du ‘from the’, from Picard castel, Old French chastel ‘castle’ (see Castel 5, compare 2 below); or a habitational name for someone from any of several places called Le Castel. Compare Castile .
Dutch: from kasteel ‘castle’, hence a topographic name or a metonymic occupational name for someone who lived or worked in a castle.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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