When Caroline Calclasure was born on 15 August 1836, in Flora, Clay, Illinois, United States, her father, Jacob Colclasure, was 19 and her mother, Eceline Brient, was 16. She married Monroe Landreth in January 1870, in Clay, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Clay, Illinois, United States for about 10 years and Harter Township, Clay, Illinois, United States in 1870. She died on 3 December 1929, in Newtonia, Newton, Missouri, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Harmony Grove Cemetery, Joplin Township, Jasper, Missouri, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1841: Jasper, Missouri, United States
Historical Boundaries: 1854: Clay, Illinois, United States
Illinois contributed 250,000 soldiers to the Union Army, ranking it fourth in terms of the total men fighting for a single state. Troops mainly fought in the Western side of the Appalachian Mountains, but a few regiments played important roles in the East side. Several thousand Illinoisians died during the war. No major battles were fought in the state, although several towns became sites for important supply depots and navy yards. Not everyone in the state supported the war and there were calls for secession in Southern Illinois several residents. However, the movement for secession soon died after the proposal was blocked.
Americanized form of German Kalklöser (or of some other like-sounding surname): occupational name for someone who quarried lime, from Kalk ‘lime, chalk’ + an agent derivative of lösen ‘to loosen’. The surname Kalklöser is not found in Germany. Compare Colglazier .
History: According to a passenger list, four persons called Kalcklöser arrived in Philadelphia, PA, aboard the Allen on September 11, 1729. Their descendants bear the surnames Colclasure and Colglazier.
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