HARDIN R[ICHARD?] CAUDLE[1]

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  • Name  HARDIN R[ICHARD?] CAUDLE 
    Born  15 Sep 1812  KENTUCKY Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    • LEO HARDIN CAUDLE'S RECORDS SHOWED HARDIN CAUDLE
      BORN AT LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY. THE FAMILY RECORD
      PROVIDED BY LOUIS L. CAUDLE, LEO'S NEPHEW, SHOWS
      THAT HARDIN WAS BORN IN KENTUCKY.
    Christened 
    • UNITED BRETHEN FAITH. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE
      WHITE HOUSE CHURCH IN BRIDGEPORT, ILLINOIS.
    Gender  Male 
    Buried  Jul 1887  BRIDGEPORT, LAWRENCE, ILLINOIS Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    • HARDIN WAS BURIED IN THE WHITE HOUSE CHURCH CEME-
      TARY BESIDE HIS 3RD WIFE, MARY SMITH CAUDLE. MARY
      ELIZABETH BARNES, HIS FIRST WIFE, IS ALSO BURIED
      IN THE CEMETARY NEXT TO HER SON JOEL CAUDLE. THE
      CEMETARY IS ALSO CALLED PLEASANT HILL.
    Died  27 Jul 1887  SUMNER, LAWRENCE, ILLINOIS Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    • DEATH RECORD SHOWS HE DIED OF CEREBRAL HEMORAGE.
      DEATH RECORD BOOK 1 DEATH 350 PAGE 101
      DEATH RECORD SHOWS HE WAS SICK FOR 7 HOURS BEFORE
      HE DIED.
      74 YEARS 10 MONTHS 12 DAYS
    Age  74 years 
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    Person ID  I10  Caudle Descendants
    Last Modified  29 Dec 2004 

    Father  Ancestors JOHN A[RCHIBALD?] CAUDLE,   b. Abt 1786,   d. Abt 15 Sep 1823, CADIZ, TWIGG, KENTUCKY Find all individuals with events at this location  Age: ~ 37 years 
    Mother  JUDITH [HARDIN?],   b. Abt 1790,   d. Bef 1820, STEWART COUNTY, TENNESEE Find all individuals with events at this location  Age: ~ 29 years 
    Married 
    • THEY WERE PROBABLY MARRIED IN NORTH CAROLINA.
    Family ID  F6  Group Sheet

    Family 1  Ancestors MARY ELIZA BARNES,   b. 24 Jun 1815, FAYETTE COUNTY, KENTUCKY Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Dec 1860, SUMNER, LAWRENCE, ILLINOIS Find all individuals with events at this location  Age: 45 years 
    Married  27 May 1833  FAYETTE COUNTY, KENTUCKY Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Children 
     1. UNKNOWN CAUDLE,   b. Abt 1834, KENTUCKY Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1834, KENTUCKY Find all individuals with events at this location  Age: ~ 0 years
    Married: 1x2. WILLIAM JAMES CAUDLE,   b. Abt 1835, MADISON COUNTY, KENTUCKY Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1886, HAMILTON COUNTY, ILLINOIS Find all individuals with events at this location  Age: ~ 51 years
    Married: 1x3. ELIZABETH CAUDLE,   b. 30 Sep 1836, KENTUCKY Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Jul 1874, LAWRENCE COUNTY, ILLINOIS Find all individuals with events at this location  Age: 37 years
    Married: 1x4. MARY ANN CAUDLE,   b. Abt 1838, KENTUCKY Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1888  Age: ~ 49 years
    Married: 1x5. PHEBE JANE CAUDLE,   b. Abt 1839, KENTUCKY Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1888  Age: ~ 48 years
    Married: 1x6. JOHN JEFFERSON CAUDLE,   b. 2 Feb 1841, GARRARD COUNTY KENTUCKY Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Aug 1898, PARAGOULD, GREENE, ARKANSAS [?] Find all individuals with events at this location  Age: 57 years
     7. MOSES CAUDLE,   b. Abt 1843, FAYETTE COUNTY, KENTUCKY Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Jun 1864, RESACA, GORDON, GEORGIA Find all individuals with events at this location  Age: ~ 21 years
    Married: 1x8. ZACHARIAH T[HOMAS] CAUDLE,   b. Abt 1846, SUMNER, LAWRENCE, ILLINOIS Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef Jun 1888  Age: ~ 42 years
    Married: 1x9. HENRY CLAY CAUDLE,   b. 5 Apr 1848, SUMNER, LAWRENCE, ILLINOIS Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 May 1921, LAWRENCE COUNTY, ILLINOIS Find all individuals with events at this location  Age: 73 years
     10. JOEL C[HARLES] CAUDLE,   b. 29 Mar 1850, SUMNER, LAWRENCE, ILLINOIS Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Aug 1851, SUMNER, LAWRENCE, ILLINOIS Find all individuals with events at this location  Age: 1 years
    Married: 1x11. GEORGE HARDIN CAUDLE,   b. 13 Dec 1850, SUMNER, LAWRENCE, ILLINOIS Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Apr 1932, LABETTE COUNTY, KANSAS Find all individuals with events at this location  Age: 81 years
    Married: 1x12. ELISA ELLEN CAUDLE,   b. Abt 1856, SUMNER, LAWRENCE, ILLINOIS Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
    Married: 1x13. ABRAHAM ("ABE") LINCOLN CAUDLE,   b. 12 Oct 1860, SUMNER, LAWRENCE, ILLINOIS Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Jul 1936, SUMNER, LAWRENCE, ILLINOIS Find all individuals with events at this location  Age: 75 years
    Family ID  F5  Group Sheet

    Family 2  Ancestors RHODA ANN DUDLEY Married: 2x2x ,   b. 8 Jan 1830, SUMNER, LAWRENCE, ILLINOIS Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 15 Mar 1868, SUMNER, LAWRENCE, ILLINOIS Find all individuals with events at this location  Age: 38 years 
    Married  2 Jun 1861  SUMNER, LAWRENCE, ILLINOIS Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. EMMA CAUDLE,   b. 17 Mar 1862, SUMNER, LAWRENCE, ILLINOIS Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Jul 1871, SUMNER, LAWRENCE, ILLINOIS Find all individuals with events at this location  Age: 9 years
    Married: 3x2. NANCY ISABELLE CAUDLE Married: 3x3x ,   b. 6 Sep 1863, SUMNER, LAWRENCE, ILLINOIS Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Dec 1942, SUMNER, LAWRENCE, ILLINOIS Find all individuals with events at this location  Age: 79 years
    +3. CLARA DELPHA CAUDLE Married: 2x2x ,   b. 26 Jun 1865, SUMNER, LAWRENCE, ILLINOIS Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Jul 1888, LAWRENCE COUNTY, ILLINOIS Find all individuals with events at this location  Age: 23 years
    Married: 1x4. "CLINTON" ("CLINT") HARDIN CAUDLE,   b. 5 Jul 1867, SUMNER, LAWRENCE, ILLINOIS Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 May 1940, SUMNER, LAWRENCE, ILLINOIS Find all individuals with events at this location  Age: 72 years
    Family ID  F141  Group Sheet

    Family 3  MARY ANN SMITH Married: 2x2x ,   b. 1824, PENNSYLVANIA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Oct 1885, SUMNER, LAWRENCE, ILLINOIS Find all individuals with events at this location  Age: 61 years 
    Married  6 Nov 1868  LAWRENCE COUNTY, ILLINOIS Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Family ID  F254  Group Sheet

