DOWN IN THE COUNTRY, WITH A FEW DETOURS
John McCamey Caldwell, my grandfather, was born on July 19, 1861(dates and other historical matters that precede my memory I know only because of the painstaking research by my first cousin, Mary Lynn Caldwell Morrill, the beautiful and brilliant oldest child of our grandfather’s oldest child, my Uncle Frank). I don’t know where his middle name came from but it’s also the middle name of my father, Joe, the fourth of his twelve children (born February 27, 1908, the same month and day of his youngest siblings, twins Dot and Don’s birthday in 1930 and mine in 1946). My brother Bill’s middle name is McKamie, but that’s another story.
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