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Note: The Scottish pronunciation for Caldwell sounds like Kuh' well and almost as one syllable so the name is often found in records as Colwell (a different Soundex number from Caldwell); my mother-in-law, Pansy Caldwell Smith (1907-1992), pronouced her maiden name this way until her death; I could never quite say it like she did.
1790-1820, most censuses lost for Tennessee and/or East TN
1810 March 1, Robert Caldwell md. Sarah Rhodes, Knox Co., TN. http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/tn/knox/vitals/marriages/knxmrc-c.txt
1810 March 1, ROBERT CALDWELL and SARAH RHODES were md. at the house of Jacob Bishop in Knox Co., TN, by Beriah Frazier, a Justice of the Peace. --Affidavit of Eunice RHODES, age 80, of Bull Run P.O., Knox Co., TN, no date (ca. 1876); Eunice was 14 years of age when she witnessed ROBERT and SARAH's marriage.
1814-1815, ROBERT CALDWELL served in the War of 1812 (Sept. 20, 1814 - May 1, 1815) as a Private in Captain Charles Conway's Company C, Major John Chiles' Battalion, Mounted Gunmen, East TN Mounted Infantry Volunteers. ROBERT, age 25, was described as 5' 10" with fair complexion, black hair, and gray eyes. ROBERT stated under oath, Dec. 1, 1851, "that he sold his discharge shortly after he left the servis of the United States." Alexander CALDWELL enlisted as a Private (promoted to Corporal) in the same Battalion, as did Benjamin, James, and William CALDWELL (Private / Private), Jesse GALLOWAY (Private / Corporal), and Arthur Y. and Michael LOONEY (Private / Private). --War of 1812 Muster Rolls, NARA Record Group 94, M602, roll 32 (Caldwell), roll 77 (Galloway), roll 128 (Looney).
We were told when we began this history in the 1970s that ROBERT acquired 360 acres in Greene Co., MO, in 1829, but ROBERT and his family were still in Knox Co., TN, in 1830. Available evidence suggests that ROBERT did not come to Missouri until the late 1830s, and he did not own land until the 1860s when he was taxed in 1865 for 200 acres in Webster County (Section 16, Twp. 30N, Range 19W). The exact date that he acquired this land is not yet known.
1830 Knox Co., TN, census, p.352, Eastern District of TN, Thomas C. Lyon: line 10, ROBERT CALDWELL, 1 M 40-50 (b. 1780-1790); 1 F 30-40 (b. 1790-1800); 1 M 20-30 (b. 1800-1810); 1 M 15-20 (b. 1810-1815); 1 F 10-15 (b. 1815-1820); 2 F under 5 (b. 1825-1830); 7 total. (Robert age 42; Sarah age 39; Absalom age 20; James age about 17; unknown girl; Mary age about 7; Margaret age about 2)
1833 Sept. 25, Final Settlement, ALEXANDER CALDWELL estate, Knox Co., TN: ROBERT CALDWELL ($82.50), Absalom CALDWELL ($82.50), George SMITH ($29.50), John CALDWELL ($73.25), Benjamin LOONEY ($82.50), Benjamin CALDWELL ($82.50), Alexander CALDWELL ($82.50), Benjamin LOONEY ($73.25), Jesse GALLAWAY ($73.25), William COPELAND ($55.23), and others. Note that two Benjamin LOONEYs received an heir's share.
1833, personal property tax, Greene Co., MO, John LOONEY and son Benjamin. No CALDWELLs listed. http://www.rootsweb.com/~ozarksgs/1833tax.htm John LOONEY was a grandson of Robert LOONEY and Margaret RHEA. Robert LOONEY was a brother of ROBERT CALDWELL's grandfather, Absalom LOONEY.
Photocopies of four incomplete portions of a letter signed by JAMES CALDWELL sent to us by Marvin Tong -- top half of one page, bottom half of two more pages (with the left edge of the top half of the first page with one of these), plus the address portion. Written in a different hand from the hand writing the letter: East Tennessee, Roan County, Kingston Post Office, ROBERT CALDWELL (Roane Co., TN, formed Nov. 6, 1801, from Knox Co.; county seat, Kingston; the only CALDWELL, any spelling / any year, in Roane Co. was Robert's brother, John CALDWELL, 1830 census, p.8, S. TN River): . . . as soon as can to me and let me know how you're doing. I will inform you [widers] family they are all well at present would are doing as well as [then] can ask and has got plenty of everything that is needed and would be glad to see you all. James [Miliken] has grown to be very stout young man and his common weight is from one hundred seventy and they have lots of stock horses and hogs and cattle and sheep and lots of wheat and corn and plenty of everything that is need for ______ a ______ here is the last cease of the letter and how to you . . .
Nicholas RHODES . . . was married on the 9th of September, 1849, in Greene County, Mo. . . . to Margaret CALDWELL, of Greene County, Mo. She came to this county with her parents in 1839. --History of Webster Co. (1889), 876-77.
