Galen Edward Cassity
1871 - 1936 (64 years)-
Name Galen Edward Cassity Born 18 Dec 1871 Sabetha, Nemaha County, Kansas 
[1, 2] Gender Male Census 1910 Okmulgee, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma Census 1920 Okmulgee, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma Census 1930 Okmulgee, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma Died 2 Jan 1936 Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma [1, 2, 3] Buried Okmulgee Cemetery, Okmulgee, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma [2, 3] Person ID I446 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 Anna Vesta McCurdy, b. 11 May 1872, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania , d. 16 Aug 1925, Okmulgee, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma (Age 53 years) Married 1903 Hutchinson, Reno County, Kansas [1] Children 1. Ruth Cassity, b. 21 Jul 1904, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri 2. Glenelle Cassity, b. 16 Jan 1906, Hutchinson, Reno County, Kansas , d. 11 Jul 1958, Los Angeles County, California (Age 52 years)3. Georgia Cassity, b. 14 Oct 1908, Okmulgee, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma , d. 19 May 2002, St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri (Age 93 years)4. Galen Hartley Cassity, b. 23 Jul 1912, Okmulgee, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma , d. 18 Nov 1990, Tempe, Maricopa County, Arizona (Age 78 years)5. Martin McCurdy Cassity, b. 19 Nov 1915, Okmulgee, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma , d. 18 Nov 1990, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas (Age 74 years)Last Modified 18 Feb 2018 Family ID F273 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Born - 18 Dec 1871 - Sabetha, Nemaha County, Kansas 
Married - 1903 - Hutchinson, Reno County, Kansas 
Census - 1910 - Okmulgee, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma Census - 1920 - Okmulgee, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma Census - 1930 - Okmulgee, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma 
Died - 2 Jan 1936 - Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma 
Buried - - Okmulgee Cemetery, Okmulgee, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Notes - MHR note: He was named James Edward, but took the name of a doctor who treated him for infantile paralysis, Dr. Galen ____. He graduated from Sabetha high school in 1886. Received a degree from Kansas University, Lawrence in 1902. Admitted to the Kansas bar in 1902. Upon marriage, he and Anna moved to Kansas City, Missouri where he practiced. They moved to Okmulgee, Oklahoma in 1907. He moved to Tulsa in 1935.
Anna was a graduate of the Kansas University also.
[1] - Tulsa Funeral For Okmulgeean
Galen E. Cassity Came to State in 1907; Active in Home City
Funeral services for Galen Edward Cassity, 64-year-old Okmulgee attorney and resident of Tulsa since last May, who died of cancer in a Tulsa hospital following an illness of several months, will be held Saturday from the Guardian funeral home.
The time of the service had not been set Thursday night. The body will be sent to Okmulgee for burial.
Cassity arrived in Okmulgee in 1907. He took an active part in civic life. He was a Mason, a past grand counselor of the Knights of Pythias and for a time was active in the Cooperative club of Okmulgee.
He was born at Bern, Kan., and educated in the University of Kansas, where he took his course in law. For a time after his graduation in 1903, he was located at Kansas City, Mo., where he began the practice of law.
Surviving are three daughters, Miss Ruth Cassity and Miss Glenelle Cassity, both of the home address, 1511 North Boston avenue, and Mrs. Georgia Felt of Indianapolis; two sons, Galen Hartley Cassity and Martin McCurdy Cassity, both of Tonkawa.
Tulsa World, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Friday, 3 January 1936.
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- MHR note: He was named James Edward, but took the name of a doctor who treated him for infantile paralysis, Dr. Galen ____. He graduated from Sabetha high school in 1886. Received a degree from Kansas University, Lawrence in 1902. Admitted to the Kansas bar in 1902. Upon marriage, he and Anna moved to Kansas City, Missouri where he practiced. They moved to Okmulgee, Oklahoma in 1907. He moved to Tulsa in 1935.
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