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Hello and welcome! This website is totally devoted to the Caudill Family History and we are all Coming Home! I descend from Stephen Caudill - James Caudill Sr - James Caudill Jr - John Caudill Sr - Elizabeth (Betsy) Caudill - Martha Ann Oliver Caudill - Elisha Caudill. Elisha Caudill married Louisa Morris about 1896 in Kentucky and they are my great grandparents.

I dedicate this site to them even though I never got to meet them. I'll see them in Heaven!!!

Elisha & Louisa Morris Caudill


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SOME KNOWN FACTS

STEPHEN CAUDILL is accepted as the progenitor of our line of Caudill's who settled in America. He was of Scotch descent and born about 1680, in Scotland. He came to America about 1700. On August 5, 1731, STEPHEN CAUDILL paid 20 shillings for a King George II patent for 195 acres on the North Side of Nottaway River in Old Surry County, VA which became Brunswick and then Lunenburg County. A patent to those people was the same as a deed is today. He appears on the Lunemburg County Tax list for 1752 with son James, paying two tithes. Tithables are men who are elgible for military service. Little is known about his wife other than her name was Mary. He followed his sons to North Carolina.

JAMES CAUDILL JR. A Kentucky Highway Historical Marker honoring this Revolutionary War Soldier has been erected on Kentucky Route 7, near the cemetery where his grave is marked with an aged stone and an American Flag flies daily in his respect. The sign reads "James Caudill, born in Virginia in 1753, first came to Big Cowan Creek in 1781. Because of Indians, he took his family back to North Carolina. Returning here in 1792 with his family. He built a cabin, stayed several years, went back to North Carolina. They settled here permanently in 1811. He was progentitor to a large widespread mountain family.

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NAME INDEX



Descendants of Stephen Caudill

The Caudill Surname

Cawdor Castle-A Caudill Connection?

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