My husband's 1c3r on his McClure line was Ira Caldwell (1839-1926). This cousin was one of eight sons of Train Caldwell and Jane McClure, who also had one daughter, Mary Ann. All the sons helped out on the family farm in Indiana, raising prize-winning cattle and horses (I learned this from Ira's lengthy obit!). Most of the sons grew up to be farmers in their own right, including Ira.
Family on the move
I knew where Ira and Margaret were during all the Census years of their lives, but his informative obit in the Bethany Clipper (Missouri) filled in the gaps between Census years very nicely. Also Ira was listed in the 1890 Veteran's schedule, with full dates for his military service.
After living with Margaret's family, they moved to Harrison County, Missouri, then to Illinois, and back to Harrison County, Missouri, where they purchased land in 1874 and built a home. The obit noted that Ira and his wife Margaret and their daughter Hester were all baptized and converted to the Baptist Church during a church meeting in 1883. Ira was in his early 40s, Margaret in her late 30s, and Hester was a teen.
Another news clipping, from 1892, indicated that Ira was working on a fence on his Blythedale farm when a nail flew up into his face and damaged his eye so badly he lost sight in that eye.
By 1920, Ira and Margaret were living with their daughter Hester and her husband and children in Marion township, Harrison county, Missouri. Margaret died of heart problems in 1925, at age 84. Ira was still receiving a monthly Civil War invalid pension that continued until the time of his death at age 86 on May 3, 1926.
Remembering Ira Caldwell as the 99th anniversary of his death approaches.