For Randy: Just a friendly comment!
I wanted to comment of how many of us Caldwell's seemed too have
relatives who were placed into orphanages.
My dad (Roy Freeman Caldwell) & two sisters (Letha & Mildred) were placed
in an orphanage in Des Moines Iowa for about 3 years after their parents
couldn't care for them any longer.
The weird thing being that no one on my side of the family were ever
aware that my grandfather had any siblings at all until I was recently
contacted a few months ago by a distant cousin that claimed he had the
same great grandparents as I did according to the query I had posted on
my great grandparents.
The irony of all of this is that some of my dads first cousins were also
placed into orphanages kind of parallel too my dad & sisters.
Seems my grandfather (Samuel Jesse Caldwell) had the following siblings
(listed just below their parents)
Allen Albert Caldwell-Amanda Ellen Baird Caldwell
Brothers and Sisters
William Elmer Caldwell Born 3-28 1881
Dora Marie Caldwell Born 1883
Johnie Caldwell Born 1885
Leon Caldwell Born 1887
Samuel Jessie Caldwell Born 1889
Harry C Caldwell Born 3-13 1891
Sarah Jane Caldwell Born 3-15 1893 died
Gilbert Caldwell Born 1895 died 1909
Mable Ellen Caldwell Born 1897 died 1915
Thanks for helping keep this list so active!
Marvin Caldwell (a Des Moines Iowa connection)