Group photo shows Eva Stewart on far right with some of her fellow teachers circa 1890. See below for notes detailing potential relatives and/or who the people are listed on the wedding announcement.
Daughter of William Carlisle Stewart &
Maria Jane McBrian (likely McBrien earlier based on dna matches.)
Maternal Granddaughter of a Henry and Jane McBrian per their daughters marriage records, however… these may be middle names or nicknames.
Half-sister to Margaret Myrtle (Hood), Still and Helen Linton (Hood), Ott and step-sister to Mary Isabel (Hood), Panter.
Married Philip Casey 15 Sept. 1898 Ely Township, St. Louis County, Minnesota, witnesses: Miss Jessie Goldsworthy and Dr. H.E. Wunder [the doctor mother Maria is seen working with on 1900 census.]
Parents of: Edward Stewart "Hep" Casey; Helen Kathryn (Casey), Dixon; Philip Norwood "Norwood" Casey & Robert Eugene Casey.
Eva Eliza (Stewart) Casey. --- Eva was born 2 January 1871 in small Norwood Township, (now Asphodel-Norwood), Peterborough County, Ontario Province, Canada to parents William Carlisle Stewart and Maria Jane (McBrian), Stewart. Her father was the informant on her birth record and listed his occupation as yeoman (farmer). That Canadian record only states the child is female and gives the correct birthdate as her descendants knew it to be. It should be mentioned that a circa 1970's family history attributed to her daughter Helen Dixon states that Eva's full name was Evangeline Elizabeth. Contributor could find no mention of that name in records, but it is possible she could have been given that as a "Christian name" or listed as such on a related certificate when she made First Holy Communion and was confirmed at St. Patrick's in 1911 as an adult when converting to Catholicism. If any descendants are in possession of any document that might list her name as such, please pass a copy along. Per family lore it is said that while she was still very young, her father William left home to go on the road seeking work and was never to be heard from again, presumably meeting with ill fate of some nature. Family tradition also stated that his middle name was spelled Carlisle, and that Eva had been very specific in telling her mothers name was pronounced Mariah, although spelled Maria. Because William's name is so common and little was passed down about him or his family it has been difficult to confirm which records might be his. Eva told family she was primarily of Scotch-Irish descent, although indications are both the Stewart's and McBrian's may have come through Ireland first. How far removed the Stewart's might have been from Scotland is unknown. Research of online records do hint that both her parents were likely first generation Canadian births of parents from Ireland per census and marriage info if correct. Maria's parents names on both of her marriage records found online say parents are Henry and Jane McBrian. Maria's records show she was born in Cobourg, Northumberland County, Ontario. Per the original document hanging lastly for decades in the home of granddaughter Judith Casey, Maria and William had been married on 28 October 1868 in Port Hope, Ontario by the well known Anglican Minister, Father Alexander Neil Bethune of which much is written regarding his personal history in Ontario and that of some of his more famous Bethune relatives.
After her father William vanished, Eva's mother Maria remarried to Gideon Hood in 1878, he being a native of Guelph, Ontario. Gideon was the son of George Hood and Mary Ann Linton, both born in Scotland.
By ten years of age per 1881 Canadian Census, Eva was found in the household of her stepfather Gideon with her mother Maria and step-sister Mary Isabel Hood (later wife of Alexander James Panter) living in Sault Ste. Marie, Algoma County, Ontario. In about 1884 Eva's stepfather would take his family including he and Maria's newest family addition, born in Sault Ste. Marie, Canada - Margaret Myrtle Hood (later married Fred Dewitt Still) and immigrate into the United States settling in Ely, St. Louis County, Minnesota where Eva's second half-sister Helen Linton Hood (later married George Joseph Ott) was born, with Helen's alternate birthplace listed as Neguanee, Michigan. While impossible to confirm, it might appear in research and family lore that family members lived in Michigan or even Wisconsin before landing in Ely or as young adults coming of age. Perhaps they even first lived in Ely, then Michigan and back to Ely. Eva and step-sister Mary Isabella (Hood) Panter spent a good deal of time as young ladies going back and forth on both sides of the US and Canadian border towns of Sault Ste. Marie, Canada and Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan per family tradition. Contributor was unable to find any border crossing records for Eva or her mother, but there is a 1911 crossing record for step-sister Mary Panter traveling by ferry and entering the Canadian Port of Sault Ste Marie, thus indicating which border crossing the family may have used around the turn of the century. It appears the half-sisters remained in touch at least into early adulthood as Eva is known to have witnessed the birth of at least one of Mary Isabel's sons somewhere on one side of the border or the other and Mary Isabelle had married Alexander Panter in Michigan, although the Panter's later settled and died in Vermillion, Alberta, Canada.
Ironically, decades later in the summer of 1972, a group of Eva Casey's Spokane raised grandchildren would be vacationing together on Lake Kootenay, British Columbia when while sitting at a beach campfire and making introductions to other camper's they would meet one of Mary Isabel's grandsons. His name is now forgotten, but it is believed he was the owner of a trucking company operating out of either British Columbia or Alberta. Please contact this contributor if you know who this relative would have been. Eva Casey's grandchildren also recall one of Mary Isabella Panter's sons visiting her home in Spokane, Washington twice in the 1950's to have her sign documents attesting to her presence at his birth, thus proving his Canadian or American Citizenship. If recalled correctly, the Panter descendant needed that documentation because he was about to join the Canadian Military, but this can not be confirmed. The Panter's eldest children were born in Michigan and across the border in Canada, but their youngest had been born after they settled across the country in Alberta, Canada. Presumably Eva was being asked to attest to one of their eldest sons birth back east in Michigan or in Ontario.
Upon coming of age in Ely, Eva obtained employment as a school teacher, (graduating from regular school or as a teacher in the Class of 1890) in nearby Negaunee, Michigan where it is assumed she soon met her future husband Philip Casey. Descendants have captioned photos in original labeled sleeves taken with Eva and her fellow teachers in both Ely and Negaunee which suggests she may have taught in both. It is said that owing to their individual family obligations they had a rather extended engagement with Philip having presented Eva with a special gold wrist watch as an engagement gift, since the tradition of engagement rings was not yet common practice. At the time the sentiment was that he would be thinking of her every minute and every second of the day. Philip was already living in Bonners Ferry, Idaho before going back east to marry Eva and he had already taken a railroad sabbatical to partake in his gold mining interests.
