This booklet could not have been written except for the family statistics given me by most of my nieces and nephews and the information given by Ms. Theodore R. Rice of Morehead City, N.C.;  Ms. Iva May Coppenbarger of Bloomington, IL; Clayton R. Cox of Lexington,  Ky; Allison H. Caudill of Lafayette, CO.; Rev. James Herschel Caudill; Ms. Susie Grohs of Medford, Oregon; B. David May of Houston TX.; Roy Todd Preston of Salyersville, Ky.; Lloyd Caudill of Chathem, La.; Imogene Caudill of Gifford, Ky.; Elenor Tolliver Waters of Woodstock, GA. and many others.  For the history and advancement of all the people of the CAUDILL FAMILY TREE down through the ages and the avenues of time from tribe to tribe, clan to clan, family to family and generation to generation from 1492 to the late 1900s, we must depend upon the historical writings of the researchers and historians.  They have spent a great deal of time and effort searching for recorded and unrecorded facts in courthouses, offices, libraries, cemetery listings, bible and army records, and traditional stories that have been passed along by word of mouth.
   To all the people who have helped me gather the information written in this booklet, I give my heartfelt thanks.
   I believe that a good knowledge of the lives of our people is a rich heritage that will give you and me a deeper appreciation for life, home and family.
   To all my people I want to say:  May God bless you richly with His grace and goodness all the days of your life, and in the life to come give you an abundance of all that Heaven has to offer.

       Samuel Everett Caudill
 
 

DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to my sons:  Gerald Edwin Caudill and William Donald Caudill and to all my nieces and nephews, and with it goes my love and affection.