History of Trigg County, Historical and Biographical, ed. W.H. Perrin,
F.A. Battey Pub. Co., Chicago, 1884. pp. 180-81.    [Cadiz Precinct]

JOHN H. CALDWELL was born August 22, 1842, in Trigg County, and is a son
of John H. and Martha W. (Barkasdale) Caldwell; the former was born June 6,
1817, in Halifax County, Va.; he died December 27, 1848; they were married
May 16, 1838, and emigrated to Trigg County in 1841; the latter was born
June 11, 1821, also in Halifax County, Va.  She died July 18, 1846.  The
subject of this sketch is the eldest of a family of three.  After the
death of their parents, they were reared by their guardian, Capt. C. W.
Roach.  John's early education was received at Cadiz, Q. M. Tyler and James
Rumsey being his teachers, after which he attended the Bethel College three
years.  After five months' study at the Cumberland University, Lebanon,
Tenn., he returned to the Bethel College, Russellville, there graduated in
the class of 1861; he then entered the Confederate Army, Company A, Ninth
Kentucky Infantry, commanded by Col. Thomas H. Hunt, of Louisville, and
served to the end of the war; he participated in the battle of Shiloh,
was under fire at Vicksburg, battles of Baton Rouge, Murfreesboro, Jackson
and all the battles from Dalton to Atlanta, and Jonesboro; after the battle
near Statesboro, S. C., on capitulated terms of surrender, they were
paroled at Washington, Ga., May 6, 1865, and were the last troops that
fired a gun east of the Chattahoochee, where they surrendered; he then
returned to Trigg County, where he has since been engaged in agricultural
pursuits, except two years as teach of the Wallonia Institute.  He was
married December 16, 1868, to Cornelia F. Boyd.  She was born June 21,
1848, in Trigg County; she died September 6, 1881, leaving a family of
four children--two sons and two daughters.  His brother Thomas B. was
killed at the battle of Pittsburg Landing, April 6, 1862; his brother Dr.
J. W. Caldwell served during the late war in Company A, Woodward's Cavalry,
after which he attended the University of Virginia, and graduated at the
Baltimore Medical College in 1866.  He then engaged in the practice of his
profession in Belleview, Christian County; after practicing several years
he went to Louisville for the purpose of having an operation performed,
from which he died November 4, 1873.

Caldwell Barkasdale Roach Tyler Rumsey Boyd
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Russellville-Logan-KY Christian-KY Louisville-Jefferson-KY Halifax-VA TN

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