Maude Casad

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Casad-Mandell family papers 1850-2002 - New Mexico State University - Archives and Special Collections Center
Maud Casad was born on October 11, 1866 in Kansas City, Kansas, the third child of Thomas Casad and Sarah Wakefield Van Winkle. In 1874 the Casad family settled in the Mesilla Valley. Maud Casad married William Nicholas Mandell on February 26, 1890. They had seven children, six of which survived to adulthood: Bertha, Jessie, Lucile, Humboldt, John (died in infancy), Darwin and William. In 1903 Maud separated from William due to his alcoholism, raising her children by herself in Mesilla. After her children had grown she followed them to Canutillo, Texas, where she lived for the rest of her life. She became a Spiritualist and promoted hypnotism as a way to cure alcoholism and drug addiction through the Eliminators of Evil, a movement she founded and carried out by herself. She frequently wrote letters of advice to state and federal officials, and even ran for the U.S. House of Representatives as an independent candidate in 1922. She remained close to her family and was greatly admired by her children and grandchildren throughout her life. She died in 1961.

Maude married William Nicholas Mandell on 26 Feb 1890. (William Nicholas Mandell was born in Jul 1860 in Michigan.)