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Author: KellyBerry1969
Surnames: Amos Caldwell
Classification: queries
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I don't know much about your grandfather, I do have a copy of a letter that was
written from a neighbor of his about him. My grandfather is Arthur Caldwell, son of Otis
Caldwell, another son of Amos' who died in 1909 in a sawmill accident. I know this
fact to be true because when my grandfather was about 10 his mother Laura died and his
stepfather sent him back to live with his grandparents, Amos and Laura Fuller Barnes
Caldwell, Amos' second wife. My grandfather and his sister Gracie lived with Amos and
Laura for several years until my Great-Grandmother's sister suposedly obtained a
lawyer and got my grandfather and Gracie back from him. How much of that is true is
unsure, I do know that my grandfather told me that he went to live with his grandfather
and he didn't want them so he was mean, and my Great Aunt Matilda only wanted Gracie,
but he did live with him until he started working in Orange Texas around 1930. Grandpa
said that he did go and visit his grandfather Am!
os on occasion, but he never really described him, if he did I was stupid and didn't
pay attention at that time. I have a picture, we are not sure if it is Amos when he was
young or if it is his son Otis.
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