Although this doesn't belong to my Cadell family, I thought someone might
find it interesting. I'll be posting more as I find it. Good hunting to
all!
Nanci Presley-Holley
http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=bluebonnets
CADDELL, ANDREW (1795-1869). Andrew Caddell, soldier at San Jacinto and
Nacogdoches county official, was born on October 21, 1795, in Person
County,
North Carolina, the son of John Calvin and Mary (Jay) Caddell. He married
Rhoda Doty in 1818 in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama; they had eleven children.
The family moved to the Sabine District of Texas in April 1834. Caddell
received a grant of a league and a labor of land now in San Augustine and
Young counties from the San Augustine board of land commissioners in 1834.
He was a member of Capt. William Kimbro'sqv company at the battle of San
Jacinto.qv He received a commission as captain and later commanded a
company
of volunteers from San Augustine County. He served in the army from March
15
to June 15, 1836. Shortly after the Texas Revolutionqv he moved to
Nacogdoches County, where he was tax assessor and collector from 1846 to
1854. He moved to a farm near Belton in 1867. He died in Bell County on
October 15, 1869, and was buried there. One of his sons, John C. Caddell,
was the first county clerk of Bell County. Another son, William Jay
Caddell,
also fought in the Texas army.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Bell County Historical Commission, Story of Bell County,
Texas
(2 vols., Austin: Eakin Press, 1988).
Helen Gomer Schluter
Nanci Presley-Holley
http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=bluebonnets