Callie Mae Casto

Brief Life History of Callie Mae

When Callie Mae Casto was born on 22 June 1884, in Parchment Valley, Jackson, West Virginia, United States, her father, George Riley Casto, was 39 and her mother, Margaret Ann Hogsett, was 34. She married Joel Weston Parsons about 1903. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Fairplain, Jackson, West Virginia, United States in 1920 and Parkersburg District, Wood, West Virginia, United States in 1940. She died on 17 June 1956, in Vienna, Wood, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Jackson, West Virginia, United States.

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Family Time Line

Joel Weston Parsons
1871–1935
Callie Mae Casto
1884–1956
Marriage: about 1903
Mamie Genivee Parsons
1909–1979
Eva Mildred Parsons
1912–1997

Sources (13)

  • Mae Parsons, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Callie May Casto, "West Virginia Births, 1853-1930"
  • Mae Castro, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"

World Events (8)

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

1886 · Giving Working Men a Union

The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.

1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor

A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.

Name Meaning

Spanish and Italian:

from the Latin personal name Castus ‘chaste’.

nickname from casto ‘chaste, pure’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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