Descendants of Andrew Caldwell

Descendants of Andrew Caldwell

Generation No. 1

1. OF KENT COUNTY, DELAWARE ANDREW² CALDWELL (JOHN¹) was born 1675 in Scotland or Ireland, and died March 1750/51 in Kent County, Delaware. He married MARGARET TRAIN 1699 in Somerset Co., MD, daughter of JAMES TRAIN. She was born Abt. 1676 in Scotland.

Notes for OF KENT COUNTY, DELAWARE ANDREW CALDWELL:

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In 1715 Andrew sold his land in Somerset County, amounting to 450 acres or more, and moved to Kent County, DE. In 1717 he sold his property there called Point Patience. Eventually he acquired over 6000 acres in Kent County, mostly in Murderkill Hundred, in the present-day Woodside and Bowers' Beach area. Andrew was a carpenter and a member of the Society of Friends (Quakers).

Children of ANDREW CALDWELL and MARGARET TRAIN are:

i. AGNES ANN³ CALDWELL, m. JOSEPH SKIDMORE?.

ii. TRAIN CALDWELL, b. 1700; d. 1767; m. SR. ROBERT HODGSON.

iii. ELIZABETH CALDWELL, b. 1701; m. JOHN GORDON; b. Abt. 1690; d. Abt. 1742.

iv. JR. ANDREW CALDWELL, b. 1703; d. 1774; m. MARY SIPPLE.

v. JAMES CALDWELL, b. Abt. 1705; d. Abt. 1742.

vi. MAGDALENA CALDWELL, b. Abt. 1707; d. Abt. 1770; m. JOSEPH KENT.

vii. WILLIAM CALDWELL, b. Abt. 1709; d. Abt. 1736.

2. viii. I JOSEPH CALDWELL, b. Abt. 1711, Somerset County, Maryland.

Generation No. 2

2. I JOSEPH³ CALDWELL (ANDREW², JOHN¹) was born Abt. 1711 in Somerset County, Maryland. He married MARY JENKINS, daughter of JABEZ JENKINS and ELIZABETH. She was born January 16, 1709/10.

Notes for I JOSEPH CALDWELL:

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Joseph received 460 acres in Kent County from his father on 2 March 1739. Two of his sons were captains in the American Revolution: Joseph and Jonathan. Jonathan led a company called the "Blue Hen's Chickens" (because of their diversion of gamecock fighting), a name later aplied to all Delaware Revolutionary soldiers. A Captain Jonathan Caldwell chapter of the DAR was formed at Milford, DE, in 1949. Joseph, Sr. died without a will. His wife was granted administration of his estate on March 10 of that year.

Children of JOSEPH CALDWELL and MARY JENKINS are:

i. JONATHAN⁴ CALDWELL, d. 1781; m. MARGARET LEWIS.

Notes for JONATHAN CALDWELL:

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The three patriotic brothers - Jonathan, Joseph, and James Caldwell - were descendants of John Caldwell, of the French ancestry before mentioned and son of Sir David Caldwell, of the north of Ireland.

Captain Jonathan Caldwell, commanding the Blue Hens Chickens, was the great-granduncle of Dr. John Jabez Caldwell of Baltimore.

When the Revolution broke out, the first - or, at any rate, the second - company of militia formed in Delaware to uphold the Continental cause vi et armis was organized in Kent county by a bluff and jovial gentleman named Jonathan Caldwell. He became its captain. Captain Caldwell was a noted devotee of the gentle art of cock-fighting, and his fame as a breeder and owner of game cocks had spread all over the Delaware and Maryland peninsulas, and no main in the 11 counties was complete without his presence.

It was natural, therefore, that when his company first paraded on Dover green there should appear among the impediments a wagon loaded with coops of game cocks of the Caldwell strain, crowing vigorously. His company was then titled "Blue Hen's Chickens," and marched to the North with the Delaware regiment under Colonel Haslet.