They were married by a Presbyterian minister (per Minnesota Official Marriage Systems and physical copy) on 15 September 1898 in Ely Township, St. Louis County, Minnesota in a 6:00 a.m. tiny ceremony with just a handful of family and friends. After a "Wedding Breakfast" per their marriage announcement, then boarded a train to visit Michigan and Wisconsin points and then onward west setting up housekeeping in Bonners Ferry, Idaho where Philip had been living and employed as the first Great Northern Railroad Agent there. He had already taken a brief sabbatical to follow his interests in local gold mining and had staked claims south of Nelson, British Columbia. While in Bonners Ferry son Edward Stewart "Hep" Casey was born, followed by daughter Helen Kathryn. The correct spelling of Helen's middle name is in question, but we know it was originally intended to honor her grandmother Catherine (Dunne), Casey. Shortly after Eva & Philip began married life in Idaho, Eva's mother Maria, by then Maria Hood became ill with cancer and she and her two young Hood daughters moved to Bonners Ferry as well, but not before hitting the 1900 US Census still living in Minnesota. Research into the names of the few wedding guests listed on Philip and Eva's wedding announcement showed Mr. John Dinsmore was likely one and same as former resident of Simcoe, Ontario married to Mary Jane Stewart. Could Mrs. Dinsmore be a Stewart cousin to Eva? The Dr. H.E. Wunder and his future wife listed as Miss Bale is the doctor that Maria was working with or for as they are seen together on census page listed at same residence doctors household that includes business partners, patients and boarders and would appear to be a private home operating a hospital or boarding house for doctors patients. Maria was known to have been working as a nurse in Ely at that time. Maria died in Bonners Ferry, Boundary County, Idaho in 1903 and is buried there at the Grandview Cemetery with a headstone reading Maria Hood. Apparently despite family lore stating Maria had been widowed a second time, sometime between the 1895 Minnesota State Territorial Census and the 1900 US Census, Gideon Hood had left and gone back to Canada as he is seen remarrying and starting a new family with last wife Mary Jane Spearman per records and Hood Family tradition. He died in the City of Sarnia, Lambton County, Ontario (located on Lake Huron) in 1921 and was buried in nearby Guelph Twp., Wellington County, Ontario at Woodlawn Memorial Park.
Following Maria's death, Philip and Eva Casey provided for Eva's half-sisters through high school and college and both those girls became school teachers prior to marriage and settled on the west side of Washington State. Margaret Hood graduated from Cheney Normal School (near Spokane) and Helen graduated from Bellingham Normal School. While Philip and Eva were living in Bellingham they would have sons Philip Norwood (middle name references his mother's birthplace) and Robert Eugene Casey. After their initial years in Bonners Ferry, Wilson Creek and Bellingham, Eva and husband landed in the Hillyard/Spokane, Washington area about where they primarily raised their four children after the Great Northern Railroad had sent Philip to be Agent and Pay Master of the rail yard there in 1909/1910. In fact the Philip Casey household hit the 1910 US Census twice, once in Bellingham and once in Hillyard. Hillyard was originally it's own city, but was later annexed into the City of Spokane as the railroad activity decreased and icon Jim Hill was no longer alive to fight for its existence. Per a typed circa 1970's family history Eva had decided to convert to Catholicism in support of her husband and children and in 1911 she made First Communion and Confirmation with her two eldest Edward and Helen.
She was a loving wife, mother and adored grandmother. She loved the arts and music and was well read and interested in world affairs. She read her children the classics and educated them in music. She was active in her St. Patrick's Church Community and a member of the Altar Society. Her grandchildren of which she selflessly came back from a brief stint running a boarding house in Tehama, California to raise when well into her seventies cherished her memory and the time they were able to spend with her. She was said to have nursed many during the flu pandemic of 1917/1918, and was an avid gardener right up until shortly before her death, when her hip broke while working in the yard.
Eva died at the age of 91 as the result of a drunk driver who had run a stop sign at the corner of Crestline and Decatur in Spokane. Eva's granddaughter Judy Casey was driving her Volkswagen and the women were returning two of Eva's young great-granddaughters to their parent's Joan (Casey) and Paul Cook after spending the day at Eva's home. The other driver was charged with negligent driving. Judy Casey later remarked that it was perhaps a blessing as at the time of the accident as an autopsy found that Eva had terminal cancer. Eva Casey was laid to rest next to her husband Philip at Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery in Spokane, Washington. Plot: D 4101-2/2
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For those interested, a Google News Archives search of the Spokesman-Review Edition of Sunday, November 5, 1961 pulls up a front page article captioned, "92 YR OLD WOMAN DIES, 10 YR OLD GIRL INJURED". There is also another pulled up under same Google News Archives for the Spokane Daily Chronicle Edition of 6 Nov.1961 page 6, captioned, "DRIVER CHARGED IN FATAL CRASH, NEGLIGENT DRIVING.
See Also: A Google News Archives search of Spokesman Review, edition of 6 Nov. 1961 pulls up Eva's death notice, her funeral notices appears in the same paper on page 16.
Links To Local Spokane Mentions of Mrs. Eva Casey:
11 Sept 1910 - Spokesman-Review mention:
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=SK1VAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XscDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4443%2C6096825
6 Dec 1913 Spokane Daily Chronicle mention:
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KqZXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EvQDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4704%2C1745417
30 Jan 1948 Spokane Daily Chronicle re: St. Pat's Church.
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wtlXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pPUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7372%2C4772531
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SEEKING: Copy of Eva's obituary, please contact me if you have one.
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2023 DNA Update Note: After several years of comparing DNA matches and their linked family trees on ancestry.com to Eva (Stewart) Casey descendants; contributor feels very confident that Eva's paternal grandparents were Irish immigrants James Stewart [resident of Lot 25, 5th Concession of Haldimand Township, Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada] & wife Mary Ann Brewster, daughter of Hugh Brewster Sr. & Mary Johanna Birney, daughter of Thomas Birney lastly of Cobourg, Northumberland County, Ontario.
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RESEARCH POTENTIAL RELATIVES: The only persons listed in Eva's wedding announcement who can not be identified are Mr. & Mrs. John Dinsmore. John Dinsmore may be one and same as John Alexander Dinsmore b. about 1870, raised in the Orillia, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada area whose 1897 St. Louis County, Minnesota marriage records lists his bride as Mary Jane Stewart! Could Mrs. Dinsmore be one of Eva's cousins? Mr. & Mrs. Dinsmore are buried in the Ely Cemetery, Ely, Minnesota. As for Miss Goldsworthy, there are two possibilities [edit: Miss Jessie Goldsworthy listed as witness], one is seen to be a music teacher in Ely on 1900 Census it is suspected that she was one of Eva's fellow teachers met while teaching in Michigan or the second possibility is an Elizabeth Ann Goldsworthy of Houghton, Michigan who was a school teacher, buried in Calumet, Houghton, Michigan who had at least one brother living in Ely at the time she would have attended Philip and Eva Casey's wedding. Miss Goldsworthy and Dr. Wunder were listed as the witnesses on Philip and Eva's ordered marriage certificate, he of course being one of the doctors Maria McBrian worked with or for per the 1900 US Census where Dr. Wunder and Maria are living in a doctors private home/hospital with patients, business partners, borders, family members and so forth.
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For anyone interested, available for free online there are many small blurbs and articles pertaining to Eva and Philip Casey found in the old Bonners Ferry area newspaper called "The Kootenai Herald". They range from one sentence blurbs to some fun longer articles. They cover things such as social gatherings, Philip's mining interests, even the towns men teasing and speculating over Philip's impending nuptials. You can view them by googling: Chronicling America, Idaho, Phil Casey. There are too many to reference here.
