Ohio County, West Virginia  Biography of the Caldwell Family.

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THE CALDWELLS 

The Caldwells were among the early families in the Pan-Handle. John, 
the oldest of fourteen children born to James Caldwell, came, while a 
young man, to this section of Virginia, in 1775. He lived near 
Wheeling creek, and not far from the Ohio river. He was in Fort Henry 
at the time of the massacre and fortunately escaped to Brownsville. 
James Caldwell, the father, removed to the Pan-Handle in 1777, when 
his youngest child, Joseph, was only six weeks old. He died in 1800 
at the age of sixty. We have been enabled to gather only the 
following names of his children, viz: John, Samuel, James, Aleck and 
Joseph. The latter served in the war of 1812. He was for many years 
the president of the Exchange Bank. He married Miss Mary Yarnall, of 
Winchester, Virginia. She died on the 19th Of February, 1819, at the 
age of thirty-eight. Ten children were born to them, viz: Ann McGill, 
(died in 1865) who married William Moyston, Alexander H. (died in 
infancy). William James (died in infancy,) Caroline M., who married 
Col. John Wilson, (deceased), Mary Yarnall, who married Ebenezer 
Merriett, M. D. (died in 1864, sixty-nine years of age,) A. B., who 
married Matilda Newman, James Y., (died in 1863, forty-eight years of 
age), who married Mary Newman;  Phebe Yarnall (died in 1846, twenty-
nine years of age), who married Thomas Pierce, (deceased;) Elizabeth, 
(died in infancy), Henry (died in infancy). He married in 1820, Miss 
Catherine Thompson, daughter of Judge Thompson, of Pittsburgh. She 
died in 1855, at the age of fifty-three. The issue of this union was 
George, (died in infancy;) Francis, (died in infancy;) Elizabeth, 
(died in infancy;) George E. who married Kate Bushfield;  Joseph, 
died in 1864, (thirty-seven years of age;)  Henry C., who married 
Alice Hughes;  Alexander J., who married Mrs. Mary Stephens; Pierce, 
(died in infancy) and Sobieski Brady.   Mr. Caldwell died in 1864, 
nearly eighty-seven years of age. 

From HISTORY OF THE PAN-HANDLE, West Virginia, 1879, by J. H. Newton, 
G. G. Nichols, and A. G. Sprankle.  

Contributed by Linda Cunningham Fluharty.