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    Link to Google MapsBorn - 15 Sep 1812 - KENTUCKY Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 27 May 1833 - FAYETTE COUNTY, KENTUCKY Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsChild - UNKNOWN CAUDLE - Abt 1834 - KENTUCKY Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsChild - ELIZABETH CAUDLE - 30 Sep 1836 - KENTUCKY Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsChild - MARY ANN CAUDLE - Abt 1838 - KENTUCKY Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsChild - PHEBE JANE CAUDLE - Abt 1839 - KENTUCKY Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsChild - JOHN JEFFERSON CAUDLE - 2 Feb 1841 - GARRARD COUNTY KENTUCKY Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsChild - MOSES CAUDLE - Abt 1843 - FAYETTE COUNTY, KENTUCKY Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsChild - ZACHARIAH T[HOMAS] CAUDLE - Abt 1846 - SUMNER, LAWRENCE, ILLINOIS Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsChild - HENRY CLAY CAUDLE - 5 Apr 1848 - SUMNER, LAWRENCE, ILLINOIS Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsChild - JOEL C[HARLES] CAUDLE - 29 Mar 1850 - SUMNER, LAWRENCE, ILLINOIS Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsChild - GEORGE HARDIN CAUDLE - 13 Dec 1850 - SUMNER, LAWRENCE, ILLINOIS Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsChild - ELISA ELLEN CAUDLE - Abt 1856 - SUMNER, LAWRENCE, ILLINOIS Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsChild - ABRAHAM ("ABE") LINCOLN CAUDLE - 12 Oct 1860 - SUMNER, LAWRENCE, ILLINOIS Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 2 Jun 1861 - SUMNER, LAWRENCE, ILLINOIS Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsChild - EMMA CAUDLE - 17 Mar 1862 - SUMNER, LAWRENCE, ILLINOIS Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsChild - NANCY ISABELLE CAUDLE - 6 Sep 1863 - SUMNER, LAWRENCE, ILLINOIS Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsChild - CLARA DELPHA CAUDLE - 26 Jun 1865 - SUMNER, LAWRENCE, ILLINOIS Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsChild - "CLINTON" ("CLINT") HARDIN CAUDLE - 5 Jul 1867 - SUMNER, LAWRENCE, ILLINOIS Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 6 Nov 1868 - LAWRENCE COUNTY, ILLINOIS Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - Jul 1887 - BRIDGEPORT, LAWRENCE, ILLINOIS Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 27 Jul 1887 - SUMNER, LAWRENCE, ILLINOIS Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • PROBABLY HAD A MIDDLE NAME. TWIGG AND CHRISTIAN
      COUNTIES HANDBOOK ON KENTUCKY'S JACKSON PURCHASE
      SHOWS HARDIN'S NAME AS H. R. CAUDLE.

      REFERENCES: CAUDLE (4), PRESTON MILFORD, UNPUBLISHED GENEALOGICAL
      RESEARCH ON JOHN JEFFERSON CAUDLE'S DESCENDANTS, SIBLINGS,
      WIVES, AND ANCESTORS, RURAL ROUTE 2, BOX 840, OKMULGEE, OKLAHOMA
      74447-9678, 1967 TO PRESENT.


      TRIGG COUNTY KENTUCKY ABSTRACT OF ORDER BOOK A AT CADIZ:
      WILLIAM MCWATERS APPOINTED GUARDIAN OF ELIZABETH, H. R. CAUDLE, AND
      CHARLES W. CAUDLE, INFANTS AND HEIRS OF JOHN A. CAUDLE AND LATE WIFE
      JUDITH CAUDLE, WITH JOHN SHAW AND JOHN MCALLISTER SECURITIES. 15
      SEPTEMBER 1823, MONDAY.

      H. R. CAUDLE IS PROBABLY MY HARDIN CAUDLE BECAUSE HE AND HIS BROTHER AND
      SISTER WERE BORN BETWEEN 1810 AND 1820. HARDIN HIMSELF WAS BORN IN 1812.
      HOWEVER, I HAVE NEVER FOUND ANYTHING ON ELIZABETH OR CHARLES W. CAUDLE.
      ALSO, HARDIN NAMED HIS FIRST SON WILLIAM CAUDLE PROBABLY AFTER WILLIAM
      MCWATERS, HIS GUARDIAN. HARDIN NAMED HIS FIRST DAUGHTER ELIZABETH
      PROBABLY AFTER HIS SISTER ELIZABETH. IN ADDITION, WILLIAM, HARDIN'S
      FIRST BOY THAT LIVED, NAMED ONE OF HIS BOYS CHARLES, MAYBE AFTER HIS
      UNCLE CHARLES.

      HAZEL B. TUNGETT (DAUGHTER OF GEORGE CAUDLE, HARDIN'S SON) OF DELTA
      COLORADO WROTE THAT HARDIN'S DADDY DIED WHILE HARDIN HARDIN WAS A SMALL
      BOY AND THAT HE WAS APPRENTICED OUT UNTIL HE REACHED HIS MAJORITY.
      HARDIN WOULD HAVE BEEN ABOUT 11 YEARS OLD WHEN JOHN A. CAUDLE DIED.

      THE FEDERAL CENSUS RECORDS AND COUNTY PROPERTY RECORDS LAWRENCEVILLE,
      ILLINOIS SHOW THAT HARDIN COULD NOT READ OR WRITE. THIS COULD EXPLAIN
      WHY HARDIN NEVER USED HIS MIDDLE NAME WHICH IN ALL PROBABILITY WAS
      RICHARD. THERE WAS ONE RICHARD CAUDLE LIVING IN SOUTHERN VIRGINIA
      IN THE LATE 18TH CENTURY.

      HARDIN CAUDLE DID NOT SHOW UP ON THE 1880 LAWRENCE COUNTY ILLINOIS
      FEDERAL CENSUS. I LOOKED AT IT THREE TIMES AND COULDN'T FIND HIM: ONCE
      AT THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S ORIGINAL COPY AT SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS. HE
      WOULD HAVE BEEN LIVING WITH BELL AND ENOS GRIGGS. BELL WAS HIS DAUGHTER
      FROM HIS SECOND MARRIAGE.

      HARDIN WAS A BIG MAN WITH BLACK HAIR AND BLUE EYES ACCORDING TO LEO
      HARDIN CAUDLE OF OKLAHOMA CITY.

      BYRON R. LEWIS, A NINETY SOME-ODD YEAR RESIDENT OF BRIDGEPORT, ILLINOIS IN
      LAWRENCE COUNTY, SAID HE KNEW HARDIN AND THAT HARDIN ALWAYS SAID "HE
      COULD SPEAK STREE LANGUAGES - NIGER, SPANISH, AND ENGLISH." OUR FAMILY
      MAY BE KIN TO BYRON THROUGH THE MARRIAGE OF ONE OF HARDIN'S GRANDAUGHTERS
      TO A LEWIS. ACCORDING TO BYRON NIGER WAS A LANGUAGE SPOKEN IN SPAIN IN
      THE 17TH/18 CENTURY.

      LEO HARDIN CAUDLE OF OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA SAID THAT HARDIN RAISED
      THREE FAMILIES. HE LEFT LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY WHEN HE MOVED TO ILLINOIS.

