The Mary Hattie Casby Family Lineage

By Blanda D. Casby

This book was written for the purpose of providing a reference for family members to continue the search for the Casbys and Hardamans. Knowing where you came from can answer so many questions about yourself. After tracing the maternal or paternal lineage of our ancestry over hundreds of years of living and struggles, we are able to visualize the trails our ancestry had to endure through documents, pictures, family storytellers, old home videos, and maps, while surviving a journey across countries and from state to state, leaving behind generations of Casbys and Hardmans around world. The center of this book is Mary Hattie Casby—before, during, and after chronicling her family history and life and time she lived through.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 14, 2021
• ISBN: 9781669800354

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

In Loving Memory

Preface

Photo of Various Sceneries

About the Author

The Family Historians Dan Lee Casby

The Search for the Casbys: From Where Did They Originate?

Surname Casby/Cosby

The Casbys’ Ethnicity and Occupations

Photography by Silvia McKeller

Maternal Ancestry Revealed— MatriClan Test

Tikar People

Cameroon

Montgomery, Alabama 1880 United

States Federal Census

The Slave Trade

Atlantic Triangular : Slave Trade

Crossing the Atlantic Ocean

North America Slave Trade

William Casby born in the Late 1800s

Montgomery, Alabama

Downtown Montgomery, Alabama Slave Trade 1840–1863

The Ties that Connect Us

King Hill

The History of Voting Right for Us!

Felons: Disenfranchisement Has Deep Effect on Blacks

The Civil Rights Movement in Montgomery, Alabama Surrendering the Lives of the Casbys

Mary Hattie Casby BIO

Mary Hattie Siblings

Mary Hattie’s Casby’s Fourteen Kids

Robert Lee Casby

Mary Louise Casby Graham

Martha Ann Casby Daniel

Elouise Casby

Ben (Junior) James Jefferson Jr.

Lillie (Diddle) Mae Casby Bryan

Ida (Cat) Mae Casby Stokes

Willie (Wit) James Casby

Frank Casby

Ocie Casby

Juanita Casby Orme

Irene Casby McKee

Tommy Casby

King Joseph Casby

Mary Hattie Casby Descendants of Twins

Military Service

US WWI Draft Registration Cards, 1917–1918

US WWII Draft Registration Cards, 1940–1947

The Casbys Appear in the New Base on Military Component

Military Brief (Cont’d.)

The Casby Family Connection

The Casbys’ Family Connection In Tennessee

Casbys’ Family Connection In Ohio

Casbys’ Family Connection In California

Casbys’ Family Connection In Algiers New Orleans

Medical History Report

Lawlessness

Dan Casby’s Editorial Corner:

Montgomery Advertiser 1953–1994

In Loving Memory

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This book was created and published in loving memory of the four people you see in the above picture. Each one made an impact in my life that I can look back on with a smile that warms my heart. My grandmother Mary Hattie Casby was a stern woman grounded in her beliefs. As a child, I saw her as a woman of strength, often quiet, and mean at times. There is a lot that a child does not understand until they see it through the eyes of an adult. I understand now the old saying Remember this when you have your own children.

I remember my grandfather Ben Jefferson always wrapping me in his warm embrace. I would sit on the porch with him and we would just talk. He would tell me stories, messing with people passing by, while he drank his corn liquor. Whenever I was around him, he gave me his full attention, calling me his little black gal. He always made me feel special whenever I was around him.

My mother made the biggest impact on my life. She provided me the foundation on which I live my life. I found myself filling in those shoes she wore. My mother had the same character as my grandmother; they were so similar in their ways. One of the most impactful things I remember is my mother’s caring heart. This lady would always cook a big Sunday dinner every week. There was always enough—me and my siblings would take plates around to certain elderly people in the neighborhood on Sunday dinner. She also, would stand on the porch or walk up and down the street preaching. That embarrassed me, until one of the neighbors said, She was not messing with anyone, why are you embarrassed? Everyone in the neighborhood was used to her preaching; it was almost a daily occurrence. She knew the way to people’s hearts and that was through her cooking. She cared about people, and she loved helping the elderly that’s who she was and how she lived her life.

My stepfather George Franco Bryan made an even bigger impact. He was a very intelligent man who loved reading the newspapers and books. He would cut the articles out the newspapers and put them in Ziplock bags to save them. He had a mountain of books stored in boxes full of articles which would amaze you. I was thirteen years and running the streets with my friends. One day, I was mad, sitting on the porch when he came to the door, looked at me, and said, You are never going to get anywhere running the streets. You need to pick up a book sometimes and read. Open up your mind to something else different than just this neighborhood. I can say that at that moment, my life was changed because I did just that. I explored so many places by reading books. I started to read and I realized that traveling to those places in person is what I was going to do. And I did. Some of the sceneries displayed in the book are places I have traveled to.

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Photograph by Jacquelyn Sams with Blanda D. Casby

A clash of colors bursting though the sky in a warm

November day in 2019. I was driving my friend Mrs.

Jacquelyn Sams from Montgomery, Alabama, to Auburn

on I-85 Interstate. I told her to please take this picture—

it was so amazing and