George Washington Caldwell

Brief Life History of George Washington

George Washington Caldwell was born on 21 December 1861, in Highland, Virginia, United States. He married Mary Ann Tindell on 25 December 1886, in Little Falls Township, Morrison, Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Rural, Wise, Virginia, United States in 1935 and Wallowa Election Precinct 3, Wallowa, Oregon, United States in 1940. He died on 24 July 1951, in Coeur d'Alene, Kootenai, Idaho, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Wallowa, Union, Oregon, United States.

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Family Time Line

George Washington Caldwell
1861–1951
Mary Ann Tindell
1867–1943
Marriage: 25 December 1886
Ida May Caldwell
1888–1969
Joseph Jack Caldwell
1889–1977
Ethel Inez Ina Caldwell
1892–1914
Ora Fern Caldwell
1895–1969
Hazel Jane Caldwell
1899–1983
Cora Ellen Caldwell
1901–1986
Catherine Irene "Katie" Hall
1905–1998
Charles Wesley Caldwell
1910–1910
Myrtle Mable Louise Caldwell
1911–1945

Sources (19)

  • George Caldwell, "United States Census, 1940"
  • George Washington Caldwell, "Find A Grave Index"
  • George Caldwell in entry for Carl F Cvarfordt and Catherine I Montgomery, "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008"

World Events (8)

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1873

Historical Boundaries - 1873: Union, Oregon, United States; 1887: Wallowa, Oregon, United States

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

Name Meaning

English, Scottish, and northern Irish: habitational name from any of several places in England and Scotland, variously spelled, that are named with Old English ceald ‘cold’ + well(a) ‘spring, stream’. Caldwell in North Yorkshire is one major source of the surname; Caldwell in Renfrewshire in Scotland another. Possibly also from Caldwell (Warwickshire), Caldwall (Worcestershire), Cauldwell (Bedfordshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire), Caudle Green (Gloucestershire), Caudle Ditch or Cawdle Fen (Cambridgeshire), Chadwell (Essex, Hertfordshire, Leicestershire, Wiltshire), Chardwell (Essex), or Chardle Ditch (Cambridgeshire, early recorded as Kadewelle).

Irish: when not the English surname, this is an Anglicized form of Ó Fuarghuis or Ó hUarghusa ‘descendant of (F)uarghus’, a personal name whose literal sense ‘cold’ + ‘choice’ was reinterpreted as coming from fuaruisce ‘cold water’.

History: Several Caldwells emigrated from Scotland to America by way of Ireland in the 18th century. James Caldwell (1734–81), a son of settler John Caldwell, was born in Charlotte County, VA, and was a militant clergyman during the revolutionary war. Andrew Caldwell, a Scottish farmer, emigrated to North America in 1718 and started a family in Lancaster County, PA. His son David was a Presbyterian clergyman and well-known revolutionary war patriot.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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