• John Timothy Owens
  1865-1918
• John Adelbert Gray
  1858-1900
• George Thomas Coleman
  1838-1922
• Helen Pauline Hershey
  Melvin Butler Wheelock

Casey's Roots Genealogy Pages

The mission of this genealogy website is to help members of the Allison, Butterfield, Coleman, Corp, Crawford, Gray, Hershey, Hirons, James, Justice, Nelson, Nutting, Owens, Owings, Poole, Wheelock, Wood, Woodson, and allied families discover their ancestral roots and rediscover their living relatives.

If you are researching your family's roots and find we have a common ancestor, feel free to contact me to share more detailed information. You will need to register to be able to access information on this site.

Check back here for updates as the gathering of information is a long process and any new information regarding our ancestors will be posted once it is processed.

Many hours of work have been put into the research and documentation of these ancestors. I hope you will benefit from the information I present here.

If you have any family photos, copies of documents such as birth certificates, marriage certificates, death certificates, family stories, family bibles, journals, letters, etc. please send copies to me as I would like to preserve any and all information for future generations of our family.

If you have any questions or comments about the information on this site, please contact me. I look forward to hearing from you.

Recent Events

Over my birthday weekend (April 26-27) 2008, I decided to see who else in my family was a Patriot of the Revolutionary War. Could I have more than one? The answer is rather yes, I can. I have found four direct descendants (so far).

• Isaac Gray was a captain in Col. Jonathan Brewer's regiment (7th) out of Massachusetts. He was a minute man in Boston and also fought in the Battle of Bunker Hill with General George Washington in 1775. He gave over 40 months of service to his new country. He was from my father's line.
  

• John James began as an ensign in 1775 with the 3rd regiment in Maryland. He ended the war a lieutenant. He was from my mother's line.
  

• Levi Wheelock started as a corporal in Col. Samuel Brewer's regiment (12th) out of Massachusetts. He was promoted to the rank of sergeant in 1778 and ended his enlistment with an injury in late 1779. He was from my mother's line.
  

• The fourth Patriot was Martel LeSueur. He was a dutiful private in the Virginia militia. Some of his history is offered a few paragraphs below. He was from my father's line.
  

Over the next few weeks, I will be uploading all documentation offered by the National Archives in relation to these men and their service in the Revolutionary War. This will include service records, muster rolls, and pension applications. I hope you find it as fascinating as I do.

On Veteran's Day (2007), the end to a great injustice took place. My 5th great-grandfather Martel LeSueur had his headstone stolen about 30 years ago in Franklin Co, Virginia. If you're unaware of what our Patriot ancestor had to endure, check out the background information on the tombstone saga. Needless to say, he was finally laid to rest during a wonderful ceremony put on by the Franklin County Historical Society. My 94 year old grandmother, Carmen (Gray) Ashby and my cousins Joy and Gail Gray flew east to Virginia to take part in the festivities. It turns out that my great Aunt Maurine (Gray) Whitt is the oldest living descendant of Martel LeSueur as she turned 100 on April 28, 2008. Martel, the Revolutionary War Patriot, is their 3rd great-grandfather.

Last Labor Day weekend (2007), three cousins (and their husbands) braved the oppressive Missouri heat to track down some of our ancestors.

These lovely ladies were Bette (Keene) Scavone, Mary (Hayth) Land, and Gail (Gray) Garvin. They spent the entire weekend re-tracing the steps of the Allison clan in Missouri. They spent time in Clark (where Arabella Allison and John A Gray lived at one time), the Mt. Pisgah Cemetery (where Emma (Allison) Berry is buried with her family), and finally to Sturgeon where the family progenitors, Elizabeth (Woodson) Allison and John B Allison lived the majority of their lives.

There are some great photos of all the fun in the ALLISON REUNION album.