Daughter of William Carlisle Stewart &
Maria Jane McBrian (likely McBrien earlier based on dna matches.)
Maternal Granddaughter of a Henry and Jane McBrian per their daughters marriage records, however… these may be middle names or nicknames.
Half-sister to Margaret Myrtle (Hood), Still and Helen Linton (Hood), Ott and step-sister to Mary Isabel (Hood), Panter.
Married Philip Casey 15 Sept. 1898 Ely Township, St. Louis County, Minnesota, witnesses: Miss Jessie Goldsworthy and Dr. H.E. Wunder [the doctor mother Maria is seen working with on 1900 census.]
Parents of: Edward Stewart "Hep" Casey; Helen Kathryn (Casey), Dixon; Philip Norwood "Norwood" Casey & Robert Eugene Casey.
Eva Eliza (Stewart) Casey. --- Eva was born 2 January 1871 in small Norwood Township, (now Asphodel-Norwood), Peterborough County, Ontario Province, Canada to parents William Carlisle Stewart and Maria Jane (McBrian), Stewart. Her father was the informant on her birth record and listed his occupation as yeoman (farmer). That Canadian record only states the child is female and gives the correct birthdate as her descendants knew it to be. It should be mentioned that a circa 1970's family history attributed to her daughter Helen Dixon states that Eva's full name was Evangeline Elizabeth. Contributor could find no mention of that name in records, but it is possible she could have been given that as a "Christian name" or listed as such on a related certificate when she made First Holy Communion and was confirmed at St. Patrick's in 1911 as an adult when converting to Catholicism. If any descendants are in possession of any document that might list her name as such, please pass a copy along. Per family lore it is said that while she was still very young, her father William left home to go on the road seeking work and was never to be heard from again, presumably meeting with ill fate of some nature. Family tradition also stated that his middle name was spelled Carlisle, and that Eva had been very specific in telling her mothers name was pronounced Mariah, although spelled Maria. Because William's name is so common and little was passed down about him or his family it has been difficult to confirm which records might be his. Eva told family she was primarily of Scotch-Irish descent, although indications are both the Stewart's and McBrian's may have come through Ireland first. How far removed the Stewart's might have been from Scotland is unknown. Research of online records do hint that both her parents were likely first generation Canadian births of parents from Ireland per census and marriage info if correct. Maria's parents names on both of her marriage records found online say parents are Henry and Jane McBrian. Maria's records show she was born in Cobourg, Northumberland County, Ontario. Per the original document hanging lastly for decades in the home of granddaughter Judith Casey, Maria and William had been married on 28 October 1868 in Port Hope, Ontario by the well known Anglican Minister, Father Alexander Neil Bethune of which much is written regarding his personal history in Ontario and that of some of his more famous Bethune relatives.
After her father William vanished, Eva's mother Maria remarried to Gideon Hood in 1878, he being a native of Guelph, Ontario. Gideon was the son of George Hood and Mary Ann Linton, both born in Scotland.
By ten years of age per 1881 Canadian Census, Eva was found in the household of her stepfather Gideon with her mother Maria and step-sister Mary Isabel Hood (later wife of Alexander James Panter) living in Sault Ste. Marie, Algoma County, Ontario. In about 1884 Eva's stepfather would take his family including he and Maria's newest family addition, born in Sault Ste. Marie, Canada - Margaret Myrtle Hood (later married Fred Dewitt Still) and immigrate into the United States settling in Ely, St. Louis County, Minnesota where Eva's second half-sister Helen Linton Hood (later married George Joseph Ott) was born, with Helen's alternate birthplace listed as Neguanee, Michigan. While impossible to confirm, it might appear in research and family lore that family members lived in Michigan or even Wisconsin before landing in Ely or as young adults coming of age. Perhaps they even first lived in Ely, then Michigan and back to Ely. Eva and step-sister Mary Isabella (Hood) Panter spent a good deal of time as young ladies going back and forth on both sides of the US and Canadian border towns of Sault Ste. Marie, Canada and Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan per family tradition. Contributor was unable to find any border crossing records for Eva or her mother, but there is a 1911 crossing record for step-sister Mary Panter traveling by ferry and entering the Canadian Port of Sault Ste Marie, thus indicating which border crossing the family may have used around the turn of the century. It appears the half-sisters remained in touch at least into early adulthood as Eva is known to have witnessed the birth of at least one of Mary Isabel's sons somewhere on one side of the border or the other and Mary Isabelle had married Alexander Panter in Michigan, although the Panter's later settled and died in Vermillion, Alberta, Canada.
Ironically, decades later in the summer of 1972, a group of Eva Casey's Spokane raised grandchildren would be vacationing together on Lake Kootenay, British Columbia when while sitting at a beach campfire and making introductions to other camper's they would meet one of Mary Isabel's grandsons. His name is now forgotten, but it is believed he was the owner of a trucking company operating out of either British Columbia or Alberta. Please contact this contributor if you know who this relative would have been. Eva Casey's grandchildren also recall one of Mary Isabella Panter's sons visiting her home in Spokane, Washington twice in the 1950's to have her sign documents attesting to her presence at his birth, thus proving his Canadian or American Citizenship. If recalled correctly, the Panter descendant needed that documentation because he was about to join the Canadian Military, but this can not be confirmed. The Panter's eldest children were born in Michigan and across the border in Canada, but their youngest had been born after they settled across the country in Alberta, Canada. Presumably Eva was being asked to attest to one of their eldest sons birth back east in Michigan or in Ontario.
Upon coming of age in Ely, Eva obtained employment as a school teacher, (graduating from regular school or as a teacher in the Class of 1890) in nearby Negaunee, Michigan where it is assumed she soon met her future husband Philip Casey. Descendants have captioned photos in original labeled sleeves taken with Eva and her fellow teachers in both Ely and Negaunee which suggests she may have taught in both. It is said that owing to their individual family obligations they had a rather extended engagement with Philip having presented Eva with a special gold wrist watch as an engagement gift, since the tradition of engagement rings was not yet common practice. At the time the sentiment was that he would be thinking of her every minute and every second of the day. Philip was already living in Bonners Ferry, Idaho before going back east to marry Eva and he had already taken a railroad sabbatical to partake in his gold mining interests.