At the battle of Long Island, Haslet's men were brigaded with Smallwood's Maryland regiment and four Pennsylvania regiments, under Brigadier General William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, and with Haslet and Smallwood sitting on a court-martial against their will, "Brave Mordecai Gist, with his sword in his fist," and Thomas McDonough held the British while the army escaped - both the Maryland "macaroni" and the Delaware "game cocks" going through the fight under their majors and cutting their way out with fearful loss. Long Island fully established for all time the fame of the "Blue Hen's Chickens" as game fighters and of Caldwell's company as typical Delaware soldiers.

The doughty Captain relieved the tedium of camp life with cocking mains, and his progeny of the blue hen pervaded Washington's army with shrill clarion calls of challenge and victory. At White Plains, Heslet's regiment again distinguished itself, and at Princeton it was completely decimated, its gallant colonel falling on that field.

It was succeeded in the army by the equally brave Delaware regiment of foot raised by Colonel David Hall, which went through the Southern campaign side by side with the Maryland Line, and with the latter shared the laurels of Camden, Guilford, Eutaw, Ninety-six and Yorktown. From losses in battle the "Blue Hen's Chickens" were finally reduced to a single company, under the command of the senior captain, Robert Kirkwood, and Greene's reports of the Southern campaign give honorable mention, in every engagement, to "Kirkwood's Delawares."

At the Cowpens, Captain Kirkwood repulsed Tarleton's cavalry, and made with the Marylanders the famous bayonet charge ordered by Colonel John Eager Howard. Captain Kirkwood, the great grandfather of the late Robert Kirkwood Martin, constructor of the Gunpowder water-works which supply the city of Baltimore, and grandfather of the late General R. H. K. Whitely, U.S.A., of Baltimore, was killed at St. Clair's defeat, a captain in the regular army, after having passed through 32 battles during the Revolution without a disabling wound.

CAPTAIN JONATHAN CALDWELL

This farm, formerly known as Burberrys Berry, was home of Captain Jonathan Caldwell of Colonel Haslets Regiment in Revolution. Tradition says Delaware solders received name "Blue Hens Chickens" from Caldwells men having with them game chickens, celebrated in Kent for their famous fighting qualities, the brood of a certain blue hen.

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ii. TIMOTHY CALDWELL.

iii. MARGARET CALDWELL, m. HENRY.

iv. ESTHER CALDWELL.

3. v. II OF KENT COUNTY, DELAWA JOSEPH CALDWELL, b. 1732; d. November 29, 1797.

Generation No. 3

3. II OF KENT COUNTY, DELAWA JOSEPH⁴ CALDWELL (JOSEPH³, ANDREW², JOHN¹) was born 1732, and died November 29, 1797. He married JOHANNA SIPPLE, daughter of JOHN SIPPLE and PRUDENCE GARRETT. She was born Abt. 1738, and died January 29, 1798.

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DEATH: aged. 64 years

Capt. Joseph Caldwell, a brother of Capt. Jonathan Caldwell, was of Colonel Patterson's regiment of the Flying Camp. He was a brave and gallant officer, and still another brother was the celebrated Rev. James Caldwell, of Springfield, N.J., whom Bret Harte has immortalized in the poem that preceded this sketch. Aside from that incident and the tragic event that led up to it little is known to the general public of this heroic Christian patriot who enjoyed the high esteem of ___, the enthusiastic devotion of the soldiers of the New Jersey brigade whose chaplain he was and who called him the "Soldier Parson," and the unbounded love of his congregation - that of the Presbyterian Church of Elizabethtown, N.J.

About 1756 Joseph II was a lieutenant in the Kent County militia under Brigadier General Rodney and the 2nd Battalion of Colonel Rhodes. He also served in the Revolution as a captain in Colonel Samuel Patterson's Delaware Battalion of the Flying Camp. He was probably the Joseph Caldwell, called the nephew of Andrew Caldwell, Jr., who was elected to the Delaware Assembly in 1757.

Notes for JOHANNA SIPPLE:

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DEATH: aged 60 years

Children of JOSEPH CALDWELL and JOHANNA SIPPLE are:

i. JONATHAN⁵ CALDWELL.

ii. JAMES CALDWELL, d. February 21, 1790.

iii. CALDWELL, m. J. C. WAYNE.

iv. JOHN CALDWELL, b. 1765; d. March 01, 1836.

v. TIMOTHY CALDWELL, b. 1766; d. December 13, 1831.

