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Name: Margaret Alice Casto
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Death Date: 05 Apr 1942
Death Place: Jackson, West Virginia
Age at Death: 76y11m5d
Cemetery: Blaine Memorial
Birth Date: 4/27/1865
Birth Place: Ripley, Jackson, WV
Marital Status: married
Spouse: B. D. Casto
Mother: Labina Slaughter
Mother's Birth Place: USA
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Informant: B D Casto, Cottageville
Funeral services for Margaret Alice Slaughter Casto, of Cottageville, were held from the United Brethren Church there Monday afternoon with Rev Roy Davis in charge and burial was in the Blaine Memorial cemetery. Mrs. Casto died at her home Sunday after several weeks' illness caused by a heart ailment. She was a native of Ripley and was 76 years old at the time of her death. The husband, B D Casto, survives. The Vail mortuary had charge of funeral arrangements.
Margaret Alice Slaughter was born near Ripley, WV, April 26, 1965. Departed this life April 5, 1942, aged 76 years, 11 months and 9 days. In the early part of her life, she made her home with her grandparents, who were commonly known as "Uncle Jimmie and Aunt Rachel" Slaughter. These old people spent their years on Cow Run, Jackson County, near where the Silver Valley schoolhuse now stands. By Alice, these kind people were always referred to as "Daddy and Mother", and always with such an affectionate devotion as could have been born only in the heart of a child as she was, and then manifested appreciation all down thru life as the years went by.
On March 13, 1898, Alice, as she was familiarly known, was united in marriage to B D Casto, of Jackson County. During the forty-four years of their married lives they have lived in Union District, Jackson County. The last twenty years of that period were spent in their present home, in Cottageville. Mrs Casto was converted in early life and was a member of the Otterbien UB Church.
(Jackson Herald, Friday 10 April 1942.)
[Obit courtesy of www.wvaanne.com]
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