They were married by a Presbyterian minister (per Minnesota Official Marriage Systems and physical copy) on 15 September 1898 in Ely Township, St. Louis County, Minnesota in a 6:00 a.m. tiny ceremony with just a handful of family and friends. After a "Wedding Breakfast" per their marriage announcement, then boarded a train to visit Michigan and Wisconsin points and then onward west setting up housekeeping in Bonners Ferry, Idaho where Philip had been living and employed as the first Great Northern Railroad Agent there. He had already taken a brief sabbatical to follow his interests in local gold mining and had staked claims south of Nelson, British Columbia. While in Bonners Ferry son Edward Stewart "Hep" Casey was born, followed by daughter Helen Kathryn. The correct spelling of Helen's middle name is in question, but we know it was originally intended to honor her grandmother Catherine (Dunne), Casey. Shortly after Eva & Philip began married life in Idaho, Eva's mother Maria, by then Maria Hood became ill with cancer and she and her two young Hood daughters moved to Bonners Ferry as well, but not before hitting the 1900 US Census still living in Minnesota. Research into the names of the few wedding guests listed on Philip and Eva's wedding announcement showed Mr. John Dinsmore was likely one and same as former resident of Simcoe, Ontario married to Mary Jane Stewart. Could Mrs. Dinsmore be a Stewart cousin to Eva? The Dr. H.E. Wunder and his future wife listed as Miss Bale is the doctor that Maria was working with or for as they are seen together on census page listed at same residence doctors household that includes business partners, patients and boarders and would appear to be a private home operating a hospital or boarding house for doctors patients. Maria was known to have been working as a nurse in Ely at that time. Maria died in Bonners Ferry, Boundary County, Idaho in 1903 and is buried there at the Grandview Cemetery with a headstone reading Maria Hood. Apparently despite family lore stating Maria had been widowed a second time, sometime between the 1895 Minnesota State Territorial Census and the 1900 US Census, Gideon Hood had left and gone back to Canada as he is seen remarrying and starting a new family with last wife Mary Jane Spearman per records and Hood Family tradition. He died in the City of Sarnia, Lambton County, Ontario (located on Lake Huron) in 1921 and was buried in nearby Guelph Twp., Wellington County, Ontario at Woodlawn Memorial Park.
Following Maria's death, Philip and Eva Casey provided for Eva's half-sisters through high school and college and both those girls became school teachers prior to marriage and settled on the west side of Washington State. Margaret Hood graduated from Cheney Normal School (near Spokane) and Helen graduated from Bellingham Normal School. While Philip and Eva were living in Bellingham they would have sons Philip Norwood (middle name references his mother's birthplace) and Robert Eugene Casey. After their initial years in Bonners Ferry, Wilson Creek and Bellingham, Eva and husband landed in the Hillyard/Spokane, Washington area about where they primarily raised their four children after the Great Northern Railroad had sent Philip to be Agent and Pay Master of the rail yard there in 1909/1910. In fact the Philip Casey household hit the 1910 US Census twice, once in Bellingham and once in Hillyard. Hillyard was originally it's own city, but was later annexed into the City of Spokane as the railroad activity decreased and icon Jim Hill was no longer alive to fight for its existence. Per a typed circa 1970's family history Eva had decided to convert to Catholicism in support of her husband and children and in 1911 she made First Communion and Confirmation with her two eldest Edward and Helen.
She was a loving wife, mother and adored grandmother. She loved the arts and music and was well read and interested in world affairs. She read her children the classics and educated them in music. She was active in her St. Patrick's Church Community and a member of the Altar Society. Her grandchildren of which she selflessly came back from a brief stint running a boarding house in Tehama, California to raise when well into her seventies cherished her memory and the time they were able to spend with her. She was said to have nursed many during the flu pandemic of 1917/1918, and was an avid gardener right up until shortly before her death, when her hip broke while working in the yard.
Eva died at the age of 91 as the result of a drunk driver who had run a stop sign at the corner of Crestline and Decatur in Spokane. Eva's granddaughter Judy Casey was driving her Volkswagen and the women were returning two of Eva's young great-granddaughters to their parent's Joan (Casey) and Paul Cook after spending the day at Eva's home. The other driver was charged with negligent driving. Judy Casey later remarked that it was perhaps a blessing as at the time of the accident as an autopsy found that Eva had terminal cancer. Eva Casey was laid to rest next to her husband Philip at Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery in Spokane, Washington. Plot: D 4101-2/2
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For those interested, a Google News Archives search of the Spokesman-Review Edition of Sunday, November 5, 1961 pulls up a front page article captioned, "92 YR OLD WOMAN DIES, 10 YR OLD GIRL INJURED". There is also another pulled up under same Google News Archives for the Spokane Daily Chronicle Edition of 6 Nov.1961 page 6, captioned, "DRIVER CHARGED IN FATAL CRASH, NEGLIGENT DRIVING.
See Also: A Google News Archives search of Spokesman Review, edition of 6 Nov. 1961 pulls up Eva's death notice, her funeral notices appears in the same paper on page 16.
Links To Local Spokane Mentions of Mrs. Eva Casey:
11 Sept 1910 - Spokesman-Review mention:
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=SK1VAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XscDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4443%2C6096825
6 Dec 1913 Spokane Daily Chronicle mention:
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KqZXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EvQDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4704%2C1745417
30 Jan 1948 Spokane Daily Chronicle re: St. Pat's Church.
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wtlXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pPUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7372%2C4772531
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SEEKING: Copy of Eva's obituary, please contact me if you have one.
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2023 DNA Update Note: After several years of comparing DNA matches and their linked family trees on ancestry.com to Eva (Stewart) Casey descendants; contributor feels very confident that Eva's paternal grandparents were Irish immigrants James Stewart [resident of Lot 25, 5th Concession of Haldimand Township, Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada] & wife Mary Ann Brewster, daughter of Hugh Brewster Sr. & Mary Johanna Birney, daughter of Thomas Birney lastly of Cobourg, Northumberland County, Ontario.
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RESEARCH POTENTIAL RELATIVES: The only persons listed in Eva's wedding announcement who can not be identified are Mr. & Mrs. John Dinsmore. John Dinsmore may be one and same as John Alexander Dinsmore b. about 1870, raised in the Orillia, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada area whose 1897 St. Louis County, Minnesota marriage records lists his bride as Mary Jane Stewart! Could Mrs. Dinsmore be one of Eva's cousins? Mr. & Mrs. Dinsmore are buried in the Ely Cemetery, Ely, Minnesota. As for Miss Goldsworthy, there are two possibilities [edit: Miss Jessie Goldsworthy listed as witness], one is seen to be a music teacher in Ely on 1900 Census it is suspected that she was one of Eva's fellow teachers met while teaching in Michigan or the second possibility is an Elizabeth Ann Goldsworthy of Houghton, Michigan who was a school teacher, buried in Calumet, Houghton, Michigan who had at least one brother living in Ely at the time she would have attended Philip and Eva Casey's wedding. Miss Goldsworthy and Dr. Wunder were listed as the witnesses on Philip and Eva's ordered marriage certificate, he of course being one of the doctors Maria McBrian worked with or for per the 1900 US Census where Dr. Wunder and Maria are living in a doctors private home/hospital with patients, business partners, borders, family members and so forth.
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For anyone interested, available for free online there are many small blurbs and articles pertaining to Eva and Philip Casey found in the old Bonners Ferry area newspaper called "The Kootenai Herald". They range from one sentence blurbs to some fun longer articles. They cover things such as social gatherings, Philip's mining interests, even the towns men teasing and speculating over Philip's impending nuptials. You can view them by googling: Chronicling America, Idaho, Phil Casey. There are too many to reference here.
