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Brazoria “Oakie” Bennett Caldwell

Birth: 23 Feb 1864
Texas, USA
Death: 7 Dec 1926 (aged 62)
Mesquite, Dallas County, Texas, USA
Burial: Long Creek Cemetery

Sunnyvale, Dallas County, Texas, USA Add to Map
Memorial ID: 13025271 View Source

"Oakie" was a midwife and was something of the community nurse. She never became sick herself. She was so successful in bringing people through typhoid fever epidemics that even the doctor would come by to get her to help. She nursed many people through the 1918 flu epidemic. She also served at the first President of the Long Creek Cemetery Association.

Jeff and Oakie had four children; Sara Elizabeth, Robert Benjamin, William Carson and Rachel May Caldwell. In addition to these they took in at various times numerous children, who at one time for one reason or another were in need of care and mothering, a total of up to 25 in all
Children:
Sara Elizabeth Caldwell
Robert Benjamin Caldwell
William Carson Caldwell
Rachel May Caldwell

Some of their 25 foster children:
Minnie Bennett
Maggie E Bennett
Evelyn Wilson
Essie Florence Jacobs
Rosa May Jacobs
Albert Lawrence Gray
Richard Edwin Gray
Walter Gray
Gerta Gray
Stella May Gray

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"Oakie" was a midwife and was something of the community nurse. She never became sick herself. She was so successful in bringing people through typhoid fever epidemics that even the doctor would come by to get her to help. She nursed many people through the 1918 flu epidemic. She also served at the first President of the Long Creek Cemetery Association.

Jeff and Oakie had four children; Sara Elizabeth, Robert Benjamin, William Carson and Rachel May Caldwell. In addition to these they took in at various times numerous children, who at one time for one reason or another were in need of care and mothering, a total of up to 25 in all
Children:
Sara Elizabeth Caldwell
Robert Benjamin Caldwell
William Carson Caldwell
Rachel May Caldwell

Some of their 25 foster children:
Minnie Bennett
Maggie E Bennett
Evelyn Wilson
Essie Florence Jacobs
Rosa May Jacobs
Albert Lawrence Gray
Richard Edwin Gray
Walter Gray
Gerta Gray
Stella May Gray

If you can add to this list please email [email protected]

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Maintained by: Looking for Ancestors
Originally Created by: Robert Bennett
Added: Jan 14, 2006
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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13025271/brazoria-caldwell: accessed ), memorial page for Brazoria “Oakie” Bennett Caldwell (23 Feb 1864–7 Dec 1926), Find a Grave Memorial ID 13025271, citing Long Creek Cemetery, Sunnyvale, Dallas County, Texas, USA; Maintained by Looking for Ancestors (contributor 48293618).

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