4. vi. OF BOLLINGBROOKE, TALBOT JABEZ CALDWELL, b. January 30, 1771; d. August 01, 1831.

Generation No. 4

4. OF BOLLINGBROOKE, TALBOT JABEZ⁵ CALDWELL (JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, ANDREW², JOHN¹) was born January 30, 1771, and died August 01, 1831. He married (1) ELIZABETH HARDCASTLE 1790 in Talbot County, MD. He married (2) SARAH HARDCASTLE December 25, 1799 in Caroline County, MD, daughter of OF TALBOT COUNTY, MD G. HARDCASTLE.

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In 1790 he married Elizabeth Hardcastle, daughter of Dr. G. Hardcastle of Talbot County, MD. She apparently died as on 25 December 1799 Jabez married Mrs. Sarah Hardcastle in Caroline County, MD. They lived in Bollingbrooke, south of Easton in Talbot County where he was a farmer. He was second lieutenant in the Delaware 11th Infantry from 3 March 1799 to 15 June 1800. In the War of 1812 he served as a major in the 4th Regiment of the Maryland Militia. A member of the Federalist party, Jabez was elected to the Maryland Assembly in 1812, and held "other positions of honor and trust with Edward Lloyd, Charles Goldsborough and others equally distinguished." He died in 1838 while visiting Oak Hill, the son of his son John in Newcastle County, Delaware.

Children of JABEZ CALDWELL and SARAH HARDCASTLE are:

5. i. CAROLINE⁶ CALDWELL, b. October 29, 1800.

ii. JOSEPH CALDWELL, b. October 17, 1802; d. May 04, 1836.

Notes for JOSEPH CALDWELL:

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DEATH: Joseph died when he was 34 years old.

The children of Jabez and Elizabeth (Sarah) (Hardcastle) Caldwell inherited the paternal estate in Talbot county and their uncle, Gen. John Caldwell's estates in Delaware. The beautiful property "Oak Hill" in New Castle county, was "bequeathed to John Sippel Caldwell.

iii. JAMES CALDWELL, b. July 27, 1805; d. November 05, 1840.

Notes for JAMES CALDWELL:

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James died at about age 30.

iv. SOLOMAN CALDWELL, b. December 01, 1808; d. March 31, 1888.

Notes for SOLOMAN CALDWELL:

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Soloman Caldwell, through his energy, established the cloth deparmtent of A.T. Stewart, the merchant prince of New York city. He still lives (in 1905) at his country residence, Greenwood Lake, Orange county, N.Y.

More About SOLOMAN CALDWELL:

Burial: Trinity Cemetery

6. v. JOHN SIPPLE CALDWELL, b. February 05, 1811, Talbot County, MD; d. March 14, 1878, Brooklyn, New York.

7. vi. ELIZABETH CALDWELL, b. May 15, 1813; d. August 30, 1862.

Generation No. 5

5. CAROLINE⁶ CALDWELL (JABEZ⁵, JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, ANDREW², JOHN¹) was born October 29, 1800. She married OF BOLLINGBROOKE, TALBOT CHARLES GOLDSBOROUGH.

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Child of CAROLINE CALDWELL and CHARLES GOLDSBOROUGH is:

i. JOHN CALDWELL⁷ GOLDSBOROUGH.

Notes for JOHN CALDWELL GOLDSBOROUGH:

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In 1905 residing near the Relay House, Baltimore county, MD.

6. JOHN SIPPLE⁶ CALDWELL (JABEZ⁵, JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, ANDREW², JOHN¹) was born February 05, 1811 in Talbot County, MD, and died March 14, 1878 in Brooklyn, New York. He married REBECCA BAKER June 10, 1835 in West Chester, Pennsylvania, daughter of RICHARD BAKER and REBECCA WEBB. She was born December 27, 1809 in Pocopson, PA, and died November 29, 1886.

