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Colwell Caldwell, Hart Boyd & more pennsylvania, ohio - LaGrange Indiana & Iowa
Posted by: Charlotte Edsall (ID *****2396) Date: July 10, 2008 at 23:46:28
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Colwell Caldwell, Hart Boyd & more pennsylvania, ohio - LaGrange Indiana & Iowa

I have been peeling through layers of this family and think I have a concrete base for most of the Colwell's in LaGrange County in our early history to the early 1900's - there are some names I would greatly appreciate help with. I am am going to post some information below and hope you can help me take this further. *This family used the name Colwell in LaGrange for years, some until death, after 1880, Caldwell came into being more, but the older generations did not use it as much. It is commonly misspelled!!

PLEASE, Help me fill in more blanks. I would like to make this as complete as possible before I turn it into the local Historical Society for the archives. I appreciate your hlep

Descendants of Samuel Colwell (He had to come from somewhere)


Generation No. 1

1. SAMUEL1 COLWELL1 was born ????
He married MARY Boyd ????

Children of SAMUEL COLWELL and MARY BOYD are:
i. HUGH COLWELL, CALDWELL2, b. Abt. 1800; m. ELLEN WADE2,3, March 25, 1849, LaGrange , Lagrange Co., Indiana - 2-514; b. Unknown; d. 1850, Possibly died of childbirth5.

2. ii. JOSEPH COLWELL, CALDWELL, b. Bef. 1800.

3. iii. DAVID COLWELL, CALDWELL*, b. 1801, Pennsylvania; d. 1874, Indiana. - ***MY DIRECT LINE**

4. iv. JAMES BOYD COLWELL, CALDWELL BY 1880, b. May 29, 1829, Pickaway, OH; d. February 13, 1904, LaGrange County, Indiana - 74 years, 8 months & 15 days, bk. C, #26, pg. 8.


. DAVID COLWELL, CALDWELL* (SAMUEL1)14,15,16 was born 1801 in Pennsylvania17,18,19, and died 1874 in Indiana20. He married HANNAH B. DAVID PATTON21,22,23 Bef. 1850 in They are married by the 1850 census. She was born 1810 in Pennsylvania24,25, and died Aft. June 1880 in US Federal Census June 1880, LaGrange Co., Indiana, Clearspring twp., - living by James B. and Barbara (Seedle) Hart home26.

Children of DAVID COLWELL and HANNAH PATTON are:
i. ROBERT COLWELL, CALDWELL*27, b. Abt. 1827, Ohio28; d. Aft. February 23, 1895, Sometime after Brother John died on Feb. 23, 1895.

8. ii. JOHN COLWELL, CALDWELL SOMETIMES*, b. January 01, 1832, Richland County, Ohio; d. February 23, 1895, LaGrange County, Clearspring twp, Indiana - at his home, 63 years, 1 month & 22 days of Dropsy. *** MY LILNE

iii. PRUDENCE COLWELL, CALDWELL, b. Abt. 1837, Ohio30; d. Aft. February 23, 1895, Sometime after Brother John died on Feb. 23, 1895; m. PETER NOTESTINE, June 23, 1855, LaGrange , Lagrange Co., Indiana31; b. Unknown; d. Unknown.

iv. JAMES COLWELL, CALDWELL*32,33,34, b. 1840, Ohio35,36; d. Aft. February 23, 1895, Sometime after Brother John died on Feb. 23, 1895; m. MATILDA EAGLETON37,38, July 26, 1863, LaGrange , Lagrange Co., Indiana39; b. 1842, Pennsylvania40; d. Aft. 1870.

v. ELIZABETH COLWELL, CALDWELL*41,42, b. Abt. 1842, Ohio43; d. Aft. February 23, 1859, Sometime after Brother John died on Feb. 23, 1895; m. GEORGE HODGES, April 13, 1861, LaGrange , Lagrange Co., Indiana44; b. Unknown; d. Unknown.

9. vi. JOSEPH COLWELL, CALDWELL*, b. Abt. 1846, Indiana; d. December 1928, LaGrange Co., Indiana - at the home of his daughter Mrs. Hunter of pneumonia at 85 years of age.

vii. BROTHER COLWELL, CALDWELL*45, b. Abt. 1850, Indiana46; d. Aft. 1895, Sometime after Brother John died from his obituary notice.

10. viii. SAMUEL COLWELL, CALDWELL*, b. 1854, LaGrange County, Indiana; d. 1943, Unknown.

