CASTO: Of Harper and Walton Districts.

These are descendants of Johnathan Casto of the pioneers of Jackson County, in the ramifications of whose family tree we find no one sufficiently interested to help us. However, we find by Roane County marriage records that Captain William Gandee, born in 1813, when a young man married a Miss Margaret Casto, and they continued their part of the Gandee family at Gandeeville; and this accounts for other early settlement of Castos on the waters of the Pocatalicos. We note other marriages such as: John B. Casto to Eliza Lowe, January 15, 1868; and John B. Casto to Phoebe Taylor, March 19, 1871; the information for the marriage licenses given by Alex Taylor.

There were in this locality several brothers and sisters of above named John B. Casto, all of whom married and made homes and reared families, scattered from the Town of Spencer, in which are descendants, clear across the country to Mason and Jackson Counties.

Some of the older of these Castos served as enlisted Union soldiers throughout the Civil War. See the rosters of enlistments given in Chapter I of this book.

The sons of Levi and James served in the Confederate Armies, enlisting from Jackson County.


Source: History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927 William H. Bishop, Esq. p 473
Submitter: Sandy Spradling, November 28, 1999