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Information provided by Judy Shenk:

The Caldwells moved to NY from PA around 1860. Rebecca married Richard Urann (R.U.) Clark in Mount Vernon NY in 1862. They lived in Brooklyn, where her parents, John S. and Rebecca, died. I'll have to dig out the dates of their death.

R.U. worked at 69 Wall Street, in stocks or insurance. They moved to Summit, NJ around 1870. There were 9 children, Mary Imogene, Richard U. Jr. (Judy Shenk’s grandfather), Rebecca, Irving, LeGrand, Virginia, Alfred, Gertrude, and Robert. There is still a Caldwell Avenue and Clark Street in Summit. R.U. worked in insurance in Summit but also ran the ticket office for the railroad. He was responsible for getting the first train stop in Summit. R. U. died in 1905.

John J. was married to Anna R. Love in Baltimore. There were two sons, Edgar 1878 and Ridgely b, 1865. They lived in Summit by 1910, down the street from Rebecca, who died in 1911. I'm not sure when John died but between 1910 and 1920.

R.U and Rebecca's daughter, Virginia Caldwell Clark, married Dr. John J. Caldwell's son, Edgar, who would have been her first cousin. Her name would actually have been Virginia Caldwell Clark Caldwell, but she just used Virginia Caldwell, apparently. Edgar was an electrician (back in the early 1900s). They had Virginia, Edgar and Calvert.

One of Rebecca's sisters, Alexis Dupont, died in her 20s in Summit.

Many of the Clarks and Caldwells are buried in St. James Cemetery in Milford, NJ.

John Sipple Caldwell, father of John Jabez Caldwell (scratched out in pencil by Aunt Liz Caldwell), in early life followed agricultural pursuits and in later years was actively engaged in real estate transactions in New York. In 1835 he married Rebecca Baker, youngest daughter of Richard and Rebecca Baker, of Chester county, Pa. , who were descendants of the Webbs, Harlans, Bakers, Marshalls, contemporary settlers with William Penn, and members with him of the Society of Friends.

DEATH: Col. John Sipple Caldwell died at the residence of his son Alexis in Brooklyn, March 14, 1878. He was a remarkably handsome man, of strong and fine character, a man of the strictest probity and of the highest morality.

According to a biographical sketch of his son John Jabez, "John Sipple Caldwell was in early life an agriculturist, but in later years was actively engaged in real estate transactions in New York... [He] was a man of remarkably fine physical appearance and superior character." He was also described as "a man of the strictest probity and of highest morality." He inherited form his uncle General John Caldwell, the property called Oak Hill in New Castle County, Delaware, where all of his children were born. In 1843 he was elected to the Farmer's Mutual Fire Insurance Company of the State of Delaware (in Mill Creek Hundred, New Castle County), and the same year, to the Agricultural Society of New Castle County. He was a landowner in Pocopson Township, Chester County, PA, in 1851. Sometimes addressed as "Colonel," he died on 14 March 1878 in Brooklyn, NY, his home for the past 14 years.

More About JOHN SIPPLE CALDWELL:

Burial: Trinity Cemetery in upper Manhattan, New York City

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Rebecca Baker was born a Quaker (Society of Friends) and became a Episcopalian. Both she and her husband were baptized in Saugerties, NY, in 1877, he "being ill," by the minister of the local Trinity Episcopal Church. In 1880 Rebecca was living in Saugerties with her daughter Leonora, and she died there on 29 November 1886. John and Rebecca are buried in the Trinity Cemetery in upper Manhattan, New York City.

More About REBECCA BAKER:

Burial: Trinity Cemetery in upper Manhattan, New York City

Marriage Notes for JOHN CALDWELL and REBECCA BAKER:

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In 1835 he married Rebecca Baker, youngest daughter of Richard and Rebecca Baker, of Chester county, Pa. , who were descendants of the Webbs, Harlans, Bakers, Marshalls, contemporary settlers with William Penn, and members with him of the Society of Friends.

