James Andrew Cassity
1874 - 1944 (69 years)
Generation: 1
Generation: 2
1. James Andrew Cassity was born on 12 Dec 1874 in Purdin, Linn County, Missouri; died on 29 Sep 1944 in Mexico, Audrain County, Missouri; was buried on 1 Oct 1944 in Purdin Cemetery, Purdin, Linn County, Missouri. Other Events:
- Occupation: insurance adjustor/agent
- Census: 1900, Benton Township, Linn County, Missouri
- Census: 1910, Benton Township, Linn County, Missouri
- Census: 1920, Olathe, Johnson County, Kansas
- Census: 1930, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas
Notes:
James Andrew Cassity, 70 years old, died at his home at the Avalon Apartments at 4:45 o’clock Friday morning, after an illness of five years.
Mr. Cassity was born near Purdin. He came to Mexico from Topeka, Kans., where he was a railroad insurance writer for the Continental Casualty Company of Chicago. He had been a resident of Mexico for the past five years.
Short services were held for James A. Cassity who died at his home, 203 West Love street, Friday morning, at the McPheeter Chapel Sunday morning at 9 a.m. The Rev. George A. Hammon, pastor of the First Baptist church of Mexico, officiating and music was furnished by Mrs. George Hammon and Mrs. John Felgar.
On Sunday afternoon, funeral services were held at Purdin and burial was in the family lot in the cemetery there. Service were conducted by the pastor of the First Baptist church of Linneus. Nephews of the deceased acted as pallbearers.
Mexico Weekly Ledger, Mexico, Missouri. Thursday, 5 October 1944.
Died:
Missouri death certificate
https://www.sos.mo.gov/images/archives/deathcerts/1944/1944_00030421.PDF
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23797211/james-andrew-cassityJames married Nora Alene Powell on 17 Mar 1896 in Purdin, Linn County, Missouri. Nora (daughter of Leonard Franklin Powell and Nancy Turner) was born on 10 Jun 1880 in Browning, Linn County, Missouri; died on 11 Apr 1977 in Trenton, Grundy County, Missouri; was buried in Purdin Cemetery, Purdin, Linn County, Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 2. Lila Pearl Cassity
was born in 1901 in Purdin, Linn County, Missouri; died in 1904 in Purdin, Linn County, Missouri; was buried in Purdin Cemetery, Purdin, Linn County, Missouri. - 3. Esther Maude Cassity was born on 1 Mar 1899 in Purdin, Linn County, Missouri; died on 20 Mar 1944 in Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado; was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado.
- 4. Wilson Leonard Cassity was born on 19 Feb 1908 in Purdin, Linn County, Missouri; died on 22 Mar 1982 in Okmulgee, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma; was buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma.
Generation: 2
2. 
Lila Pearl Cassity (1.James1) was born in 1901 in Purdin, Linn County, Missouri; died in 1904 in Purdin, Linn County, Missouri; was buried in Purdin Cemetery, Purdin, Linn County, Missouri. Notes:
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23797254/lila-pearl-cassity3. Esther Maude Cassity (1.James1) was born on 1 Mar 1899 in Purdin, Linn County, Missouri; died on 20 Mar 1944 in Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado; was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado. Notes:
Local Peoples’ Daughter Dies
Mrs. Esther Maud Pittman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Cassity of this city, died at the St. Francis hospital in Colorado Springs, Colo., on February 2. She was 40 years old and had lived in Colorado Springs for the past three years. Mrs. Pittman never lived in Mexico but has visited here with her parents on several occasions.
Mrs. Pittman was born March 1, 1903, near Purdin in Linn county. In 1924, she went to Durango, Colo., where she was married to Merle B. Pittman on June 11, 1924. To this union, a son, Merle, Jr., was born.
Surviving are her husband of the home; the son who is in the armed forces; her parents; one brother, Wilson Cassity of Tulsa, Okla.; and her grandmother, Mrs. Nancy Powell of Browning.
Funeral services were held at a funeral home in Colorado Spring on the afternoon of February 7, with the Rev. J.H. Skien, Baptist minister, officiating. Interment was in the Evergreen cemetery in Colorado Springs.
Mexico Weekly Ledger, Mexico, Missouri. Thursday, 16 March 1944.
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35030836/esther-maude-pittmanEsther married Merle Brown Pittman on 11 Jun 1924 in Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado. Merle (son of Phillip Ward Pittman and Florence May Brown) was born on 3 Jan 1899 in Durango, La Plata County, Colorado; died on 4 Dec 1959; was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
4. Wilson Leonard Cassity (1.James1) was born on 19 Feb 1908 in Purdin, Linn County, Missouri; died on 22 Mar 1982 in Okmulgee, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma; was buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma. Other Events:
- Occupation: insurance salesman
- Census: 1930, Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma
- Census: 1940, Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma
Notes:
Okmulgee - Wilson L. Cassity, 75, died Monday. Buchanan-Wise-McClendon.
Tulsa Worls, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Wednesday. 24 March 1982.
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209948021/l-wilson-cassityWilson married Ethel Lois Williams on 20 Aug 1930. Ethel was born on 8 Sep 1907 in Oklahoma; died on 8 Jun 1968; was buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]