From: Joy Zeller-Johnson <zeller(a)mcsi.net
Date:
Monday, February 28, 2000 2:45 PM
Subject: Caldwell
To fellow Caldwell hunters
To me I think there is a Samuel and a Joseph in every Caldwell family. I
keep
finding
them....but not mine. If Caldwell had been the first line I had
researched....I just may have found a new hobby. I'm sending my almost non
existent record on my Samuel and hope one of you have run across him:
Samuel Levi Caldwell
His father is said to also have been a Samuel Caldwell.....but in the old
family
photo album...there is an old picture....1850's of a great grandfather
Joseph....that doesn't fit into the other lines...so he may have been a
Caldwell. But I don't know what generation wrote the information....or
what
they really knew about this man.
I have so little information on Samuel Levi Caldwell, that if I weren't
here, I would not have believed him to have been a person...and what is
frustrating
I have nice pictures of Samuel and -GGrandmother Elizabeth
I have an approximate year of birth
1834
....and nothing but stories about where he was born...they range from
PA., WV, Oh, IN, IL, to Ireland and Scotland.
....marriage was
June 15, 1857 in McKeesport, Allegheny CO., PA
He married Elizabeth Anna Warren, both of her parents were from old
families of Westmoreland Co.
PA. John Warren and Isabella Guffey. The Guffey family was active in
salt, oil, gas, coal, and condensing wheat business.
I thought it possible that Samuel
came in to the area to work ...as around 1850-1860 was a boom time for
these types
of business.
After marriage he moved his family from PA towards IA in
1866-67, Then moved
to MO, and
>then to IL. I only know this because of the death records of his children.
>His occupation was that of a carpenter, building houses and
barns.
>I can find no record of the family on census or from land
records.
>His death record....is from half of a letter found in the
bottom of
>Grandmother's trunk....it was written by Elizabeth to her mother Isabella
>telling of Samuel's death....Dec 3, 1881...and that he was buried next to
>grandmother ....which would have had to be his mother.in a Methodist
>graveyard...have no idea which state.
>Elizabeth and Samuel's Children:
>1. John Warren Caldwell, 1859, McKeesport, Allegheny Co.,
PA
>2. Alfred Caldwell, 1860, McKeesport, Allegheny Co., PA
>3. Catherine Caldwell, 1861, McKeesport, Allegheny Co., PA
>4. Isabella Caldwell, 1863, McKeesport, Allegheny Co., PA
>5. James Ulysses Caldwell, 1865, Irwin, Westmoreland Co., or McKeesport
>Allegheny Co., PA
>6. Calvin Caldwell, 1867, Excelsior Twp., Dickinson Co., IA
>7. Anna Mary Caldwell, 1868, IA
>8. Minnie Viola Caldwell, 1891, Bevier, Macon Co. MO
>9. Nora Annette Caldwell, 1873, Summit, Macon Co., MO
>10.Samuel Caldwell, 1875..Bradford IL
>There was a Sarah Caldwell that
married Elizabeth's brother or cousin,
James Warren...she may or may
>not have been a sister to Samuel...she was born in Glasgow, Scotland.
>Elizabeth's brothers all fought in the Civil
War....Samuel was the right
age
and did not....it was always said that he was a Southerner that got
stuck
up
North....but this could just be a tale.....my information is mostly
hear-say!
My grandmother was about 7-8 when he died....so she didn't remember much
about him....other than his mother lived with the family and died before
her
>father.
>If you have any information on Samuel it would be so
appreciated....I am at
>a bit of a loss at were to go next.
>thank you, joy