About the year 1750 a male child was born to a young German couple while they were crossing the Atlantic Ocean on an immigrant ship bound for America.
He married Miss Elizabeth White of Berkeley County, [now] West Virginia.
Casper Mansker died from natural causes in 1820 at his home in Sumner County, Tennessee. He and Elizabeth were both buried at the Mansker family Cemetery at Mansker Station 2.
The burials at the Mansker family cemetery were removed to Ivey Park.
According to Jenny, a mulatto woman who had formerly been a slave property of the Manskers, Elizabeth White's parents were so against her marriage, she and Kasper eloped and settled at the head of the Holston River. Jenny said that it was from this place that Mansker began his long hunts into the western country.
Casper Mansker had at least one brother, George, who joined him in the Cumberland settlements sometime prior to 1783. George received a grant of 640 acres from North Carolina dated April 17, 1786, and located it on Station Camp7 We do not know whether George was older or younger than Kasper but from a reading of Kasper's will, it appears that George died first.
Casper Mansker's will provided for his wife, Elizabeth, and for grants to his nephews, William and George, and his nephew George's children, Mary Miller, Lewis Mansker, and John Mansker. The nephews were the "sons of brother George."
So much is written about Casper Mansker that I can not do it service here.
Casper is thought to be the first white man to kill an Indian in Middle Tennessee.
He knew Andrew Jackson, Daniel Boone, James Harrod (Kentucky), William Blount, The Donalson family, The Crockets, and many other notables in the early history of the western expansion of America.
{Contributor: John Andrew Meyer}
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Some documents show Casper's spelling as "Kasper."
At the age of 62, Mansker volunteered to serve in the War of 1812. In 1814, following the Battle of New Orleans, he returned to his home in Sumner County where he remained until his death at the age of 75. While the plaques associated with this grave spell his first name as "Casper" and list his death in 1820, several historical references spell it as "Kasper" and list his death year as 1821.∼Goodlettsville's first citizen,he erected a fort on Manskers Creek in 1780 and called it Manskers Station.His grave is in front of the Demas Long Community Center next to City Hall in Goodlettsville.
About the year 1750 a male child was born to a young German couple while they were crossing the Atlantic Ocean on an immigrant ship bound for America.
He married Miss Elizabeth White of Berkeley County, [now] West Virginia.
Casper Mansker died from natural causes in 1820 at his home in Sumner County, Tennessee. He and Elizabeth were both buried at the Mansker family Cemetery at Mansker Station 2.
The burials at the Mansker family cemetery were removed to Ivey Park.
According to Jenny, a mulatto woman who had formerly been a slave property of the Manskers, Elizabeth White's parents were so against her marriage, she and Kasper eloped and settled at the head of the Holston River. Jenny said that it was from this place that Mansker began his long hunts into the western country.
Casper Mansker had at least one brother, George, who joined him in the Cumberland settlements sometime prior to 1783. George received a grant of 640 acres from North Carolina dated April 17, 1786, and located it on Station Camp7 We do not know whether George was older or younger than Kasper but from a reading of Kasper's will, it appears that George died first.
Casper Mansker's will provided for his wife, Elizabeth, and for grants to his nephews, William and George, and his nephew George's children, Mary Miller, Lewis Mansker, and John Mansker. The nephews were the "sons of brother George."
So much is written about Casper Mansker that I can not do it service here.
Casper is thought to be the first white man to kill an Indian in Middle Tennessee.
He knew Andrew Jackson, Daniel Boone, James Harrod (Kentucky), William Blount, The Donalson family, The Crockets, and many other notables in the early history of the western expansion of America.
{Contributor: John Andrew Meyer}
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Some documents show Casper's spelling as "Kasper."
At the age of 62, Mansker volunteered to serve in the War of 1812. In 1814, following the Battle of New Orleans, he returned to his home in Sumner County where he remained until his death at the age of 75. While the plaques associated with this grave spell his first name as "Casper" and list his death in 1820, several historical references spell it as "Kasper" and list his death year as 1821.∼Goodlettsville's first citizen,he erected a fort on Manskers Creek in 1780 and called it Manskers Station.His grave is in front of the Demas Long Community Center next to City Hall in Goodlettsville.
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Casper Mansker
1746 - 1820
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