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 1839 - 1907 (68 years)
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| Name |
David Jesse CAUDILL [1] |
| Birth |
09 Mar 1839 |
Letcher Co., KY  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
09 Apr 1907 |
Olive Hill, Carter Co., KY [1] |
| Person ID |
I3734 |
Rootballs |
| Last Modified |
10 Jan 2015 |
| Father |
John Adams CAUDILL, b. 01 Jan 1798, Ashe Co., NC d. 18 May 1873, Letcher Co., KY (Age 75 years) |
| Relationship |
Natural |
| Mother |
Rachel CORNETT, b. 10 Feb 1807, Letcher Co., KY d. 15 Apr 1887, Perry Co., KY (Age 80 years) |
| Relationship |
Natural |
| Marriage |
20 Mar 1824 |
Letcher Co., KY [1] |
| Family ID |
F1546 |
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| Notes |
- 1.David entered the Confederate Army as a Captain in Col. Ben Caudill's Regiment, and was promoted later to Lt. Colonel. He was wounded by Clabe Jones at the Battle of Big Leatherwood. James Calybourn Jones in his diary records his recollections as follows (from the "Autobiography of Old Clabe Jones" as re-produced by Eagle Printing Co., Whitesburg, KY).
"In a few weeks the Rebels went from Whitesburg to the salt wells in Perry Co.. Captain Morgan and myself concluded to drive the Rebels out of Perry and on our way we met and engaged them in a battle on Leatherwood creek and surprised them while they were stealing a deaf and dumb man's watermelons. There was one man killed on each side. The Rebels were commanded by Captain Jesse Caudill, a brave man. He was on one side of the creek and I was on the other. He was standing behind a small tree. I was watching him closely and as he turned to give a command to his men, I gave him a Yankee pill from Shampee (Clabe's name for his gun) some where in his hind quarters. We had a hot time for a while. I was unusually mad, not because we had met the Rebels for we had defeated them, but I had gathered up an armful of ripe pawpaws and had to drop them when the fight began. We captured the watermelons also from the deaf man and all their grub. We got the biggest pone of corn bread I ever saw. It would have weighed more than fifty pounds. They had baked it in a salt kettle and were carring it in a coffee sack."
In 1867 David was a deputy county clerk of Wise Co., VA. At the time of the 1900 census he and Margaret were living with their son-in-law, U. G. Pennington in Carter Co., KY. Based on a story in the Olive Hill Newspaper, David was found on the morning of April 10, 1907, hanging from his barn loft by harness reins. Brian K. Caudill.
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