      LEO ALSO SAID THAT MARY ELIZA BARNES, HARDIN'S FIRST WIFE, HAD 13 KIDS.
      LEO WAS DESCENDED FROM HARDIN'S SECOND WIFE, RHODA ANN DUDLEY. HE SAID
      HE LEARNED ABOUT HARDIN'S FIRST WIFE'S NAME WHEN HE WAS AT THE TRAIN DEPOT
      IN LAWRENCEVILLE AND A WOMAN WITH SEVERAL KIDS ASKED HIM HOW HE WAS
      DOING. SHE EXPLAINED THAT SHE WAS RELATED TO MARY ELIZA BARNES, HARDIN'S
      FIRST WIFE. LEO TOLD ME THAT'S HOW HE LEARNED THAT HARDIN'S FIRST WIFE'S
      NAME WAS MARY ELIZA BARNES.

      BEN CAUDLE, A DESCENDANT OF GEORGE HARDIN CAUDLE, MARY ELIZA BARNES
      CAUDLE'S 11TH CHILD, SAID THAT HARDIN'S FIRST WIFE HAD 13 KIDS.

      MRS HAZEL B. TUNGET OF DELTA, COLORADA, MARY ELIZA BARNES CAUDLE'S
      GRANDDAUGHTER, SAID THAT HARDIN'S FIRST WIFE WAS THE MOTHER OF 12 KIDS.
      SHE WAS PROBABLY COUNTING THE KIDS THAT ACCOMPANIED HARDIN AND ELIZA TO
      ILLINOIS AND WERE BORN THERE.

      HARDIN WAS STRICKENED WHILE HITCHING HIS HORSES UP TO THE SURREY.
      GRANDMA CAUDLE SAID THAT HE WAS HITCHING THE HORSES UP TO GO TO CHURCH
      WHEN HE DIED. LEO HARDIN CAUDLE SAID THAT HE WAS HITCHING THE HORSES UP TO
      GO FISHING. AFTER HITCHING UP THE HORSES, HE WENT IN THE HOUSE AND SOAKED
      HIS FEET IN WATER ACCORDING TO LEO. LEO SAID HE DIED WHILE SOAKING HIS
      FEET. LAWRENCE COUNTY DEATH RECORDS STATE THAT A BLOOD VEIN BURST IN HIS
      HEAD (ANURYISM). HE LIVED FOR ABOUT THREE DAYS IN A COMA BEFORE DYING.

      LEO HARDIN CAUDLE SAID THAT HARDIN STARTED DRINKING HEAVY AFTER HIS THIRD
      WIFE DIED AND LOST EVERYTHING HE HAD. THIS MAY BE WHY HE WASN'T ON THE
      1880 LAWRENCE COUNTY ILLINOIS FEDERAL CENSUS RECORD.

      LEO HARDIN CAUDLE ALSO SAID THAT HARDIN OWNED A LOT OF LAND. HE GAVE
      LAND TO EACH ONE OF HIS BOYS EXCEPT FOR CLINT, LEO'S FATHER. HE HAD
      ALREADY LOST IT BECAUSE OF HIS DRINKING WHEN CLINT BECAME OF AGE.

      MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE
      --------------------
      MARRIAGE BOOK C-D, SECTION D, PAGE 339
      MARRIAGE LICENSE 56
      BE IT KNOWN, THAT ON THIS 31 DAY OF MAY 1861, MARRIAGE LICENSE ISSUED TO
      MR. HARDIN CAUDLE AND RHODA ANN JACKSON.
      I. B. WATTS, CLERK.

      STATE OF ILLINOIS, |
      LAWRENCE COUNTY, | SS:

      I DO HEREBY CERTIFY, THAT THE MARRIAGE OF MR. HARDIN CAUDLE AND RHODA ANN
      JACKSON WAS CELEBRATED BY ME, THIS 2 DAY OF JUNE 1861 ACCORDING TO THE
      USUAL CUSTOM AND THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS.

      GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND SEAL, THIS 4 DAY OF JUNE 1861.

      W. S. BISHOP, M. OF G. (SQUIGGLY LINES IN THE
      SHAPE OF A CLOUD AFTER NAME AND M. OF G.)

      HARDIN CAUDLE LIVED IN GARRARD COUNTY KENTUCKY IN 1840 ACCORDING TO THE
      FOLLOWING 1840 FEDERAL CENSUS.

      1840 GARRARD COUNTY, KENTUCKY FEDERAL CENSUS
      PAGE 43 HARDEN CORDELL
      1 MALE UNDER 5 [1835 - 1840]
      3 FEMALES UNDER 5 [1835 - 1840]
      1 MALE 5 AND UNDER 10 [1830 - 1835]
      1 MALE 20 AND UNDER 30 [1810 - 1820]
      1 FEMALE 20 AND UNDER 30 [1810 - 1820]
      THIS CENSUS SHOWS THAT MARY ELIZABETH BARNES, HARDIN'S FIRST WIFE,
      WAS INDEED THE MOTHER OF 13 KIDS.

      1850 LAWRENCE COUNTY, ILLINOIS FEDERAL CENSUS
      LINE 970
      HARDIN CAUDLE 37 (1813) MALE FARMER WORTH $1000 BORN KENTUCKY
      ELISA CAUDLE 25 (1825) FEMALE KENTUCKY
      WILLIAM CAUDLE 15 (1835) MALE FARMER KENTUCKY
      ELIZABETH CAUDLE 13 (1837) FEMALE KENTUCKY
      MARY CAUDLE 12 (1838) FEMALE KENTUCKY
      JOHN CAUDLE 9 (1841) MALE KENTUCKY
      MOSES CAUDLE 6 (1844) MALE KENTUCKY
      ZACKARY CAUDLE 3 (1847) MALE ILLINOIS
      HENRY CLAY CAUDLE 2 (1848) MALE ILLINOIS

      1860 LAWRENCE COUNTY, ILLINOIS FEDERAL CENSUS
      PAGE 120, LINE 834, SUMNER (CENSUS TAKEN 13 AUG)
      HARDIN CAUDLE 47 (1813) WOOL CORDER WORTH $6000 BORN KENTUCKY
      ELIZA CAUDLE 46 (1814) KENTUCKY
      JOHN CAUDLE 19 (1841) KENTUCKY
      MOSES CAUDLE 17 (1843) KENTUCKY
      ZACHARIAH CAUDLE 13 (1847) ILLINOIS
      HENRY CAUDLE 12 (1848) ILLINOIS
      GEORGE CAUDLE 9 (1851) ILLINOIS
      ELIZA CAUDLE 4 (1856) ILLINOIS
      MARY BLACK 22 (1838) KENTUCKY
      FRANCIS BLACK 3 (1857) ILLINOIS

