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Zadock Casey, a son of Randolph Casey appears on record at Smith County, TN, in Probate records & Wills 1803-96, pg. 9.
Randolph Casey, my great grandfather as above stated, was born in Virginia, but was reared in Spartanburg District S.C., where he married Mary Jane Pennington, a woman of superior mind and judgment. From the best information I can get, he must have married in 1765 to 1768. His children were seven sons and one daughter. The sons and daughter were born and named in the order following, so far as I can ascertain- viz; Levi, Isaac, Rebecca, Abraham P., Samuel, Randolph, Hiram and Zadok. I am not able to state definitely the date of the birth of all Randolph Casey’s above named children. Levi, I think, was born sometime in the year 1768 or 9, Isaac, was born April 5, 1770. Abraham was born, I think, November 1, 1772. Hiram was born the 23rd of March 1790. Zadok was born March 7, 1796, and he was the youngest and was born in the state of Georgia.
My understanding was that Randolph, with most of his children, if not all of them moved from South Carolina to Georgia about the year of 1790 and perhaps earlier, and somewhere from 1800 to 1805 he and his children moved from Georgia to Tennessee and located in what was then Smith County, now embraced in Macon, as I am informed, on the “Long Fork” or “Dry Fork” of Barren River. And there Randolph Casey died and was buried somewhere from 1813 to 1815.
Randolph Casey was a soldier in the cause of the Colonies, and a part of the time under General Marion, Governor Zadok Casey told me, that while he was in Congress, about 1838, he searched the Military records of the War Department at Washington City and found his father’s name on the rolls, and as having been in certain engagements, amongst them the battle of “Kings Mountain” and that he remembered to have heard his father tell about it in his life time. My information derived from members of our families was that my great grandfather Randolph Casey had a brother named Jesse; one named James one named John and one Christopher. What the others were named or what became of them, I am now unable to give a satisfactory account.
Author: Jim DeGroff
Randolph Casey was born in 1737, on the Roanoke River in VA; he may have married about 1760 in Va or SC to Mary Jane Pennington (b ca 1745, parents unknown).
Randolph Casey is not listed in the DAR Patriot Index, even though 3 of his brothers were: Capt. Benjamin, Lt. Christopher, and Lt. Col. Levi. However, Randolph seems to have had war service: He was a sergeant in the 2nd SC regiment, serving under Francis Marion. He and his brothers fought in the Revolutionary War with SC troops, and supposedly he was at the meeting when a British officer came to treat with Francis Marion and later said, "I have seen an American general and his officers, without pay, and almost without clothes, living on roots and drinking water; and all for LIBERTY! What chance have we against such men!" (See also: The Life of General Francis Marion at right) Francis Marion became very famous about 25 years after the war when a book was written about him, and it seems like there were as many baby boys named Francis Marion as there were George Washington!
Randolph did marry Charity Pennington, daug of Jacob (she's listed as wife in Randolph's will; if he married Mary Jane first, then he married Charity about 1788). [There is some doubt that he married Mary Jane. This is based on an old manuscript written in 1876 by Lewis F. Casey, great-grandson of Randolph. Lewis said that his sources were his grandmother, Nancy, wife of Abraham Pennington Casey, and also Gov. Zadok Casey, Abraham's brother. Lewis said that their mother was Mary Jane Pennington, but there has been no other evidence and Zadok's mother could not have been Mary Jane.]
Randolph raised his family in SC (from 1760 to about 1795). In 1796 they were in Green Co., GA where their youngest child, Zadok, was born.
About 1805-10 they moved to Sumner Co., TN. He died in Smith/Macon Co., TN in 1813.
Children: Mary Jane's (I guess): - LEVI CASEY, b 1768, SC; m Mary Sherrel; moved to Ill, 1817; d Johnson Co., IL.
- RANDOLPH CASEY, Jr., b 1769, SC; m Sallie Perkins; d Iowa
- ISAAC CASEY, b Apr 5, 1770, SC; m Elizabeth Mackey, 1788 moved to Barren Co, KY. Moved to IL where she died 1834; he m 2nd Jemima Oard, 1836. He d 1854, Jefferson Co, IL.
- ABRAHAM PENNINGTON CASEY, b Nov 1, 1772, SC; m 1794, Nancy Baker; d 1841, Oregon Co, MO;
- REBECCA CHARITY CASEY, b abt 1775, SC; m 1st Erasmus Noble [I have heard that there is a will of Erasmus' out there, but I haven't seen it]; m 2nd William DePriest; d Jefferson Co, IL abt 1834.
Lucinda NOBLES, Green, Isaac C., & Charity DePRIEST. Charity’s:
- NANCY CASEY, b 1788. She was not mentioned in Randolph's will. She married John Dotson about 1810 in Smith Co, TN.
- HIRAM CASEY, b 1789, SC; m 1807 Catherine DePriest; d 1828 (age 39) Hardeman Co, TN.
- SAMUEL CASEY, b 1793; m Ruth Gilbert; d 1850, Jefferson Co, IL.
- ZADOK CASEY, b 1796, GA; m 1815, TN to Rachel King; moved to IL 1817; was Lt. Governor of IL in 1830; d 1862 in Caseyville, IL.
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