Mahala Caufield

As stated by John Egge:

Lulu Caulfield from the Coos Co., OR Census of the family of Joseph Jackson Caulfield. Joseph’s name came originally to me from the wonderful Casebier work of Mary Elizabeth Padden of Tacoma, WA.

Mary passed way in 2005 at the age of 96. She was my first real discovery of a Chenoweth researcher. The 1880 Census had added Joseph’s wife and two children Geraldine and Stonewall. Lulu was not in the 1880, and as she was then about 18, maybe she had married by then. She was 8 years old in the 1870 born in Missouri before the Caulfields began their trek west

to Oregon. Geraldine was born during that migration in Nebraska and Stonewall Caulfield in Colorado in 1868. We have not found Joseph in the 1860. If he hadn’t married his wife Margaret by then, he married shortly afterwards, resulting in Lulu. Joseph was the son of Mahala Casebier and Owen N. Caulfield; Mahala being a daughter of Elizabeth Chenoweth, probably

born in Spencer Co., IN when the Casebier family were close neighbors of Abe Lincoln and his parents. Mahala’s sister,

Catherine Crissy Casebier had attended the one room school house with her schoolmate, Abe, 2 years his senior.