Born in DeKalb Co., Illinois, USA
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Oscar Dunreathe Olmstead
— married
2 Feb 1869 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Mother of
Frankie Dorothee (Olmstead) Ordway, Jessie Rachel (Olmstead) Knoop, Nannie May (Olmstead) Canfield, Oscar Dunreathe Olmstead Jr. and Edith Maud Olmstead
Died
at age 78
in Waterloo, Black Hawk Co., Iowa, USA
Profile last modified
| Created 28 Aug 2018
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Biography
Rachel was born in 1843 the daughter of Alexander and Minervia (Mickens) Caldwell. The family name was incorrectly given in the Olmsted genealogy as Colwell.
She was the third wife of Oscar Olmstead and they had five children:
- Frankie, b. 1870, d. 1955
- Jessie, b. 1872, d. 1927
- Nan, b. 1874, d. 1959
- Oscar, Jr., b. 1876, d. 1930
- Edith, b. 1879, d. 1897
She died in 1922 and is buried with Oscar in the Elmwood Cemetery, Waterloo, Iowa.[1] Some of their children are in the same cemetery.
Sources
- ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #70425132 has photo
- Olmste(a)d files of Walt Steesy
- Olmsted, Henry King, M.D. Genealogy of the Olmsted Family in America (A.T. De La Mare, New York, 1912); pg. 337, #6153s
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