Cassell Satterwhite

     Cassell Satterwhite was born in Washington D.C. on the 1st of March 1893 to Alexander Lee Satterwhite and Jenny L. Young Satterwhite.  The Satterwhites' hailed from North Carolina.  In Washington D.C., Alexander Satterwhite, a business entrepeneur, owned both a pool hall and a penny savings bank  (The Penny and Nickel Savings Bank) on 16th Street. Cassell's mother, Jenny Satterwhite, died in 1897, and his father then married Adelaide Brooks Revelles.  He became a widower for a second time in 1938.  Cassell had two siblings; a sister named Cavassa, a teacher and graduate of Howard University, who died in 1922 when only 31 years old, and a brother, Eugene.

In 1918, while living in Philadelphia, Cassell enlisted and served with the Medical Detachment of the 802nd Pioneer Infantry Regiment, and was shipped to France for a year near the end of WWI.  The 802nd, nicknamed the "Bear Cats" was an all African-American regiment and saw 39 days of action in France.  

By 1920, Cassell was working as a clerk at the family bank.  He married Bertha Herndon and they had one child, a daughter, named Eva, born in 1921. Tragically, Bertha died in 1933 and daughter, Eva, in 1941.

  In 1942, 0n his WWII Draft Registration Card, Cassell is described as being 5 feet 5 inches tall with a dark complexion, black hair and brown eyes.  He is unemployed at that time having previously worked as an elevator operator and porter.

Cassell died at the Long Island College Hospital on 6th of March 1985 and was buried on Hart Island on the 15th of May 1985.

  Rest in Peace! 

Source Information:
Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002.

Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.

Ancestry.com. U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.

Ancestry.com. U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.

World War I Veterans Service and Compensation File, 1934–1948. RG 19, Series 19.91. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg Pennsylvania.

Ancestry.com. U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.

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