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| Name | Lifespan | Where Born | |
| Cassa Eliza MIZE | 1849-1938 | Wayne County, OH | |
| Additional Notes | Migration Steps | ||
| Cassa Eliza (aka Cassey E. or Kate) Walter married John Hurst on November 10, 1868 in Wayne County Ohio. This is where they had their first three children; Eugene Douglas Hurst 1869, Ernest G. Hurst 1875, and Owen Hurst 1876, then they moved to Saunders County Nebraska and had three more children; Ruth Zella Hurst 1886, Lewis Walter Hurst 1888, and Oliver Paul Hurst 1891. Kate lived on the homestead in Saunders County Nebraska built by her husband John until his untimely death in 1892. John's Death information: John died unexpectedly at the age of 44, on June 8, 1892. (date of death disputed) The newspaper ^Coming New Era^ listed the cause of death as a cerebral Hemorrage^. Eugene's son Earl (John's grandson) was told that John was hewing a log and the ax struck a knot. He held on and it came around and struck him between the shoulders. In those days they used ^Blue Vitral^ for infection but the cut was too deep. Gangrene set in. John's brother Charles came from Wooster, OHIO on June 11, for the funeral. Funeral services were held at the residence of Amos Root on Saturday June 12, 1892, at 9 am. He was buried north of his daughter Ruth in Sunrise Cemetery, Wahoo, NB. Kate then married Daniel Ackerman in December 1893 but divorced him in 1898. She then picked up her two youngest sons (abt. 18 & 16) and moved to the Oklahoma Territory and homesteaded in Woodward County. Then in 1907 she married Charles J. Mize in Mutual, Woodward County, Oklahoma where she lived until her death in 1938. Grandma Mize as she was known in the later years of her life was a true ^pioneer woman^ who with her husband John Hurst built their first homestead in Nebraska, which she left to their eldest sons and she decided to continue her ^Manifest Destiny Migration^ when the Oklahoma territory was opened up for settlement. Kate is buried in the Mc Coy cemetery in Woodward County, Oklahoma which is located on a little dirt road that runs alongside the ^quarter section^ (abt. 160 acres) she homesteaded with her sons Lewis and Oliver. The cemetery is surrounded by wheat fields between her homestead and the one room schoolhouse that was built by the pioneering families that settled the area including the Riggs family and the Hurst family among others. God Rest her Soul (and please God may I have just half the gumption she did!) |
to Wahoo, Saunders County, NE in 1876-1888 to Lancaster County, NE in 1893-1898 to Mooreland, Woodward County, OK in 1898 -1904 | ||
| Researcher: Velda Saldana | |||
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