George McClelland Cassity
1863 - 1934 (71 years)-
Name George McClelland Cassity Born 31 Oct 1863 Sabetha, Nemaha County, Kansas 
[1, 2, 3, 4] - Exact birthdate and location from US passport applications, 1795-1925.
Gender Male Census 1900 Ponca Reservation, Noble County, Oklahoma - Listed as cousin in household of James W. Edwards.
Census 1910 Tonkawa, Kay County, Oklahoma Census 1930 Tonkawa, Kay County, Oklahoma Died 15 Dec 1934 Tonkawa, Kay County, Oklahoma [1, 3, 4] Buried Odd Fellows Cemetery, Ponca City, Kay County, Oklahoma [3, 4] Person ID I444 Hedges Last Modified 5 May 2023
Father Martin Peter Marshall "M.P.M." Cassity, b. 15 Jun 1835, Kentucky , d. 12 Nov 1901, Plattsburg, Clinton County, Missouri (Age 66 years) Mother Griselle Wheeler, b. 20 Feb 1840, Marion County, Kentucky , d. 3 Sep 1905, Sabetha, Nemaha County, Kansas (Age 65 years) Married 25 Dec 1862 Nemaha County, Kansas Family ID F270 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Maude Lydia McDermond, b. 4 Mar 1868, Annawan, Henry County, Illinois , d. 27 Dec 1945, Ponca City, Kay County, Oklahomas (Age 77 years) Married 29 Jun 1886 Hiawatha, Brown County, Kansas [1] Last Modified 18 Feb 2018 Family ID F272 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Born - 31 Oct 1863 - Sabetha, Nemaha County, Kansas 
Married - 29 Jun 1886 - Hiawatha, Brown County, Kansas 
Census - 1900 - Ponca Reservation, Noble County, Oklahoma 
Census - 1910 - Tonkawa, Kay County, Oklahoma Census - 1930 - Tonkawa, Kay County, Oklahoma Died - 15 Dec 1934 - Tonkawa, Kay County, Oklahoma 
Buried - - Odd Fellows Cemetery, Ponca City, Kay County, Oklahoma = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Notes - MHR note: He gave his age at his marriage. Marriages, D., p170.
[1] - Rite Today For George Cassity
Prominent Grain Merchant Succumbs Saturday After Long Illness.
Tonkawa, Dec. 15 – George M. Cassity, 71 years of age, prominent grain merchant here for a number of years, died at 8:30 o’clock Saturday morning in his home, following an extended illness. His death was caused by a complication of diseases.
Cassity had been in poor health for a number of years and his condition had been considered critical for the past three weeks. He had made his home here for the past 33 years.
Funeral services are to be held at 2:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon in the McCafferty funeral home. Burial is to in the Ponca City I.O.O.F. cemetery. The Rev. Bayne Driskill, pastor of the First Christian church, will deliver the funeral sermon.
Members of the Tonkawa Masonic lodge, of which Cassity was a member, will serve as active pallbearers and will conduct Masonic ceremonies at the grave. Honorary pallbearers, men with whom he was associated in the grain business, will be W.M. Randells, Enid; H.M. Hayton, Billings; J.S. Hutchins, Ponca City; G.W. Rayner, T. W. Prather, and J.S. Dorsett, Tonkawa.
Cassity was born in Sabetha, Kans., and came to Tonkawa in 1901. In 1902 he went into the grain business with Ben Feuquay to form a partnership which lasted for several years. Later Cassity purchased Feuquay’s interest and conducted his own business until five years ago when he sold to the Oklahoma Wheat Pool Elevator company.
He is survived by his widow; one brother, G.E. Cassity of Okmulgee; three nieces, Miss Ruth Cassity, and Miss Glenelle Cassity, of Tulsa, and Mrs. Eugene Felt of Indianapolis, Ind., and two nephews, Galen Cassity and Martin Cassity of Okmulgee.
Blackwell Journal-Tribune, Blackwell, Oklahoma. Sunday, 16 December 1934.
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- MHR note: He gave his age at his marriage. Marriages, D., p170.
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