      1870 LAWRENCE COUNTY, ILLINOIS FEDERAL CENSUS
      PAGE 2, LINE 8, SUMNER, CHRISTY TOWNSHIP (CENSUS TAKEN 6 JUNE 1870)
      HARDIN CAUDEL 55 (1815) FARMER WORTH $9000 BORN KENTUCKY
      MARY CAUDEL 46 (1824) HOUSEKEEPER PENNSYLVANIA
      GEORGE CAUDEL 19 (1851) LABORER ILLINOIS
      ELLEN CAUDEL 14 (1856) ILLINOIS
      ABRAHAM CAUDEL 9 (1861) ILLINOIS
      EMMA CAUDEL 7 (1863) ILLINOIS
      NANCY CAUDEL 4 (1866) ILLINOIS
      CLARA CAUDEL 3 (1867) ILLINOIS
      CLINTON CAUDEL 2 (1868) ILLINOIS
      JOHN HAWKINS 12 (1858) ILLINOIS
      ELIZA SMITH 15 (1855) DOMESTIC SERVANT ILLINOIS
      ELI KING 18 (1852) LABORER ILLINOIS
      NOTE: HARDIN CAUDEL COULD NOT READ OR WRITE

      1880 LAWRENCE COUNTY, ILLINOIS FEDERAL CENSUS
      EVEN THOUGH HARDIN AND MARY CAUDLE WERE LIVING IN 1880, I COULD NOT
      FIND THEM ON THE CENSUS. THEY COULD HAVE BEEN LIVING IN THE SAME
      HOUSEHOLD AS ENOS AND BELLE GRIGGS IN SUMNER (CHRISTY TOWNSHIP). NEED TO
      CHECK THIS OUT. I WENT THROUGH THE WHOLE CENSUS FOR LAWRENCE COUNTY,
      ILLINOIS THREE TIMES ON DIFFERENT DATES. I SHOULD HAVE FOUND THEM IF
      THEY WERE ON THE CENSUS. BOTH DIED IN THE EIGHTIES SO THEY WOULD NOT
      HAVE BEEN ON THE NINETIES FEDERAL CENSUS EVEN IF THE CENSUS HAD NOT
      BURNED.

      LAWRENCE COUNTY, MARRIAGE RECORDS AT LAWRENCEVILLE, ILLINOIS COURT HOUSE:
      --ON 2 JUNE 1861 HARDIN CAUDLE MARRIED MRS. RHODA ANN JACKSON.
      --ON 6 NOVEMBER 1868 HARDIN CAUDLE MARRIED MRS. MARY ANN SMITH.

      LAWRENCE COUNTY DEATH RECORD AT LAWRENCEVILLE, ILLINOIS COURT HOUSE:
      --HARDEN CAUDDLE, AMERICAN, BORN KENTUCKY, WHITE MALE, DIED 27 JULY 1887
      AT 4 O'CLOCK A.M., AGED 74 YEARS 11 MONTHS AND 27 DAYS, AT CHRISTY TOWN
      OF CEREBRAL HEMORAGE, LIVED 7 HOURS AFTER ILLNESS, BURIED PLEASANT HILL
      27 JULY 1887, WIDOWER, UNDERTAKER: T. M. STEVENS, ATTENDING PHYSICIAN:
      A. Q. BAIRD OF SUMNER, ILLINOIS, OCCUPATION: FARMER.

      LAWRENCE COUNTY TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTION AT WHITE HOUSE CHURCH
      (PLEASANT HILL) CEMETERY BETWEEN SUMNER AND BRIDGEPORT, ILLINOIS
      READS HARDIN CAUDLE DIED 27 JULY 1887 AGED 74 YRS 10 MOS 12 DAYS. HE IS
      BURIED BESIDE HIS THIRD WIFE, MARY A. CAUDLE. THE TOMBSTONE HAS HIS
      NAME, DEATH DATE, AND AGE ON THE SOUTH SIDE AND HERS ON THE NORTH SIDE.

      BIRTH DATE CALCULATION:
      --BASED ON DEATH RECORD DEATH DATE: 1887 07 27 CALCULATE: 1886 18 58
      74 11 27 74 11 27
      ---------- ----------
      1812 07 31
      --CHECK: 1887 07 27 ==========
      1812 07 31
      ----------
      74 11 27
      ==========

      --BASED ON TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTION: 1887 07 27 CALCULATE 1886 19 27
      74 10 12 74 10 12
      ---------- ----------
      1812 09 15
      ==========
      --CHECK: 1887 07 27
      1812 09 15
      ----------
      74 10 12
      ==========

      LAWRENCE COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT RECORDS AT LAWRENCVILLE, ILLINOIS COURT
      HOUSE - CHANCERY SUITE NO. 649, FILE BOX 692, JESSIE P. JONES VERSUS
      HARDIN CAUDLE:
      --ENOS GRIGGS, A WITNESS AND HARDIN'S SON-IN-LAW, NAMED HARDIN'S
      CHILDREN AND HEIRS TO HIS PROPERTY. THE CHILDREN AND HEIRS ENOS GRIGGS
      NAMED WERE LISTED IN LONGHAND. THE PROSECUTOR LISTED THE SAME
      CHILDREN AND HEIRS BUT THIS TIME THEY WERE LISTED IN TYPE. HARDIN'S SONS
      WERE NAMED FIRST: WILLIAM CAUDLE, GEORGE CAUDLE, JOHN CAUDLE, HENRY
      CAUDLE, CLINTON CAUDLE, AND ABRAHAM CAUDLE. NEXT, HARDIN'S DAUGHTERS
      WERE NAMED: BELLE GRIGGS (WIFE OF ENOS GRIGGS, WITNESS), CLARA PALMER,
      MARY BLACK, ELIZABETH SMITH, AND PHOEBE HARLAN. THEN, HARDIN'S DAUGHTERS'
      DEATHS AND HIS GRANCHILDREN FROM THEM: MARY BLACK DIED INTESSTATE
      LEAVING FRANK BLACK AND MARTHA HART HER ONLY CHILDREN AND HEIRS AT LAW.
      ELIZABETH SMITH DIED INTESSTATE LEAVING CHARLES SMITH, OLLIE SMITH, AND
      ELIZA SMITH LEWIS, HER ONLY CHILDREN AND HEIRS AT LAW. PHOEBE HARLAN
      DIED INTESSTATE LEAVING J. C. HARLIN, AND FANNIE HARLAN HER ONLY CHILDREN
      AND HEIRS AT LAW. FINALLY, HARDIN'S SON'S DEATH AND HIS GRANDCHILD FROM
      HIM: CLEORA CAUDLE, ZACHARIAH'S ONLY DAUGHTER.

      --THE PROSECUTOR POINTED OUT THAT CLINTON CAUDLE WAS STILL A MINOR (UNDER
      21) AND THAT ENOS GRIGGS WAS 35 YEARS OLD RESIDING NEAR SUMNER, ILLINOIS.
      A NON-RESIDENT NOTICE WAS PUBLISHED IN THE LOCAL NEWSPAPER, THE SUMNER
      PRESS, BETWEEN 21 JUNE AND 19 JULY 1888 SHOWING JESSE P. JONES VERSUS
      WILLIAM CAUDLE, GEORGE CAUDLE, JOHN CAUDLE, HENRY CAUDLE, CLINTON CAUDLE,
      ABRAHAM CAUDLE, BELLE GRIGGS, DANIEL GRIGGS, CLARA PALMER, FRANK BLACK,
      MARTHA HART, CHARLES SMITH, ELIZA LEWIS, J. C. HARLAN, FANNIE HARLAN
      (RESIDENT WITH AN ESTABLISHED RESIDENCE AND POST OFFICE ADDRESS AT FT.
      SMITH, ARKANSAS). THE COURT PUT HARDIN CAUDLE'S CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN
      ON NOTICE THAT JESSE P. JONES HAD FILED SUIT.

