Jim: I don't know what the question is! ] Did you want me to search my books for mention of specific Caldwells in the history of Humboldt County? I am aware of at least 31 present-day adult people in Humboldt County, are you interested in them? How may I help? Regards, Don Tunison-Campbell Eureka, Humboldt County Phyllis and Jim Brown wrote: > > Greetings! > > I'm glad that there is now a Humboldt Co CA maillist. Please allow me to send a > query. > > Benjamin, Cicero, and William Caldwell left the cornfields of Indiana (and in > some cases their families too) for California. Benjamin left in 1859. > > They bought govt. patent lands in 1870, and then sold their properties off at a > modest profit hours after getting title. > > Benjamin died in Blocksburg in 1875. His wife in Indiana had divorced him for > abandonment. Cicero and William Caldwell never returned to Indiana either. > > Any Caldwells of the region might have a story to tell me - I certainly have a > story for them! > > Jim Brown > Venice FL