1882 LETTERHEAD George W. Caldwell SAN ANTONIO TEXAS Arthur Brooks ADAMS WICKES

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LETTERHEAD
from
Geo. (George) W. Caldwell
in
San Antonio,
Texas
in the year
1882.
"General Real Estate Agent"
also representing the lands of
ADAMS & WICKES .
This letterhead is in good condition and does have normal letter folds and some very minor flaws.  Caldwell was born April 11, 1834 and settled in San Antonio in the year 1854.
George had a younger brother named Arthur Brooks Caldwell:
ARTHUR BROOKS CALDWELL (A. B. Caldwell) was the youngest child of SAMUEL BROOKS TOBIE CALDWELL and MARY ELIZABETH HOUGH CALDWELL of Loudoun County, Virginia and nephew of MARIA CALDWELL SWAIN (one of SBT Caldwell’s youngest sisters) and WILLIAM SWAIN (early American portrait artist) of Newburyport, Massachusetts.
Caldwell emigrated to Marysville, Yuba County, California, where he was listed as a surgeon from Virginia in the Marysville Business Directory of 1870. In 1871 he was listed as a voter and is listed in the
Great Register of Voters of Yuba County, California
in 1876, 1879, and 1880. By 1880, based on Federal Census records, he had married LUCILE G. (listed as Lucy; last name unknown), aged 26. They had a daughter, listed as MAY L. (MARY LUCILE) who was 2 months old at the time of the 1880 census. He is in the
List of Persons Subject to Military Duty Yuba County
for 1871. He was a member of Marysville Lodge No. 38 formed in June of 1878.
Caldwell died in 1884 at age 35, cause unknown at this time, in Marysville, California and is buried in the Marysville Cemetery. The
San Francisco Morning Call
dated 26 Jan 1884, p. 4, col. 4 has the following brief obituary notice: “CALDWELL – In Marysville, January 20, Arthur B. Caldwell, aged 35 years and 18 days.”
His wife and daughter then moved to San Francisco, date unknown, to live with her sister and brother-in-law, FRANK C. ZIMMERMAN and MARY L., Lucile's sister. They are listed in the 1900 Federal Census for San Francisco as living with the Zimmermans. Mother and daughter are also listed as widows in the 1920 and 1930 Federal Censuses for San Francisco.
Arthur Brooks and Lucile Caldwell's daughter, Mary Lucile, married PEYTON G. CLARK, 1
st
Lieutenant listed in the Military and Naval Census for 1900 living in the Philippines; he was the census enumerator. They had one known child, Peyton C. Clark in 1906 in San Francisco before she was widowed. His cause of death remains unknown.
George's father in law:
Robert H. Williams
Robert H. Williams, or "Gentleman Bob" as he was affectionately called, was born in Caswell County, North Carolina. In December of 1823, when he was twenty-seven years old, he came to Texas and, as one of Austin's "Old Three Hundred," received title to a sitio of land, August 19, 1824.
Williams' plantation was on an early trail or road leading from Matagorda to Brazoria and was known as Caney Crossing or Camp Crossing on the early maps of Texas. Williams raised the first cotton on Caney Creek and erected the third cotton gin in the colony in 1827. The census of 1826 listed his wife Anna, age 16-25, and nine slaves.
"Gentleman Bob" became alcalde in December, 1826. He secured provisions for the Texas army and took part, as a colonel in the Battle of Velasco, during which he was blinded in one eye by a splinter. This caused him to wear an eye patch for the rest of his life. Williams represented Matagorda Municipality in the Convention of 1833. In January, 1836, Williams received an appointment as a commissioner for the sale of the schooner
Hannah Elizabeth
and its cargo, however took no action on the case. He was postmaster at Caney Crossing for four years, from May 4, 1847 to September 29, 1851, when Thomas Jamison took charge. Williams was not interested in politics in his later years, however he did write a letter of recommendation for David G. Burnet in 1865.
Robert married his second wife, Mary Lawson White, May 2, 1833, under the bond system, in Matagorda and again on September 10, 1837. She was born in Tennessee in 1816, the daughter of B. J. White of Texana, in present Jackson County.
To this union five children were born:
Christopher H., born 1838, died 1916
Lydia E., born 1840, married George W. Caldwell, February 24, 1864
Maria L., born 1842, married Joseph T. Fry, a physician from Tennessee, November 21, 1859
Roberta, born 1845, died by 1870
Robert, born 1852.
Robert H. Williams died September 11, 1880
This page is hand written.  It was signed by
Geo. W. Caldwell.
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