Individual Details
Samuel CALDWELL
(9 Dec 1771 - 11 Jun 1835)
Logan Co Court Records
25 Sep 1792 - Samuel Caldwell appointed Clerk and took oath.
25 Mar 1794 - Saml Caldwell [clerk] paid for buying/maintaining books
24 Jan 1797. David Caldwell, George McLean, Samuel Caldwell and George Herndon or any three, to view for a road from the courthouse to Richard Mauldin's.
Logan Co KY Court Order Book 3, p.36, Nov 1803. Samuel Caldwell resigned as clerk; Armistead Morehead appointed. Samuel Caldwell sworn in as county attorney.
http://kentuckyexplorer.com/nonmembers/01-05genealogy.html
From "Genealogy From The Long Ago"
Caldwell:
Gen. Samuel Caldwell of Logan County, in the year 1794, married Anne Balch, the daughter of Hez. Balch; a minister of the Presbyterian Church. Their children were: Mary Logan Caldwell, born January 1, 1795; Robert Phillips Balch Caldwell, born November 17, 1796; Hezekiah James Caldwell; Geo. J. B. Caldwell and Martha McCandless Caldwell, twins, born February 22, 1798; William Philpot Curran Caldwell; Julia Ann Caldwell; and John James Madison Caldwell.
The father of Anne Caldwell, nee Balch, was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence at Charlotte, North Carolina, and promulgated before that presented by Mr. Jefferson in 1776. An active part was taken by the Presbyterian Church in that declaration.
Robert Caldwell of Charlotte County, Virginia, married Mary Logan, and the children born to them were: John Caldwell, who died Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky (Caldwell County was named for him); David Caldwell, who lived in Caldwell County (formed from Livingston and adjoining counties), and one of the assistant judges of Livingston, and died during his term of service; William Caldwell, who married one of the sisters of Robert Wickliffe, and lived and died in Washington County, Kentucky, near Springfield; Phillips Caldwell died an old bachelor (a parish in Louisiana was named for him); Samuel (General) settled in Logan County, Kentucky, and was its first clerk; served a campaign under Gen. Wilkerson in the Indian wars north of the Ohio in what is now Illinois and Indiana in 1812; in 1823 was appointed brigadier general by Gov. Shelby of Kentucky, who commanded 3,000 mounted men in an expedition over Lake Erie and up the Thames River, and Gov. Shelby made a flattering notice of his services; and James Caldwell, the youngest son, was an anti-war man in 1812.
Robert Caldwell had four daughters. The eldest married Capt. Cook, an officer in the Revolutionary Army; Mary Caldwell married Maj. Henry Palmer, an officer of the USA in 1812; another daughter married a Pottinger of Washington County, Kentucky; and Elizabeth married Samuel Grundy of Washington County, Kentucky, and died at the birth of her first son.
Hez. Balch and all his brothers were educated for the ministry. One of them, Rev. Stephen Bloomer Balch, lived and died in Georgetown, D. C. This information was found among the papers of Robert Phillips Balch Caldwell.
I believe three sons of Robert & Mary Caldwell were omitted - Robert, James and Richard.
Find A Grave Memorial# 55339641
Samuel and wife Ann along with three children, Hezekia James, Martha McCandless, and John James Madison Caldwell are buried in the Garden behind the house he built prior to 1824 at Winter and 9th in Russellville, Logan, Ky.
Brigadier General in the War of 1812.
The Logan Co Cemetery Book gives the same location and states the stone reads:
"Caldwell, S., Genl., died 11 June 1835, age 65 years, an honest man, the noblest work of God"
The stone is now underground and no other stones have been found with inscriptions.
He was the first Clerk of Logan Co as well having earned military honors in the War of 1812 - his wife and three children believed buried beside him.
Events
| Birth | 9 Dec 1771 | Virginia |  | ||
| Marriage | 6 Apr 1794 | Kentucky - Ann Balch | | ||
| Death | 11 Jun 1835 | Logan County, Kentucky | |
Families
| Spouse | Ann Balch (1775 - 1842) |
| Child | Mary Logan CALDWELL (1795 - ) |
| Child | Dr. Robert Phillips Balch CALDWELL (1796 - ) |
| Child | Hezekiah James CALDWELL (1799 - ) |
| Child | George Burr Jefferson CALDWELL (1801 - ) |
| Child | Martha McCandless CALDWELL (1801 - ) |
| Child | Samuel Benjamin CALDWELL (1804 - ) |
| Child | John James Madison CALDWELL (1807 - ) |
| Child | William Philpot Curran CALDWELL (1810 - ) |
| Child | Judith Ann CALDWELL (1812 - ) |
| Father | ROBERT CALDWELL (1732 - 1806) |
| Mother | MARY Logan (1738 - 1815) |
| Sibling | MARGARET P. CALDWELL (1755 - 1844) |
| Sibling | John CALDWELL (1758 - 1804) |
| Sibling | David CALDWELL (1760 - ) |
| Sibling | William Thomas Caldwell (1762 - 1827) |
| Sibling | Robert CALDWELL (1764 - 1848) |
| Sibling | Phillips CALDWELL (1767 - ) |
| Sibling | Jean\Jane CALDWELL (1770 - ) |
| Sibling | Mary Logan/Steele CALDWELL (1773 - ) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth CALDWELL (1776 - 1807) |
| Sibling | James Logan CALDWELL (1778 - 1850) |
| Sibling | Richard CALDWELL (1781 - ) |
Endnotes
1. WorldConnect database at Rootsweb.
2. WorldConnect database at Rootsweb.
3. Logan County Kentucky Cemeteries (Logan County Genealogical Society; c1986; New Printing, January 2000), Samuel Caldwell Family Graveyard, p.462.
4. Logan County Kentucky Cemeteries (Logan County Genealogical Society; c1986; New Printing, January 2000), Samuel Caldwell Family Graveyard, p.462.