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Author: sylviad1
Surnames: Colwell/Caldwell
Classification: queries
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Abt 1859 Frank and his brothers, Marion and Samuel, left with a wagon train planning on
going to California to look for gold. Along the way, Samuel met a girl from another
train and left his brothers and went to WA and them settled in OR.
Frank and Marion must have turned back and moved to Michigan as that is where their father
Levi moved and I found land record showing Francis Caldwell from Tuscarawas co. bought
land. Then in 1863, Levi, Marion & Frances all enlist in the civil war. At some
point Frances takes a leave from the war and doesn't return. However, a family tale
has him in Cove, Union Co., OR sometime before 1873 with a wife, Florence and two
children "Sammy and Kitty". Brother Marion built them a house. I believe Frank
drowned Nov 1873 and his brother Samuel, who tried to save him, died a month later on
Christmas eve, from pneumonia. So, am looking for descendants of Kitty (Catharine after
her grandmother) and Sammy (Samuel)
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