CAUFIELD, David Agnew ^225,308

  Allgemeine Notizen:

David Caufield's name in this report is now spelled with only one "F". No notation is made of the change.
David Agnew Caufield came from Tyrell Hill, Ohio, Trumbull County, (later Tyrrell Hill was changed to Tyrrell, Ohio) .
David Agnew Caulfield came to Washington March 1891, aone by train to Ephrata. He didn't like the country so went back to Davenport, Lincoln County, Washington, on March 23, 1891.
Later that year Rebecca Eve Caufield came to Washington with her brother, Stanley Casper Peters, and the three children born in Ohio by train to Davenport. Howard was 9 months old when they came. In Davenport, Washington they bought: 2
mares, Dolly & Cress. One bay: Cress, and one Buckskin: Dolly and wagon, piled on belongings and drove to the homestead where they lived in the sod house while David built the house with Stanley Peters help. They lived at Davenport,
Washington, until David Caufield bought the homestead rights from Mr. Hansen, a blind broom maker, at Davenport, Washington. The homestead was located at the head of the Keller grade, about seven miles north of Wilbur, Lincoln County,
Washington.

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1889-1890 Trumbull Co., Ohio Directory
lists: D A Canfield in Payne's Corner, Vienna Twnsp., Ohio

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1900 US Census
David A. & Rebecca Caufield
Columbia Precinct, Lincoln Co., Washington
Enumeration District: 34
Enumeration Date: July 2, 1900
Page: 11B
Ancestry.com Image: 22
Family Visitation Number: 241
Lines: 76 - 84
Caufield, David A., Head, white, male, B: March 1855, 45 years old, married, 14 years married, B: Ohio, Father B: Ireland, Mother B: Ohio, Farmer, can read, write, and speak English, owns home, free of mortgage, farm #231
Caufield, Rebecca E., Wife, white, female, B: Sept. 19=859, 40 years old., married 14 years, mother of 8 children,8 children living, B: Ohio, Father B: Pennsylvania, Mother B: Ohio, no occupation, can read, write, and speak English
Caufield, Ada E., daughter, white, female, B: Nov. 1886, 13 years old., single, B: Ohio, Father B: Ohio, Mother B: Ohio, Attending school 6 months, can read, write, and Speak English
Caufield, Willis P., son, white, male, B: Mar. 1889, 11 years old, single, B: Ohio, Father B: Ohio, Mother B: Ohio, Attending school 6 months, can read, write, and Speak English
Caufield, Howard W., son, white, male, B: Aug. 1891, 9years old, single, B: Ohio, Father B: Ohio, Mother B: Ohio, farm laborer, Attending school 6 months, can read, write, and Speak English,
Caufield, Elsa I., daughter W. Female, B: June 1892, 8 years old, single, B: Washington, Father B: Ohio, Mother B: Ohio, Attending school 6 months, can read, write, and Speak English
Caufield, Mabel V., daughter, white, female, B: Nov. 1893, 6 years old, single, B: Washington, Father B: Ohio, Mother B: Ohio, Attending school 3 1/2 months, can read, write, and Speak English
Caufield, Lucy G., daughter, white, female, B: Oct., 1894, 4 years old, single, B: Washington, Father B: Ohio, Mother B: Ohio, Attending school 6 months, can read, write, and Speak English
Caufield, Arden R., son, white, male, B: Apr. 1897, 3 years old, single, B: Washington, Father B: Ohio, Mother B: Ohio,
Caufield, Frances M., daughter, white, female, B: Nov. 1898, 1 year old, single, B: Washington, Father B: Ohio, Mother B: Ohio.

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Wilbur Register
Wilbur, Lincoln Co., Washington
September 17, 1909
D. A. Caufield, a farmer in school district 66, has leased a house in town which his children will occupy while attending the Wilbur schools.

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Wilbur Register
Wilbur, Lincoln Co., Washington
December 31, 1909
Dave Caufield say he struck an abundance of water at a depth of 82 feet. That's a long way this side of China. A windmill will doubtless be installed.

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Wilbur Register
Wilbur, Lincoln Co., Washington
May 6, 1910
Mr. D. A. Caufield, of Ohio, arrived in town recently and is trying to rent a house for his family whom he expects will arrive in the near future.

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Wilbur Register
Wilbur, Lincoln Co., Washington
July 28, 1911
Two daughters of David Caufield, Elsie and Lucy, are both sick with typhoid fever.

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Wilbur Register
Wilbur, Lincoln Co., Washington
September 8, 1911
The Caufield children, who had a hard struggle with typhoid fever, are convalescing. None of the rest of the family have contracted the disease.

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Wilbur Register
Wilbur, Lincoln Co., Washington
March 10, 1912
D.A. Canfield, who lost six cows as a result of rabies, has killed all the cats of his place, including visiting felines, and one suspicious looking canine that came in the night. "I will, take no more chances," Said Mr. Canfield, and all
dogs and cats that come here unattended by their owners will go the rifle route."

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Wilbur Register
Wilbur, Lincoln Co., Washington
April 12, 1912
D.A. Caulfield lost another cow Friday. A deputy state veterinary was present and pronounced it rabies. Mr. Caulfield informs us that this is the sixth cow he has lost from this disease.

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Wilbur Register
Wilbur, Lincoln Co., Washington
May 23, 1913
A daughter of D. A. Caufield arrived here last week, called here by the death of her mother.

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Wilbur Register
Wilbur, Lincoln Co., Washington
June 13, 1913
There are several cases of measles in the surrounding country and a few in town. There are ten cases in the family of D. A. Caufield northwest of town.

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1920 US Census
David Caufield & Son Arden Caufield
Condon Precinct, Lincoln Co., Washington
Enumeration District 52
Enumeration Date: January 23, 1920
Page: 5A
Family visitation Number: 86
Lines: 31 - 32
Caufield, David, A., Head, Owns home with Mortgage, white, 65 years old., widow, can read and write, B: Ohio, Father B: Ireland, Mother B: Ohio, Speaks English, Farmer, Gen. Farm, Farm #81
Caufield, Arden R., Son, male, white, 22 years old., single, read, and write, B: Washington, Father B: Ohio, Mother B: Ohio
(Willis and Allie Caufield, are in the household before David Caufield,)

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Wilbur Cemetery Records
Wilbur, Lincoln, Washington
http://www.interment.net/data/us/wa/lincoln/wilbur/wilbur_ac.htm
CAUFIELD, David, no information, B-87/L-2

David heiratete Rebecca Eve PETERS, Tochter von Alfred Louis PETERS und Rachel Ann WISE, am 16. Sep. 1885. (Rebecca Eve PETERS wurde geboren am 3. Sep. 1859 in Trumbull Co., OH, starb am 10. Mai 1913 in Wilbur, Lincoln Co., WA und wurde bestattet am 12. Mai 1913 in Wilbur Cemetery.)