When Simpson Casteel was born in October 1835, in Lawrence, Kentucky, United States, his father, James Joseph Casteel, was 42 and his mother, Elizabeth Coffman, was 32. He married Parthena Hale in 1866, in Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 9 daughters. He lived in Magisterial District 4, Lawrence, Kentucky, United States in 1900. He registered for military service in 1861. He died on 8 November 1902, in Blaine, Lawrence, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Sacredwind, Lawrence, Kentucky, United States.
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Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
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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