Rachel Almira Caldwell

Brief Life History of Rachel Almira

When Rachel Almira Caldwell was born on 7 December 1846, in Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, her father, Matthew Caldwell, was 24 and her mother, Barzilla Jane Guymon, was 22. She married George Washington Horrace about 1864, in Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Utah, Utah, United States in 1850. She died on 14 January 1919, in Crane, Harney, Oregon, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Caldwell, Canyon, Idaho, United States.

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Family Time Line

George Washington Horrace
1832–1902
Rachel Almira Caldwell
1846–1919
Marriage: about 1864
Sarah Melissa " Lizzie" Horrace
1865–1945
Barzilla Zuletta " Lettie" Horrace
1867–1958
George Henry Horrace
1869–1948
Annie Almira Horrace
1871–1954
William Washington Horrace
1874–1950
Mary Ellen Horace
1877–1971
John King Horrace
1879–1967
Lizzie Dell Horrace
1882–1882
James Matthew Caldwell Horrace
1883–1967
Francis Marion " Frank" Horrace
1885–1954
Nellie Rachel Horrace
1888–1961
Rosetta R. Horrace
1891–1891

Sources (22)

  • Rachel H Caldwell in household of Matthew Caldwell, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Rachall Caldwell, "Oregon, Oregon State Archives, Death Records, 1864-1967"
  • Rachel Almira Horace Caldwell, "Utah, FamilySearch, Early Church Information File, 1830-1900"

World Events (8)

1850

Historical Boundaries: 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States

1863

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

1866 · The First Civil Rights Act

The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.

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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BIOGRAPHY OF RACHEL ALMIRA CALDWELL HORRACE

Rachel Almira Caldwell was born on 7 December 1846 in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa to Matthew and Barzilla Guymon Caldwell. She was the second of ten children, four girls and six boys. …

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