      --ACCORDING TO ENOS GRIGGS, HARDIN'S SON-IN-LAW, AND DANIEL GRIGGS, ENOS'
      FATHER, HARDIN BORROWED $1250 FROM WILLIAM LAWRENCE OF OHIO USING HIS
      LAND AS COLLATERAL. A COPY OF THE PROMISSORY NOTE THAT HARDIN AND MARY A.
      CAUDLE PURPORTEDLY SIGNED IN 1882 WAS INCLUDED IN THE FILE. [NOTE:
      NEITHER ONE OF THEM, HARDIN OR MARY, COULD READ AND WRITE ACCORDING TO
      FEDERAL CENSUS RECORDS.] ENOS AND DANIEL GRIGGS TESTIFIED THAT HARDIN
      CAUDLE BORROWED MORE MONEY WHEN THE PROMISSORY NOTE MATURED BY SIGNING
      ADDITIONAL NOTES WITH ENOS AND DANIEL GRIGGS AS SURETIES OR CONSIGNERS.

      --IN THIS WAY, ACCORDING TO ENOS, HARDIN RELINGUISHED OWNERSHIP OF HIS
      LAND SINCE HE GAVE THE LAND (156 1/2 ACRES) TO ENOS IN RETURN FOR ENOS
      PAYING ALL OF HIS DEBTS. HOWEVER, ENOS TESTIFIED THAT HARDIN GAVE HIS
      SON, ABE L. CAUDLE 60 ACRES OF THE LAND HE HAD ORIGINALLY PUT UP AS
      COLLATERAL FOR THE $1250. JESSE P. JONES, ENOS AND DANIEL GRIGGS
      PAID-OFF HARDIN'S LOAN FOR $1250 AND SUED ABE L. CAUDLE FOR A 60 ACRE
      SHARE ($347.12) SINCE THE 60 ACRES HAD ORIGINALLY BEEN USED AS COLLATERAL
      FOR THE $1250 LOAN.

      --ABE CAUDLE REFUSED TO PAY THE $347.12 AND, AS A RESULT THE THREE -
      JESSE P. JONES, ENOS AND DANIEL GRIGGS - TOOK HIM TO COURT. THE OUTCOME
      OF THE COURT'S DECISION IS NOT SHOWN IN THE FILE.

      LAWRENCE COUNTY PROPERTY RECORDS AT LAWRENCEVILLE, ILLINOIS:
      --GRANTEE DEEDS, BOOK E PAGES 553 AND 554: ON 13 DECEMBER 1844 HARDIN
      CAUDLE PURCHASED 65 ACRES FOR $332.50 FROM DANIEL AND NANCY BARNES. ON
      10 JANUARY 1848 HARDIN CAUDLE PURCHASED 37 ACRES FOR $200 FROM JOHN PERRY
      AND AMANDA FYFFE. IT WAS NOTORIZED THE SAME DAY. BOOK F PAGE 458 AND
      459: ON 17 DECEMBER 1850 HARDIN CADDEL PURCHASED 40 ACRES FOR $325 FROM
      ALFRED AND ELIZABETH LAWS. BOOK G PAGE 50: ON 9 OCTOBER 1851 HARDIN
      CAUDLE PURCHASED 40 ACRES FOR $150 FROM ALFRED AND ELIZABETH LAWS. BOOK
      G PAGE 384: ON 15 OCTOBER 1852 HARDIN CAUDLE PURCHASED 80 ACRES FOR $250
      FROM CYNTHIA DUTTEN. BOOK I PAGE 136: ON 24 OCTOBER 1854 HARDIN CAUDLE
      PURCHASED 40 ACRES FOR $400 FROM WASHINGTON AND REBECCA COMBS.

      --GRANTEE DEEDS CONTINUED, BOOK K PAGE 473: ON 7 JANUARY 1857 HARDIN
      CAUDLE PURCHASED 40 ACRES FOR $325 FROM DAVID AND MARY A. BURGET. BOOK K
      PAGE 578: ON 24 AUGUST 1857 HARDIN CAUDLE PURCHASED 40 ACRES FOR $250
      FROM BENJAMIN F. AND MARY MARTIN. BOOK L PAGE 151: ON 4 JANUARY
      1858 HARDIN CAUDLE PURCHASED 40 ACRES FOR $225 FROM GEORGE A. AND AMANDA
      ELLEN ABERNATHY. BOOK L PAGE 490: ON 17 NOVEMBER 1860 HARDIN CAUDLE
      PURCHASED 10 ACRES FOR $425 FROM GEORGE AND MARY E. WISE. BOOK 3 PAGE
      358: ON 7 MARCH 1860 HARDIN CAUDLE PURCHASED 10 ACRES FOR $150 FROM
      THOMAS AND MARY HARDIN. BOOK U PAGE 276: ON 1 APRIL 1869 HARDIN CAUDLE
      PURCHASED 80 ACRES FOR $1200 FROM MARY AND MICHEAL HAYS. BOOK 2 PAGE
      548: ON 3 NOV 1870 HARDIN CADLE PURCHASED 5 ACRES FOR $400 FROM THOMAS
      R. AND MARY J. HAZZARD.

      --OVERALL, HARDIN PURCHASED 527 ACRES FOR $4,632.50 BETWEEN 13 DECEMBER
      1844 AND 3 NOVEMBER 1870. HE PAID ABOUT $8.79 AN ACRE. THE LAND HE
      PURCHASED IS IN THE PROXIMITY OF RED ROCK CANYON WHICH IS A NATIONAL PARK
      AREA NOW.

      --GRANTOR DEEDS, BOOK K PAGE 472: IN 1857 HARDIN AND ELIZA
      CAUDLE SOLD 40 ACRES TO WILLIAM CAUDLE FOR $4. THE LAND WAS ORIGINALLY
      ACQUIRED FROM THE U.S. AT PALESTINE, ILLINOIS. THE SALE WAS NOTORIZED ON
      17 OCTOBER 1857 AND FILED ON 14 SEPTEMBER 1858. BOOK Y PAGE 107: ON 17
      AUGUST 1868 HARDEN CAUDLE SOLD 40 ACRES FOR $500 TO JOHN BOWER. THE LAND
      WAS SITUATED IN CHRISTY TOWNSHIP. BOOK Y PAGE 567: ON 20 AUGUST
      1868 HARDEN CAUDLE SOLD 40 ACRES TO JOHN CAUDLE FOR $1000. THE LAND WAS
      SITUATED IN CHRISTY TOWNSHIP. BOOK V PAGE 202: ON 15 MARCH 1871 HARDIN
      AND MARY A. CAUDLE SOLD SOME LAND TO W. J. AND VOLEULINE J. MAYO FOR
      $500. BOOK 2 PAGE 374: ON 21 JUNE 1875 HARDEN AND MARY ANN CAUDLE SOLD
      60 ACRES TO ANDREW MOORE FOR $13OO. THE LAND WAS SITUATED IN CHRISTY
      TOWNSHIP. IN THIS TRANSACTION MARY ANN SIGNED HER NAME AND IT WAS NOTED
      BY THIS RESEARCHER THAT IN OTHER TRANSACTIONS SHE MADE A MARK (X).

