Throughout the years I have slowly collected bits and pieces of information, pictures, and things alike about Caldwell and have done my best to preserve them and to share them with others before they are lost to time or in the vastness of the internet. Over these past years, I have gradually and collectively placed all my findings throughout my website and doing my best to place credit to the owner. With this being said, I want to honor Okey King and thank him for all the information he has shared with me and others over the years. He was a true and if not the first historian of Caldwell and without his website, shared stories, and pictures on Facebook either through his page or through Caldwell Connection most of my findings and information about Caldwell would not have been possible. Unfortunately, his website is no longer available and much of his hard work and genealogical records have been lost. However, there is some information I have pulled from his website, pictures included, and have placed throughout my website before its demise. I am thankful for this because at least not all his hard work was wasted, and I was able to preserve some portion of it. Much of the information he provided on Facebook is bits and pieces and articles here and there, but I look to collectively over the years collect them and rightfully share them with others as a tribute to Okey. Even if I never get around to it or am unable to collect all his stories and shared his tid bits of information they will forever be preserved on Facebook, that is as long as Facebook is still available. I believe many others including myself will agree that he was a wonderful storyteller and the first true Caldwell Historian. I did not get a chance to know Okey King personally, but he always had my utmost respect. I was both shocked and honored to be asked as a pallbearer for his funeral and to lay Caldwell’s historian to rest. May we all remember him not only as the historian he was but as a loving husband, father, and willing servant unto the Lord for many many years. May the Lord bless the sacred memory of Okey Lester King Jr.