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Does anyone know the parents of William Casteel:
"Many of these depredations were notable. The murder of the Casteel family, near Knoxville, was shocking. About daybreak, April 22, 1794, William Casteel was in his cabin, dressed, and waiting for Anthony Ragan, with whom he was going on a hunt. When Ragan arrived, a few minutes later, he found Casteel's dead body near the fire, where he had fallen from the stroke of a war club, evidently taken by surprise. His wife, aroused by the attack on her husband, seems to have made a desperate resistance. A bloody axe found by her side, a broken arm, and a mutilated hand, all testified to her courageous defence. She was finally despatched with a butcher knife. Four small children were killed and scalped, one of them, a little girl, receiving a stab which pierced through her body and into the bedclothes beneath her. The oldest daughter, Elizabeth, ten years of age, was found weltering in the blood that flowed from six wounds inflicted by a tomahawk. She afterwards showed signs of life, and under Dr. Crosby's treatment finally recovered."
Tennessee the Volunteer State 1769—1923: Volume 1
THE NICKAJACK EXPEDITION, 1794
Iris, irisgallion@hotmail.com
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