Source indicates “(Two square markers cannot read) (May be in McClure Cemetery)”
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Matthew and his sister Margery married siblings Mary and Abraham Bloom.3
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Matthew Caldwell was the oldest of the sons of Hugh Caldwell and before his marriage resided for a time with his father, who then lived near Curwensvilie.

After his marriage in 1819 he settled on a wild tract of ninety acres, in Pike Township, to which he subsequently added 100 acres and through hard work cleared one-half of his property. Matthew, in order to reach his property cut a road through the dense forest which was the first road from Curwensville to Bloomington.

Matthew was an old-time Democrat as were all his sons. He was a man of endurance and enterprise and lived into old age on the farm that he had developed out of the wilderness. When he died at the age of eighty-one years he expressed the wish to be buried on his own land. When his wife passed away she was laid by his side. They were members of the Presbyterian church in which for forty years Matthew was an elder and together they lived consistent Christian lives. After his death the farm became the property of his son, James R.722
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After his marriage he located in the wilderness, where his youngest son James now [1897] resides. There being at that date no roads of any account he, in 1819, cut out through the forest the first road from Curwensville to Bloomington. This road has now become one of the principal roads of
the county.

He was one of the founders and original members of the first church ever built in Clearfield county. This church was built where the McClure cemetery now is. For many years he was one of the ruling elders of the church. In 1821 he organized the first Sunday school in this region [Pike Township per S792], at an old log school house which stood where the late William Price lived. The early Presbyterian church in this vicinity owes much to Matthew Caldwell. He died April 24, 1869, aged 82 years.723
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Matthew Caldwell built the road through the forest from Curwensville bridge across River, via Irvin Hill to Bloomington, in 1819.724
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Matthew Caldwell, one of the first settlers of Pike township, made his settlement in 1819. He cut out the first road that was made from Curwensville to Bloomington.725
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In 1800 his father moved the family to Cumberland county and on to Clearfield county in 1808. After his marriage he located in the wilderness, where his youngest son James now resides.

His farm later became known as the James R. Caldwell and Merritt A. Caldwell homestead. He was one of the founders and original members of the first church built in Clearfield County, PA. This was at the McClure cemetery in Pike Township. He gave much of his life to the church and Sunday School work. The Presbyterian church at Curwensville and vicinity owes much to Matthew Caldwell. For forty years he was an elder in the church. Politically he was a staunch Democrat.

He was also interested in the lumber business to some extent, and was among the first to build arks and float coal down the river to market.

They had in all a family of twenty children, several having died when young.694
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Matthew Caldwell, son of Hugh Caldwell, was born in Clearfield county, Pennsylvania. He was a farmer by occupation and an elder in the Presbyterian church. He married, in Clearfield county, Mary Bloom.726
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A Matthew Caldwell was elected an Elder the year after the Pike [Curwensville] Presbyterian Congregation was formally organized in 1822 or ‘23.727

Mary had 20 children, from 1812 to 1839 (27 years), many who did not live past a very young age.  There was a set of triplets.

According to the Hugh & Jane Boyd Caldwell history I got from the HistSoc, the only children who lived past childhood were; daughters; Elizabeth born 1812, Anna 1813, Jane 1814, Mary, 1815, Margery 1817, Harriet 1837; and sons; Isaac 1819, Bishop 1826, Reuben 1828, James R., 1835.729
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Matthew and Mary had in all a family of twenty children, several of whom died when young.723


Note: This is six daughters and four sons of the twenty children in all that mother Mary Bloom Caldwell reportedly had. Imagine twenty children encompasses 180 months of pregnancy OR fifteen years of pregnancy!3

Note too the number of children they lost at a very young age.3