Group photo shows Eva Stewart on far right with some of her fellow teachers circa 1890. See below for notes detailing potential relatives and/or who the people are listed on the wedding announcement.
Daughter of William Carlisle Stewart &
Maria Jane McBrian (likely McBrien earlier based on dna matches.)
Maternal Granddaughter of a Henry and Jane McBrian per their daughters marriage records, however… these may be middle names or nicknames.
Half-sister to Margaret Myrtle (Hood), Still and Helen Linton (Hood), Ott and step-sister to Mary Isabel (Hood), Panter.
Married Philip Casey 15 Sept. 1898 Ely Township, St. Louis County, Minnesota, witnesses: Miss Jessie Goldsworthy and Dr. H.E. Wunder [the doctor mother Maria is seen working with on 1900 census.]
Parents of: Edward Stewart "Hep" Casey; Helen Kathryn (Casey), Dixon; Philip Norwood "Norwood" Casey & Robert Eugene Casey.
Eva Eliza (Stewart) Casey. --- Eva was born 2 January 1871 in small Norwood Township, (now Asphodel-Norwood), Peterborough County, Ontario Province, Canada to parents William Carlisle Stewart and Maria Jane (McBrian), Stewart. Her father was the informant on her birth record and listed his occupation as yeoman (farmer). That Canadian record only states the child is female and gives the correct birthdate as her descendants knew it to be. It should be mentioned that a circa 1970's family history attributed to her daughter Helen Dixon states that Eva's full name was Evangeline Elizabeth. Contributor could find no mention of that name in records, but it is possible she could have been given that as a "Christian name" or listed as such on a related certificate when she made First Holy Communion and was confirmed at St. Patrick's in 1911 as an adult when converting to Catholicism. If any descendants are in possession of any document that might list her name as such, please pass a copy along. Per family lore it is said that while she was still very young, her father William left home to go on the road seeking work and was never to be heard from again, presumably meeting with ill fate of some nature. Family tradition also stated that his middle name was spelled Carlisle, and that Eva had been very specific in telling her mothers name was pronounced Mariah, although spelled Maria. Because William's name is so common and little was passed down about him or his family it has been difficult to confirm which records might be his. Eva told family she was primarily of Scotch-Irish descent, although indications are both the Stewart's and McBrian's may have come through Ireland first. How far removed the Stewart's might have been from Scotland is unknown. Research of online records do hint that both her parents were likely first generation Canadian births of parents from Ireland per census and marriage info if correct. Maria's parents names on both of her marriage records found online say parents are Henry and Jane McBrian. Maria's records show she was born in Cobourg, Northumberland County, Ontario. Per the original document hanging lastly for decades in the home of granddaughter Judith Casey, Maria and William had been married on 28 October 1868 in Port Hope, Ontario by the well known Anglican Minister, Father Alexander Neil Bethune of which much is written regarding his personal history in Ontario and that of some of his more famous Bethune relatives.
After her father William vanished, Eva's mother Maria remarried to Gideon Hood in 1878, he being a native of Guelph, Ontario. Gideon was the son of George Hood and Mary Ann Linton, both born in Scotland.
By ten years of age per 1881 Canadian Census, Eva was found in the household of her stepfather Gideon with her mother Maria and step-sister Mary Isabel Hood (later wife of Alexander James Panter) living in Sault Ste. Marie, Algoma County, Ontario. In about 1884 Eva's stepfather would take his family including he and Maria's newest family addition, born in Sault Ste. Marie, Canada - Margaret Myrtle Hood (later married Fred Dewitt Still) and immigrate into the United States settling in Ely, St. Louis County, Minnesota where Eva's second half-sister Helen Linton Hood (later married George Joseph Ott) was born, with Helen's alternate birthplace listed as Neguanee, Michigan. While impossible to confirm, it might appear in research and family lore that family members lived in Michigan or even Wisconsin before landing in Ely or as young adults coming of age. Perhaps they even first lived in Ely, then Michigan and back to Ely. Eva and step-sister Mary Isabella (Hood) Panter spent a good deal of time as young ladies going back and forth on both sides of the US and Canadian border towns of Sault Ste. Marie, Canada and Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan per family tradition. Contributor was unable to find any border crossing records for Eva or her mother, but there is a 1911 crossing record for step-sister Mary Panter traveling by ferry and entering the Canadian Port of Sault Ste Marie, thus indicating which border crossing the family may have used around the turn of the century. It appears the half-sisters remained in touch at least into early adulthood as Eva is known to have witnessed the birth of at least one of Mary Isabel's sons somewhere on one side of the border or the other and Mary Isabelle had married Alexander Panter in Michigan, although the Panter's later settled and died in Vermillion, Alberta, Canada.
Ironically, decades later in the summer of 1972, a group of Eva Casey's Spokane raised grandchildren would be vacationing together on Lake Kootenay, British Columbia when while sitting at a beach campfire and making introductions to other camper's they would meet one of Mary Isabel's grandsons. His name is now forgotten, but it is believed he was the owner of a trucking company operating out of either British Columbia or Alberta. Please contact this contributor if you know who this relative would have been. Eva Casey's grandchildren also recall one of Mary Isabella Panter's sons visiting her home in Spokane, Washington twice in the 1950's to have her sign documents attesting to her presence at his birth, thus proving his Canadian or American Citizenship. If recalled correctly, the Panter descendant needed that documentation because he was about to join the Canadian Military, but this can not be confirmed. The Panter's eldest children were born in Michigan and across the border in Canada, but their youngest had been born after they settled across the country in Alberta, Canada. Presumably Eva was being asked to attest to one of their eldest sons birth back east in Michigan or in Ontario.
Upon coming of age in Ely, Eva obtained employment as a school teacher, (graduating from regular school or as a teacher in the Class of 1890) in nearby Negaunee, Michigan where it is assumed she soon met her future husband Philip Casey. Descendants have captioned photos in original labeled sleeves taken with Eva and her fellow teachers in both Ely and Negaunee which suggests she may have taught in both. It is said that owing to their individual family obligations they had a rather extended engagement with Philip having presented Eva with a special gold wrist watch as an engagement gift, since the tradition of engagement rings was not yet common practice. At the time the sentiment was that he would be thinking of her every minute and every second of the day. Philip was already living in Bonners Ferry, Idaho before going back east to marry Eva and he had already taken a railroad sabbatical to partake in his gold mining interests.
