With a family of eight children, Pickins and Liza Jane Boggs Cason made the overland trip to Texas from South Carolina, in a covered wagon, traveling in all kinds of weather.  The five boys and three girls of the couple often assisted in pushing the wagon when it got in sticky black mud in East Texas during the trip, during which some of the family became ill.  The family settled on Staggs Prairie, north of Mineral Wells, in 1871.

Mrs. Cason and the daughters of the family picked cotton from the seed and spun the thread and wove it into cloth to make clothes as most pioneers did.  Mrs. Cason was blind the last few years of her life and she died in 1904 and was buried at Ballew Springs.  Her husband had preceded her in death eight years before.  They were Baptists.

The oldest daughter of the Casons was Emmer, who married Bob Garvin and they had seven children; Tom Cason married Mary Autrey and they had seven children; Julia Cason married Tom Masters and after his death she married Sam Garvin.  She had 6 children.  Alfred Cason married Vicie Blackwell and they had seven children, three of whom live in this county.  They are John, Maggie Cason Moss and Bertha Cason Shewmake.  A grandson, Elgie Cason, is living on the old home place north of Mineral Wells.  The fifth child of the Pickins Casons, Tempie, married High Hamric and they are the parents of 12 children and of these, Viola Hamric lives in Mineral Wells, Cora Mann lives in the Oran community and a large number of grandchildren, and great-grandchildren live in this county.

The sixth child of the settlers, Sarah Elizabeth Cason, married A. F. Autrey, whom she met while visiting her brother at Hillsboro in 1879.  They came to Staggs Prairie to settle and lived most of the time in this county.  They are Jimmie Autrey, Elnor Autrey Glover and Hattie Autrey Glover and they also have a good many descendants in this county, one of whom is Bessie Glover.  Some of the grandchildren as of the sixth generation to live in the county.  Mrs. Gentry underwent an operation for the removal of her eye, due to an infection, in 1905.  The operation was performed in her home and being unable to take ether, a sedative was administered and the operation continued.  She recovered and lived until 1938.

The seventh child, Margerite, married Dan Dyer and a daughter, Mrs. Notar Dyer Fallin, now lives in the Indian Creek community.  There were 4 other children, the eighth child, Buster, had no children.

There are a number of sets of twins in the family, and in many cases, brothers and sisters married into the same families.  The exact number of descendants of Pickins and Liza Jane Cason is unknown, but there are many.