Anson-Bladen County NcArchives Military Records.....Caudle, Absolom 1832
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension
Revolutionary soldier ABSOLOM CAUDLE enlisted at Cross Creek (now 
Fayetteville) in 1775 and served one year. in Capt. Roan's Company under the 
command of Col. Thomas Clark's 10th Regt. of the North Carolina Line. He was 
marched to Wilmington, N.C. and from there to Charleston, S.C. where he was 
stationed for some time. He was then marched to Savannah, Ga. thence in 
pursuit of Indians. He subsequently joined General McIntosh of Georgia and was 
in discharged in December of 1780. He then became a substitute for JOHN ELWELL 
in the Bladen County Militia under General Caswell for three months. While 
serving on the Santee River, they received news of Charleston's surrender. He 
was then marched to Camden, S.C. and back to Cumberland, N.C., where he was 
discharged. He then entered in the light horse company under Captain Willis, 
and served to the end of the war.
 
At the time of his first enlistment and for five years after the Revolution he 
lived in Bladen County, N. C. He then moved to Anson where he lived in 1832 
when he applied for pension at the age of 73. He died in 1845.
 
ELIZABETH CAUDLE, widow of ABSOLOM CAUDLE, appeared to apply for pension in 
Jan. 1847, at which time JESSE CAUDLE, then 56, appeared as guardian. He 
supplied a page from the Family Bible which supplies the following information.
 
ABSOLOM CAUDLE (Born 7 Oct. 1757 - died 7 March 1845)
ELIZABETH MANESS (Born 7 May 1768)
 
Marriage of couple: 22 March 1782
 
Twelve Children:
1) Elendar Caudle, daughter, (Born 9 Jun 1788)
2) Jesse Caudle, son, (Born 5 Oct. 1791)
3) Rebecca Caudle, daughter, (Born 3 March 1794)
4) William Caudle, son, (Born 1 Apr 1796)
5) Richard Caudle, son, (Born 1 March 1798)
6) Absolom Caudle, son, (Born 15 Sep 1800)
7) Sampson Caudle, son, (Born 19 Oct. 1803)
8) Jeffin Caudle, son, (Born 20 Oct. 1808)
9) Elizabeth Caudle, daughter, (Born 29 Sep 1810)
 
Bible No. 589
10) Minnia Caudel, daughter, (Born 3 March 1818)
11) Margaret Caudel, daughter, (Born 16 Sep 1820)
12) Nanna, daughter, (Born 16 Sep 1822)


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