Samuel Caldwell and Anna Maria Oatman

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Husband Samuel Caldwell ^{1 2}

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           Born: 27 Nov 1793 - Porter Twp, Huntingdon Co, PA 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 1 May 1857 - Cromwell Twp, Huntingdon Co, PA 3
         Buried:  - Shade Gap Presbyterian Cemetery

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         Father: Maj. David Caldwell (1762-1813) 4
         Mother: Rebecca Dean (1770-Abt 1834) 4

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       Marriage: Abt 1839

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   Other Spouse: Mary "Polly" Cryder (1802-1835) 2 5 - 16 May 1826 6

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Wife Anna Maria Oatman ⁷

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            AKA: Mariah Oatman 3
           Born: 8 Sep 1816 2
     Christened: 
           Died: Aft May 1857
         Buried:  - Shade Gap Presbyterian Cemetery

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         Father: Jacob Oatman (      -1835) 8
         Mother: Mary McReady (1779-1850) 7

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Children

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1 M William Calvin Caldwell ^{2 3}

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           Born: 16 May 1840 - Water Street, Huntingdon Co, PA 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 16 Nov 1880 - Tyrone, Blair Co, PA 2 3
         Buried:  - Shade Gap Presbyterian Cemetery

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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2 F Rebecca Elizabeth Caldwell ^{2 3}

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           Born: 17 Jan 1842 - Water Street, Huntingdon Co, PA 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 21 Oct 1875 2
         Buried:  - Shade Gap Presbyterian Cemetery

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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3 M Robert Caldwell ²

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           Born: 24 Dec 1843 - Huntingdon, Huntingdon Co, PA 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 11 Jan 1848 - Huntingdon, Huntingdon Co, PA 2
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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4 F Letitia Mariah Caldwell ^{2 3}

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           Born: 3 Oct 1845 - Franklin Twp, Huntingdon Co, PA 2
     Christened: 
           Died: Aft 1883
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Prof. A. W. Greene (      -      ) 2

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5 M Samuel Dean Caldwell ^{2 3}

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           Born: 3 Nov 1847 - Huntingdon, Huntingdon Co, PA 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Jennie Gertrude Ardinger (      -      ) 9

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General Notes: Husband - Samuel Caldwell

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Shortly after his marriage he removed to Water Street, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, and there erected an axe-factory, and carried on the same successfully until 1842, when he quit the business and removed to Franklin township, Huntingdon County, to engage in the manufacture of blooms at Elizabeth Forge No. 2. In that business, by reason of the great depression in the iron trade which prevailed from 1844 to 1846, he was unsuccessful, and in 1847, he having on the 15th of May, 1845, been appointed by John Laporte, surveyor-general of the State, deputy surveyor for the county of Huntingdon, removed to Huntingdon, and continued to reside there until the spring of 1852, when he removed to his farm in Cromwell township.
He was an earnest, energetic citizen, and was prominently identified with the business interests of the county, and with the military system of the times in which he lived. His axe-factory was the first erected within the limits of the county, and for many years it supplied the valley of the Juniata, as well as the counties of Clearfield, Cambria, Indiana, and Westmoreland, with axes and other edge tools. He was a captain of volunteers as early as 1821, was elected and commissioned major of the Second Battalion, Twenty-ninth Regiment, Pennsylvania militia, March 28, 1826, and after nine years' service as major was elected, and in 1835 commissioned brigade inspector of Second Brigade, Tenth Division, and served as such until 1842. His brigade included the enrolled militia of Mifflin, Centre, Huntingdon, and Clearfield Counties.
In 1835 he was appointed and commissioned by Governor Wolf a justice of the peace for the county of Huntingdon.

After successfully operating an axe factory at Water Street for many years he went into the manufacture of "blooms" at Elizabeth Forge. But the great depression in the iron trade coming on, he failed in his new enterprise. He was county surveyor for six years, and passed much of his time in the woods tracing old lines and settling disputes as to boundaries, being considered one of the best land surveyors in the country. About 1850 he purchased a farm in Black Log valley, in the lower end of Huntingdon County, to which he removed his family, which consisted then (1852) of his wife and four children, the children of his first wife not being at home then. This farm he named "Hickory Grove," from the large quantity of hickory which grew upon the place. Here he farmed until his death, though he still surveyed a great deal, often being from home weeks at a time. It was while on one of his surveying trips that he contracted the cold which terminated in his death. He died of pneumonia, which was little understood at that day.

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General Notes: Wife - Anna Maria Oatman

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After the death of her husband she moved with her four children to Shade Gap in 1858, where at Milnwood Academy they received a fair educational training.

1 J. Simpson Africa, The History of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1883), Pg 412, 422.

2 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 749.

3 J. Simpson Africa, The History of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1883), Pg 413.

4 J. Simpson Africa, The History of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1883), Pg 412.

5 J. Simpson Africa, The History of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1883), Pg 413, 422.

6 J. Simpson Africa, The History of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1883), Pg 422.

7 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 747.

8 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 746.

9 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 750.