Elias Caldwell

Elias was born in 1868 in , Hawkins, Tennessee.  Elias' father was Andrew F. Caldwell and his mother was Elizabeth.  His paternal grandparents were Thomas Caldwell and Sarah. He had three brothers and a sister, named Smith, Joseph, Calvin and Lucinda Jane.  He was the second youngest of the five children. He had seven half-brothers and six half-sisters, named James, Absalom, William, Jesse, Richard Anderson, Samuel J., Robert, Margaret, Elizabeth, Sarah, Rachel, Matilda and Eliza.