Yellis Cassel

M, b. circa 1690, d. 1750
FatherHeinrich Cassel b. 1634, d. 1 Jul 1716
ChartsAncestors of Chuck Wolfram
Yellis Cassel gravestone
     Yellis Cassel was born circa 1690.1 He was the possible father of Elizabeth (?). Her oldest son was named Yellis, and that name is not common in the father's family.2 Yellis Cassel and Johannes Cassel immigrated on 16 October 1727 to Pennsylvania on the ship Friendship.3,4 Yellis Cassel lived in Skippack Township, Philadelphia County, now Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.4 He once described his sister-in-law Sytge Updegrave as being such a noble, kindhearted woman and so devotedly pious that he began to think she was one of a thousand, whose equal could not be found.5 Yellis Cassel died in 1750.6,4 He was buried in Lower Skippack Mennonite Meeting-house Cemetery, Lower Skippack Township, Philadelphia County, now Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.6

Family
Children
  • Elizabeth (?)+
  • Mary Cassel b. c 1717
  • John Cassel b. c 1730, d. 1803
  • Barbara Cassel b. c 1737, d. 29 Dec 1792
  • Isaac Cassel b. 21 Aug 1746, d. 2 Sep 1823

Citations

  1. [S1249] Richard W Davis, Cassel/Kassel p 1.
  2. [S1063] Richard W Davis, Stauffer/Stouffer Part 1 p. 60.
  3. [S1249] Richard W Davis, Cassel/Kassel pgs 1- 2.
  4. [S1569] Daniel Kolb Cassel, Cassel family history 255.
  5. [S1569] Daniel Kolb Cassel, Cassel family history 40.
  6. [S844] Yellis Cassell gravestone, Lower Skippack Mennonite Meeting House Cemetery, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.