WILLIAM DAVID CALDWELL 
Shelby County Herald, April 24, 1901
William David Caldwell was born near Cynthiana, KY, January 26, 1826, and died 
at Rocky Ford, Colorado, April 8, 1901, aged 75 years, 2 months and 12 days. 
The death resulted from heart failure preceded by grippe and pneumonia. He was 
twice married; first to Miss Mary Ann Sites, to whom was born one daughter now 
deceased; and secondly to Miss Mary Ann Church, September 22, 1853, to whom 
were born 12 children of whom 9 are now living, 5 sons and 4 daughters.

Mr. Caldwell removed from Iowa with his family to his farm in Shelby County, MO, in 
1869; and there, in his home, he united by profession of his faith in Christ with the 
Shelbyville Presbyterian church, together with his daughter Annie, now Mrs. John 
Vanhorn. The deceased was a man of decided convictions, intelligent, energetic, 
industrious and a successful farmer, a man of integrity and fidelity as 
husband, father, neighbor and friend. 

And with all his failings he revered God; holy men and holy things, and in his 
latter years he clung by faith more firmly to the cross of his Savior according 
to the words of Paul in 2 Timothy 1:12: "I know whom I have believed, and 
am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him 
against that day". 

Upon this text a sermon was preached by the Rev. T. H. Tatlow, his 
life-long friend, in the Christian church at Leonard, MO. After the sermon 
he was buried in the cemetery there by the side of his endeared wife, and 
in the presence of his children and of his eldest brother, Larkin, and a large concourse of neighbors and friends. by T. H. T.