      MINUTES OF PLEASANT HILL CHRISTIAN CHURCH NEAR SUMNER AND BRIDGEPORT,
      ILLINOIS IN LAWRENCE COUNTY (PROVIDED BY BYRON R. LEWIS, RESIDENT):
      --BOOK D PAGE 567 AND 568, 7 JULY 1843: DANIEL AND NANCY BARNES
      [HARDIN'S BROTHER-IN-LAW] SOLD LAND TO THE TRUSTEES 22 APRIL 1843.
      FOLLOWING THIS RECORDING IS A LIST OF MEMBERS - HARDIN CAUDLE IS ABOUT
      THE 20TH LISTED. THEN ELIZA CAUDLE DEPARTS THIS LIFE 8 DECEMBER. LATER,
      WILLIAM AND ESTER CAUDLE [HARDIN'S FIRST SON AND WIFE] REMOVED. SARAH
      CAUDLE [?] DIED FROM PNEUMONIA 15 JANUARY 1879. ELIZABETH CAUDLE
      [HARDIN'S DAUGHTER] DIED 1865. THEN HARDIN CAUDLE DIED. HENRY AND
      ELIZABETH CAUDLE AND GEORGE AND ELIZA CAUDLE [HARDIN'S SONS AND
      THEIR WIVES] REMOVED TO HAMILTON COUNTY FOLLOWED BY JOHN CAUDLE [ANOTHER
      ONE OF HARDIN'S SONS]. ESTER CAUDLE IS SHOWN AGAIN AS REMOVING TO
      HAMILTON COUNTY. FOR THE MOST PART, VERY FEW DATES ARE GIVEN. THIS
      INFORMATION WAS FURNISHED BY BYRON R. LEWIS, GENEALOGIST, OF 532
      JEFFERSON ST., BRIDGEPORT, ILLINOIS AND THE BYRON R. LEWIS LIBRARY AT
      VINCENNES UNIVERSITY, VINCENNES, INDIANA.

      LETTER WITH VINCENNES UNIVERSITY, JUNIOR COLLEGE, VINCENNES, INDIANA
      47591 LETTERHEAD: PAGE 1: SEPTEMBER 24, 1973, MR. PRESTON CAUDLE, 1602
      EDGEVALE DRIVE, HARRISONVILLE, MISSOURI 64701, DEAR MR. CAUDLE: RECENTLY
      OUR DIRECTOR, MR. THOMAS KRASEAN, HAS BEEN RECEIVING LARGE QUANTITIES OF
      MATERIALS FROM THE HOME OF MR. BYRON R. LEWIS. MR. LEWIS IS NOT IN GOOD
      HEALTH AND SEEMS TO BE CONSIDERING THE POSSIBILITY THAT IT MAY BECOME
      NECESSARY FOR HIM TO LEAVE HIS HOME IN ORDER TO HAVE CARE.

      UPON GOING THROUGH THESE MATERIALS, I FOUND THE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL
      MINUTES OF THE PLEASANT HILL CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF LAWRENCE COUNTY,
      ILLINOIS, FOR WHICH YOU HAD INQUIRED ON YOUR VISIT TO THE LIBRARY DURING
      THE SUMMER.

      PERHAPS YOU DID STOP TO SEE MR. LEWIS, AS YOU MENTIONED, BUT ON THE
      CHANCE THAT YOU DID NOT RECEIVE THE INFORMATION, I AM ENCLOSING THE NAMES
      AND INFORMATION GIVEN ON THE MEMBERS OF YOUR FAMILY.

      "PLEASANT HILL CHRISTIAN CHURCH, LAWRENCE COUNTY, ILLINOIS, ORGANIZED
      JANUARY 15, 1843.

      HARDIN CAUDLE; ELIZA CAUDLE [HARDIN'S FIRST WIFE] DEPARTED THIS LIFE 12/8;
      WILLIAM CAUDLE [HARDIN'S FIRST SON], BY CONF., REMOVED (NO DATE OR REASON);
      ESTER CAUDLE [WILLIAM'S WIFE], BY CONF., REMOVED.

      NAMES OF MEMBERS OF CHRISTIAN CHURCH REORGANIZED AT PLEASANT HILL MEETING
      HOUSE, LAWRENCE COUNTY, JANUARY 1871.

      SARAH CAUDLE [?], DIED 1/15/1879 (OF PNEUMONIA); HARDIN CAUDLE, DIED (NO
      DATE); ELIZABETH CAUDLE [HARDIN'S DAUGHTER], BY CONF. & BAPT., DIED 1865;
      MARY A. CAUDLE [HARDIN'S THIRD WIFE] DIED; 5/1871, HENRY CAUDLE [HARDIN'S
      SON], CONF. & BAPT., MOVED TO HAMILTON COUNTY, ILLINOIS; ELIZABETH CAUDLE
      [HENRY'S WIFE], CONF. & BAPT., MOVED TO HAMILTON COUNTY, ILLINOIS; GEORGE
      CAUDLE [HARDIN'S SON], CONF. & BAPT., MOVED TO HAMILTON COUNTY, ILLINOIS;
      ELIZA CAUDLE, HIS [GEORGE'S] WIFE, MOVED TO HAMILTON COUNTY, ILLINOIS;
      JOHN CAUDLE [HARDIN'S SON], MOVED TO HAMILTON COUNTY, ILLINOIS; DEC.,
      ESTHER CAUDLE [WILLIAM'S WIFE ?], MOVED TO HAMILTON COUNTY, ILLINOIS.

      PAGE 2: I REGRET THERE WERE NOT MORE SPECIFIC DATES BUT I HAVE COPIED
      THEM JUST AS THEY APPEARED. PERHAPS THE ELIZABETH CAUDLE DATE OF DEATH
      WAS LISTED INCORRECTLY OR ELSE SHE WAS NOT DROPPED FROM THE CHURCH ROLL
      SOON AFTER HER DEATH.

      I HOPE THAT THIS INFORMATION MAY BE OF SOME HELP TO YOU IN YOUR
      GENEALOGY. IF WE CAN BE OF FURTHER ASSISTANCE, LET US KNOW.

      SINCERELY, SIGNED, DONNA BEESON, SECRETARY TO THOMAS KRASEAN, DIRECTOR
      LEWIS HISTORICAL LIBRARY, DB/DB.

      PEARL CAUDLE MOSER, MY AUNT, TOLD ME THAT ONE OF HER GRANDMOTHERS -
      PROBABLY HARDIN'S MOTHER - HIT AN INDIAN IN THE HEAD WITH A TOMAHAWK DURING
      AN INDIAN ATTACK ON THEIR FARM. THE WAY AUNT PEARL TOLD THE STORY THE
      MEN WERE OUT IN THE FIELD WORKING WHEN THE INDIANS ATTACKED. THE WOMEN
      RAN INTO THE LOG CABIN. HEARING A SCRATCHING SOUND ON THE DOOR AND
      THINKING THAT IT WAS THE MEN RETURNING FROM THE FIELD, THE WOMEN OPENED
      THE DOOR. TO THEIR SURPRISE AN INDIAN BUCK RAN IN. HARDIN'S MOTHER
      GRABBED A HATCHET AND HIT HIM IN THE HEAD WITH IT.

