Biography:  Thomas Rogers Caldwell of Monroe County, Mississippi

Source:  Rowland, Dunbar.  The Official and Statistical Register of the 
State of Mississippi, 1908.  Nashville, Tenn.:  Press of the Brandon 
Printing Company, 1908.  Page 1067.

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MONROE COUNTY.

THOMAS ROGERS CALDWELL, of Amory, was born April 4, 1837, near Noonan, Ga., 
the son of William Harris Caldwell and wife, Jane (Allen) Caldwell.  
Paternal ancestors came from Ireland; maternal from Scotland, both lines 
settled in Abbeville District, S. C.; Mr. Caldwell's grandfather, William 
Caldwell, fought in the Revolutionary War, his father was Colonel of South 
Carolina militia for fifteen years.  Mr. Caldwell attended the common 
schools of Carrollton, Ga., in his youth; later he read law for a time in 
an office in Aberdeen, Miss., but did not practice the profession.  He 
entered the Confederate Army as private in Company A, Sixteenth Alabama 
Regiment, later was transferred to the Twenty-sixth Alabama, with rank of 
First Lieutenant.  He was with Bragg at Perryville, with Jackson at 
Chancellorsville, with Hood at Franklin and with Johnston on the retreat 
through Georgia.  He was wounded six times during his four years of 
service.  After the war he organized a patrol company, which did good 
service in keeping order in Monroe County during reconstruction times.  
Mr. Caldwell's occupation has always been that of farming.  He was Justice 
of the Peace in 1876-77, Supervisor in 1878-79, and Representative in the 
Legislature in 1892-94, and was elected to the House of Representatives 
November 5, 1907.  He is a Democrat, was on the County Executive Committee 
in 1868-69; is a Methodist, and member of the Masonic Order.  He was 
married near Smithville February 25, 1872, to Mary Jane Johnson, daughter 
of Israel Pickens Johnson and Julia Caroline (Thompson) Johnson, of 
Abbeville, S. C., whose family was of Irish descent.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Caldwell have five children:  Julia Caroline (at home), Walter Harris 
Caldwell, of Smithville; Mrs. Bertie (Caldwell) Dilworth, of Jasper, 
Ala.; Homer Franklin Caldwell, with U. S. Army in Cuba, and Thomas Young 
Caldwell, Amory.