Charles Cowden Cassingham was born 25 Oct 1870 in Hancock County, Illinois. He is the son of James Wesley Cassingham and Elizabeth Bagley Bryan. He died 5 Jan 1956 at age 85 in Moscow, Latah, Idaho and is buried there.

On 9 Mar 1892, he married Mary Emily Carnes in La Harpe, Hancock, Illinois. She was born in Oct 1875 in Illinois and died about 1935/1936 at the age of about 44 in Forsyth, Rosebud, Montana.

Children of Charles Cowden Cassingham and Mary Emily Carnes:

1. Eva May Cassingham was born 7 May 1894 in La Harpe, Hancock, Illinois.
2. Roy Burgess Cassingham was born 25 Aug 1894/96 in La Harpe, Hancock, Illinois. He died 3 Jan 1946 at age 49/51 in Farragut, Kootenai, Idaho and is buried in Spokane, Spokane, Washington.
3. Rachel Elizabeth Cassingham was born 13 Mar 1899 in La Harpe, Hancock, Illinois.
4. Ray Wesley Cassingham was born 25 Oct 1900 in La Harpe, Hancock, Illinois. He died 28 May 1975 at age 74 in Grant County, Washington.
5. G. Cassingham was born in 1902.

Notes

Roy: Roy's WWI Draft Registration lists his birth as 1894, but both the 1900 and 1910 censuses would indicate that his birth was 1896 (with the 1900 census specifically listing Aug 1896 as his birth).

Sources

Charles: Marriage from the Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1783 - 1900.

James: Birth is from his father's Biographical Sketch.
Marriage from 1900 Census (La Harpe, Hancock, IL. p. 21) which indicates they had been married 8 years.

Mary: Birth from 1900 Census (La Harpe, Hancock, IL. p. 21).

Roy: Birth from the WWI Civilian Draft Registration [Name: Roy B Cassingham; County: Dawson; State: Montana; Birthplace: LaHarpe, Illinois; Birth Date: 25 Aug 1894; Race: Caucasian (White); Roll: 1684109].
Birth and Death from Idaho Death Index [Name: CASSINGHAM, ROY BURGESS; Year: 1946; Certificate Number: 146897; County of Death: Kootenai; City: FARRAGUT; Date of Death: 01/03/1946; Date of Birth: 08/25/1894].

Ray: Birth and Death from Social Security Death Index (SSN 518-24-3454). Last residence is assumed to be the deathplace.

Census Listings

The individuals in this family appear in the following census listings.

• Charles: 1880 Census. La Harpe, Hancock, Illinois. Page 31.
• 1900 Census. La Harpe, Hancock, Illinois. Page 21.
• 1910 Census. Spokane City, Spokane, WA. p.2.
• 1920 Census. Cohagen, Garfield, MT. p. 2.