1840 Feb. 5, Greene Co., MO, Mary COLEWELL [dau. of ROBERT CALDWELL] md. Thomas MALONE, by Thomas Potter ECC, p.67, cert. #235. This record confirms that ROBERT was in Missouri by 1839.
1840 Greene Co., MO, census, p.297, no Twp. listed: #30, ROBERT CALDWELL, 1 M 50-60 (b. ca. 1780-1789); 1 F 40-50 (b. ca. 1790-1799); 1 M 20-30 (b. ca. 1810-1819); 2 F 10-15 (b. ca. 1825-1829). (Robert age 52; Sarah age 49; Absalom age 30; Margaret age about 12; 2nd F 10-15 unknown because dau. Mary md. Thomas MALONE, Feb. 5, 1840, and they were in Shelby Co., IL, with Mary's brother James.) These three 1840 records are the earliest evidence we have located that document when ROBERT CALDWELL came to Greene Co., MO.
1840 August 1, record of stray cows taken up by Benjamin Harper living in Jackson Twp., Greene Co., MO; appraised by Stewart Warren and ROBERT CALDWELL. --Stray Records, Book 1 (1833-1842), p.192. ROBERT CALDWELL also listed in Book 2 (1842-1847), p.26; Book 4 (1851-1853), p.86. Index to Greene County Stray Records 1833-1913. These are records of stray livestock. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, Missouri statutes provided specific guidelines for individuals finding and harboring lost cattle, horses, mules and other livestock. Before a person could take possession of the stray, he was required to post a notice of intent for at least thirty days and pay a bond to ensure that the animal would not be disposed of in that time. After notices had been posted in public places for thirty days, the finder was required to file a notice with a justice of the peace, who determined if the proper procedure was followed and collected a bond equal to the appraised value of the animal. After one year, if the animal remained unclaimed, half of the bond was returned to the finder. The justice of the peace submitted lists which were provided to the county clerk, who posted the information in the stray books. http://198.209.8.166/sheproom/Records/strtoc.htm
1843 Greene Co., MO, tax list, ROBERT CALDWELL, 1 horse $35. (Springfield, MO: Ozarks Genealogical Society, 1988), p.94. (note that Robert owned no land)
1846, invitation "To the Mipis Caldwell / Present" Washington Anniversary. The pleasure of your company is respectfully solicited at a BALL, to be given at the Union Hotel, in the Town of Springfield, on the 23d Feb. 1846, at 4 O'Clock P. M. in commemoration of the Birth of the Father of Liberty. / Printed at the office of the Texas Democrat. --photocopy of original document, Caldwell family papers, courtesy Marvin E. Tong, Jr.
1849 April 7, Springfield Advertiser, Springfield, Missouri. A List of Letters. Remaining in the Post Office at Springfield, Mo., on the 31st of March, 1849, and if said letters are not taken out within three months from this date they will be sent to the Gen'l Post Office as dead letters. [lengthy list includes] CALDWELL ROBERT [in left column] Price T. G. -2 [in right column]. --Dorothy Ann McKinney Deck, comp., Miscellaneous Records from the Springfield Advertiser, Springfield, Missouri, January 2, 1847 - June 16, 1849 (Springfield, MO: Rachel Donelson Chapter, DAR), 1980-1981), 178, 180.
1849, November Term, Circuit Court, Greene Co., MO. ROBERT CALDWELL and SARAH CALDWELL were witnesses in a child abandonment case. The Grand Jury indictment stated that William J. Potter and Elias Potter did "feloniously wickedly willfully and maliciously expose and abandon a female infant of the age of one month. Said infant being then and there under the control and management of the said William J. Potter and Elias Potter in an enclosure of one Marcus Boyd. Said enclosure then & there being an exposed place with intent then and there feloniously willfully wickedly and maliciously wholly to abandon said infant by reason of which said exposure and abandonment said infant then and there died." --ROBERT CALDWELL, Aban'd Child case, CR Folder No. 220, Greene Co., MO, Criminal Index, Volume One; SARAH CALDWELL, Grand Jury, CR Folder No. 209, Greene Co., MO, Criminal Index, Volume One.
1850 Greene Co., MO, census, p.382B, Jackson Twp., Dec. 28, 1850, Wm. G. Roberts: 2032/2032, ROBERT CALDWELL, 66 M, farmer, TN; SARAH, 65 F, NC; Absolem L., 40 M, farmer, $500 real, NC; Mary MALONE, 27 F, NC; Sarah MALONE, 10 F, IL. (note that Absalom owned land, but ROBERT did not)
1850 Dec. 13, ROBERT CALDWELL, aged 65, a resident of Greene Co., MO, applied for bounty land for his War of 1812 service.
1851 Greene Co., MO, tax list, ROBERT CALDWELL, 1 horse $25; 3 cattle $18; 1 timepiece $4; money on notes $50. (Springfield, MO: Ozarks Genealogical Society, 1988), p.22. (note that Robert owned no land)
1852 Jan. 15, ROBERT's Patent 36,997 recorded in Vol. 60, p.19, but the location of this record and the location of the land is not known. (Another record dated Feb. 12, 1856, notes this patent for 40 acres, and also notes 120 acres, but gives no further details.)