The children of John Sipple and Rebecca (Baker) Caldwell were 12 in number, 4 sons and 8 daughters, all of whom are still living, and with the exception of the youngest son, Alexis Dupont Caldwell, are all married and comfortably established.

Children of JOHN CALDWELL and REBECCA BAKER are:

8. i. JOHN JABEZ⁷ CALDWELL, b. April 28, 1836, Oak Hill New Castle county, near Wilmington, Del..

ii. RICHARD BAKER CALDWELL, b. June 04, 1837, Oak Hill, New Castle Co., Delaware; d. 1888; m. ISABELLA R. CRANE, June 04, 1861, St. John's Church Ogdensburg; d. 1882.

Notes for ISABELLA R. CRANE:

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BIRTH: 4th daughter of Samuel & Eunice Crane

iii. CAROLINE GOLDSBOROUGH CALDWELL, b. January 13, 1839, Oak Hill, New Castle Co., Delaware; d. 1915; m. PETER TITUS OVERBAGH, December 16, 1858, Trinity Church Saugratis New York; b. 1832; d. 1871.

Notes for PETER TITUS OVERBAGH:

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Great-grandfather of Theodore S. Overbagh who sent me the descendancy for the Caldwells on 1/5/2002.

9. iv. IMOGENE REBECCA CALDWELL, b. February 09, 1840, Oak Hill, New Castle Co., Delaware; d. December 21, 1911.

v. JAMES CALDWELL, b. March 14, 1841, Oak Hill, New Castle Co., Delaware; m. LAURA LEMON, 1841.

vi. ELIZABETH D. CALDWELL, b. January 17, 1843, Oak Hill, New Castle Co., Delaware; m. CHARLES H. CORLISS, 1866.

vii. CATHERINE MAUD CALDWELL, b. January 17, 1844, Oak Hill, New Castle Co., Delaware; m. (1) JOSEPH T. WELLWOOD; m. (2) AUGUSTUS HULL.

viii. GERTRUDE A. CALDWELL, b. March 04, 1846, Hill Side Chester Co., Pennsylvania; m. (1) CHARLES C. BENNETT, 1866; m. (2) SAMUEL C. STEVENSON, 1878.

ix. ELLA CALDWELL, b. April 07, 1846, Chester ---- Delaware Co. of Penn.; m. CHARLES H. BENNER, 1870; b. 1846.

x. ALEXIS DUPONT CALDWELL, b. October 26, 1847, Chester Creek Delaware County Pennsylvania; d. 1887.

xi. VIRGINIA CALDWELL, b. January 19, 1850, Hill Side Chester Co., Pennsylvania; m. ALFRED G. ISAACSON, 1875.

xii. LEANORA DE LA ROCHE CALDWELL, b. March 26, 1852, Ge----- New Castle County, Delaware; d. 1931; m. MYNDERSE FRELIGH, 1875; d. 1921.

7. ELIZABETH⁶ CALDWELL (JABEZ⁵, JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, ANDREW², JOHN¹) was born May 15, 1813, and died August 30, 1862. She married HENRY GEORGE DAVIS, son of ISAAC DAVIS and MARY KILLEN. He was born Abt. 1797, and died May 19, 1863.

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DEATH: Elizabeth Caldwell Davis, daughter of Jabez and Sarah Caldwell, died August 30, 1862.

Children of ELIZABETH CALDWELL and HENRY DAVIS are:

i. FEMALE⁷ DAVIS.

ii. FEMALE DAVIS.

10. iii. HENRIETTA GEORGE DAVIS, b. Abt. 1848; d. Abt. 1923.

Generation No. 6

8. JOHN JABEZ⁷ CALDWELL (JOHN SIPPLE⁶, JABEZ⁵, JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, ANDREW², JOHN¹) was born April 28, 1836 in Oak Hill New Castle county, near Wilmington, Del.. He married ANNA RIDGELY LOVE June 06, 1862 in Baltimore, Maryland, daughter of R. LOVE and MARY WORTHINGTON.

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They lived in Summit, N.J. by 1910, down the street from Rebecca (Imogene Rebecca), who died in 1911.

