Historical records matching Reverend James Caudill, II
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About Reverend James Caudill, II
DAR Ancestor < A023691 > rank: prívate, Pension Number: *S30344
Wife of James Caudill listed as XX at DAR but as Mary Adams in their record for Abigail (Caudill) Pennington.
Video of Grave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PAT9ko2fjs
Click this link to the familytreemarker website for James Caudill.
Children of James Caudill and Mary Adams are:
+Abigail Caudill, b. February 07, 1770, Of Wilkes Co., NC646, 647, d. 1872, Webbville, Lawrence, KY648, 649.
Written on a Caudillmarker:
James Caudill born in Virginia in 1753, first came to Big Cowan Creek in 1787. Because of Indians, he took his family back to North Carolina, Returning here in 1792 with his family, he built a cabin, stayed several years, went back to North Carolina. They settled here permanently in 1811. He was progenitor of a large, widespread mountain family. He died in 1840.
James Caudill, the first, was born in the old state of North Carolina in the year 1750, and when quite young, enlisted in the American army for service in the Revolutionary War. Like all those who suffered, struggled and fought in this war for independence, he had a colorful part. In the early days of the war he was captured by the British, suffered the brunt of many indignities and was marched through the forests three whole days without food. Finally, with those captured with him, he escaped and rejoined his comrades. He was on many of the battlefields of the South, King's Mountain, in 1780, being one that impressed his memory greatest, King's Mountain is in North Carolina, but the great battle was fought seven miles from this place over in South Carolina. Soon after this battle the one at Guilford Courthouse was fought, which was an indecisive one. From here Lord Cornwallis, the British general, marched to Wilmington and thence to Yorktown, where he surrendered. Returning to his native section of the country after our country was declared free and independent, he engaged in hunting, trapping, breaking bunches of Indian maruders and farming till the spirit of go west entered his mind. On hunting trips he had invaded sections many miles away from his home would often be away for many months. On his hunting trips it is believed he even invaded the hills of Southwest Virginia and probably entered the Sandy river sections of what was then Kentucky County, Virginia. It was on one of these trips that he invaded the Black and Pine Mountain sections and determined when the opportunity came to settle in them. Tab In his early manhood he married the daughter of a Revolutionary soldier, before settling in Eastern Kentucky had three sons, all three of whom were born back in North Carolina and soon followed the head to its new location. As soon as the skies of hope in the new land began to clear James Caudill with his three sons, William, Henry and Isom, and others who migrated with him began to make themselves felt in hewing out the forests, building homes, erecting church and school houses and otherwise clearing the way for progress and civilization. The first the records now in existence show of James Caudill was in 1820 when he became a charter member of the old Oven Fork Church, organized on Cumberland river in what was then Harlan County. In the same old record is found the names of William Caudill, specified as one of the deacons of the church, and his wife, Nancy Caudill, is recorded as one of the deaconesses. Henry, the oldest of the family, had seven sons and two daughters. These were Stephen, born 1810; James, 1816; Henry H., 1818; Billie, 1820; Isom, 1822; Ben, 1824; Jesse, 1826 and David, 1828. James Caudill's daughter, Abagail, and William Pennington, her husband, are also mentioned in the old Oven Fork record as among the first deaconesses and deacons of that church. Tab The first William Caudill married Nancy Craft and they had 13 children. Henry married Phoebe Strailer and became the mother of ten children. Tab Isom, another son of the pioneer, finally settled on Little Cowan creek where he resided till his death at the age of only a few days less than 100 years. By his first marriage his children were, Della, who married Joe Musselwhite; Amanda who became the wife of _____ Sturgill; twins, Billie and Henry, James, Alford and John. At the age of seventy-two he married a rather young woman, Mary Miller, and to him she bore three children, Martha, who married Thos. Johnson; Hiram, who married a daughter of the late Wm. S. Vermillion, and Hannah, the wife of Andrew J. Adams who now resides at Fleming. Tab Henry, who before coming to Kentucky married Phoebe Strailer in South Carolina and had the following sons and daughters: Steve, born 1810 and married Betsy Fields; Terry, born 1812, wife of Mathew Caudill; Phoebe, 1814, wife of Wilburn Hampton; Henry (Tush), 1818, who married Susan Back; Benj. 1824, (died 1878) married Polly Bowling; James (Froggy) 1816, married Jenny Gilly; Davy, 1828, married Betsy Fields; Jesse, 1826, (Limber Jet) married Sallie Caudill; and Isom, 1822, married Lizzie Back. James, mentioned the second time, married Abby Hampton, William’s girl. The first named of the sons of Henry Caudill, Stephen, was the grandfather of our present County Court Clerk, Cro C. Caudill.
- Revolutionary War
James was a Revolution War Veteran. A road side marker honoring his service is located on Rte 7, Blackey, Ky, across the road from the cemetery where he and his wife Mary are buried.
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presumed relative and possible ancestor of Charlotte Patterson
Even though the Grave Marker and some documents state James Caudill's Jr. birth year is around 1753. There are documents that state he was born in 1750 in North Carolina which places him the same age as his wife Mary Adams who is also born in 1750.
Please Check Documents That Have Been Added to James Caudill Jr. Under The Media Tab.
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Reverend James Caudill, II's Timeline
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1750
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North Carolina, United States
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March 27, 1767
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Wilkes County, North Carolina, United States
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April 27, 1767
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Roaring River, Wilkes, North Carolina, USA
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1770
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United States
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1772
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Roaring River, Wilkes, North Carolina, United States
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1772
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Lunenburg, Virginia, United States
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1773
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Lunenburg, Lunenburg, Virginia, United States
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1775
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Wilkes County, North Carolina, United States
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1775
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Cherokee, South Carolina, USA
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