Rev. Yelles "Julius" Kasel Kastl Von Gerolshein, II

• Son of Reverend Yelles "Julius" Cassel, I
• Birth: before January 01, 1618 in Alzey-Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Married

• Maria Elisabeth Gerolsheim.

Children

• Johannes Cassell VON GEROLSHEIN b: 1639 in Kriegsheim, Palatinate, Pfalz, Germany
• Heinrich Cassell VON GEROLSHEIN b: 1641
• Hupert KASSEL b: 1641
• Yelles "Julius" KASSEL b: 1643

Rev. Yelles "Julius" Kasel Kastl Von Gerolshein, II Find A Grave Memorial

Yelles and family lived in hiding most of their lives moving from town to town. But Yelles's main residence was Kriesheim and Worms Germany which are about six miles apart. Yelles was a Mennonite minister, a poet of some note, and a farmer.

William Penn, who was latter to be known as the founder of Penn's woods, or Pennsylvania, came to speak in 1681 at a meeting in the city of Kassel at Frankford when he was only 37 years old. He then went to Kresheim for a meeting. That preaching was forbidden by the authorities so it had to be held in secret. Yelles Kassel (Cassel) and members of his family traveled from Worm, Germany, by wagon to attend the meeting. Penn spoke of the need for religious freedom. Yelles and other Kassels present, members of the newly emerging Mennonite church, were so impressed with Penn's ideas, that they invited Penn to their home. Penn told them about free land that was available in the new world. Two sons of Yelles Kassel (Julius Cassel , 1590-1681) were the first Cassels to come to America under the terms of a promise by William Penn. They were Johannes (John) Cassel (1639-1691), with his wife, Mary, and Arnold Cassel (1642-1687). They came on the ship Jeffries and it took seven months to make the journey. Shortly after Johannes arrived in Germantown, he learned that a large legacy was left his family, through the death of a relative, amounting to nearly one million dollars. It was necessary for them to return to Germany to claim the legacy. A church council was called to discuss the matter. It was decided unanimously to not receive the money as it would have a tendency to make them proud. Johannes signed the original charter of Germantown, Pennsylvania where he lived the rest of his life.

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Cassel (Kassel) Family

Cassel (also Kassel), a Mennonite family name prominent in early eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite history, particularly in the Franconia Conference area. J. C. Wenger in his History of the Mennonites of the Franconia Conference lists 26 Cassels and 7 Kassels. The name appears in the Palatine Mennonite census lists of 1664 under Kriegsheim and Gerolsheim. D. K. Cassel in his Genealogical History of the Cassel Family in America (Norristown, 1896) states that Johannes Cassel and family arrived in Philadelphia from Kriegsheim in 1686 and settled in Germantown. A Hendrick (Heinrich) Kassel is mentioned among the 52 members of the Germantown Mennonite Church in 1708. The Cassel immigrant, however, whose family became most prominent in eastern Mennonite areas was Hupert, who came to Philadelphia from Kriegsheim between 1715 and 1720. By 1725 he was living in the Skippack community where he was among the signers of a petition to have a township surveyed. His brother Julius Cassel (Yilles Kassel) came to America in 1727 and farmed at Skippack, where he also preached. Wenger gives brief biographies of five other Cassels who served in the Mennonite ministry of eastern Pennsylvania between 1708 and 1922. Among the prominent members of the Cassel family were the noted antiquary Abraham H. Cassel and the historian Daniel Kolb Cassel of Germantown, who was the author of three volumes of family history —the Kulp Family, the Cassel Family, and the Rittenhouse Family. His History of the Mennonites (Philadelphia, 1888) was the first book on the subject to be published in America.

Obituaries of Cassels appearing in Mennonite periodicals indicate a spread to Lancaster and Montgomery counties, Pennsylvania, and to Ontario.

Bibliography

Cassel, Daniel Kolb. A Genealogical History of the Cassel Family in America: Being the Descendants of Julius Kassel or Yelles Cassel, of Kriesheim, Baden, Germany : Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent Descendants, with Illustrations. Norristown, Pa: Morgan R. Wills, 1896: 98 ff. Available in full electronic text at [Cassel, Daniel Kolb. A Genealogical History of the Cassel Family in America: Being the Descendants of Julius Kassel or Yelles Cassel, of Kriesheim, Baden, Germany : Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent Descendants, with Illustrations. Norristown, Pa: Morgan R. Wills, 1896. Available in full electronic text at https://www.archive.org/details/genealogicalhist00cass

Sources

• BYU Family History Library, Provo, Utah. Microfiche #CS. G46x G1194
• Godfrey Memorial Library; Middletown, Connecticut; American Genealogical Biographical Index; Volume Number: 94. Volume 94, Page number 77, Reference Gen. Column of the " Boston Transcript". 1906-1941.( the Greatest Single Source of Material For Gen. Data For the N.e. Area and For the Period 1600-1800. Completely Indexed in the Index.): 26 Nov 1928, 7807.
• Gingerich, Melvin. "Cassel (Kassel) family." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1953. Web. 8 Mar 2025. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Cassel_(Kassel)_family&oldid=119450
• A genealogical history of the Cassel family in America : being the descendants of Julius Kassel or Yelles Cassel, of Kriesheim, Baden, Germany : containing biographical sketches of prominent descendants, with illustrations by Cassel, Daniel Kolb, b. 1820 - https://archive.org/details/genealogicalhist00cass/page/256/mode/1u...