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John Jabez Caldwell, son of John Sipple Caldwell (crossed out in pencil by my Aunt Liz Caldwell in the newspaper article), was born at Oak Hill New Castle county, near Wilmington, Del., April 28, 1836. His early education was received in the public schools of Wilmington and at the well-known boarding school of the late John Bullock, a member of the Society of Friends and one of the most successful educators of his day. In 1859-60 young Caldwell graduated with the highest honors at the New York Medical College and was a student in Bellevue Hospital during the years 1858, 1859 and 1860. After successfully following his profession in New York until the outbreak of the Civil War, he entered the United States Army as a surgeon and continued in the service until the conclusion of the war.

In a newspaper article there is a rebuttle by a Mrs. Fite that Dr. J. J. Caldwell's father was John Sipple Caldwell. She says "Dr. Caldwell's parents came to America in 1752. His father was a lieutenant in the royal service, but was wild and extravagant, sold his commission, married and came to America to start anew. My records show that John Caldwell landed with his party at New Castle, Del., the day George II was proclaimed King (1727), went thence to Chestnut Level, Pa., thence into Virginia, to Lunenburg, which at that period included the great southwestern section, from which was cut off many counties.

John Caldwell's wife was Margaret Phillips, who he had married in Ireland, Country Antrim. He died in October 1750. This couple had seven children, i.e., William, Thomas, David, John, Robert, James and Margaret.

William married Rebecca Walkrup in Ireland before coming over with his father and was the grandfather of John Caldwell Calhoun through his daughter Martha, who married Patrick Calhoun. Thomas married, but we do not know the lady's name and are now searching for it. If any of your readers can give me this information I will be greatly obliged. He had one son, Thomas 2d, who married an English lady, Philadelphia Ballard, of Virginia, in 1765, and their son, Ballard Caldwell, was my husband's great-grandfather. Thomas Caldwell 2d changed the spelling of his name to Coldwell, which he considered the proper rendering of the Scotch Cauldwell into English. He served in the Indian wars from Augusta county, Virginia, and after the Revolution he moved to Rogersville, Tenn., with his family. Ballard Coldwell, son of Thomas 2d and Philadelphia Ballard, was born in 1766 in Augusta county, Virginia (now Botetourt), and married in 1791 Sarah Evans, of Virginia, who was always referred to as "a beauty and an heiress." Her mother was Jane Campbell. The eldest son of this couple was John Campbell Caldwell, who fought with General Jackson in the Creek war and at the battle of New Orleans, and whose daughter Mary married Capt. Jacob Cross Fite, of General Hardee's staff, Confederate States Army, and was the mother of my husband, Dr. Campbell Caldwell Fite.

Any information of the Caldwells, Ballards, Evanses or Campbells will be very welcome, and I hope some of your correspondents will continue the subject.

E.M.S.F."

Children of JOHN CALDWELL and ANNA LOVE are:

i. RIDGELY⁸ CALDWELL, b. 1865.

11. ii. EDGAR CALHOUN CALDWELL, b. May 30, 1876, Baltimore City, MD; d. October 22, 1927.

9. IMOGENE REBECCA⁷ CALDWELL (JOHN SIPPLE⁶, JABEZ⁵, JOSEPH⁴, JOSEPH³, ANDREW², JOHN¹) was born February 09, 1840 in Oak Hill, New Castle Co., Delaware, and died December 21, 1911. She married RICHARD URANN CLARK June 23, 1860 in St. Paul's Church East Chester New York.

Notes for IMOGENE REBECCA CALDWELL:

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DEATH: She died when she was 71 years, 10 months and 12 days.

More About IMOGENE REBECCA CALDWELL:

Burial: St. Stephens in Millburn, N.J.

More About RICHARD URANN CLARK:

Burial: St. Stephens in Millburn, N.J.

Children of IMOGENE CALDWELL and RICHARD CLARK are:

12. i. MARY IMOGENE⁸ CLARK, b. 1861; d. 1908, Chatham, N.J..

13. ii. JR. RICHARD URANN CLARK, b. 1863, N.Y.; d. 1935, Newton, Massachusetts.

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