      THE CENSUS RECORDS SHOW HARDIN AS BORN IN KENTUCKY. BUT HE MAY HAVE BEEN
      BORN IN TENNESSEE BEFORE KENTUCKY BOUGHT THE JACKSON PURCHASE FROM
      TENNESSEE. THE JACKSON PURCHASE INCLUDED CADIZ, KENTUCKY AND WHAT IS
      KNOWN TODAY AS TWIGG COUNTY, KENTUCKY, WHERE HARDIN'S FATHER LIVED WHEN
      HE DIED.
      RESEARCH REQUIRED
      TAX RECORDS:

      NEED TO REVIEW TAX RECORDS AT LAWRENCEVILLE, ILLINOIS FROM 1843 THROUGH
      1887. CHECK THE TAX RECORDS OF ADJOINING COUNTIES CRAWFORD, EDWARDS,
      RICHLAND, AND WABASH FOR SAME PERIOD. CHECK TAX RECORDS IN SULLIVAN AND
      KNOX COUNTIES IN INDIANA FOR SAME PERIOD. ALSO, CHECK TAX RECORDS AT
      LANCASTER IN GARRARD COUNTY, AND RICHMOND IN MADISON COUNTY, KENTUCKY FOR
      1833 THROUGH 1843. ALSO, CHECK TAX RECORDS AT LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY FOR 1833
      TO 1840 FOR CAUDLES.

      COURT RECORDS:

      CHECK COURT RECORDS FOR CAUDLES AT LEXINGTON IN FAYETTE COUNTY FROM 1833
      THROUGH 1843; RICHMOND IN MADISON COUNTY FROM 1833 TO 1840; AND LANCASTER
      IN GARRARD COUNTY FROM 1833 THROUGH 1843, KENTUCKY. HARDIN MAYBE LISTED
      IN MADISON COUNTY, KENTUCKY SINCE THE RAILROAD ATLAS SHOWS WILLIAM CAUDLE
      BEING BORN THERE IN 1835. COPY ALL OF THE CIRCUIT COURT CASE PAPERS ON
      JESSE P. JONES VERSUS HARDIN CAUDLE: CHANCERY SUIT 649, FILE BOX 692 AT
      THE COURT HOUSE IN LAWRENCEVILLE, ILLINOIS.

      CHECK HIGHER COURT CASE AND DOCKETS FOR HARDIN. THESE MIGHT BE CALLED
      DISTRICT, SUPERIOR, COURTS AND THE STATE SUPREME COURT. ALSO, THEIR
      OUGHT TO BE A JUDGEMENT RECORDED FOR OR AGAINST ABRAHAM LINCOLN CAUDLE
      FOR HIS PART IN THE JESSE P. JONES VERSUS HARDIN CAUDLE CASE.

      CHECK ON GUARDIANSHIPS. HARDIN SHOULD SHOW-UP IN SOME COURT AS BEING
      RELEASED FROM WILLIAM McWATERS' GUARDIANSHIP. ALSO, HE OR HIS SISTER,
      ELIZABETH, MAY HAVE BECOME THE GUARDIAN AFTER THEY ATTAINED THEIR MAJORITY.

      LAND RECORDS:

      CHECK LAND RECORDS IN BOTH GARRARD AND MADISON COUNTIES KENTUCKY FOR
      PURCHASES OF LAND BY HARDIN. CHECK LAND RECORDS IN THE ADJOINING
      COUNTIES; ESPECIALLY, RICHLAND, EDWARDS, WABASH, AND CRAWFORD IN
      ILLINOIS. ALSO, CHECK KNOX AND SULLIVAN IN INDIANNA. CHECK FOR LAND
      GRANTS IN THE LAND GRANT OFFICES, STATE HISTORICAL LIBRARY COUNTY SEATS.

      LIBRARIES:

      CHECK LIBRARY AT LANCASTER, LEXINGTON, AND RICHMOND IN GARRARD, FAYETTE
      AND MADISON COUNTIES FOR CEMETERY RECORDS FOR HARDIN'S CHILDREN AND
      COUNTY HISTORIES FOR CAUDLES. CHECK NEWSPAPERS THERE FOR ARTICLES AND
      OBITUARIES ON CAUDLES. CHECK NEWSPAPER ARTICLES AND OBITUARIES FOR CAUDLES
      AT LAWRENCEVILLE, AND SUMNER IN LAWRENCE COUNTY, ILLINOIS. CHECK FOR
      NEWSPAPERS AT THE STATE HISTORICAL LIBRARY AND IF AVAILABLE
      REVIEW THE ONES FOR LAWRENCEVILLE AND SUMNER, ILLINOIS. CHECK
      SURROUNDING COUNTIES NEWSPAPERS FOR ARTICLES AND OBITUARIES ON CAUDLES;
      ESPECIALLY, OLNEY IN RICHLAND COUNTY, MT. CARMEL IN WABASH COUNTY, ALBION
      IN EDWARDS COUNTY, ROBINSON IN CRAWFORD COUNTY, ILLINOIS AND SULLIVAN IN
      SULLIVAN COUNTY, AND VINCENNES IN KNOX COUNTY, INDIANA. CHECK NEWSPAPERS
      IN LEXINGTON FOR ARTICLES AND OBITURAIES ON CAUDLES. THE
      MICROFILM FOR NEWSPAPERS MAY NOT BE IN THE LIBRARIES EXCEPT FOR THE
      STATE HISTORICAL LIBRARY IN SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS. THE MICROFILM MAY
      BE AT THE CURRENT NEWSPAPER OPERATING THERE.

      CHECK THE STATE HISTORICAL LIBRARY FOR BOOKS, NEWSPAPERS, CEMETERY, AND
      COUNTY HISTORIES FOR CAUDLES. DO THE SAME AT THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY IN
      CHICAGO, ONE OF THE LARGEST LIBRARIES IN THE WEST.

      CHECK THE BYRON R. LEWIS LIBRARY AT VINCENNES, INDIANNA. HE LIVED AT
      BRIDGEPORT, ILLINOIS AND KNEW HARDIN CAUDLE. I MET HIM ON MY TRIP TO
      SUMNER IN 1971. HE HELPED ME BY SHOWING ME THE RAILROAD ATLAS AND
      FINDING THE WHITE HOUSE CHURCH MINUTES FOR ME WHERE HARDIN AND HIS FAMILY
      ATTENDED CHURCH. HARDIN AND TWO OF HIS WIVES ARE BURIED THERE IN THE
      CHURCH CEMETERY.

      IT MAYBE FRUITFULL TO LOOK AT SEVERAL OF THE OTHER LARGER LIBRARIES IN
      ILLINOIS AND VINCENNES, INDIANNA.

      CENSUS RECORDS:

      REVIEW 1830 FEDERAL CENSUS FOR WILLIAM MCWATERS, AND JOHN SHAW AND JOHN
      McALLISTER, SECURITIES FOR APPOINTING WILLIAM McWATER GUARDIAN OF
      ELIZABETH, H. R. AND CHARLES W. CAUDLE. HARDIN AND HIS BROTHER CHARLES AND
      SISTER ELIZABETH SHOULD BE ON THE CENSUS IN WILLIAM McWATERS' HOUSEHOLD.
      THEY WOULD SHOW UP UNDER AGE GROUPS. ALSO, REVIEW ANY STATE CENSUS FOR
      1830 IF AVAILABLE. TRY TRIGG COUNTY, KENTUCKY FIRST AND ADJOINING COUNTIES
      SECOND: SUCH AS CHRISTIAN, CALDWELL, LYON, MARSHALL, AND CALLAWAY COUNTIES
      IN KENTUCKY SECOND. THEN TRY KENTUCKY STATE 1830 FEDERAL CENSUS INDEX NEXT.
      ALSO, TRY STEWART COUNTY, TENNESSEE AND ADJOINING COUNTIES SUCH AS HENRY,
      MONTGOMERY, DICKSON, HUMPHREYS, DAVIDSON, AND TENNESEE.

