Thank-you, Karen, for the info you sent. I do subscribe to Ancestry's basic and on-line image databases, and have pulled info off on many branches of the family. But I hadn't considered that after the Civil War, the Caldwells may have temporarily moved back to Kentucky from Texas, even though they were in Huerfano by 1880. In 1860, they were farming cotton in Fannin Co., Texas, and as I was horrified to discover, D. R. Caldwell was listed as a slaveholder on that year's slave and agriculture census. After the Emancipation, of course, without free labor, cotton farming was not so viable in that northeast Texas, Red River area, so the Caldwells may very well have scurried home to KY, only to try farming in CO a decade or two later? Rather doubt it because of the distances involved, but I will certainly check out those 1870 Ky census David Caldwell families very carefully. Original family story was that David Rice Caldwell and his family had walked from Ky to Texas "to get land" around 1859. My sister Faye and I started on our family genealogy just a year ago, and have already uncovered a real melting pot--stiff-necked Scotch-Irish Presbyterians from VA, NC, and KY (Caldwell, Jones, Moore, Talbott)---Pennsylvania Dutch from Illinois (Snyder, Snider, Capps, Reeves, Powell)--late-coming English Catholic merchants from England who settled in St. Louis and New Orleans and ran steamboats on the Mississippi (Mepham, Shaw)--and we're just starting to find info on my father's side of the family, Polish Catholic immigrants from Galicia who came over just before and after 1900, and ended up working in the West Virginia coal mines in poverty-stricken places with names like Wolf Hollow that stopped existing when the coal mines shut down. My husband's family were Craws from Scotland that came over in later 1800's and ran mercantile stores in KS and MO during the land rushes. Changed their name to Crowe to sound more English and upscale! Anyway, you're absolutely right about double-checking the names, dates, and stories your relatives give you--use them just as starting points, and verify!!! My husband Scott and I are 3rd generation Los Angelenos, but we live in Roseburg OR now. If I can help by sharing the work of checking Ancestry.com databases, or in the unlikely situation that anyone needs record checks from SW Oregon, let me know, and send me some obits too. I normally wouldn't be this chatty on a listserv, but this group sounds like a close-knit family! Thanks, Chris