The Raleigh Herald, Beckley, West Virginia
Tuesday, March 23, 1917, page 2
Ames, Okla., March 10 - ....In the year 1872 there was a small colony went from the region of Table Rock, Raleigh county. The small crowd consisted of two Scott boys, two Pecks, Perry Carper and Brother Paris. They went to McPherson county, Kas, and settled on government land.....
I... started for the east....When I got to Paint Creek I put on my high heeled boots and went stepping around among the fair sex, and to my surprise one girl said she would be my wife. That was the oldest girl of Wilson Sweeney's. On February 5, 1880, we were united in the holy bonds of matrimony, and on the first of March we went to our new home to grow up with the country....
Wife and I had four children born to us, three boys and one girl. One little boy and the girl died in infancy.
Wife had the diphtheria the fall before we were married and she never seemed to fairly get over it. Her health got to be very poor, in late years, and on account of her poor health sold out and went back to Virginia, but we did not like the rocks and hills...We did not remain in Raleigh but one and a half years. I took the Oklahoma fever, and nothing would do but move, and so we did. I bought a farm and went to work on it. The boys did the farming and I done the loafing. My wife had a paralytic stroke in her left arm and lost the use of it, and suffered severely. She had only lived four years in Oklahoma when she took the dropsy, her limbs were badly swollen and on the 20th of February she passed away. That left me and my two boys all alone.
The McPherson Daily Republican, McPherson, Kansas
Monday, February 23, 1903, page 1
Mrs William Caldwell died February 20, at her home in Ames, Oklahoma, aged forty-three years. The cause of her death was enlargement of the heart. She leaves a husband and two sons. The remains were brought to McPherson for burial. Funeral services were held at the Baptist church Sunday morning at eleven o'clock. Mr Caldwell, the bereaved husband, formerly lived in this county, near Moundridge.
Tuesday, March 23, 1917, page 2
Ames, Okla., March 10 - ....In the year 1872 there was a small colony went from the region of Table Rock, Raleigh county. The small crowd consisted of two Scott boys, two Pecks, Perry Carper and Brother Paris. They went to McPherson county, Kas, and settled on government land.....
I... started for the east....When I got to Paint Creek I put on my high heeled boots and went stepping around among the fair sex, and to my surprise one girl said she would be my wife. That was the oldest girl of Wilson Sweeney's. On February 5, 1880, we were united in the holy bonds of matrimony, and on the first of March we went to our new home to grow up with the country....
Wife and I had four children born to us, three boys and one girl. One little boy and the girl died in infancy.
Wife had the diphtheria the fall before we were married and she never seemed to fairly get over it. Her health got to be very poor, in late years, and on account of her poor health sold out and went back to Virginia, but we did not like the rocks and hills...We did not remain in Raleigh but one and a half years. I took the Oklahoma fever, and nothing would do but move, and so we did. I bought a farm and went to work on it. The boys did the farming and I done the loafing. My wife had a paralytic stroke in her left arm and lost the use of it, and suffered severely. She had only lived four years in Oklahoma when she took the dropsy, her limbs were badly swollen and on the 20th of February she passed away. That left me and my two boys all alone.
The McPherson Daily Republican, McPherson, Kansas
Monday, February 23, 1903, page 1
Mrs William Caldwell died February 20, at her home in Ames, Oklahoma, aged forty-three years. The cause of her death was enlargement of the heart. She leaves a husband and two sons. The remains were brought to McPherson for burial. Funeral services were held at the Baptist church Sunday morning at eleven o'clock. Mr Caldwell, the bereaved husband, formerly lived in this county, near Moundridge.
The Raleigh Herald, Beckley, West Virginia
Tuesday, March 23, 1917, page 2
Ames, Okla., March 10 - ....In the year 1872 there was a small colony went from the region of Table Rock, Raleigh county. The small crowd consisted of two Scott boys, two Pecks, Perry Carper and Brother Paris. They went to McPherson county, Kas, and settled on government land.....
I... started for the east....When I got to Paint Creek I put on my high heeled boots and went stepping around among the fair sex, and to my surprise one girl said she would be my wife. That was the oldest girl of Wilson Sweeney's. On February 5, 1880, we were united in the holy bonds of matrimony, and on the first of March we went to our new home to grow up with the country....
Wife and I had four children born to us, three boys and one girl. One little boy and the girl died in infancy.
Wife had the diphtheria the fall before we were married and she never seemed to fairly get over it. Her health got to be very poor, in late years, and on account of her poor health sold out and went back to Virginia, but we did not like the rocks and hills...We did not remain in Raleigh but one and a half years. I took the Oklahoma fever, and nothing would do but move, and so we did. I bought a farm and went to work on it. The boys did the farming and I done the loafing. My wife had a paralytic stroke in her left arm and lost the use of it, and suffered severely. She had only lived four years in Oklahoma when she took the dropsy, her limbs were badly swollen and on the 20th of February she passed away. That left me and my two boys all alone.
The McPherson Daily Republican, McPherson, Kansas
Monday, February 23, 1903, page 1
Mrs William Caldwell died February 20, at her home in Ames, Oklahoma, aged forty-three years. The cause of her death was enlargement of the heart. She leaves a husband and two sons. The remains were brought to McPherson for burial. Funeral services were held at the Baptist church Sunday morning at eleven o'clock. Mr Caldwell, the bereaved husband, formerly lived in this county, near Moundridge.
Tuesday, March 23, 1917, page 2
Ames, Okla., March 10 - ....In the year 1872 there was a small colony went from the region of Table Rock, Raleigh county. The small crowd consisted of two Scott boys, two Pecks, Perry Carper and Brother Paris. They went to McPherson county, Kas, and settled on government land.....
I... started for the east....When I got to Paint Creek I put on my high heeled boots and went stepping around among the fair sex, and to my surprise one girl said she would be my wife. That was the oldest girl of Wilson Sweeney's. On February 5, 1880, we were united in the holy bonds of matrimony, and on the first of March we went to our new home to grow up with the country....
Wife and I had four children born to us, three boys and one girl. One little boy and the girl died in infancy.
Wife had the diphtheria the fall before we were married and she never seemed to fairly get over it. Her health got to be very poor, in late years, and on account of her poor health sold out and went back to Virginia, but we did not like the rocks and hills...We did not remain in Raleigh but one and a half years. I took the Oklahoma fever, and nothing would do but move, and so we did. I bought a farm and went to work on it. The boys did the farming and I done the loafing. My wife had a paralytic stroke in her left arm and lost the use of it, and suffered severely. She had only lived four years in Oklahoma when she took the dropsy, her limbs were badly swollen and on the 20th of February she passed away. That left me and my two boys all alone.
The McPherson Daily Republican, McPherson, Kansas
Monday, February 23, 1903, page 1
Mrs William Caldwell died February 20, at her home in Ames, Oklahoma, aged forty-three years. The cause of her death was enlargement of the heart. She leaves a husband and two sons. The remains were brought to McPherson for burial. Funeral services were held at the Baptist church Sunday morning at eleven o'clock. Mr Caldwell, the bereaved husband, formerly lived in this county, near Moundridge.
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