They were married by a Presbyterian minister (per Minnesota Official Marriage Systems and physical copy) on 15 September 1898 in Ely Township, St. Louis County, Minnesota in a 6:00 a.m. tiny ceremony with just a handful of family and friends. After a "Wedding Breakfast" per their marriage announcement, then boarded a train to visit Michigan and Wisconsin points and then onward west setting up housekeeping in Bonners Ferry, Idaho where Philip had been living and employed as the first Great Northern Railroad Agent there. He had already taken a brief sabbatical to follow his interests in local gold mining and had staked claims south of Nelson, British Columbia. While in Bonners Ferry son Edward Stewart "Hep" Casey was born, followed by daughter Helen Kathryn. The correct spelling of Helen's middle name is in question, but we know it was originally intended to honor her grandmother Catherine (Dunne), Casey. Shortly after Eva & Philip began married life in Idaho, Eva's mother Maria, by then Maria Hood became ill with cancer and she and her two young Hood daughters moved to Bonners Ferry as well, but not before hitting the 1900 US Census still living in Minnesota. Research into the names of the few wedding guests listed on Philip and Eva's wedding announcement showed Mr. John Dinsmore was likely one and same as former resident of Simcoe, Ontario married to Mary Jane Stewart. Could Mrs. Dinsmore be a Stewart cousin to Eva? The Dr. H.E. Wunder and his future wife listed as Miss Bale is the doctor that Maria was working with or for as they are seen together on census page listed at same residence doctors household that includes business partners, patients and boarders and would appear to be a private home operating a hospital or boarding house for doctors patients. Maria was known to have been working as a nurse in Ely at that time. Maria died in Bonners Ferry, Boundary County, Idaho in 1903 and is buried there at the Grandview Cemetery with a headstone reading Maria Hood. Apparently despite family lore stating Maria had been widowed a second time, sometime between the 1895 Minnesota State Territorial Census and the 1900 US Census, Gideon Hood had left and gone back to Canada as he is seen remarrying and starting a new family with last wife Mary Jane Spearman per records and Hood Family tradition. He died in the City of Sarnia, Lambton County, Ontario (located on Lake Huron) in 1921 and was buried in nearby Guelph Twp., Wellington County, Ontario at Woodlawn Memorial Park.
Following Maria's death, Philip and Eva Casey provided for Eva's half-sisters through high school and college and both those girls became school teachers prior to marriage and settled on the west side of Washington State. Margaret Hood graduated from Cheney Normal School (near Spokane) and Helen graduated from Bellingham Normal School. While Philip and Eva were living in Bellingham they would have sons Philip Norwood (middle name references his mother's birthplace) and Robert Eugene Casey. After their initial years in Bonners Ferry, Wilson Creek and Bellingham, Eva and husband landed in the Hillyard/Spokane, Washington area about where they primarily raised their four children after the Great Northern Railroad had sent Philip to be Agent and Pay Master of the rail yard there in 1909/1910. In fact the Philip Casey household hit the 1910 US Census twice, once in Bellingham and once in Hillyard. Hillyard was originally it's own city, but was later annexed into the City of Spokane as the railroad activity decreased and icon Jim Hill was no longer alive to fight for its existence. Per a typed circa 1970's family history Eva had decided to convert to Catholicism in support of her husband and children and in 1911 she made First Communion and Confirmation with her two eldest Edward and Helen.
She was a loving wife, mother and adored grandmother. She loved the arts and music and was well read and interested in world affairs. She read her children the classics and educated them in music. She was active in her St. Patrick's Church Community and a member of the Altar Society. Her grandchildren of which she selflessly came back from a brief stint running a boarding house in Tehama, California to raise when well into her seventies cherished her memory and the time they were able to spend with her. She was said to have nursed many during the flu pandemic of 1917/1918, and was an avid gardener right up until shortly before her death, when her hip broke while working in the yard.
Eva died at the age of 91 as the result of a drunk driver who had run a stop sign at the corner of Crestline and Decatur in Spokane. Eva's granddaughter Judy Casey was driving her Volkswagen and the women were returning two of Eva's young great-granddaughters to their parent's Joan (Casey) and Paul Cook after spending the day at Eva's home. The other driver was charged with negligent driving. Judy Casey later remarked that it was perhaps a blessing as at the time of the accident as an autopsy found that Eva had terminal cancer. Eva Casey was laid to rest next to her husband Philip at Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery in Spokane, Washington. Plot: D 4101-2/2
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For those interested, a Google News Archives search of the Spokesman-Review Edition of Sunday, November 5, 1961 pulls up a front page article captioned, "92 YR OLD WOMAN DIES, 10 YR OLD GIRL INJURED". There is also another pulled up under same Google News Archives for the Spokane Daily Chronicle Edition of 6 Nov.1961 page 6, captioned, "DRIVER CHARGED IN FATAL CRASH, NEGLIGENT DRIVING.
See Also: A Google News Archives search of Spokesman Review, edition of 6 Nov. 1961 pulls up Eva's death notice, her funeral notices appears in the same paper on page 16.
Links To Local Spokane Mentions of Mrs. Eva Casey:
11 Sept 1910 - Spokesman-Review mention:
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=SK1VAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XscDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4443%2C6096825
6 Dec 1913 Spokane Daily Chronicle mention:
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KqZXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EvQDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4704%2C1745417
30 Jan 1948 Spokane Daily Chronicle re: St. Pat's Church.
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wtlXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pPUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7372%2C4772531
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SEEKING: Copy of Eva's obituary, please contact me if you have one.
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2023 DNA Update Note: After several years of comparing DNA matches and their linked family trees on ancestry.com to Eva (Stewart) Casey descendants; contributor feels very confident that Eva's paternal grandparents were Irish immigrants James Stewart [resident of Lot 25, 5th Concession of Haldimand Township, Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada] & wife Mary Ann Brewster, daughter of Hugh Brewster Sr. & Mary Johanna Birney, daughter of Thomas Birney lastly of Cobourg, Northumberland County, Ontario.
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RESEARCH POTENTIAL RELATIVES: The only persons listed in Eva's wedding announcement who can not be identified are Mr. & Mrs. John Dinsmore. John Dinsmore may be one and same as John Alexander Dinsmore b. about 1870, raised in the Orillia, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada area whose 1897 St. Louis County, Minnesota marriage records lists his bride as Mary Jane Stewart! Could Mrs. Dinsmore be one of Eva's cousins? Mr. & Mrs. Dinsmore are buried in the Ely Cemetery, Ely, Minnesota. As for Miss Goldsworthy, there are two possibilities [edit: Miss Jessie Goldsworthy listed as witness], one is seen to be a music teacher in Ely on 1900 Census it is suspected that she was one of Eva's fellow teachers met while teaching in Michigan or the second possibility is an Elizabeth Ann Goldsworthy of Houghton, Michigan who was a school teacher, buried in Calumet, Houghton, Michigan who had at least one brother living in Ely at the time she would have attended Philip and Eva Casey's wedding. Miss Goldsworthy and Dr. Wunder were listed as the witnesses on Philip and Eva's ordered marriage certificate, he of course being one of the doctors Maria McBrian worked with or for per the 1900 US Census where Dr. Wunder and Maria are living in a doctors private home/hospital with patients, business partners, borders, family members and so forth.
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For anyone interested, available for free online there are many small blurbs and articles pertaining to Eva and Philip Casey found in the old Bonners Ferry area newspaper called "The Kootenai Herald". They range from one sentence blurbs to some fun longer articles. They cover things such as social gatherings, Philip's mining interests, even the towns men teasing and speculating over Philip's impending nuptials. You can view them by googling: Chronicling America, Idaho, Phil Casey. There are too many to reference here.
