CALDWELL:

The Harper District farm which had most distinction for a decade next following the Civil War, was that of Joseph F. Caldwell, situated between the mouth of Trace Fork and Big Creek, containing 359 1/2 acres; a great acreage of this was cleared of its heavy timber and brought into a high state of cultivation; about the year 1880 it bad made its owner, Joseph F. Caldwell, spoken of as one of the county's wealthy men; this farm was long known as the "Caldwell Place," and by recitals in a Deed of Release, by Andrew Board of Greenbrier County, West Virginia, "To Joseph F. Caldwell and his mother Matilda, and three sisters: Janett, Caroline and Frances," dated 1867, we are informed that about the year 1844, William Hanford CaldweH, whose wife was Matilda Crawford Caldwell, died in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, and bad apportioned his real estate among his children, placing this 3591/2 acres on Poca ~en Kanawba County, in the care of Andrew Board, Trustee, "until all said children should become twenty-one years of age," about the year Joseph F. Caidwell reached the age of twenty-one, the above mentioned Release of this patrimony was made and all the beneficiaries arrived here; Janett soon married Daniel Stover Looney; Caroline married W. Parrott Ferrell and Frances married, first Z. C. Ellis and on his decease she married James Hammond; this we get from a chancery suit in v;hich Joseph F. Caidwell becomes the owner of Frances' share of the old Caidwell "place."

The children of Joseph F. Caldwell and Rosanna (daughter of Robert Claek) Caidwell, his wife, whom we can name here are William R., Clinton H., Joseph E., Perry W., and Dr. Mark Caidwell; the names of the daughters are Annie, who married Irven F. Conley; Matilda, who married Dr. D. William Shirkey, and Martha who became the wife of John Hively.


Source: History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927 William H. Bishop, Esq. p 466-467
Submitter: Sandy Spradling, November 28, 1999