      REVIEW 1850, 60, AND 70 FEDERAL CENSUS' FOR HARDIN'S NEIGHBORS. REVIEW
      1880 FEDERAL CENSUS AGAIN AND CHECK FOR HARDIN. HIS NAME MAY HAVE BEEN
      REVERSED, I.E., HARDIN, CAUDLE. ALSO, CHECK FOR ENOS GRIGGS ON THE 1880
      CENSUS RECORD. HE MAY HAVE BEEN LIVING IN HARDIN'S HOUSE. ALSO, HARDIN MAY
      HAVE BEEN PICKED-UP IN HIS HOUSEHOLD. CHECK HARDIN'S OTHER KIDS LIKE
      ABRAHAM LINCOLN CAUDLE TO SEE IF HARDIN IS LISTED WITH HIM. ALSO, CHECK
      HARDIN'S DAUGHTERS. HE MAY HAVE BEEN LISTED IN THEIR HOUSEHOLD. REVIEW
      1880 TAX LIST TO SEE IF HARDIN IS LISTED ON IT.

      CHECK THE MORTALITY SCHEDULES FOR 1850 THROUGH 1880 FOR CAUDLES (HARDIN'S
      KIDS AND WIVES. CHECK THE AGRICULTURE SCHEDULES FOR HARDIN AND HIS BOYS
      FOR THE SAME PERIOD.

      CHECK FOR ILLINOIS STATE CENSUS. IF AVAILABLE, REVIEW THEM.

      ATLASES:

      CHECK RAILROAD ATLASES FOR HARDIN. THERE MAYBE MORE THAN ONE. THESE
      MAYBE AT THE STATE HISTORICAL LIBRARY OR OTHER LIBRARIES IN ILLINOIS OR
      INDIANA. THE BYRON R. LEWIS LIBRARY IN VINCENNES, INDIANA MAY HAVE ALL
      OF THEM. CHECK THEM TO SEE IF HARDIN IS LISTED AS LAND OWNER. THEY MAY
      SHOW DANIEL BARNES AS THE OWNER OF HARDIN'S LAND SINCE HE PURCHASED THE
      LAND HE FIRST BOUGHT FROM HIM. DANIEL WAS HARDIN'S BROTHER-IN-LAW.

      SCHOOL CENSUS:

      CHECK SCHOOL CENSUS IF AVAILABLE. THIS MIGHT LIST HIS CHILDREN AND, OF
      COURSE, HARDIN'S MIDDLE NAME. I AM MISSING AT LEAST ONE CHILD'S NAME. SO
      THIS MAY GIVE IT.

      DRAPER MANUSCRIPTS:

      THERE ARE ABOUT 50 OF THESE MANUSCRIPTS. THE SERIES RUN FROM A TO ZZ. THE
      MANUSCRIPTS HAVE A LOT OF RECORDS THAT CANNOT BE FOUND ELSEWHERE THAT
      MAY HAVE SOMETHING ON HARDIN. THEY ARE NOT INDEXED BY NAME BUT BY SUBJECT.
      THEREFORE, MOST OF THEM WILL HAVE TO BE REVIEWED. HOWEVER, A GOOD PLACE
      TO START ARE THE CALENDAR OF THE KENTUCKY PAPERS (37 VOLS), AND THE
      ILLINOIS MANUSCRIPTS (1 VOL). MOST OF THE OTHER MANUSCRIPTS HAVE
      REFERENCES TO THESE PLACES OR NAMES SUCH AS THE GEORGE ROGERS CLARK
      PAPERS (65 VOLS), DANIEL BOONE PAPERS (33 VOLS), ETC. OVER NINETY
      LIBRARIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY HAVE COMPLETE SETS OF THE MICROFILM AND ONE
      CAN ORDER THE MICROFILM ON INTERLIBRARY LOANS.

      THE SHANE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION:

      THERE IS A GENEALOGICAL GUIDE TO THESE KENTUCKY AND OHIO PAPERS. I HAVE
      IT. ONE SHOULD READ IT THOROUGHLY BEFORE REVIEWING ANY MICROFILM.
      USE OF THIS COLLECTION REQUIRES ADVANCED RESEARCH SKILLS, AND SHOULD NOT
      BE UNDERTAKEN UNTIL ONE IS WELL INTO FAMILY RESEARCH. THE PERSON DOING
      THE RESEARCH NEEDS TO BE FAMILIAR WITH THE FAMILY NAMES INVOLVED SINCE
      THE COLLECTION IS NOT INDEXED. THERE ARE ABOUT 32 MICROFILM REELS OF
      INFORMATION.

      BROTHER AND SISTER:

      LOOK FOR HARDIN'S BROTHER, CHARLES W., AND SISTER, ELIZABETH. LOOK AT
      MARRIAGE LICENSES IN TRIGG, AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES SUCH AS CHRISTIAN,
      CALDWELL, LYON, MARSHALL, AND CALLOWAY. LOOK AT MARRIAGE LICENSES AT
      FAYETTE COUNTY, KENTUCKY WHERE HARDIN WAS MARRIED AND AND SURROUNDING
      COUNTIES SUCH AS CLARK, BOURBON, SCOTT, FRANKLIN, WOODFORD,
      MERCER, LINCOLN, JESSAMINE, MADISON, AND GARRARD. CHECK ANY MARRIAGE
      LICENSES FOUND FOR THE STATE.

      LOOK FOR MARRIAGE LICENSES IN STEWART COUNTY, TENNESSEE AND SURROUNDING
      COUNTIES MONTGOMERY, ROBERTSON, SUMNER, DAVIDSON, WILLIAMSON, HUMPHREYS,
      OR ANY OTHER MARRIAGE LICENSE FOUND FOR THE STATE.

      LOOK AT MARRIAGE LICENSES FOR NORTH CAROLINA IN CASE HARDIN'S BROTHER AND
      SISTER WENT THERE TO LIVE AFTER THEIR FATHER AND MOTHER DIED.

      LOOK AT TAX RECORDS FOR KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE, AND NORTH CAROLINA.

      LOOK AT THE DRAPER AND SHANE MANUSCRIPTS.

      OVERALL COMMENT:

      TAX, COURT, AND LAND RECORDS, AS WELL AS NEWSPAPER ARTICLES, COULD
      PROVIDE INFORMATION ON HARDIN CAUDLE'S MIDDLE NAME, HIS FATHER AND
      MOTHER, WHERE HE CAME FROM BEFORE HE ARRIVED IN ILLINOIS, HIS CHILDREN,
      HIS EXPERIENCES, ETC. ALL OF THESE REASONS JUSTIFY RUNNING DOWN THE
      LEADS. THE MORE ONE FINDS OUT ABOUT THEIR MOST RECENT ANCESTORS HELPS ONE
      TO FIND THE PRECEDING ANCESTORS.

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