Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 4th ed., 1887, Boyle County. REV. ROBERT HENDERSON CALDWELL was born May 17, 1825, at the head spring of Salt River, Boyle County, where he has always resided. He was educated at and is one of the alumni of Center College, Danville. In 1846 he was licensed as a probationer by the Kentucky Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, at Sugar Ridge, Scott County, and in 1848 was ordained to the whole work of the ministry, since which time he has been actively engaged in his sacred calling. Besides other arduous labors, he has been pastor of the Caldwell Church in Boyle County over thirty years; Walnut Flat, Lincoln County, twenty-eight years; Hebron, Anderson County (in all) twenty; he also served Bethel and Perryville five years at first. From 1867 until 1872 he conducted the Thornhill Boarding School at his residence and he has acted as county superintendent of public schools of Boyle County for over twenty years. He has been twice married: first, on March 30, 1847, to Miss Rachel A., daughter of James and Sally (Givens) Harberson, of Boyle County. She was born in 1823, and departed this life in August, 1847. In December, 1849, he married Miss Lucy E., daughter of Abraham and Amelia T. (Moss) Irvine, of Boyle County, born October 1, 1828, and their union has been favored by the birth of Abraham I., Phebe J. (Starkey), James L., Amelia C., (Starkey), Ella, Logan W., Joseph W., Gabriel L., Robert T., Charles G., Maggie and Bessie. Mr. Caldwell has taken the council degrees in Masonry; is an Odd Fellow and a Good Templar; was a Union man during the late war, and in politics is independent. Caldwell Givens Harberson Moss Irvine Starkey = Scott-KY Lincoln-KY Anderson-KY http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/boyle/caldwell.rh2.txt