William Caldwell
CALDWELL, William. b. Jefferson County, Tennessee, 24 October 1801; d. Fannin County, Texas, 7 October 1857. Caldwell is known primarily for his fasola shape-note tunebook, Union Harmony (1837) (see Shape-note hymnody*).
His parents were Anthony Caldwell (1751-1832) and Elizabeth Aiken Caldwell (1764-1839). Little is known about his youth. He married Cindrilla (Cinderella?) Blackburn on 31 October 1833 in Jefferson County, Tennessee, and he married Harriet Rebecca Meek (1816-1858) on 9 December 1841, also in Jefferson Co. There were three children from the first marriage and six from the second. In about 1856, Caldwell moved with his family to Fannin County, Texas, where he died in...
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