Hello, Marcie,
I am sure that Kassebaum and Kasselhut are separate surnames in origin.
I checked the Internet and did not find very much.
I only found this, but there might be others.
http://www.chenowethsite.com/ch1j2da0.htm#j18541
There is a surname of KasselhAut also.
I did not notice these names in the Nebraska cemeteries I looked in, but it
is worth looking.
for many Oldenburger surnames,
the cemetery in Hooper and the Dodge County and Burt County, and Cuming
County areas are worth looking at. Probably mentioned here many times. They
say that Hooere was called "Little Oldenburg."
http://www.rootsweb.com/~neburt/olres/Oakland/jmex1897.htm
Not sure how many, but many, many of these names are from marriages among
descendants who married with those surnames listed here. Some seemed to
know each other before moving to Nebraska.
(It could even lead to an "Oldenburgers to Nebraska-L" ;o)
I just checked and found there is a publication on this topic:
http://feefhs.org/gra/gra-pub.html
April 1992 (Vol. 16, No. 2): $3.00
Current Living Conditions in Former German Silesia, now Poland; Westfalen
Emigrant Sources; Pomeranian Immigration Collection Donated to St. Louis
Institute; Oldenburgers to Nebraska; New Czechoslovak Society; 1920 U.S.
Federal Census<
Has anyone read this?
Good luck,
Amy Uehara