ants still live in Cumberland County. Godfrey Hunter, member of Congress and minister to Guatemala, married a descendant of General King. GENERAL SAMUEL CALDWELL. General Samuel Caldwell, commander of the Fifth Brigade, was born in Charlotte County, Virginia, in 1770, and came with his father's family to Kentucky in 1787. He early moved to Russellville, in Logan County, and was the first clerk of that county. He commanded a regiment in the early part of the war. This regiment having been enlisted on the 20th of September, 1812, its time expired on the 29th of October, 1812. It was known as the First Kentucky Regiment of Mounted Militia. He came of a distinguished family. His brother, General John Caldwell, was elected lieutenant-governor of Kentucky in 1804, and died at Frankfort that year, while the legislature was in session. Caldwell County was named for him, and to his memory the State erected a monument. His brother, Robert Caldwell, presided in the House of Representatives of the Kentucky Legislature in 1798, when the famous resolutions of that date were presented by John Breckenridge and adopted. |