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JCMR
Casto, Iscca C 23 Jackson (Jackson CH)
Garrett, Katie 17 Jackson (Jackson CH) d/o Harvey Garrett 11/8/1888
1900 Ripley Dist, Jackson, WV # 164-168 [next to David & Mary]
Isaac C, 10/1867, m 11y
Katie, 8/1871, 5-3
William C, 11/1889
G Oshel, 10/1895
Ruley, sn, 1/1898
1910 Ripley, Jackson, WV # 256-260
2 May 1910
Casto, Isaac C 42 m1- 21y WV WV WV
Kate 38 m1- 21y 7-5 children WV WV VA
William C son 20
Gordia son 14
Ruby da 12
Hersel son 9
Fay son 7
1920 Ripley, Jackson, WV # 90
Casto, Isaac Cornelius 52
Kate 48
Gordy O son 24
Ruby da 22
Herchel son 19
Fey son 16
1930 Ripley, Jackson, WV # 203-204
Casto, Isaac C 62 m age 21
Kate 58 m age 17
Darrel F son 27
1940 ED 18-8, Ripley, Jackson, WV p 3B Bottom between Rt 5 and Cottageville Rd
#49 owns $600 not farm
Casto, Isaak C 72 WV Sidnayville, Jackson, WV
Kate wife 68 Sidnayville, Jackson, WV
JCBR:
David Hersel, 10/10/1905, Isaac C & Katherine (Garrett) Casto, Ripley
David Hersel, 10/10/1900, IC & Kate
Gordy Oshel, 10/9/1895, IC & Kate (Garrett) Casto, Ripley, farmer, delayed bc
JC cem book shows they were buried in Mt Calvary Cemetery and that Isaac died 1919. This is obviously incorrect since he was in the 1920/30 censuses.
The Jackson Herald, Friday, November 14, 1959, page 11
God Has Been Good To Us, Aged Couple Says
Mr. and Mrs. I.C. Casto, of Ripley, celebrated their 70th Wedding Anniversary at their home on Second Avenue Saturday and realizing that couples privileged to mark that event are few and far between said that "God has been good to us."
They were married on November 8, 1888 at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. James H. Garrett whose home stood where the Big R Supermarket is now located.
Rev. Perry Fisher officiated at the simple ceremony. It was the first wedding he ever performed.
In the 70 years that they have lived together, 69 of which have been spent in the immediate vicinity of Ripley, they have seen the town change from a country village of several hundred to a thriving modern town of nearly four thousand people.
"We have lived a mighty happy life" Mrs. Casto recalled remembering the days of her youth. She was a bride at 17. "At 17 I was a woman," she said, "and doing a woman's work and thought I could keep house."
Her husband was just 21 and full of "vinegar and vigor" when he took his bride home in a wagon. They worked hard for life was not as easy then as it is now. But toiling together, they both agree, brought them closer together in mind and spirit.
The newlyweds set up housekeeping immediately. They built a small frame house on land belonging to the groom's father, David Casto. The Casto farm was located in the bottom land wheich has since been developed into the Cedar Lakes Camp.
Mr. and Mrs. Casto have lived their entire lives in the vicinity of Ripley except for one year during which they lived in Roane County. They rarely traveled. The farthest either has been from home was a trip Mr. casto took to Elkins to attend an Odd Fellows meeting.
"When we were married," Mr. Casto mused, "Ripley was just a country village. There were dirt streets and just a few stores but quite a few homes. In those days a person would know everyone in town."
Both Mr. and Mrs. Casto recall that when they were married, was during the first administration of President Grover Cleveland. They recall that the streets were lighted at night with small oil burning lamps on short posts. There were about five of them in town.
There were two churches in town when the Castos were married. The structure which is now known as St. John's Episcopalian is the only one which remains intact. The other church was the Baptist church occupying a building on the site of the present Baptist church.
The most popular corner in town was Main and Church streets which in 1888 was commonly called the "candy corner" from the days when a small candy shop was situated there. Eventually, they remember, Enoch Staats built the first Bank of Ripley on that same locatioin.
After 70 years of living happily together, Mr. and Mrs. Casto still look after one another. For the past 20 months Mrs. Casto has been kept close to her bed but she still reads the paper without the aid of glasses, has a keen mind and dark eyes which constantly flash with a zest for living. Mr. Casto has a touch of palsy to which he refers with a hint of humor.
Mr. Casto through the years has been an active worker in his political party and Mrs. Casto has encouraged him right along. They claim never to have had a fight during the entiere 70 years of their married life. Mr. Casto says that he thinks that he registered the first woman to vote in Jackson County.
The Castos became the parents of seven children, five of whom grew to adulthood. Of the five, four are still living: Willie Casto of Clay Lick, Hershel Casto of Sandyville, Oshel Casto of Arizona, and Ruby Dutee of Devil's Lake, N.D. They have 11 grandchildren, 26 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
When asked the inevitable question as to what they owe their long and happy marriage,. Mr. Casto replied that it was hard to judge unless "it was hard work, clean living and going to church because that's the way we have spent our lives."
With a twinkle in her yey, Mrs. Casto looked at her husband of 70 years and said "other than living a clean life, never touching whiskey and attneding the EUB church, one reason for our happy marriage is that we always voted the Republican ticket."
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