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Surnames: Calmes, Cromwell, McKernon, Credit
Classification: Query
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Cheryl:
The mystery of CROMWELL ADAIR CALMES has been solved by virtue of his Kentucky Death
Certificate.
He was born 8 Oct 1885 in Union County, Kentucky, son of Newton Everett Calmes and Mary
Elizabeth McKernon who were married on 17 Apr 1884 in Union County. Source of marriage
date is "History of Union County, Kentucky," 1886, page 332. McKernon was born
January 1862 in Gallatin, Illinois, (same source), and her Illinois birthplace matches the
info on the 1920 Census entry you found on Cromwell Calmes.
Cromwell Adair Calmes, named for his father's mother (Matlida Eliza Cromwell), was a
farmer in Henshaw, Union County. He died there 25 April 1950 and was buried in the
Masonic Cemetery in Morganfield, Union County. Death was due to Bright's disease.
A very brief obit in The Union County Advocate (Morganfield), 27 April 1950, page four,
shows as survivors: "his wife, Callie (no further ID), a son, Robert; step-son J.D.
Credit of Henshaw, and one grandchild."
Unrelated but in response to your query, the son of A.G.S. and Matilda Eliza Cromwell
Calmes whom you identified as "Eugene Fulton" is shown as "Eugene Fullerton
Calmes" in a bio sketch of his father on pages 274-275 of the Union County History
cited above.
Further parenthetically, the bio sketch on Newton Everett Calmes says he and his siblings
"make a good band. Everett plays first violin, Hortense the organ, Eugene plays the
violincello and Snowden manages the three quarter bass viol."
Only other info I have on Eugene is that he was born 18 May 1865 and died 12 Nov 1889. He
worked on his father's farm.
Cheers and best wishes, Jerry Dalton