Daughter of William Carlisle Stewart &
Maria Jane McBrian (likely McBrien earlier based on dna matches.)
Maternal Granddaughter of a Henry and Jane McBrian per their daughters marriage records, however… these may be middle names or nicknames.
Half-sister to Margaret Myrtle (Hood), Still and Helen Linton (Hood), Ott and step-sister to Mary Isabel (Hood), Panter.
Married Philip Casey 15 Sept. 1898 Ely Township, St. Louis County, Minnesota, witnesses: Miss Jessie Goldsworthy and Dr. H.E. Wunder [the doctor mother Maria is seen working with on 1900 census.]
Parents of: Edward Stewart "Hep" Casey; Helen Kathryn (Casey), Dixon; Philip Norwood "Norwood" Casey & Robert Eugene Casey.
Eva Eliza (Stewart) Casey. --- Eva was born 2 January 1871 in small Norwood Township, (now Asphodel-Norwood), Peterborough County, Ontario Province, Canada to parents William Carlisle Stewart and Maria Jane (McBrian), Stewart. Her father was the informant on her birth record and listed his occupation as yeoman (farmer). That Canadian record only states the child is female and gives the correct birthdate as her descendants knew it to be. It should be mentioned that a circa 1970's family history attributed to her daughter Helen Dixon states that Eva's full name was Evangeline Elizabeth. Contributor could find no mention of that name in records, but it is possible she could have been given that as a "Christian name" or listed as such on a related certificate when she made First Holy Communion and was confirmed at St. Patrick's in 1911 as an adult when converting to Catholicism. If any descendants are in possession of any document that might list her name as such, please pass a copy along. Per family lore it is said that while she was still very young, her father William left home to go on the road seeking work and was never to be heard from again, presumably meeting with ill fate of some nature. Family tradition also stated that his middle name was spelled Carlisle, and that Eva had been very specific in telling her mothers name was pronounced Mariah, although spelled Maria. Because William's name is so common and little was passed down about him or his family it has been difficult to confirm which records might be his. Eva told family she was primarily of Scotch-Irish descent, although indications are both the Stewart's and McBrian's may have come through Ireland first. How far removed the Stewart's might have been from Scotland is unknown. Research of online records do hint that both her parents were likely first generation Canadian births of parents from Ireland per census and marriage info if correct. Maria's parents names on both of her marriage records found online say parents are Henry and Jane McBrian. Maria's records show she was born in Cobourg, Northumberland County, Ontario. Per the original document hanging lastly for decades in the home of granddaughter Judith Casey, Maria and William had been married on 28 October 1868 in Port Hope, Ontario by the well known Anglican Minister, Father Alexander Neil Bethune of which much is written regarding his personal history in Ontario and that of some of his more famous Bethune relatives.
After her father William vanished, Eva's mother Maria remarried to Gideon Hood in 1878, he being a native of Guelph, Ontario. Gideon was the son of George Hood and Mary Ann Linton, both born in Scotland.
By ten years of age per 1881 Canadian Census, Eva was found in the household of her stepfather Gideon with her mother Maria and step-sister Mary Isabel Hood (later wife of Alexander James Panter) living in Sault Ste. Marie, Algoma County, Ontario. In about 1884 Eva's stepfather would take his family including he and Maria's newest family addition, born in Sault Ste. Marie, Canada - Margaret Myrtle Hood (later married Fred Dewitt Still) and immigrate into the United States settling in Ely, St. Louis County, Minnesota where Eva's second half-sister Helen Linton Hood (later married George Joseph Ott) was born, with Helen's alternate birthplace listed as Neguanee, Michigan. While impossible to confirm, it might appear in research and family lore that family members lived in Michigan or even Wisconsin before landing in Ely or as young adults coming of age. Perhaps they even first lived in Ely, then Michigan and back to Ely. Eva and step-sister Mary Isabella (Hood) Panter spent a good deal of time as young ladies going back and forth on both sides of the US and Canadian border towns of Sault Ste. Marie, Canada and Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan per family tradition. Contributor was unable to find any border crossing records for Eva or her mother, but there is a 1911 crossing record for step-sister Mary Panter traveling by ferry and entering the Canadian Port of Sault Ste Marie, thus indicating which border crossing the family may have used around the turn of the century. It appears the half-sisters remained in touch at least into early adulthood as Eva is known to have witnessed the birth of at least one of Mary Isabel's sons somewhere on one side of the border or the other and Mary Isabelle had married Alexander Panter in Michigan, although the Panter's later settled and died in Vermillion, Alberta, Canada.
Ironically, decades later in the summer of 1972, a group of Eva Casey's Spokane raised grandchildren would be vacationing together on Lake Kootenay, British Columbia when while sitting at a beach campfire and making introductions to other camper's they would meet one of Mary Isabel's grandsons. His name is now forgotten, but it is believed he was the owner of a trucking company operating out of either British Columbia or Alberta. Please contact this contributor if you know who this relative would have been. Eva Casey's grandchildren also recall one of Mary Isabella Panter's sons visiting her home in Spokane, Washington twice in the 1950's to have her sign documents attesting to her presence at his birth, thus proving his Canadian or American Citizenship. If recalled correctly, the Panter descendant needed that documentation because he was about to join the Canadian Military, but this can not be confirmed. The Panter's eldest children were born in Michigan and across the border in Canada, but their youngest had been born after they settled across the country in Alberta, Canada. Presumably Eva was being asked to attest to one of their eldest sons birth back east in Michigan or in Ontario.
Upon coming of age in Ely, Eva obtained employment as a school teacher, (graduating from regular school or as a teacher in the Class of 1890) in nearby Negaunee, Michigan where it is assumed she soon met her future husband Philip Casey. Descendants have captioned photos in original labeled sleeves taken with Eva and her fellow teachers in both Ely and Negaunee which suggests she may have taught in both. It is said that owing to their individual family obligations they had a rather extended engagement with Philip having presented Eva with a special gold wrist watch as an engagement gift, since the tradition of engagement rings was not yet common practice. At the time the sentiment was that he would be thinking of her every minute and every second of the day. Philip was already living in Bonners Ferry, Idaho before going back east to marry Eva and he had already taken a railroad sabbatical to partake in his gold mining interests.
