Note 1, for Cowell, Arkansas Memories
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Shortly after Gladys Snow wrote the article about her family and it appeared in the Newton County Homestead in 1979/1980 I began corresponding with her. We were discussing the fact that she had listed Calvin Houston Snow's mother Emely Jane Johnson Snow as sister of Celia Self Casey wife of Anthony Casey. I told her of two sources - Anthony Casey's Civil War pension application and the article in the Reminiscent History of the Ozark Region - that proved Celia was Celia Self not Celia Johnson. Gladys responded that she was very disappointed with the article in the Newton County Homestead because some info had been changed and names had been misspelled. She indicated she had said that Celia Casey was a half sister not sister to Emely Jane Johnson and that being the case she thought Celia Casey's maiden name was Johnson. She thought perhaps they (her family) been misinformed. She said Emily Jane Johnson Snow's father was Addman Johnson who married and had 3 children by his first wife and then he married Dorothy Amanda THRASH and she was Emily Jane Johnson Snow's mother. Dorothy Amanda Thrash was born 20 December 1812. Having heard all this I started trying to figure out how Emily Jane Johnson Snow could possibly be a half sister to Celia Self Casey. I could not do it but here's what I came up with: We go back to Levi Self who was the father of Celia Self Casey. Levi's second wife and mother of Celia Self was Elizabeth THRASH a widow who had several Thrash children in the White Co., Illinois 1820 census. My theory is Dorothy Amanda Thrash who married Addman Johnson was one of those children - the daughter of Elizabeth Thrash and an Unknown Thrash husband. Dorothy Amanda Trash and Addman Johnson had a daughter Emily Jane Johnson who married Stephen Coe Snow. In 1824 widow Elizabeth Thrash (mother of Dorothy Amanda Trash) married Levi Self and they had a daughter Mahalia Celia Self who married Anthony Casey. If this scenario is correct Elizabeth Thrash would be the mother of both Celia Self Casey and Dorothy Amanda Trash Johnson which means Dorothy Amanda and Celia would be half sisters and Celia Self would be a half aunt to Emily Jane Johnson Snow - not half sister. I cannot come up with any way Celia and Emily Jane could be half sisters.
I'm sure this is of interest to no one but me but just wanted to set
the record straight in case someone else from the Casey or Self line
saw it and wondered how Celia Self Casey could be a sister to Emily
Jane Johnson Snow.
Vonda
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