11. ix. DAVID C. COLWELL, CALDWELL, b. January 04, 1859, LaGrange Co., Indiana; d. September 03, 1941, Valentine, Johnson twp., LaGrange County, Indiana - 82 years of age.

x. UNNAMED SON OF DVD. & HANNAH COLWELL, CALDWELL*47, b. Abt. 1860, LaGrange County, Indiana - listed and unnamed in the 1869 CEnsus47.



. JOHN COLWELL, CALDWELL SOMETIMES* (DAVID2, SAMUEL1)107,108,109 was born January 01, 1832 in Richland County, Ohio110,111, and died February 23, 1895 in LaGrange County, Clearspring twp, Indiana - at his home, 63 years, 1 month & 22 days of Dropsy112,113. He married SARAH ANN BLOSS114,115 March 16, 1862 in Lagrange Co., Springfield twp., Indiana - book 3, page 163116, daughter of JACOB BLOSS and MOTHER BLOSS. She was born Abt. 1836 in Indiana117, and died April 03, 1919 in LaGrange Co. Indiana - Book F, Pg. 17, #8 - 83 years, 11 months & 16 days118.

Children of JOHN COLWELL and SARAH BLOSS are:
i. MARY4 COLWELL, CALDWELL*119, b. Abt. 1862, Indiana120.

15. ii. PHEBE SOPHIA COLWELL, CALDWELL*, b. March 13, 1873, Rural LaGrange, LaGrange Co., Clearspring Twp., Indiana; d. December 01, 1948, Elmira, LaGrange Co., Indiana, book I, pg. 30, # 3346. ***MY LINE

iii. ANNIE COLWELL, CALDWELL121, b. Abt. 1878, Indiana; m. LEWIS WORTINGER122, January 16, 1896, LaGrange , Lagrange Co., Indiana - bk. 6, pg. 368; b. Unknown.


15. PHEBE SOPHIA4 COLWELL, CALDWELL* (JOHN3, DAVID2, SAMUEL1)240,241,242,243 was born March 13, 1873 in Rural LaGrange, LaGrange Co., Clearspring Twp., Indiana, and died December 01, 1948 in Elmira, LaGrange Co., Indiana, book I, pg. 30, # 3346244. She married ALONZO CARL HART245,246,247,248,249,250,251 August 11, 1890 in LaGrange , Lagrange Co., Indiana - Book 5, Page 572252, son of JAMES HART and BARBARA SEEDLE. He was born December 28, 1864 in Eden Township, LaGrange Co., Indiana253, and died September 25, 1955 in Sturgis, St. Joseph Co., Michigan @ Sturgis Memorial Hospital254.

Children of PHEBE COLWELL and ALONZO HART are:
30. i. JAMES CLARK5 HART, b. February 09, 1891, Rural LaGrange, LaGrange Co., Indiana - book H-3, pg. 28; d. October 21, 1961, Rural LaGrange, LaGrange Co., Indiana - a widower and 70 years old.

ii. CLARENCE FREMAN HART255,256, b. September 03, 1894, Rural LaGrange, LaGrange Co., Indiana; d. August 21, 1959, LaGrange, LaGrange Co., Indiana - a widower257; m. MURIEL UNKNOWN MAIDEN NAME HART; b. Unknown; d. Bef. August 21, 1959257.

31. iii. EMMA LOUISE HART, b. October 05, 1897, LaGrange Co., Indiana; d. December 28, 1976, Bryan, Ohio @ Bryan, Ohio Hospital.

32. iv. DAVID DANIEL HART, b. February 25, 1901, Clearspring township, LaGrange Co., Indiana; d. October 17, 1984, Elmira, LaGrange Co., Indiana at his home 11:05 p.m..

33. v. HARLEY HARLENE HART, b. December 04, 1904, Rural LaGrange, LaGrange Co., Indiana; d. September 02, 1935, Indiana - killed instantly when ejected from a fast driving car.

vi. RALPH CLAYTON "POPPY" HART258,259,260, b. October 08, 1909, Rural LaGrange, LaGrange Co., Indiana - bk. H-7, pg. 54261; d. March 24, 1987, LaGrange Hospital, LaGrange Co., Indiana - bk. M, pg. 130, #87-57262; m. GERALDINE GENIVIEVE "JEAN" FIRESTONE263,264, December 24, 1937, Topeka, LaGrange Co., Indiana; b. December 17, 1919, Rural LaGrange, LaGrange Co., Indiana265,266; d. January 20, 1993, LaGrange Co., Indiana

vii. EARL WILLIAM HART268,269, b. May 04, 1912, Rural LaGrange, LaGrange Co., Indiana - book H-9, pg. 31270; d. December 27, 1984, Auburn, Dekalb Co., Indiana; m. (1) MEADE; m. (2) FLORENCE RUTH ROGERS, Unknown; b. Unknown; d. Unknown.


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