They were married by a Presbyterian minister (per Minnesota Official Marriage Systems and physical copy) on 15 September 1898 in Ely Township, St. Louis County, Minnesota in a 6:00 a.m. tiny ceremony with just a handful of family and friends. After a "Wedding Breakfast" per their marriage announcement, then boarded a train to visit Michigan and Wisconsin points and then onward west setting up housekeeping in Bonners Ferry, Idaho where Philip had been living and employed as the first Great Northern Railroad Agent there. He had already taken a brief sabbatical to follow his interests in local gold mining and had staked claims south of Nelson, British Columbia. While in Bonners Ferry son Edward Stewart "Hep" Casey was born, followed by daughter Helen Kathryn. The correct spelling of Helen's middle name is in question, but we know it was originally intended to honor her grandmother Catherine (Dunne), Casey. Shortly after Eva & Philip began married life in Idaho, Eva's mother Maria, by then Maria Hood became ill with cancer and she and her two young Hood daughters moved to Bonners Ferry as well, but not before hitting the 1900 US Census still living in Minnesota. Research into the names of the few wedding guests listed on Philip and Eva's wedding announcement showed Mr. John Dinsmore was likely one and same as former resident of Simcoe, Ontario married to Mary Jane Stewart. Could Mrs. Dinsmore be a Stewart cousin to Eva? The Dr. H.E. Wunder and his future wife listed as Miss Bale is the doctor that Maria was working with or for as they are seen together on census page listed at same residence doctors household that includes business partners, patients and boarders and would appear to be a private home operating a hospital or boarding house for doctors patients. Maria was known to have been working as a nurse in Ely at that time. Maria died in Bonners Ferry, Boundary County, Idaho in 1903 and is buried there at the Grandview Cemetery with a headstone reading Maria Hood. Apparently despite family lore stating Maria had been widowed a second time, sometime between the 1895 Minnesota State Territorial Census and the 1900 US Census, Gideon Hood had left and gone back to Canada as he is seen remarrying and starting a new family with last wife Mary Jane Spearman per records and Hood Family tradition. He died in the City of Sarnia, Lambton County, Ontario (located on Lake Huron) in 1921 and was buried in nearby Guelph Twp., Wellington County, Ontario at Woodlawn Memorial Park.
Following Maria's death, Philip and Eva Casey provided for Eva's half-sisters through high school and college and both those girls became school teachers prior to marriage and settled on the west side of Washington State. Margaret Hood graduated from Cheney Normal School (near Spokane) and Helen graduated from Bellingham Normal School. While Philip and Eva were living in Bellingham they would have sons Philip Norwood (middle name references his mother's birthplace) and Robert Eugene Casey. After their initial years in Bonners Ferry, Wilson Creek and Bellingham, Eva and husband landed in the Hillyard/Spokane, Washington area about where they primarily raised their four children after the Great Northern Railroad had sent Philip to be Agent and Pay Master of the rail yard there in 1909/1910. In fact the Philip Casey household hit the 1910 US Census twice, once in Bellingham and once in Hillyard. Hillyard was originally it's own city, but was later annexed into the City of Spokane as the railroad activity decreased and icon Jim Hill was no longer alive to fight for its existence. Per a typed circa 1970's family history Eva had decided to convert to Catholicism in support of her husband and children and in 1911 she made First Communion and Confirmation with her two eldest Edward and Helen.
She was a loving wife, mother and adored grandmother. She loved the arts and music and was well read and interested in world affairs. She read her children the classics and educated them in music. She was active in her St. Patrick's Church Community and a member of the Altar Society. Her grandchildren of which she selflessly came back from a brief stint running a boarding house in Tehama, California to raise when well into her seventies cherished her memory and the time they were able to spend with her. She was said to have nursed many during the flu pandemic of 1917/1918, and was an avid gardener right up until shortly before her death, when her hip broke while working in the yard.
Eva died at the age of 91 as the result of a drunk driver who had run a stop sign at the corner of Crestline and Decatur in Spokane. Eva's granddaughter Judy Casey was driving her Volkswagen and the women were returning two of Eva's young great-granddaughters to their parent's Joan (Casey) and Paul Cook after spending the day at Eva's home. The other driver was charged with negligent driving. Judy Casey later remarked that it was perhaps a blessing as at the time of the accident as an autopsy found that Eva had terminal cancer. Eva Casey was laid to rest next to her husband Philip at Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery in Spokane, Washington. Plot: D 4101-2/2
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For those interested, a Google News Archives search of the Spokesman-Review Edition of Sunday, November 5, 1961 pulls up a front page article captioned, "92 YR OLD WOMAN DIES, 10 YR OLD GIRL INJURED". There is also another pulled up under same Google News Archives for the Spokane Daily Chronicle Edition of 6 Nov.1961 page 6, captioned, "DRIVER CHARGED IN FATAL CRASH, NEGLIGENT DRIVING.
See Also: A Google News Archives search of Spokesman Review, edition of 6 Nov. 1961 pulls up Eva's death notice, her funeral notices appears in the same paper on page 16.
Links To Local Spokane Mentions of Mrs. Eva Casey:
11 Sept 1910 - Spokesman-Review mention:
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=SK1VAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XscDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4443%2C6096825
6 Dec 1913 Spokane Daily Chronicle mention:
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KqZXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EvQDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4704%2C1745417
30 Jan 1948 Spokane Daily Chronicle re: St. Pat's Church.
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wtlXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pPUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7372%2C4772531
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SEEKING: Copy of Eva's obituary, please contact me if you have one.
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2023 DNA Update Note: After several years of comparing DNA matches and their linked family trees on ancestry.com to Eva (Stewart) Casey descendants; contributor feels very confident that Eva's paternal grandparents were Irish immigrants James Stewart [resident of Lot 25, 5th Concession of Haldimand Township, Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada] & wife Mary Ann Brewster, daughter of Hugh Brewster Sr. & Mary Johanna Birney, daughter of Thomas Birney lastly of Cobourg, Northumberland County, Ontario.
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RESEARCH POTENTIAL RELATIVES: The only persons listed in Eva's wedding announcement who can not be identified are Mr. & Mrs. John Dinsmore. John Dinsmore may be one and same as John Alexander Dinsmore b. about 1870, raised in the Orillia, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada area whose 1897 St. Louis County, Minnesota marriage records lists his bride as Mary Jane Stewart! Could Mrs. Dinsmore be one of Eva's cousins? Mr. & Mrs. Dinsmore are buried in the Ely Cemetery, Ely, Minnesota. As for Miss Goldsworthy, there are two possibilities [edit: Miss Jessie Goldsworthy listed as witness], one is seen to be a music teacher in Ely on 1900 Census it is suspected that she was one of Eva's fellow teachers met while teaching in Michigan or the second possibility is an Elizabeth Ann Goldsworthy of Houghton, Michigan who was a school teacher, buried in Calumet, Houghton, Michigan who had at least one brother living in Ely at the time she would have attended Philip and Eva Casey's wedding. Miss Goldsworthy and Dr. Wunder were listed as the witnesses on Philip and Eva's ordered marriage certificate, he of course being one of the doctors Maria McBrian worked with or for per the 1900 US Census where Dr. Wunder and Maria are living in a doctors private home/hospital with patients, business partners, borders, family members and so forth.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
For anyone interested, available for free online there are many small blurbs and articles pertaining to Eva and Philip Casey found in the old Bonners Ferry area newspaper called "The Kootenai Herald". They range from one sentence blurbs to some fun longer articles. They cover things such as social gatherings, Philip's mining interests, even the towns men teasing and speculating over Philip's impending nuptials. You can view them by googling: Chronicling America, Idaho, Phil Casey. There are too many to reference here.
