Calaway Hodge Alderson (1818 - 1901)

Born Dec 1818 in Tennessee, USA

Husband of Lydia R. (Bonine) Alderson — married 7 Oct 1896 in Jewell County, Kansas, USA

Died 26 Jul 1901 at age 82 in Concordia, Cloud County, Kansas, USA

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Biography

Calaway Hodge Alderson was born in 1818 on his parents' farm in Tennessee, USA. He was a US Civil War veteran, in the 11th Cavalry, Tennessee Union Army volunteers. ^[1]

He had 3 wives and at least 15 children by the first 2 wives.

On 7 October 1896, already a widower two times, he married never-married spinster, Lydia R. Bonine, 17 years his junior, in Jewell County, Kansas, USA. They were recorded as 82 and 65 years old, married, living together with no children, on E. 14th St., Concordia city, Cloud County, Kansas, USA, on the 1 June 1900 US Census. The Census stated that Lydia had never had any children. Neither declared an occupation.^[2]

Callaway H. Alderson, a US Army Civil War veteran, passed away at 83 years old on 26 July 1901 in Concordia, Cloud County, Kansas, USA. He was buried at Randall Cemetery, Randall, Jewell County, Kansas, USA. ^[3]

Lydia (Bonine) Alderson survived his passing for another 2 decades. She passed away at 85 years old, at the Mother Bickerdyke Home in Ellsworth, Ellsworth County, Kansas, on 18 April 1921.^[4] Lydia's Bonine family had her buried near her parents' graves at the Jewell City Cemetery, Jewell, Jewell County, Kansas, USA; Plot: NW, Block 39, Lot 1. ^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ "Tennessee, Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers, 1861-1865," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JWTM-2NW : 4 December 2014), Calaway H Alderson, 1863; from "Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Tennessee," database, Fold3.com (http://www.fold3.com : 2010); citing military unit Eleventh Cavalry, NARA microfilm publication M395 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1963), roll 91.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMTH-YZC : accessed 19 July 2020), Lydia Alderson in household of Calloway H Alderson, Concordia city Ward 1-4, Cloud, Kansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 18, sheet 23B, family 532, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,475.
3. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #73499524
4. ↑ The home in Ellsworth, Kansas, was established by the Woman's Relief Corps, which was the women's auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic (Union: US Civil War). In 1897, the WRC named this facility the Mother Bickerdyke Home and Hospital. It looked after US Civil War veterans and widows of veterans. See: http://www.kansastravel.org/bickerdykecemetery.htm
5. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #42536873

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