MUSCOGEE COUNTY, GA - OBITS Walter H. Casion Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: John Mallory Land retrofit@flash.net Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/muscogee.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm WALTER H. CASION Walter H. CASION, 61, or 700 Broad Street, died today at St. Francis Hospital. Funeral will be Sunday at 2 p.m. at Striffler-Hamby, 13th Street Chapel, with burial in Shiloh Cemetery. He was born March 24, 1912 in Social Circle, Ga., a son of the late Walter C. and Annie (WHITEHEAD) CASION. A retired dairyman, he had lived in Columbus most of his life. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Mary (KOKOLES) CASION, one son, George H. CASION, two daughters, Mrs. Melissa C. DENNIS, all of Columbus and Mrs. Mary Ann CALHOUN, West Point, Ga. one brother Cosby L. CASON, Sarasota, Fla.; one sister, Mrs. A. L. SCOTT of Milledgeville, Ga.; and two grandchildren." The preceding obituary in all likelihood appeared in the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer newspaper. My grandmother, Mrs. Mattie Lee (MALLORY) LAND enclosed it with a greeting card she sent to our family, postmarked 19 MAR 1974. Spellings are as they appear in the obituary. I have always seen the name spelled "CASON." Shiloh Cemetery is on the south side of the Double Churches Road, just east of the Whitesville Road. I understand a church used to be there, but I don't think it is still there. According to my father's recollection (may not be entirely accurate), Walter H. CASON was called Harold. He ran (and perhaps owned) a dairy on the east side of the Whitesville Road, across from the Lokey Estates, but a little further north toward the intersection with the Double Churches Road. This dairy had previously been owned and operated by Arthur & Ennis (LOKEY) MOORE, she being a daughter of James Monroe "Jimmie" & Mary C. (DEAN) LOKEY. Jimmie was brother to my gg-gm Angeline Polk "Angie" (LOKEY) LAND. Harold's father-in-law KOKOLES ran a Greek restaurant in Columbus. Harold's mother Annie was a friend of my Grandma LAND's. Harold was the eldest, followed by Laura (spelling? - pronounced "Lay-EU-ra"), b. ca. 1915; Holland CASON, b. ca. 1918; Carlton CASON, b. ca. 1921; and Cosby CASON, b. ca. 1924. Laura is evidently the Mrs. A. L. SCOTT in the obituary. Dad says she probably had children, but he's not sure. Holland CASON married Katherine JONES and they had one son, perhaps named Jimmy. They attended Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church at the Double Churches. The CASON family lived in a house on the Hamilton Road near Britt David. The JONES family moved in next door. Katherine was the second eldest; the eldest was Hazel, who later attended Eastern Heights Baptist Church in Columbus; the children after Katherine were: Robert, James, Billy, and Annie Ruth, probably in that order. Carlton CASON married and had about three children; the eldest was a daughter who was very pretty. This family also attended Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church. Cosby CASON was named for Dr. COSBY who delivered him. (My father, Ernst Cosby LAND, got his middle name from the same doctor. He must have had some heck of a bedside manner!) Cosby had a son named Chuck by his first wife. She died and Cosby married second to Geneva JENKINS. Her father was somewhat older than her mother, who was a small woman who looked Italian; the father also looked Italian or Greek. They lived up the Whitesville Road past the old LOKEY place (later occupied by Richard & Lena (LAND) CHAPLIN, and now occupied by Ben LAND and his family), back in the woods, and the kids always had to walk a long way, but the father had a car to drive to work. The children were Maurice, Geneva (Cosby's wife), and Danice, who was an especially attractive girl. I am interested to know more about the CASON connections of this family - John Mallory Land