1855, March Term, ROBERT CALDWELL served on a jury in a civil action between two men. Greene Co., MO, Circuit Court Cases, Book D, p.228. http://198.209.8.166/records/mar1855a.htm (Abstract of Circuit Court Record Books, 1853-1856, p.80)
1855, April 26, ROBERT CALDWELL, a resident of Greene Co., MO, aged 68, states "he obtained a Land Warrant No. 36997, for 40 acres, which he having legally transferred and disposed of, is not within his power now to return."
1860 Greene Co. and Webster Co., MO, censuses, ROBERT CALDWELL not yet found (wife SARAH enumerated with son Absalom in Greene Co.) (?) see 1860 Polk Co., MO, census, Robert CALDWELL, p.13, Marion Twp. (and 1850 census, p.32; 1870 census, p.149, Mooney Twp.)
1861, June 9 - Aug. 20, ROBERT CALDWELL served as Private in Co. F, Captain Bodenhamer's Infantry Company, Webster Co., MO, Home Guards Regiment, during the Civil War. ROBERT was paid $29.20 for 2 months service, April 10, 1867. Recorded Vol. 2, p.57. Webster County Home Guard Infantry Regiment organized July 1861; duty at Springfield, MO; mustered out Aug. 18, 1861. --Fredrick H. Dyer, Dyer's Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Cedar Rapids, IA: Torch Press, 1908; reprint Broadfoot Publishing, Morningside Press, 1994). http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mruddy/dyer.htm
1865 Webster Co., MO, tax list, p.25, ROBERT CALDWELL, 160 acres, E2 SW4, W2 SE4, tax value $800; 40 acres, SW4 NE4, tax value $200, all in Section 16, Twp. 30N, Range 19W, total 200 acres.
1866, ROBERT was attended in his last illness by A.H. Hampton M.D. who stated in a Sept. 22, 1876, affidavit that ROBERT "died of Senile Gangrene." *Senile gangrene (Med.), a form of gangrene occuring particularly in old people, and caused usually by insufficient blood supply due to degeneration of the walls of the smaller arteries. --Websters Revised Unabridged Dictionary 1913 http://www.bibliomania.com/Reference/Webster/data/1389.html
1866, May 16 and May 24, newspaper notices that ROBERT CALDWELL's estate had been entered into the probate court. --William Kearney Hall, Springfield, Greene County, Missouri, Newspaper Abstracts, 1865-1875, 1876-1883 (Springfield, MO: Ozarks Genealogical Society, 1987), 23.
1867-1868, Webster Co., MO, Circuit Court, ROBERT CALDWELL, deceased. Civil Action for Partition [of his land]. Plaintiffs SARAH CALDWELL, his widow; A.L. CALDWELL, a son; Margaret RHODES, a daughter, and wife of Nicholas RHODES; Mary MALONE, a deceased daughter, Sarah MALONE, her daughter. Defendants JAMES CALDWELL, a deceased son, his children, William Jefferson CALDWELL, a non-resident of Missouri; Eveline CALDWELL, a minor and a non-resident of Missouri; HENRY CALDWELL, a minor; James CALDWELL, a minor; Margaret UPSHAW, wife of John UPSHAW; Mary MALONE, a deceased daughter, Martha MALONE, her daughter, a minor. [ROBERT CALDWELL d. without a will in 1866; note that the plaintiffs in this suit were adults while the defendants were either minors or non-residents of MO.] --Webster Co., MO, Circuit Court Record 807(b), 1865-1870, Book # unknown (spine lost), pp.199 (Spring Term 1867), 249, 261, 348-49 (August Term 1867, 10th day, Sept. 5, 1867), 395 (Feby Term 1868, 7th day, March 2nd), 433, 448 (August Term 1868, 6th day, Aug. 29th), 449. 1868 Aug. 29th, 6th day, August Term. Partition, Report of Sale. "On the 25th day of August 1868, Margaret RHODES was the highest and best bidder, at the fair and sum of One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy-five Dollars [$1,875.00], which sum has been paid me [the Sheriff of Webster Co.] in U.S. Currency by the said Margaret RHODES" and a deed executed to her. After expenses of $166.20 were deducted, the heirs of ROBERT CALDWELL received $1,708.80 apportioned according to law -- Sarah CALDWELL, A.L. CALDWELL, and Margaret RHODES each receiving 1/5; the children of son James dividing 1/5; and the children of Mary MALONE dividing 1/5.
Robert and Sarah are buried in the family cemetery near Strafford, Greene Co., MO. Robert died at age 77y 11m 25d; Sarah died at age 86y 7m 23d.
This website has copied verbatim much of my information for Robert Caldwell, his siblings (except Absalom), and his parents, and has not given credit to my file from whence it came. Linda Rae Williams <rae@@grannyandpopacaldwell.com>, Granny and Popa Caldwell, Aug. 16, 2005 http://www.grannyandpopacaldwell.com/FamilyLooney.htm
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